On Football and Soccer (64)

Good evening, Sommer,

So you play golf. I had a Dutch friend who does and he said his public speaking techniques have greatly improved due to his talking to himself while golfing. Anyway, he is no longer my friend.

Tennis is my favorite sport, not for playing, just a spectator. My sister played it very well, and I was always kilometers away watching the game. I'm always afraid the ball would hit me. Especially after pestering her. She was a bit like symbol..

Yeah, men and football.. I tell you. Great mystery.. I know a guy who just lost his job, his wife left him, and whose brother was dying in the hospital, and he's still smiling up to his ears because Manchester United won a championship game.

Could you imagine?

Hi Liakos!

I could emphatize with you. So was I. I was always surrounded by women. Too overly protected. My grandma, my mom, my sister, my aunt, even the dogs and cats were females. When I went to uni, I stayed in a ladies' dorm. So I never understood much about this male bonding thing.

Do you play any sports at all?

Hi Lillym,

I'm not surprised about that. I have an American friend who is divorcing his wife because all she did all day when they were still together was watching soccer and soccer reruns and when he finally did get her out of the house and they would stay in a hotel, she would still be watching it on television. He called himself a 'soccer widower'..

No kidding!

Where...to Old Trafford for a summer vaction...Admire the trpohy cabinet and who knows learn how to win at the academy

Hello Captain,

I don't really understand what you mean with 'piss take', sorry.

I do understand, though, that sport is important. But what makes me wonder is why football or soccer is for most - a passion, for some - a religion. Some people love it and some people find it a waste of time... all that screaming their lungs out and pulling their hairs and rolling on the ground and men jumping into each other's arms and kissing their heads and the audience standing up and down in unison. Quite strange!

And there are those players who spit at or kick another player instead of the ball. And all those hooligans. Mainly English they say. But why?

Here's the scenario: All these men wearing shorts and glossy shirts with numbers on them, chasing a ball around a field. All they need to do is kick a ball into a great big net to score a point. It looks so easy, but sometimes they can't even do that! And then they run around for hours and when the game is finished, there's no score! And when one time you thought there is a score because you see the ball went into the net, you wonder why nobody is cheering and then there is this guy in blue or something with a hand up in the sky. And they start all over again..

Anyway, I think it's an ultra-macho game. But do you think there could be a chance that there are also gay players? Women do play them, too, you know. I've seen a UK film like that.

Do you ever wonder why inspite of its popularity, it is not an Olympic game?

I can understand that at it's full.... I don't like football but would enjoy to see a good amount of women running after a ball...

Umm, and what game would that be, may I ask?

Anyway, I won't go running after a ball if there's a good amount of women running after it. They can all have it..

I want what is all mine.

there's something strange about a thread on football started by and mostly populated by wimmins ..

you want me to start banging on about knitting? ..