World Cup
Living in a house full of men learning to love sport was inevitable. I like football and I have enjoyed watching the World Cup.
What I haven't enjoyed is the sniping and sarcy comments of non football people. Anyone who makes sneering comments about those of us who have been watching and enjoying the footie should consider what they might have in there lives that we may think is a waste of time.
Like the women who complain that all these football matches are interrupting the schedules episodes of their favourite soap operas.
Well darling your soaps are on everyday of the year including high days and holidays. Your life will not come to a grinding halt if you have to wait an extra day to watch some improbable story line about some heartless scoundrel perpetuating some dastardly deed upon another character who is only marginally less attractive.
Or the snobs who don' t like football and think the game and the people who will be watching are beneath them. Well guess what not every football fan is white van man and as the World Cup Ends the 2006 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts begin and some of us are capable of enjoying both. Shame you aren't.
There are many sports I don't like, tennis is one. But I know a large part of the population will be glued to the two weeks of Wimbledon coverage. Coverage that happens annually unlike the World Cup every four years.
Will making nasty comments make anyone stop watching? Will being snide convince the BBC not to cover the event?
No.
Being insulting and snide, making derogatory comments about football and football fans says a lot about the person making them. It says I am so selfish that I can' t accept anyone enjoying something I don't approve of. I am so egocentric that I think want I want is far more important
than the enjoyment of anyone else.
What I haven't enjoyed is the sniping and sarcy comments of non football people. Anyone who makes sneering comments about those of us who have been watching and enjoying the footie should consider what they might have in there lives that we may think is a waste of time.
Like the women who complain that all these football matches are interrupting the schedules episodes of their favourite soap operas.
Well darling your soaps are on everyday of the year including high days and holidays. Your life will not come to a grinding halt if you have to wait an extra day to watch some improbable story line about some heartless scoundrel perpetuating some dastardly deed upon another character who is only marginally less attractive.
Or the snobs who don' t like football and think the game and the people who will be watching are beneath them. Well guess what not every football fan is white van man and as the World Cup Ends the 2006 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts begin and some of us are capable of enjoying both. Shame you aren't.
There are many sports I don't like, tennis is one. But I know a large part of the population will be glued to the two weeks of Wimbledon coverage. Coverage that happens annually unlike the World Cup every four years.
Will making nasty comments make anyone stop watching? Will being snide convince the BBC not to cover the event?
No.
Being insulting and snide, making derogatory comments about football and football fans says a lot about the person making them. It says I am so selfish that I can' t accept anyone enjoying something I don't approve of. I am so egocentric that I think want I want is far more important
than the enjoyment of anyone else.
posted by Jodie @ 9:13 pm
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home