World Cup externalities or why I must learn to love football or hide in a hole for a month
What I hate about the World Cup:
- Amount of tack it produces - you can even “Englandise” your car with this (it includes a flag, stickers and even an air freshner- I wonder what the smell of England is?)
- The ironic sponsorship deals - What the hell has a “bigger” Big Mac got to do with sport? Then don’t forget the likes of healthy Coca-Cola and Budweiser.
- The way everyone jumps on the bandwagon - you name it, it’s suddenly got something to do with the World Cup.
- Plans to make the World Cup every two years- as if every four was not enough
- Violence and petty nationalism (I wish I could join in the inevitable running battles with the police that’ll take place in Germany this year)
- Incoherent footballers being interviewed on the news (yes, I know this happens all the time, but it’s intensity increases during the Cup)
- The time taken off work - all those people skiving off work to watch the match/ got over their hangover from watching the match, means people like me have to work twice as hard.
It s not that I hate the premise of what the World Cup could be (a chance to bring together different cultures around the world) I just hate what it has become.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
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June 27th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
[...] There’s only one thing equally as annoying as having to see all this incessant flag waving on TV and cars that seems to be occuring recently, and that’s seeing lots of articles written about flag waving. For some absurd reason i’ve even taken the trouble to read some of them. There’s been a huge amount of coverage in the MSM on why its good to wave flags, is it chav to fly the flag, why the rich dont wave flags, and why ethnic minorities are forced to fly the flag. All this is really no gage of patriotism or nationalistic feelings. Ive always believed that only those who are insecure about their nationalism feel the need to engage in flag waving. [...]