People who constantly talk about football

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Seriously, a conversation about football is fine, I catch the highlights when I can and am a football fan to the extent that I used to play and I like to watch a "big game" e.g. World Cup, important qualifiers, Champions League final etc. But when I go out with a group of friends (male and female) and the conversation keeps coming back to football and what the manager said, transfer rumours blah blah, I realise that these people having noting else to talk about.

I have one friend who has a sky sports subscription and without fail watches the football every week! If there is a game in the morning and one in the afternoon then he watches both and will watch the highlights on in the evening! These are married guys whose wives have zero interest in football, so when the conversation keeps turning back to football they just sit there and have zero input (understandably). Imagine a man had a wife who watched four hours of soap opera every Saturday, and then watched the omnibus at in the evening?

How do these people become such avid fans to a football team which they have no affiliation too?

Copper_pipe

Fa cup this weekend!

Peregrine

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in..

Henlars67

A Sky Sports subscription does not a football fan make

NIMAN

37% of men said their lives would have no meaning if football did not exist.

Skid X

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

I have one friend who has a sky sports subscription and without fail watches the football every week!

Having Sky Sports and watching the Football on it?

Some people really like to have their cake and eat it.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Nothing gives me a bigger pain in the bollocks as the GAA speak.

Copper_pipe

This is surely a good time for a kolo/yaya toure chant

Mint Aero

I dont get it either, it's so f*cking boring. I see the highlights on the news of the seldom goal and every f*cking time it's "What an amazing goal!" "What a goal!" "Unbelievable goal!" My arse it is

My name is URL

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in..

Yay sports. Move the ball thing. Score the points..

syklops

The nerve of that guy to speak at length about something he is passionate about to one of his friends! And to top it off he spends most of his spare time watching it on TV as well! The ignorance of him! Poor you OP having to endure it all. I feel for you.

LETHAL LADY

People who constantly talk socially about one subject are boring ***** regardless of their subject of choice.

Scar Tissue

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in..

I mean what *was* Wenger thinking..?

RikkFlair

Thierry Henry handled the soccer ball with his HAND! The French fried ****ing froggy bollix.

StupidLikeAFox

"we" beat "ye", ye are **** this year, we are gonna win the league

Lads, ye are both from the arsehole of Laois and the only reason "ye" are winning is because some sugar daddy came in and spent a load of oil money.

How normal lads can have any affinity to the overpriced millionaires who only go to the highest bidder is beyond me

Peregrine

Scar Tissue wrote: »

I mean what *was* Wenger thinking..?

Sending Walcott on that early!

DieselPowered

NIMAN wrote: »

37% of men said their lives would have no meaning if football did not exist.

Whats this football thing?

Diabhal Beag

Don't you just hate GAA?

antodeco

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Sending Walcott on that early!

I put on a pony on liverpool

hoodwinked

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

I realise that these people having noting else to talk about.

unfortunately who shot phil mitchell or who died (but not really because they are an actor, its not real) in corrie just is not as interesting as that absolutly thrilling game of rugby or soccer last weekend,

sport can give you thrilling highs, and i love that feel of being pitchside (or in front of the tv) screaming for your team you support, its a hobby, soaps are entertainment, and aren't even good at that imo

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

I have one friend who has a sky sports subscription and without fail watches the football every week! If there is a game in the morning and one in the afternoon then he watches both and will watch the highlights on in the evening! These are married guys whose wives have zero interest in football, so when the conversation keeps turning back to football they just sit there and have zero input (understandably).

im sorry that is not soccer's fault that your friend is an ignorant sod both my husband and myself love sport, but in the presence of those with no interest we don't dominate the conversation with sport talk, nothing to do with the sport itself but it would be ignorant to keep talking about it and ignoring someone in our group of friends, my husband respects me enough to not deliberately exclude me from any conversation.

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

Imagine a man had a wife who watched four hours of soap opera every Saturday, and then watched the omnibus at in the evening?

see my first point. also, a game of soccer = 90 minutes, a soap is 30, that probably would add to the whole "soccer takes up more time" feeling.

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

How do these people become such avid fans to a football team which they have no affiliation too?

because of the pure enjoyment of watching sport in general. in my experience most people fall in love with one type of sport or another and its a matter of picking a team or following who your influences support.

syklops

And another thing. Whats the story with people and films? A load of men(and women) sitting around watching films. What a shower of ba$tards!

RikkFlair

Are we not men?

syklops

HoodWinked wrote:

unfortunately who shot phil mitchell or who died (but not really because they are an actor, its not real) in corrie just is not as interesting as that absolutly thrilling game of rugby or soccer last weekend,

Obviously you weren't watching the night Richard Hillman crept up on Emily with the crowbar in his hand. Talk about thrilling! I nearly spilled my ovaltine.

Lapin

antodeco wrote: »

I put on a pony on liverpool

Throwing good money after bad there.
Fúcking referees doing everything they can to deny Liverpool a win.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Nothing gives me a bigger pain in the bollocks as the GAA speak.

Lookit !

Username99

I agree completely with the OP and the guy about GAA, but I do watch the UFC occasionally and it doesn't annoy me when people talk about that maybe that is because sometimes scoring a goal means something but punching someone in the face always means something.

sabat

I watch about 5 movies, read a book and follow several "quality" tv shows every week; I go to the theatre about once a month and travel all over regularly but I can safely say that Luis Suarez is the most entertaining thing in the world right now.

passremarkable

My partner complains too about the amount of time me and my
Mates talk about football , she keeps that up and she won't last another season!!

shedweller

I know of no other sport where a lad can say 'god ye played well this evening' and not mean he actually played anything that evening, other than the remote.
I try not give a **** about it but when you are in the canteen with your workmates and all they talk about is football it tends to grate a bit.
I mean if i went on about the latest nasa mars rover space engineering stuff even half the amount of the footie heads id be told where to get off. And rightly so.

"Well, did you watch the match last night?"
"What match?"

<stares>
<stares back. Like i give a ****.>

Boring *****

Rothko

RikkFlair wrote: »

Are we not men?

We are Devo!

Karl Stein

Love watching sport and playing a bit of 5-a-side but find the incessant yapping about it fucking boring.

jobeenfitz

shedweller wrote: »

I know of no other sport where a lad can say 'god ye played well this evening' and not mean he actually played anything that evening, other than the remote.
I try not give a **** about it but when you are in the canteen with your workmates and all they talk about is football it tends to grate a bit.
I mean if i went on about the latest nasa mars rover space engineering stuff even half the amount of the footie heads id be told where to get off. And rightly so.

"Well, did you watch the match last night?"
"What match?"

<stares>
<stares back. Like i give a ****.>

Boring *****

Are your really just looking for a big hug in the canteen? Tell them how you feel and throw your arms out. Everything's gonna be awrite.

toastedpickles

syklops wrote: »

And another thing. Whats the story with people and films? A load of men(and women) sitting around watching films. What a shower of ba$tards!

And rollarcoasters! A load of men going up and down in a rollercoaster

And shouting!

Nimrod 7

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in..

What were they thinking putting Walcott on that early?

MonaPizza

Jaylene Orange Sabotage wrote: »

Seriously, a conversation about football is fine, I catch the highlights when I can and am a football fan to the extent that I used to play and I like to watch a "big game" e.g. World Cup, important qualifiers, Champions League final etc. But when I go out with a group of friends (male and female) and the conversation keeps coming back to football and what the manager said, transfer rumours blah blah, I realise that these people having noting else to talk about.

I have one friend who has a sky sports subscription and without fail watches the football every week! If there is a game in the morning and one in the afternoon then he watches both and will watch the highlights on in the evening! These are married guys whose wives have zero interest in football, so when the conversation keeps turning back to football they just sit there and have zero input (understandably). Imagine a man had a wife who watched four hours of soap opera every Saturday, and then watched the omnibus at in the evening?

How do these people become such avid fans to a football team which they have no affiliation too?

You're a porn addict aren't you? You watch the same clips of your favourite shag scenes over and over and OVER....don't you?

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

I put on a pony on liverpool

I hope no one is going to say anything about myyyyy Ars-en-al......because i love em....i love them hammers!

Crann na Beatha

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Not sure what gender the OP is but this book helped Mrs Doyle for sure


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Henlars67

hoodwinked wrote: »

because of the pure enjoyment of watching sport in general. in my experience most people fall in love with one type of sport or another and its a matter of picking a team or following who your influences support.

Whilst I agree with everything else you said, fans don't pick a team to support, not real fans anyway

RikkFlair

Phoenix wrote: »

Who are ya who are ya.........

YOU'RE NOT SINGING ANYMORE!!!

gstack166

My missus HATES football & my obsession with Football Manager. In my defence though, I have Lahm, Kompany, Silva & Pique.

DB83

Football is bloody brilliant... anyone who says otherwise is a dick

DeanAustin

There is nothing in the history of the world that is more important than football.

lostdisk

Soccer. It's called soccer.

MJ23

"Did you see the match?"


Fcuk off and get a life.

gammygils

FYI - In Ireland it's called SOCCER! Football for us true Irish is Gaelic Football!

And people who constantly talk about soccer is fine.

Rather than people who constantly bore the tits off everyone harpin on about
Golf or Rugby in a false accent :rolleyes:

wp_rathead

gammygils wrote: »

FYI - In Ireland it's called SOCCER! Football for us true Irish is Gaelic Football!

And people who constantly talk about soccer is fine.

Rather than people who constantly bore the tits off everyone harpin on about
Golf or Rugby in a false accent :rolleyes:

yeaah!!!! how dare they decide to like a different sport :mad::mad::mad: posers!

Mars Bar

football

I know that the obscene amount of money involved can make it hard for some people to follow it but when you really understand the game and understand how phenomenal it is for a player to reach the top level and play it with such intelligent, it can make it bearable.

ahnowbrowncow

MJ23 wrote: »

"Did you see the match?"


Fcuk off and get a life.

Why the anger?

jobeenfitz

Would it be fair to say we all either love football or love whinging about cnuts who love football. See we all have football in common.

Why did they get rid of the cheerleaders at prem league games?

enfant terrible

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

"we" beat "ye", ye are **** this year, we are gonna win the league

Lads, ye are both from the arsehole of Laois and the only reason "ye" are winning is because some sugar daddy came in and spent a load of oil money.

How normal lads can have any affinity to the overpriced millionaires who only go to the highest bidder is beyond me

So your only interested in local things?

Peregrine

gammygils wrote: »

Rather than people who constantly bore the tits off everyone harpin on about
Golf or Rugby in a false accent :rolleyes:

I don't like the same sport as you..is that not okay?