Football is boring

[bigbadwolf]

Never been a great fan. Dad supports Notts Forest and my youngest brother is a die hard Spurs fan.

I'd have to wait until dad had finished watching Grandstand until I could watch Tom and Jerry and I got sick of him screaming at the T.V and being moody if Forest lost. The worst was when they got knocked out of the F.A cup final by Spurs in 91 and dad tore the kitchen apart whilst me and my brothers cried at the bottom of the garden with mum cuddling us.

He got told off by my Grandfather which was an epic tongue lashing which we listened in on from upstairs.

[Mick Mac]

You are obviously the level headed one in your family BBW.

[matthew123]

Well for me it was having to sit through the Rugby Union Five Nations or Horse racing whilst waiting for Grandstand's vidiprinter to start up at half four with the Footy scores..

[HonaloochieB]

I can't stand the idea of watching football, but occasionally find myself in front of the telly and enjoying it. Go figure.

So BBW, your dad was Gordon Ottershaw then.

[Jah Lush]

Football boring? How can you possibly say that? What is there not to like about the beautiful game? Of all the sports the British gave to the world football is by far the finest and most popular.

[Atila Reincarnate]

The beautiful game, 4 4 2, little boys playing footie in the park, Jumpers for goalposts, look out here comes parky, oranges at half time, hmmm isn't it?

[Keef]

I'll admit that the amount of games means that I just don't seem to get as excited about it as I did a couple of years back.

[HAL9000]

I've never been able to get into it - just doesn't do anything for me.

[Windom]

first game i went to was at Highbury against Portsmouth , bitterly cold grey day, nothing at all happened until the 89th minute when arsenal scored a pretty weak goal, crowd could barely rouse themselves to cheer. Give me rugby any day

[Jah Lush]

Well I can sympathise with you on that. Highbury, the former home of the Arse (who played the most boring football known to mankind before Arsene Wenger arrived as manager) was known as the Library because their fans were so quite it had no atmosphere and that hasn't changed much since they moved to The Emirates Stadium. The other trouble with Highbury was that the stands were facing the pitch.

[bigbadwolf]

Jah Lush is aware of this from a while back but I thought I'd just rub it in the face of the gooners on the forum. I was on the demolition of Highbury (Keltbray Demolition & civil engineering contractors) and I brought my Spurs mad little brother some of the bricks from the site to smash up for his birthday.

Hope no one's too sour about that.

[Santerme]

My younger brother and parents addicts.

Me not so much...actually not at all!

[chez]

formula 1 is where its at!

[Brendan]

Funny things is, if you started a thread entitled, Cricket Is Boring, even the most die-hard cricket fans would just say, ?Yeah, fair enough, you?ve got a point there.?

[Annasfield]

So is this thread.

[Narnia]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> I've never been able to get into it - just doesn't

> do anything for me.

You are a computer Hal, right? So don't worry about it!

[????]

My dad once said to me, "Never trust a man who dosen't like football."

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Hah! Knew you were a plastic cricket fan Brenda.

ps - the secret is take the Telegraph Crossword with you.

[flapjackdavey]

Atila Reincarnate Wrote:

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> The beautiful game, 4 4 2, little boys playing

> footie in the park, Jumpers for goalposts, look

> out here comes parky, oranges at half time, hmmm

> isn't it?

ooooh ooooh suits you sir . :))

[Mick Mac]

???? Wrote:

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> My dad once said to me, "Never trust a man who

> dosen't like football."

My Dad once said to me, always trust a man who likes football, but never trust a man who likes West Ham.

He didn't really say that, he didn't like football (and knew nothing of West Ham).

Aologies for spelling, beers tonight.

[red devil]

Never trust a woman who likes football...sorry Anna!

[Mick Mac]

Always like a woman you can't trust. Just don't love her.

[Kells]

I don't know where I get liking football from. My dad doesn't really like it, mum had no interest. I remember dad being kicked out a couple of times because he was such a bad father and didn't take me to the football. Never lasted for more than a weekend though.

It can be boring, but then so can most things. Makes up for it other times then.

I would have loved to have been on the demolition squad at the old library, I'm so jealous BBW.

[Annasfield]

red devil Wrote:

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> Never trust a woman who likes football...sorry

> Anna!

Thats okay, I wouldn't trust me either. Sod all to do with football.

[HonaloochieB]

chez Wrote:

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> formula 1 is where its at!

It isn't. I'm with David Bailey on this, only interesting when there's a crash.