Anyone else not watching the World Cup

I can't wait! We are carrying out our family sweepstake on Sunday after lunch. Everyone is excited, we are a football family, both playing & supporting. It brings us a lovely month or so of playful enmity, jealousy of those with the home nations & top teams, and lots of WhatsApp messages on a newly established group. Such fun - for football fans. I'm just sad it's in the USA.

RL fan definitely not football for me.

I'll read the scores along with my daily news round up. If England get through to the quarters, semis or final, I might watch some of the matches. If England actually wins, I'll piggy back on to the euphoria, just like many others. Same with Wimbledon.

MawsRosie

Perhaps because I am not English and also have no particular interest in football, but I cannot understand why watching/not watching is such a big deal or should be a source of pride or superiority.
Of course I wish the England team well, and the Scots (are any other “home”nations involved?)
But why don’t we have a thread about who isn’t watching the Open (golf) or Roland Garros? I suppose there will be admonitions on frequenting Wetherspoons or not, next.

It is not a particular English thing. I is the same in many big football countries round the world

As to the uery about alternative events. uite simply the following is much less than that for football, no one is interested.

Whether you are interested in any particular sport, or none at all (like me), a passion for football is something that unites nations (internally, but not externally) - and numbers count.

I was on holiday with mum and dad and we watched it in a sort of communal room on the camp site. It’s one of the standout memories of my childhood.

The World Cup I’ll. ever forget was the 1966 one - we had my German exchange girl staying! Talk about nerves - I could barely bear to watch at the end.

It was very hard for poor Ingrid of course, but I’m still glad it wasn’t the other way around!

fancythat

^Will be watching - so going against the Gransnet norm it would seem..^

I doubt it.

If you were to start a thread talking about the World Cup, think many would post.

Read the other day that this forum has 300,000 members.
Cant see it myself.
But there are many more on the site than it would first appear.

I thought this WAS about the World Cup?

But no doubt there will be similar moans when Wimbledon is on (“Come on Tim!”)) as if what is on TV is the only thing that matters!
With more streaming platforms than you can shake a stick at, I can’t see what all the fuss is about - unless you spend your life in Wetherspoons.

Sago

Rugby fan, football is too slow.

I will watch if we get to semi final/final.

Exactly this Sago.

CV2020

I detest football with a vengeance!!

Same here. I have only got to hear the music on the television when a football programme starts and I get a headache!! I HATE FOOTBALL

Good grief no! I'm a rugby girl! 🏉🏉🏉💛💚💛
I have lots of recorded programmes to watch so will be ok.

I might watch the final if England manage to make it that far, otherwise I'll avoid it. I had to be the football fan when our son was at home because DH isn't a sports fan, but since he left home my interest has evaporated.

I will watch the England matches but at a reasonable hour on catchup. I’m not mad keen on football but my son and his children are all avid Tottenham fans as was my late husband so follow their progress occasionally.
It won’t be the same coming from the Americas as North Americans aren’t as fond of footie as us unlike the South America’s countries like Brazil & Mexico are mad keen. I hope we do well but I don’t expect us to win.

Will be watching - so going against the Gransnet norm it would seem..

I doubt it.

If you were to start a thread talking about the World Cup, think many would post.

Read the other day that this forum has 300,000 members.
Cant see it myself.
But there are many more on the site than it would first appear.

Will be avoiding it like the plague. Can’t stand football and what often goes hand in hand with it.

Will be watching - so going against the Gransnet norm it would seem...
My husband (died 15 years ago) was a West Ham fan, which ensures miserable match days 😉😉, and my whole family are footie fans, grandsons and one granddaughter all play for local clubs, so yes will be watching, but with no high hopes! I have 6 year old twin grandsons, one supporting Portugal and the other Argentina 🤣🤣 , but I can understand those with no interest getting fed up with the coverage. Although do remember many of the games will be late, or early hours, so maybe not as many changes to schedules 😀.

Not a football fan really, the actual games are not the problem but the interminable chat before and afterwards. Not just football either most sports now seem to have 'experts' who dissect the games minute by minute it is so boring and takes up so much time.

I might watch an England game, am not a football fan but if England do well would be exciting to watch.
Not sure why it is in the US, have lived in the US many moons ago for a short time and have family there and the public interest in football is not the same as in most of the rest of the world, for them the SuperBowl is the big thing as well as other sporting events that are not football. They do have some ‘soccer’ teams and of course the national team, but I imagine the public will not be tuning in in large numbers.
Still, I suppose they have the big bucks to put on a good show.

I will avoid watchin. I have a hard drive full of programmes to watch instead

We are not big fans.
Havent got much of a clue what is going on.

Someone said some matches will be at 3am.
Didnt make sense to me.

Will look it all up sometime.

Not saying I wont get more interested as it all goes along.
Will depend what Countries are left in nearer the end I guess.

I won't watch any of it, even allowing for Scotland playing for the first time for years. I'm not a fan of football. I expect it'll be on if dgs1 is around as he's a big fan of playing and watching

Dh is not much of a footie fan, more of a rugger bugger, but I dare say he’ll watch some England games, so I’ll have to take myself off to the kitchen or garden, or out altogether.

No interest really but since watching ‘Dear England’ I will watch the England matches

I suppose it is because we can’t get away from it. Shops, pubs, television, newspaper. etc, etc are full of it. Advertising is aimed at it.
I remember the last time England was in the Final, we opened the school early, special breakfast and a large television in the hall. When they lost ,the boys , especially were inconsolable. Never again our head said.

Perhaps because I am not English and also have no particular interest in football, but I cannot understand why watching/not watching is such a big deal or should be a source of pride or superiority.
Of course I wish the England team well, and the Scots (are any other “home”nations involved?)
But why don’t we have a thread about who isn’t watching the Open (golf) or Roland Garros? I suppose there will be admonitions on frequenting Wetherspoons or not, next.

Canadian Gran I'm so glad we book our annual trip to see Canadian relatives at least 10 months in advance because airfares exploded, a combination of Trump's antics and availability! The ticket prices for matches in the states are unreal, I hope stadia are half empty, greed should never conquer. We'll be going to mid/eastern Canada, I haven't actually looked where the Canadian based matches are being played.