JVC ([info]jvchamary) wrote,
@ 2007-11-21 23:13:00
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Current mood:disappointed

Croatia 3-2 England

I love football. Sometimes, on days like today, fanatically.

When it comes up in conversation, people will invariably ask, which team do you support? As someone who moves town every 2 years or so, I've never felt comfortable having a "club". Consequently, despite having spent only 86% of my life in the country, I support England.

Now that England are out of Euro 2008, I have no team to support in a major tournament until (hopefully) the 2010 World Cup. This is made even more depressing by the fact that international matches are also supposed to be father-son bonding time.

I will need to be kept distracted next summer. Wimbledon had better be fucking exciting!


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[info]keds
2007-11-22 11:58 am UTC (link)
Have you ever been to Wimbledon? We should hook up and do it... its awesome.

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[info]jvchamary
2007-11-22 06:30 pm UTC (link)

Not for the tennis, but I have always wanted to go. How much do tickets cost?

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[info]zli_vuk
2007-11-23 11:12 am UTC (link)
It's not so much the cost (although they can be expensive), but the fact that it can be very difficult to get them. At least for something decent.

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[info]zli_vuk
2007-11-22 12:05 pm UTC (link)
Surely, you will be supporting Portugal? :P

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[info]jvchamary
2007-11-22 06:30 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, but it's not the say. Who'll you be supporting?

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[info]zli_vuk
2007-11-23 11:09 am UTC (link)
Croatia and Greece I guess... Based on previous performance, I may support Germany too. Mainly because they have a player called Schweinsteiger. Means 'pig mounter' apparently.

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[info]_jinjin_
2007-11-22 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Oh god, how on earth could Wimbledon ever be exciting?

Tennis - Golf - Snooker - Bowls, all in the same dull ball park for me :)!

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[info]jvchamary
2007-11-22 06:35 pm UTC (link)

Hey, I like tennis! Actually, my favourite sports tend to be those that I can play, not that I'm any good at any of them (tennis is probably what I'm best at). Perhaps it makes seeing the skill involved easier?

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[info]_jinjin_
2007-11-22 07:39 pm UTC (link)
I'm sorry, I don't know why I made such a rude, pessimistic comment then. I think I was just in a really bad mood from work, although that's no excuse.

I can see you point about the tennis, I just find the whole thing a bit dry. Then again, I've never had much luck with tennis playing. Once my friend and I were playing around with my new rackets in the park, and a gang of kids (about 15 of them) pelted us with a a couple of dozen cartons of eggs after I refused to let them "play" (i.e. steal) with my rackets, not to mention a couple of black eyes from rogue tennis balls during P.E. I think it is much like my aversion to netball and hockey.

Disappointing about the football, even though I don't follow it anywhere near as much as I did as a child. Then again, all England-based sports always seem to be a bit on the disappointing side! I hope you find something else to bond over with your father, perhaps the Olympics?

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-30 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Do you actually 'play' football?

Im the opposite to you guys now, in that I was mr. football fanatique when I was a kid, (playing in local teams, every school lunchtime, all the kits and shit)..... but now I could not care less about it at all, apart from actually playing it, which is still loads of fun

RS

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