To wish the people screaming outside would shut up?

[Notcontent]

Yes, I do understand that people are excited about the football, but it’s Tuesday night and my DC, who is completely exhausted, has to get up early for school - the rather scary shouting has just woken her up. Yep, I know someone will say I should move to the middle of nowhere. I would love to - as many people would - but sadly that’s not possible.

True. I don't have a problem with other people enjoying it if that's what they want to do.

@ShatnersWig

I think the point is, not that you have to like football or watch it. But you should be able to understand that some people get caught up in the excitement of the occasion when England play, and not pour scorn on themselves.

I normally think watching football is like watching paint dry, it's a cure for insomnia when my DH watches Match of the Day. But I could just about enter into the excitement when DH and DDs were watching the match.

In turn, my DH tolerates me watching Wimbledon every day.

See us football fans have our uses

Plenty of people find the 'excitement' of those watching men's football on television either irritating or scary. You're not going to find it thrilling if you associate the shouting and bawling of football enthusiasts with, you know, getting a kicking because one of the men in your household is tantrumming over the result of a football game. Or if you grew up somewhere with serious football-related tribalism issues ie people could get a kicking for having the 'wrong' colour t-shirt on, during a match day.
I once worked in a place where one of the senior managers liked football so much that he would order other staff to remove football posters that showed support for a team which had just kicked more footballs than the team he favoured. Those of us who laughed and told him to grow the fuck up found our working lives made more awkward by him for a day or two.

Also: suppose it was the women's international football final. Any guests asking to have that shown on the telly during someone else's party would be laughed at.

We get it RSGB - you don't enjoy football. But lots of people do, they enjoy it responsibly and joyously.

And there are lots of different things that different people enjoy. But for some reason men's football is supposed to be so much more important than anything else. If you wanted people to let you watch snooker or netball or golf, even if it was a big international competition, you would get reprimanded for bad manners. If you want to read a book during the boring bits of someone else's wedding, you're seen as horriby rude. But men's football, for some reason, is more special than almost anything else.

Not being into it is obviously fine. Begrudging other people is not so naice.

I once worked in a place where one of the senior managers liked football so much that he would order other staff to remove football posters that showed support for a team which had just kicked more footballs than the team he favoured. Those of us who laughed and told him to grow the fuck up found our working lives made more awkward by him for a day or two

Convenient

Also: suppose it was the women's international football final. Any guests asking to have that shown on the telly during someone else's party would be laughed at

Not at all, I’m looming forward to the women’s WC just as much, England are a real force and I’m excited that the talent they have will be more widely showcased.

If you want to read a book during the boring bits of someone else's wedding, you're seen as horriby rude

I’ve yet to find a book that happens only once every four years

I have no interest in football whatsoever, but I can’t understand it in my to get annoyed about people shouting excitedly for less than an hour and a half for a few nights. I’d be very doubtful that one broken night of sleep is going to cause any lasting harm to your family.