Football is the most boring sport in the world, EVER.
In terms of football, my level of disinterest reaches so high, that I was once in a pub in Coniston with some friends who were watching the World Cup (1998, I think it was). It was England vs Argentina, I think, (Beckham kicked someone, I seem to remember there being a big fuss about it). Anyway, it went to penalties, and I really wasn't bothered about it in the slightest, and there were people trying to get a view of the telly. I told them to stand in front of me, but they seemed to think I wanted to watch the godforsaken sport. Eventually I got it through to them that I really couldn't care less who won or lost, and they took up my offer of a better place to stand and watch.
Another time, I'd just been to compete in an Amateur Rugby League game (away), and one of the lads asked me if I was watching the match that night. I said, "What match?" It turned out England were playing Germany or some other emerging nation. They couldn't believe I didn't know about it.
Football gets (undeservedly) more attention than any other sport, and I won't support it in any way. I find it quite amusing when newpapers call it "our national sport", especially seeing as the National Sport of England is
CRICKET.
If you got asked in a pub quiz, when did England last win the World Cup, what year would you say?
Not counting last year's Rugby Union World Cup, then?
Yep, that's right, the last World Cup before that was football. In 1999, I think. When England won the Homosexual Football World Cup. Not much coverage given to that, was there?
Perhaps now they'll stop incorrectly referring to it as "The Beautfiul Game" and start giving its more accurate title, "The over-paid, over-rated boring game in which 90% of results are no-score draws."