To be fed up of the bloody football already?

[SirBoobAlot]

Its dull, ridiculous waste of time and money, brings out the worst in people (though these England Tops Banned rumours are hilarious), we always make idiots of ourselves when supporting abroad... And generally I am sick of seeing prissy men who whine and throw themselves on the floor when they find a split end plastered everywhere and being hailed as hero's when all they do is kick a ball around a field.

It doesn't actually bring out the worst in everybody, some people manage to enjoy watching football without the strops and conduct themselves with a bit of class. So, yabu.

Me too - if the world cup final was being played in my back garden i would close the curtains

DuffyMoon, I'd have moved house...

i quite like it. so you don't - so don't watch it

for me, its the way all the food/drink manufacturers are trying to cash in on it.... i bought babybels the other day and they have made the plastic wrappers into football prints.... irn bru are selling "beer" shaped cans now all advertising the world cup.

FFS Im not a fan of football, wont be watching but i hate having it shoved in my face when I walk around the supermarket!

but robinsons and pimms are allowed to do it for the tennis

SirBoobAlot

Oh do shut up.

YABU
I like football and the world cup is exciting.
It is quite easy to ignore if you aren't interested.

I'm fed up with it already too.

International and Premiership footballers are an absolute disgrace. Give me the Sunday football league down the park any day. Proper football goes on there, no vacuous players mincing about having tantrums left, right and centre.

Or better still, give me rugby. Although thats going the same way...

When I think that the likes of Beckham (uurgh) gets paid more for kicking a ball around than the surgeon who saved my sons life gets I do wonder about the world.

Its not easy to ignore though, that's the thing - its everywhere. Like DanJAR has said, everyone is cashing in on it. Walking down the road today to get coffee, there were signs in cafes, pubs, shops, people selling mini St George's flags in the street... Ugh. If I could ignore it then I wouldn't mind so much

I can't bear it when whem women moan about football tbh.
It's such a cliche

I quite like it, and all the flags and stuff ... its exciting so yabu

YANBU. I'm going to be avoiding it on tv but I think the OP's point is, it's bloody everywhere, there is no escape for the football atheists. Fecking flags flapping at you while you're concentrating on driving, horrible pasty bodies barely squeezed into nylon shirts, flags hung out of windows like this (or something like) doesn't happen every sodding two years ffs. I am fed up with walking into a shop - any shop - and knocking over a rack of tacky Ingerlund shite.

Maybe I should be less clumsy. But still.

Ah, that's better.

I don't mind the rugby. At least they don't squeal like three year olds if they break a nail.

Oh, I see.
It's a class thing

YANBU

By all means get excited during the actual tournament, but the 2 month build up and all the adverts on TV and everywhere else hyping it up really annoy me.

HOW is it possible to ignore the world cup? I would love to know! It is everywhere you go. It is all people talk about, England flags are everywhere, normal TV is replaced with matches, reviews, hilights, reports, lowdowns and every other form of football related boredom, pubs have it on wide screen and perfectly normal sane people become obsessed! FGS my mother turns into Gary Lineker when the world cup is on, she has to post mortem every match, and what really winds me up is that what my mum knows about football could be written on a postage stamp!!

Yep, same old, same old, Mrs R !

Class thing? Don't get what you mean there! Am hardly upper class material...

No, mrsruffallo, it's not a 'class thing', it's a taste thing. I'm aware that this is going to make me sound like Brian Sewell's vastly more snobbish sister , but I find it all deeply unaesthetic. I am fed up with the ugliness it brings with it. Ugly behaviour, ugly shirts, unimaginative commercial tie-ins plastered everywhere. I'm fully expecting to find England flags plastered over the next pack of nappies I buy.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm in a foul mood, I'm too hot and I'm pregnant. But I really do dislike the way we're all made to suck it up, regardless of whether we give a toss about the 'national game' or not.

I really ought to stay off AIBU, it's rubbish for my blood pressure...

Hey, Willow! I didn't read your post before doing mine. Yes, grumpy, tired, pregnant and TOO HOT.

Football is just men doing what men have always done.. going out and making war on the neighbouring tribe! Its just a shame they cant do it quietly!

yaddddddnbu!!

i hate football and i can't escape it. even effing m&s is selling football crap. the only consolation is that dh hate football as well.

its a style thing

A style thing?
No dear it's a sport. That lots of working class people like and lots of working class people play and make lots of money. Which irks the likes of Boobalot apparently
Last time I looked the England flag was used to represent the English rugby team when their world cup was on
But that's not really the point is it?