Football bloody Football
December 22nd, 2008by andy 
Football football football.
If I never see another football match again in my life, I think I will be OK.
More and more, it seems to me, football is tearing up the society we live in, almost like a drug. The football addict must get his ‘fix’ like any other junkie. Or there will be hell on.
There are several ways that football sneaks into my world, and each of them I find equally distasteful. Here’s some.
Football on TV
I’m quite accommodating to friends who want to watch football, I like to think. But for someone to arrive at your doorstep and expect you to switch the football on, as there is an ‘important’ match is downright rude and antisocial. Important to who? Oh you – right then in that case everything should stop and we should watch the important football. Yeah right.
Guess what – some people don’t find it entertaining to watch overpaid tits see which direction they can make a ball of air travel in to be very important, in the grand scheme of things.
The ‘Football Pub’
The pub with the large television screen just for showing football matches.
What a triumph of technology and intelligence these establishments are. Far superior to an ordinary pub, these football pubs enable people to stare at large screens and say nothing to each other on a scale never experienced before in the western world.
Grown men flee to these establishments, thwarting any kind of social activity that they may have started earlier in the day, just so they can watch the men kick the ball. Friends, partners and children are quickly abandoned in favour of ‘the game’.
Sad.
The football for these fools becomes more important than old friends, or family – but they don’t see that.
Go and enjoy your ruddy football – but don’t inflict it on me please. I may just turn it off.
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December 25th, 2008 at 9:11 am
This is all true. And also why American Football is the superior game: social interaction stays intact, and is often hightened. Each play lasts only a few seconds, and then you have the chance to critique or relive that moment with your friends. Football’s hard-hitting action demonstrates humanity’s penchant for violence and good sportsmanship, while retaining the verisimilitude of war.
And when you add football chicks in the mix, little else is needed to while away a coupl’a hours.