To say the anti-football lot need to calm down a little?

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I didn’t stay up for the match because there was no way to make it work with my job, but if I could’ve I would’ve.

I can’t understand the actual visceral anger on here about it? It’s one night - kids won’t drop dead at school, workplaces won’t fail, but a lot of people will have just had a brilliant night.

I just don’t understand why some people can’t accept that others enjoy other things and it doesn’t need to be a big deal?

Please don't choke of your vat of superiority! The moon landing was an intensely boring thing to watch, having waited for hours since the eagle landed!

> Why should those who couldn't care less about football...
Who are, after all, the vast majority
Ipsos Mori conducted a large (12,000-ish people) poll
Slightly under 85% said they would be watching none, or very little, of the world cup
This is almost identical to the same poll conducted four years ago, slightly higher than for the same question about the olympics
Yet the whole country is supposed to rearrange things for the minority who do watch it

you can enjoy watching professional sport and not being a hooligan at the same time

As opposed to the important of a load of men kicking a ball around a field. Which is much more important. 🙄

I love watching football and so does one of my DSs, who is 13. He stayed up to watch it, and went to school for 10am this morning, as the teachers had emailed to say the students could do that. I didn't stay up, because I'm too old for that little sleep 🤣 I set my alarm for the end of the game, to make sure he got straight into bed as soon as the final whistle blew. He's tired today, so am I, but it's just one day.

The OP is giving off the sort of really unpleasant vibes that people who don’t like football associate with the mouthiest people who do like football. Ignorance, accusations of lying, demeaning comments, etc all acceptable when you are watching ‘the national sport.’ Only, for a large number of the population (and I’m talking millions of people here) it’s just another sport going on in the background.

This. This is the thing I struggle with about some diehard football supporters. It's the assumption that it is more important than everything going on in people's lives and that failing to support it wholeheartedly makes you either a traitor or some sort of middle class poseur.

It's perfectly possible to like football, to enjoy watching it, even to love watching it, but to also not want it to consume 75% of your waking hours, to dominate conversation to the exclusion of everything else and to justify people having pitched battles in the street over, to it being the justification for sectarianism and violence and excessive alcohol consumption.

Some of us just aren't that into it and that doesn't make us 'anti-football'.

Is the school offering anyone else for pupils who aren't interested in watching the match?

It's the most popular sport in the world. The World Cup is the most prestigious competition. Why attack something that brings joy and excitement to millions? Are you just trying to be superior?

This is a statement I 100% agree with.

But that's about personal responsibility, not the football. So your problem should be with your colleagues as individuals rather than the football

Personally, I think it's the entitlement that comes with it that gets people's goat. I'm not a football person, but I do follow the NHL. I can't watch many matches live because the US to UK time zone change would mean watching them in the early hours and being knackered for work. That's life - you either take a day off or you catch up in the morning. And yeah, that means avoiding EVERYTIHNG when it's Stanley Cup time otherwise you spoil it for yourself. But for football life stops.
In the words of the iconic Ilya Bryzgalov...

It's also true that more people get off their arses to go and watch a live theatre performance in this country than get off their arses to go and watch a live football match.

Why on earth is this addressed to me? I had nothing to do with the thread you were responding to. It was @Pushmepullu who asked ir your grandchildren's school was underachieving.

So while I agree that it’s ok for kids to take the day off occasionally for a special occasion it’s also untrue they are doing nothing this week.

Accounts from kids about what they are up to (particularly while arguing a day off will be fine) are not necessarily reliable

If you said that to me I'd be making an official complaint.

My kids are still having regular lessons.

Well, yes, I think that was her point given she was being sarcastic

I think @RubyPowderPuff was being sarcastic.

Ok

Denial is a river in Egypt.

I hope the teachers being negative don't pass that awful attitude onto the pupils. Last night's display from England was one of the most spectacular things to witness for our country. I'm sick of England being shit on just for being England. We played with skill and tenacity; played as a team and came together. We weren't expected to win but we bloody well did. The bulldog spirit was back. If you're English, whether you like football or not, you should be proud but as usual, all the negatives will be highlighted.

Because one is more freely available on telly perhaps? And is local? I'd pay for theatre at cinema over live theatre jsit cos of cost and travel even tho I love theatre. If I had a good telly and I could stream it directly to my house, I would

DH and DS have seen football games. They don't go and act violent over it.

I was responding to OP, right on page one where thy stated it's no big deal, the world can turn a bit slower and work doesn't need to be done on time....
It's just sarcasm.

I imagine it would have been a little more than 25 and breezy in classrooms surrounded by plate glass and with no aircon.