Do you give a damn about the World Cup?

[Chechosaurus]

The World Cup is the only bit of Football that I really care about. I like to keep track of the Premier League a little bit but it's just too depressing watching Aston Villa fail all the time.

The world Cup is about as exciting as football gets. I like to watch England fail (being Welsh, and therefore resentful of the English, it can be quite euphoric watching the most over-hyped team in the world crash and burn) I do, however, despise all of the hype that surrounds the World Cup. On every TV channel they show the same footage of when England won the cup all those years ago and stupid patriotic bullshit about how England will win this year.

To be fair, this cup has been pretty dull (plenty of draws and bugger all happening) but I like to support the under-dogs such as the Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Slovakia, Cameroon etc. and I've always supported the Netherlands for various bizarre reasons. The World Cup itself is exciting but everything else that surrounds it (especially British culture) fills me with disdain.

 

[steve-iii]

nope, im brazilian and honestly couldn't give 2 shits. It is fun to go to a bar with your friends and yell at a TV set for 90 minutes, so I humour my country.

 

[joinchoir]

I'm more concerned about Nelson Mandela's granddaughter dying and causing him to pull out of the opening ceremony. Sorry for your loss Nelson.

 

[Jerious1154]

I'll probably start to get more into it in the later rounds when the games start to have more significance. I don't find the sport very interesting to watch unless there's a lot at stake. I'm not a huge fan of spending 90 minutes watching two teams not score goals and end in a 0-0 tie, which seems fairly common when you have evenly matched national teams.

And now, just to needlessly provoke any hardcore soccer/football fans:
http://www.theonion.com/video/soccer-officially-announces-it-is-gay,17603/

 

[ImSkeletor]

I really couldn't care less. I can't stand soccer.