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Is there anyone out there not interested in the football?

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Dinahmo Fri 12-Jul-24 14:34:00

So much time taken up by football at the moment. I'm getting really fed up with it. I'm not interested in football but will be pleased if England win.

eazybee Fri 12-Jul-24 16:23:56

I am not interested in football, or any other sport.
Sick of all the hype, and a bank Holiday reward. Really?

Kupari45 Fri 12-Jul-24 16:32:38

We are not interested in sport at all. Lots of other interests, but not sport. So Having had tennis, football and the Olympics soon we will just be glad when its all over.
However I have prepared for it all. Since June I have been collecting D.V.Ds from charity shops- got 30 to view yet.
Then our daughter signed us up for something called netflix couple of days ago.

JamesandJon33 Fri 12-Jul-24 16:35:07

YES

YorkLady Fri 12-Jul-24 16:53:48

I love tennis and Mr York is all about the football. I’m supporting Alcaraz in the final on Sunday. I have threatened to put up a Spanish flag 😂😂😂

JdotJ Fri 12-Jul-24 17:09:00

Not the slightest bit interested.

Gummie Fri 12-Jul-24 17:12:12

I have zero interest in the tennis but I will watch the England final on Sunday. Bit of a glory seeker and happy to watch them in this big game.

RosiesMaw2 Fri 12-Jul-24 17:12:35

It will be over by Sunday night.
You could just take a slug of a night nurse and sleep till it’s over, or alternatively turn off the TV and read a good book

ginny Fri 12-Jul-24 18:30:36

Yes we couldand I do. However the question was, “Is there anyone out there not interested in the football”

Mollygo Fri 12-Jul-24 18:42:32

DH watches the big football events, especially if England, or any of the UK teams are playing.
I find it a useful time to listen to audio books and do puzzles or jigsaws rather than sit by myself.
We don’t watch tennis, but various parts of the Olympics will definitely be watched or recorded.
My 90 year old neighbour is delighted by the football, but she can even identify an ^offside*

kittylester Fri 12-Jul-24 18:45:26

This might make you smile.

Ziplok Fri 12-Jul-24 18:52:36

I’m not interested in football and, thankfully, neither is my DH, so we’re a football free household. Absolutely sick of all the coverage of both this and Wimbledon.

Sallywally1 Fri 12-Jul-24 18:56:24

I don’t much like it, DH does and my adult son. I rang him at 8.00 last night and he was quite shocked as he ‘had just started to watch the match’ as if I had disturbed a holy moment! My dad liked it too.

For some obscure reason I did like the women’s football, I thought they were good sports

Iam64 Fri 12-Jul-24 18:59:32

RosiesMaw2

It will be over by Sunday night.
You could just take a slug of a night nurse and sleep till it’s over, or alternatively turn off the TV and read a good book

I love footie

crazyH Fri 12-Jul-24 19:13:15

I like football. I had a crush on the goalie of my local football team. Strangely enough, I married someone who looked like him, but as the story goes ……..

Bumface Fri 12-Jul-24 19:22:31

To me football just looks like a load of people chasing a ball and kicking it around a field. I am sure there is a lot more to it than that and I don't look down on other peoples interests,

I like opera and some people tell me that soprano arias sound like screaming. So each to his or her own.

Iam64 Fri 12-Jul-24 19:27:22

Good point Bumface
I don’t get Golf. On so many different levels - but my sil is a fanatic/. I love him so I’ve stopped being sniffy about golf ( I never mention the right wing leanings for example_😊

Callistemon213 Fri 12-Jul-24 19:30:14

I think snooker is like watching paint dry.

So I find something else to do when it's on. That time can be very productive 🙂

Callistemon213 Fri 12-Jul-24 19:31:24

Golf is not too bad (DS plays so I have to be interested 😃)

Outside, fresh air, nice scenery!

MayBee70 Fri 12-Jul-24 19:45:12

I like watching it but don’t understand the rules at all. I know if I’m watching a good match or a bad match though because the pace seems so much quicker. And a winning team always seems to have more players. I don’t think I’ll be watching it as they only seem to have scored when I’ve not been watching.The other night I stayed in the garden towards the end of the game because I couldn’t face watching the last few minutes. I vividly remember seeing England win the World Cup when I was on holiday and was in a communal room with lots of other people. The mood of the whole country will lift if we win on Sunday. I’m getting nervous already.

Maggiemaybe Fri 12-Jul-24 19:48:12

Rekarie

Love Wimbledon

Not a huge football fan but I've seen the last couple of England's matches. I think it's lovely to see people being happy . I've seen a lot of footage on social media with fabulous scenes of fans from all nations generally having great fun together. The Dutch fans have been amazing to watch. Brilliant clip of hundreds of folk clad in orange, singing Hey Jude to 4 English fans. Also a German police man, bearing a similarity to Gareth Southgate, gets serenaded by English fans.

It's just nice to see people having a good time. And try as they might. MSM hasn't been able to find a great deal of hooliganism.

Some may say it's over rated but it's clearly not to the clubs and fans. These young players earn upwards of 500 grand a week. I think Mbappe, the French player is on a million a week.

It's a huge world wide sport.

And fingers crossed for England

What a great attitude you have, Rekarie! smile

I’m not interested in football but I do love an occasion, so I’ll be cheering England on on Sunday with a glass of something appropriate and a selection of snacks. During the season I manage a Fantasy Football team and I’m the current supremo of the family Euros sweepstake. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I say, and with a big footie mad family I might as well enjoy it!

LOUISA1523 Fri 12-Jul-24 20:00:31

Have really enjoyed these euros...I go about 5 or 6 times a season to watch Liverpool FC ....whenever I can get a ticket .....my Dad used to take me the matchvwjen I was small ....we all love footie in our family

Jaxjacky Fri 12-Jul-24 20:09:40

We watch and enjoy it, I’m pleased schools are embracing the competion, enthusing more youngsters to get out and exercise. It’s good business for a shops, hospitality and as Rekarie said it’s making (a lot of) people happy.
Over soon for those not happy 🙂

TerriBull Fri 12-Jul-24 20:10:19

My husband has played golf forever, when we were first together he actually got me to walk round with him. Gawd! whoever said "a good walk ruined" well they're were right. It has to be the most ponderous of a sport involving balls. However, on the positive side I think it's fair to say there is a sense of well-being in the fresh air and exercise, personally it doesn't appeal. Especially when rules such as these are prone to apply, I read in one clubhouse, regarding women's attire "if wearing a sleeveless top it must have a collar, if wearing a collarless shirt it must have sleeves" That's probably why Bianca Censori is not likely to take up golf anytime soon blush

Oldbat1 Fri 12-Jul-24 20:18:44

We dont watch football! Hark I hear my jigsaw calling.

Grandma70s Fri 12-Jul-24 20:29:15

I have absolutely no interest in football, and I couldn’t care less who wins.

Actually I do care a bit. I’d prefer it if England doesn’t win, because if they do we’ll never hear the last of it. People haven’t stopped talking about 1966 yet.