People who constantly talk about football

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?

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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

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

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!

MJ23 wrote: »

"Did you see the match?"


Fcuk off and get a life.

Why the anger?

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?

Mars Bar wrote: »

such intelligent

very soccer

____________________much play

So!Um....dig that local sports team! Go team!

gammygils wrote: »

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

It's Football.

The Irish one is Gaelic, or Gaah

I have a friend who watches a match whilst constantly flicking to other matches and looking at teletext for all the scores for every other match being played that day. He invited me down once to watch a match, never again.
I wouldn't be a football fan myself, but its ok to watch a big game every now and then. But have to agree with the op when it comes to talking about it. Many people seem obsessed.
I much prefer to watch motorbike racing, but hardly anybody else does. I used to watch more football yrs ago, in the days of Eric Cantana and Zidane. No players like these anymore, too much money and sponsorship involved.
What always gets me with football is when people say 'we' did well the weekend. 'We' ???? I don't remember seeing you on the pitch. Was it a Mars bar moment? I asked a friend about this once and he said its 'we' because he buys the ticket to go and watch and so pays the players wages etc. So the next time I buy a can of beans from Dunnes I'll be watching the stock exchange to see how 'we' are doing.
Football is taken way too seriously.