At least no match will be shown on BBC1 AND ITV1 until the knockout stages and then only if England are involved, apart from the Final which is of course on both channels.

Edited June 11, 201015 yr by Victor Meldrew

Get a grip, it's only once every four years.

Get a grip, it's only once every four years.

 

Exactly. Or get a better national football team.

 

It's not like all those bloody TV Soaps (which are on all year round); the Excrement Factor; Britain's Got No Talent & Big Brother (which are annual events for brain dead zombies another deliberate Dead Set reference.

 

Talking of Dead Set ....... maybe they should take Charlie Brooker's example and film a travelogue holiday thingy across the United States of America trying to avoid all news on the biggest sporting event in the world (yes bigger than the Olympics football haters).

 

Well sod the lot of you football haters I'm going to enjoy the festival of football (although watching a woeful France against a mediocre Uruguay right now is heavy going) of 64 Games, before all the tribal Premiership football nonsence returns in July.

Exactly. Or get a better national football team.

 

It's not like all those bloody TV Soaps (which are on all year round); the Excrement Factor; Britain's Got No Talent & Big Brother (which are annual events for brain dead zombies another deliberate Dead Set reference.

 

Talking of Dead Set ....... maybe they should take Charlie Brooker's example and film a travelogue holiday thingy across the United States of America trying to avoid all news on the biggest sporting event in the world (yes bigger than the Olympics football haters).

 

Well sod the lot of you football haters I'm going to enjoy the festival of football (although watching a woeful France against a mediocre Uruguay right now is heavy going) of 64 Games, before all the tribal Premiership football nonsence returns in July.

Uruguay v France is a bit of an endurance test isn't it? :zzz:

Uruguay v France is a bit of an endurance test isn't it? :zzz:

 

It would certainly make a good medicine for insomnia. :lol:

It would certainly make a good medicine for insomnia. :lol:

 

 

....And England may face France in the Quarters. Or not, the way France are playing! :rolleyes:

Uruguay v France is a bit of an endurance test isn't it? :zzz:

 

I would have better off getting a leg over during the match

 

This is the best topic ever!

 

I'm already sick of hearing about it, and we are in very early stages aren't we? Not looking forward to work tomorrow as I work in Burton and will no doubt get a bunch of annoying Men talking to me about it and me giving out blank expressions in response and trying to sound interested as well as promoting Footie based clothes etc whilst in my head thinking "please f*** OFF and bore someone else with this $h!te "

I would have better off getting a leg over during the match

 

 

TOO MUCH INFORMATION.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION.

You've said many things just as bad.

I'm not too fazed by it tbh, I don't actually mind it. What does bother me (see 'The Sun' today) is those continuous stories they publish about 'banning England shirts' to promote racial hatred.

zzzzz Football schmootball - I absolutely DESPISE sport on television - if you want to watch sport - buy a bloody ticket. It litters our TV screens quite enough, thankyou very much, without World Cup overkill.

 

Can't they make it once every 8 years or something? And keep every single match bar the semis and final on satellite?

getting all excited, taking their shirts off, kissing and cuddling and fondling one another then sharing a bath together.... Football, it's all a bit....gay really innit....? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

oo..perhaps I'll have to tune in then, Scott, sounds like football isn't as deathly boring as I believed it to be.

 

I'll get lambasted for this... but..... I can't wait for England to get knocked out just to give us all some bloody peace. I for one am deeply offended seeing England flags hanging in my local supermarkets, shops etc.... the same as the English would feel if their shops were festooned in the (let's be frank here) far more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing Welsh flag.

 

Good to see Scott being anti-English as ever. :D

 

Maybe if the Scots weren't so fukkin' $h!t at football (compared to their halycon era of the 1970s-80s) they might think differently.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8733373.stm

 

Never mind you small minded pathetic nation which had England given independence to when the SNP wanted it (Alex Salmond's comments about Iceland as a role model would have been hilarious but for whom has to bail of out the Royal Bank Of Scotland), it would have saved the English taxpayer £27 billion per annum, just tuck into your Deep Fried Fat Mars Bars you bunch of unfit alcoholic CU Jimmies and support ABE you bunch of losers. :rofl:

 

I hope you are having a laugh with this stereotypical comment about a small Country(only about 10% the population of England), who in footballing terms can only dream to be in the World Cup (doubt we ever will again) as not all us "CU Jimmies" as you so eloquently put it, eat deep fried mars bars ( I have never seen one), nor do we all go around wearing ginger wigs, nor are we all a bunch of losers. Not all of us want independence, but because of the downright arrogance of some of the English media can you blame the Scots,Welsh & Irish for not giving their wholehearted support to "Ingerland" when they play.

 

Every tournament is the same, constant "in your face" Ingerland are gonna win it this time, we have the best players, the best manager, the best league etc etc......and what happens, you flatter to deceive, beat a few diddy teams, and then you huff and puff against a half decent team and lose on penalties.

 

Contrary to what you might think, most Scots would support England if you didn't go on and on about how good you are. For me, I don't mind whether they win or not.

 

Wonder how long it takes "Motty" to mention 1966? ;)

footy aint every 4 years though ethan... its every effing week! i hate the way normal schedues have been disrupted to air a booorrring footy match, ESPECIALLY when its not even us playing!

 

theres plenty of channels on tv now, footy doesnt HAVE to dominate the main channels until 'we' are near the final (which i hope we will never be).

 

i detest footy even more then anything cowell has done....

footy aint every 4 years though ethan... its every effing week! i hate the way normal schedues have been disrupted to air a booorrring footy match, ESPECIALLY when its not even us playing!

 

theres plenty of channels on tv now, footy doesnt HAVE to dominate the main channels until 'we' are near the final (which i hope we will never be).

 

i detest footy even more then anything cowell has done....

 

Well I fukkin detest soap operas. I think people who watch them are fukkin' sad. But you don't see me complaining about it (until now). I mean it is not as if it is real life is it, yet the way some sad pathetic people go on you would think it is.

 

Plus the last time I looked there were (a lot) more than four channels to chose from, so if you don't like it, turn over and watch something else.

I hope you are having a laugh with this stereotypical comment about a small Country(only about 10% the population of England), who in footballing terms can only dream to be in the World Cup (doubt we ever will again) as not all us "CU Jimmies" as you so eloquently put it, eat deep fried mars bars ( I have never seen one), nor do we all go around wearing ginger wigs, nor are we all a bunch of losers. Not all of us want independence, but because of the downright arrogance of some of the English media can you blame the Scots,Welsh & Irish for not giving their wholehearted support to "Ingerland" when they play.

 

Every tournament is the same, constant "in your face" Ingerland are gonna win it this time, we have the best players, the best manager, the best league etc etc......and what happens, you flatter to deceive, beat a few diddy teams, and then you huff and puff against a half decent team and lose on penalties.

 

Contrary to what you might think, most Scots would support England if you didn't go on and on about how good you are. For me, I don't mind whether they win or not.

 

Wonder how long it takes "Motty" to mention 1966? ;)

 

Clearly it was a Russ Abbott (remember him) inspired stereotypical pi$$take. Hence the smileys and the next paragraph edited out starting with ...But seriously....

 

As for our so called arrogance that we are going to win it .... I'm running a World Cup Fantasy Football Prediction Game at work: I've had 36 entries and none of those entries has predicted the Pre tournament 4th favourites (England) are going to win (for the record: 19 Spain; 12 Brazil; 2 Argentina; 1 each Italy, The Netherlands & Germany). So I think that busts that myth of English arrogance down South of the Border out of the water.

Clearly it was a Russ Abbott (remember him) inspired stereotypical pi$$take. Hence the smileys and the next paragraph edited out starting with ...But seriously....

 

As for our so called arrogance that we are going to win it .... I'm running a World Cup Fantasy Football Prediction Game at work: I've had 36 entries and none of those entries has predicted the Pre tournament 4th favourites (England) are going to win (for the record: 19 Spain; 12 Brazil; 2 Argentina; 1 each Italy, The Netherlands & Germany). So I think that busts that myth of English arrogance down South of the Border out of the water.

 

 

I don't think that many English fans do really deep-down think we'll win it. Obviously they want us to but that's different. Tesco have really gone over the top with all the banners and flags in the store near us. They should use the money to give us as many bags as we want instead! You're not allowed to double them at ours. :angry: :rolleyes:

Well I fukkin detest soap operas. I think people who watch them are fukkin' sad. But you don't see me complaining about it (until now). I mean it is not as if it is real life is it, yet the way some sad pathetic people go on you would think it is.

 

Plus the last time I looked there were (a lot) more than four channels to chose from, so if you don't like it, turn over and watch something else.

 

hey! im happy being sad if i enjoy abit of light relief at the end of a working day, im happy being sad sat next to my 21 year old girlfriend/fiancee...:lol: if i want light entertainment. isnt it real life?...oh my, you mean emmerdale doesnt exist? its not a reality show? a documentary?...god how will i ever live my life now! :rofl:

 

i object to football taking over the schedules... why i should have to find something else on another channel, the big 4 are home to 'continuous dramas'. why should my schedule be messed about with for some moronic footy match? you just know the players shoe size is greater then their iq (no doubt though youll now go to great lengths to prove this isnt true...and im sad?) :lol:

 

footy itself is nearly bareable, but its the pundits, examining the match, the supporters who are one step up from the missing link ... (god i bet fruit sellers do well on match days)... the package i hate

 

my lad just came in... (yeah im sad, i got 3 great kids) asked if i was going to watch en ger land in the pub with everyone (neighbourhood)... that is my idea of hell. id sooner go to new york (i hate the thought).

Well I fukkin detest soap operas. I think people who watch them are fukkin' sad. But you don't see me complaining about it (until now). I mean it is not as if it is real life is it, yet the way some sad pathetic people go on you would think it is.

 

I think you'll find I detest Soap Operas, Big Brother, X-Factor, etc, dominating our TV screens as much as I detest the oppressiveness of constant football on telly...

 

And, as myself and Rob have pointed out, it is considerably MORE than "only every four years" as some of you pro-football lot have been bleating....

 

And, frankly, I think some of you are missing the point of the thread anyway... My main objection is this assumption that football fans should be getting special treatment at work, etc, when fans of OTHER sports (athletics, cricket, tennis, etc) dont, that's just not on I'm afraid, why should the non-football fans be forced to take up the slack left by a bunch of "Eng-ger-laaaand" idiots who skive off to watch footie.....

 

And Brian is absolutely correct, there is this arrogant presumption on the part of "Eng-ger-laaaaaand" fans that they're somehow entitled to win the thing every four years... The Scots know their team is crap, so dont make a big song and dance, whereas you lot continue to delude yourselves because of 1966 (and that ball never crossed the line anyway, so p!ss off... :P )... And I've honestly lost count over the years of the amount of times when England have played Germany the "subtle" allusions and "jokes" made with respect to the War that certain commentators have made.... Oh, that's real grown up I must say.... -_-