I watch football if it's on (ie if somebody else turned the TV on to watch football) but would never volun-- No, I lie, I did voluntarily wake up at 5am or stay awake until 3am to watch Japan play during the last World Cup, but that's mostly because everyone at work was talking about it. I've stopped watching English football teams now mostly because I hate what the game has become.
Several years ago I got really put off by the classless acts of people like Wayne Rooney and other such overpaid and graceless individuals. I mean, football has long had its feet in working-class grounds (I say this with fondness; my stepfather grew up barely a mile from the original Old Trafford training grounds and we as a family long supported Manchester United) but I feel as though the mental gap between "regular people" and the players themselves has become too wide even if many of the lads come from similar cultural backgrounds. In the game itself, the motivation and incentive to play a good game has sort of floundered. England has been nothing but an overpaid disappointment for decades now and yet nothing seemed to be being done about it. I just got so tired of hearing about more fan violence and watching more boring games and hearing more disappointing news stories about yet another player getting themselves into trouble for yet another thoughtless thuggish act.
I feel as though there is more honesty and promise in women's football - on an international level the Lionesses do an amazing job, nobody can doubt the might of the US national women's team, and Nadeshiko Japan are hugely popular over here as well. These women are fighting hard for the passion of the game, not for the easy and ridiculous paycheque which I think has kind of tainted the attitudes and egos of too many male players.
I'm not a sports person, period.
i only watch football when my country is playing, and if it's like, a huge thing (like with the world cup, or copa america a few months ago)
I watch football if it's on (ie if somebody else turned the TV on to watch football) but would never volun-- No, I lie, I did voluntarily wake up at 5am or stay awake until 3am to watch Japan play during the last World Cup, but that's mostly because everyone at work was talking about it. I've stopped watching English football teams now mostly because I hate what the game has become.
What has it become?
Several years ago I got really put off by the classless acts of people like Wayne Rooney and other such overpaid and graceless individuals. I mean, football has long had its feet in working-class grounds (I say this with fondness; my stepfather grew up barely a mile from the original Old Trafford training grounds and we as a family long supported Manchester United) but I feel as though the mental gap between "regular people" and the players themselves has become too wide even if many of the lads come from similar cultural backgrounds. In the game itself, the motivation and incentive to play a good game has sort of floundered. England has been nothing but an overpaid disappointment for decades now and yet nothing seemed to be being done about it. I just got so tired of hearing about more fan violence and watching more boring games and hearing more disappointing news stories about yet another player getting themselves into trouble for yet another thoughtless thuggish act.
I feel as though there is more honesty and promise in women's football - on an international level the Lionesses do an amazing job, nobody can doubt the might of the US national women's team, and Nadeshiko Japan are hugely popular over here as well. These women are fighting hard for the passion of the game, not for the easy and ridiculous paycheque which I think has kind of tainted the attitudes and egos of too many male players.
Depends on which soccer.
*football and can't stand it