To hate the hype around football tournaments?

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That’s it really!

I’m not a football fan. There are alot of other sports I’m not a fan of either but it’s football that annoys me the most.... it’s just rammed down our throats more than any other sport and it pissing me off atm that I can even listen to my regular radio station without someone constantly going on about it!

No disagreements here.

I'm sick of the way football is pushed down our throats in Britain, and the fact that you can't get away from it and everyone assumes that it's the most fascinating thing in the galaxy.

The way it is so closely allied with tribalism and male violence makes it worse. Wow, 22 men kick a ball around a field, that's really worth the entire nation's attention and domestic violence when half of them don't win. I was pleased to hear a radio advert from the police up here in the north against the domestic violence associated with it, but sad that it is necessary.

I love guy martin even more so now 😍

Why are so many people so invested in a sport that they don’t enjoy playing themselves confused

You aren’t interested in anything that you don’t actually do yourself?
I’m certainly no football expert. I played from the age of 10-18 but our team was absolutely rubbish. Still enjoy watching it 🤷🏻‍♀️. DH is much more of a rugby fan (he plays and watches) but still enjoys the World Cup (he’d enjoy it more if Wales were in it).

Oh and my dad doesn’t play football but it the chairman of our local youth club and has had a season ticket for our local team for approx 30 years.

*youth football club I mean

No soy I’m not.

Football bores me rigid and it does have massive place in society that other sports don't have. I would never have married a football fan - I cannot stand the slack jawed tribalism it seems to bring out in men in particular. And the violence. And the racism. At least Wimbledon doesn't bring out drunken street fights.

I've literally lost my OH for the next four weeks - I cooked a Dads day meal yesterday (football on all day...!)...conversation has been lost due to his 'whatsapp' group and 'dreamteam'...today, meeting the 'lads' for lunch and out for the match.....see you Wednesday!!!

I feel sorry for people who dont like Tennis as Wimbledon is on every single year on both BBC channels and can mess up the tv viewing for so many. at least Olympics, world cup etc are only on every four years , even if it does go on for longer and other tv stations seem to give up to and put on any old rubbish.
I am taking a bit of an interest in this years world cup but i live with 3 men who are not fans at all. It is a silly sport, but most sports are if you think about it and and quite a few sportsmen and women are paid a huge amount in order to play their 'hobby' - it was probably better before all this money came into it. hoping that there isnt any violence in Russia this year. it seems a bit more low key than when its held in Europe and i can imagine that only the very rich , hardcore fans would have bothered to go over there to be honest.

Mainstream sport gets mainstream coverage.

I'm ambivalent about football. I don't mind watching the odd bit if a good match is promised. It's so easy to avoid and ignore though, I can't agree that it's a constant invasion into your conscience.
I also disagree that it's the domain of the slack-brained boozer. If you know people who follow football and support a team, it's very rarely anything but a harmless, dull hobby, not a drink fuelled social life.

Everyone seems to become an expert when talking about football too. Most people who are a fan look like they haven’t run about a field themselves since they were kids

YOu don't have to be able to do something to a high standard yourself, to be able to appreciate it.

Why are so many people so invested in a sport that they don’t enjoy playing themselves

Do you ever go to a concert, or a play, or watch people acting, or listen to a comedian, so never listen to the radio or spotify or a CD or whatever else folk listen to music on? Never watch a film or a TV progreamme with actors in it ? Never watch dance, or a quiz show, or a cookery programme ???
Wow!! How do you spend your time ?

Shatners, why does every single English town hosting a football match require extra policing for that whole day then? Of course it's associated with drink and thugs. And you can't get away from it anywhere. It would be nice if just one BBC radio channel promised to not mention football at all.

That's very obviously a minority of twats. I didn't deny these people exist and need policing. Most football fans enjoy matches for the sport, not the booze and fighting.

Football seems to have more than its fair share of drunken violent louts. In what other sport can you imagine a fan punching a police horse?

definitely don’t assume all people causing trouble are “fans”.

A number of firms use football as nothing more than a vehicle to create violence without actually attending the matches.

I hear you op
It’s the over excitement that annoys me
The expectation that we will win - we won’t we always get knocked out
The flags on cars irritate me ( to be fair any flags/ tinsel/ antlers etc on cars gives me the rage ) and the other day I heard on the radio that ‘employers are encouraged to let employees watch the games’
I’d rather poke myself in the eyes

My telly is firmly off

England for the first 20 minutes looked like a team that can win the World Cup.

England for the next 70 minutes looked like England.

After the final whistle, status report: IT'S COMING HOME!!

Let’s face it - they won’t win it but anything that puts s a bit of a smile on people’s faces is no bad thing! Even if it’s short lived.

I had no idea that the World Cup had even started! I'm not a very big fan of football anyway, so it doesn't bother me. The only reason I liked it in 2006 was because I was living in Italy at the time when they won! And in Singapore in 2014 because 12 cupcakes was making World Cup themed cupcakes

Every team except one won’t win, that’s no reason not to enjoy, be passionate and support your national team. Fine if you don’t want to but don’t berate those who do want to. That’s not cool.

Yes, who wants to watch supremely talented athletes competing in a massive global sporting event when you could be watching untalented idiots drooling over each other on some island somewhere instead.