The World Cup

[poliphilo]

The BBC was talking last night about our "failure" to win the rights to stage the World Cup and the need for an inquest to "determine what went wrong"- very much as if we were entitled to it and had had it snatched from under our noses. I think it's fairly obvious that what went wrong is that our bribes weren't big enough. 

Anyway, we'll be staging the next Olympics. How many international sporting events do we think we deserve? 

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Who needs the World Cup when we've got the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Wales every August Bank Holiday. That should be plenty good enough, in that there's far more of the Corinthian spirit there than in all the World Cups put together, and it manages perfectly well thank you without the help of Beckham, Cameron or Wilhelm Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's not as if we'll be forbidden to watch the World Cup if it's staged abroad.

I don't enjoy football. From what I've seen of it World Cup football is even duller than club football- because everyone plays defensively.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Yep, agree. Not *everyone* likes football, and I resent the fact it gets blanket coverage in this country.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't football it would be something else. At the deepest level football isn't about sport, it's about the pleasure and comfort of belonging to a tribe.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

True. I do like Rugby, I admit.

The thing is, its not the football I dislike. Its the corruption in the game, and the disgusting behaviour of some of the players and hangers on.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My game is cricket.

Football used to be a decent working-class game played by decent working-class blokes. It's hard now to find anyone connected to it- players, managers, owners- who isn't deeply unpleasant.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the WAGs- the fact being a footballer's wife (ie sitting on your arse spending his money) is seen as a legitimate career choice makes me want to cry.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They all look the same too.....

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Yep. Insta-plastic and then some...

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

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