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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?

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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:

I'd say you're great craic to have as a friend.

anncoates

Generally, most people that whinge about other people having a boring conversation staple have an equally boring one themselves (travel, gaming, politics, work or whatever) but are too self absorbed to notice the irony.

Teyla Emmagan

Listening to people going on about football brings me out in a rash. I can handle 'Did you see the match last night? Yes/No', but once it starts into:

The ref is a *&()*()
The manager should have blah blah blah
That player isn't worth the whatever
What they should have done is yayakyak

I don't think there is anything more boring in the world then someone in the kitchen in work who thinks they're managing a team in Doncaster.

And no other sports fans are as tedious as the football ones for some reason.

Billy86

I've been getting a bit fed up with football recently to be honest - there's just so much doping, corruption, match fixing, spot fixing, etc that it's getting ridiculous.

Billy86

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

And no other sports fans are as tedious as the football ones for some reason.

GAA fans who have nothing but disdain for anything that isn't GAA football/hurling, claim they are 'undoubtedly/proven/etc the best sports in the world' and get really defensive when you ask them to give examples or evidence as to how.

Henlars67

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:

You don't get to decide what it's called. The sport is called 'association football'.

If people want to call it's soccer then that is fine, if people want to call it football then that's also fine.

A lot of Irish people don't like gaelic football. Does that make them less Irish?

I don't like traditional Irish music. Does that make me less Irish?

The idea that somebody's sporting preference, should be determined by their nationality is utterly ridiculous.

I follow a lot of sports, but football (soccer to you) and cycling are my main ones.

I used to play gaa, but it was the narrow-minded bigoted attitude of a lot of gaa people toward those of us who also played other sports that lead to me quitting.

Yamanoto

Henlars67 wrote: »

I don't like traditional Irish music. Does that make me less Irish?

Funny thing is, majority of the fools who'd deride others for not being 'true Irish' would probably be Wolfe Tones fans - purveyors of the worst type of Jury's cabaret sh1te, with a touch of added bile to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Duckworth_Luas

Yamanoto wrote: »

Funny thing is, majority of the fools who'd deride others for not being 'true Irish' would probably be Wolfe Tones fans - purveyors of the worst type of Jury's cabaret sh1te, with a touch of added bile to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Celtic FC fans?

I was once told in a Glasgow pub that I wasn't really Irish if I didn't support Celtic!

Daqster

lostdisk wrote: »

Soccer. It's called soccer.

Never in the history of jumpers for goalposts has an Irish kid knocked round to his mates and said:

"Lads, lets have a game of soccer".

Billy86

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Celtic FC fans?

I was once told in a Glasgow pub that I wasn't really Irish if I didn't support Celtic!

Or the amount of times I've heard "sure it's basically the same thing" about people wearing Sheltic jerseys to Irish international matches. Sure f'k it, at that rate I might as well bring my Green Bay Packers jersey down next time - it's a closer fit!

Lapin

murphthesmurf wrote: »

I used to watch more football yrs ago, in the days of Eric Cantana and Zidane. No players like these anymore,.....

Back in the day Cantona used to assault the fans and Zidane used to butt his opponents in the chest.

Nowadays Suarez just eats them.

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Celtic FC fans?

I was once told in a Glasgow pub that I wasn't really Irish if I didn't support Celtic!

Bairds I hope !

Henlars67

Yamanoto wrote: »

Funny thing is, majority of the fools who'd deride others for not being 'true Irish' would probably be Wolfe Tones fans - purveyors of the worst type of Jury's cabaret sh1te, with a touch of added bile to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I like quite a lot of the songs that they sing, the thing is that they're just absolutely shíte at singing them. They absolutely murder some brilliant and very deep ballads.

Irish Guitarist

I love football. Especially when one of the players hits a home run or gets to second base.

Rothko

Daqster wrote: »

Never in the history of jumpers for goalposts has an Irish kid knocked round to his mates and said:

"Lads, lets have a game of soccer".

Eh, yes they have

Everyone I know has always called it soccer.

Billy86

Let's just agree on one thing... at least neither side is as bad as the Americans who insist on using 'football' to refer to a sport where nobody on the whole team ever touches the ball with their feet, apart from the kicker and punter (kind of like the outhalf in rugby, but they just come in to kick the ball and nothing else) - and there's a culture in the sport of hating even your own players in those positions, because they only kick the ball with their feet.

I like American football a lot, but it's possibly the most stupidly misnamed sport in the world.

Richard Hillman

syklops wrote: »

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.

I would have gotten away with it too were it not for that pesky Maxine coming home too early.

Daqster

Suas11 wrote: »

Eh, yes they have Everyone I know has always called it soccer.

Do you live in California?

joolsveer

I think that I am balanced - I hate all sports - soccer, football, hurling, snooker, cricket etc.

Smithwicks Man

joolsveer wrote: »

I think that I am balanced - I hate all sports - soccer, football, hurling, snooker, cricket etc.

Cricket's not a sport, it's a joke

Billy86

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Cricket's not a sport, it's a joke

Didn't they ban smaller nations from their World Cup for winning too many games?

gubber

Went to my first football match last year, an Ireland match. I hate football but it was actually fun for the sheer atmosphere.

Coillte_Bhoy

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?

No you are not

Rothko

Daqster wrote: »

Do you live in California?

No, Ireland.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Daqster wrote: »

Never in the history of jumpers for goalposts has an Irish kid knocked round to his mates and said:

"Lads, lets have a game of soccer".

Yes they have.Myself being one of them.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Soccer is a great conversation topic in work.Despite the fact that its a least 10 years since I watched a soccer match in full without changing the channel once, i still talk about it constantly in work, you don't have to follow it intensely to be able to talk about it just glance at a few highlights now and then and you'll be up to speed.I still watch a decent bit of it now but usually channel hopping between 2 or 3 different matches

I used to really love soccer and supported an english team up until around my leaving cert when I realized it was bit daft to be supporting a team from a city I have zero affiliation with.Its actually kind of embarrassing looking back and seeing how much time I invested in something completely pointless with no real meaning.

yawhat!

Football is my religion. Could talk about it for hours!

Dirty Dingus McGee

Billy86 wrote: »

- and there's a culture in the sport of hating even your own players in those positions, because they only kick the ball with their feet.

What other part of the body would you suggest they kick the ball with?

padd b1975

Henlars67 wrote: »

I like quite a lot of the songs that they sing, the thing is that they're just absolutely shíte at singing them. They absolutely murder some brilliant and very deep ballads.

I'm not their greatest fan, but Tommy Byrne is a fine ballad singer.

Billy86

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

What other part of the body would you suggest the kick the ball with?

I think you misread my post - those are the only guys who touch the ball with their feet at all in the entire sport, and they are despised and treated like an irrelevant afterthought... because all they do is kick the ball (instead of carry it, throw it, catch it, tackle the person with it, etc).

Yet they all still insist on calling it 'football'.

Agricola

This not been posted yet?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU

I agree that people who talk about football incessantly are tedious arse-aches. Problem is any random selection of people sitting around a table would have a hard time discussing books they read (cos they don't read or have very different tastes) or films they like or whatever else. But football, and now the economy, are things that everyone has an interest in to some degree. So its natural people will flog them to death in conversation.