Can I just say this about the World Cup.....?

[bflefc]

I don't care how gash WC 2010 was. Nor how FIFA have ruined the modern game, which is bedevilled by too much money and whopper fans.

Honestly, I don't give a fig.

Because the World Cup is boss. Always has been, and always will be. Once all the pre-tournament hyperbole has been and gone, we get down the real business. 64 games in a month. Wall-to-wall coverage. 3 or 4 games a day during the group stage, which is as good as life gets.

I can't wait. Every 4 years its the same: loads of hot air beforehand - even I get angered by FIFA and their corruption etc - but I transform into a little kid again once it gets underway.

Sunshine, big grounds, big crowds with loads of flags and atmosphere, goals flying in, players with mad names and even madder hair cuts.

A month of pure heaven, to keep us ticking over until the new league season.

Bring on the aceness.

 

[ijjysmith]

YEAH

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It seems all the nicer for the lack of any real hype around English chances too. Hopefully Brazil will manage to pull it all off. The build up seems to have been chaotic to say the least.

 

[Jacko93]

I used to like it, but now as I grow older, my general enthusiasm has just deadened.

Maybe I've just become more cynical but it seems less about football and more about politics these days.

When Sven came in, it completely ruined international football from an england perspective for me. It was an admittance that we weren't the best. Still though, I'll watch much of it, but with little enthusiasm, and only as a stop-gap till the league starts again, much as the Olympics were a few years ago. I'll feel less connection to it truth be told.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Playing at the World Cup is still the highest level of the game in my opinion. I know most will say it is now the Champions League, but I feel the romance of the World Cup and winning with your country outweighs anything you'd do at club level

You can love your club, you can be attached to it, but you can always get a transfer. Once you've played for your country, that's it. The finality is what I love and I have the upmost respect for the great players who had to play in international sides who didn't make the World Cup (Giggs, Weah, Yorke, Best etc)

 

[ijjysmith]

Playing at the World Cup is still the highest level of the game in my opinion. I know most will say it is now the Champions League, but I feel the romance of the World Cup and winning with your country outweighs anything you'd do at club level

You can love your club, you can be attached to it, but you can always get a transfer. Once you've played for your country, that's it. The finality is what I love and I have the upmost respect for the great players who had to play in international sides who didn't make the World Cup (Giggs, Weah, Yorke, Best etc)

I'm with you mate.

The World Cup is the pinnacle.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Add Tony "Ye Boy" Yeboah to the list

That lad was simply incredible. He scored some of the most amazing goals I've ever seen in my life

He single handedly made me not hate Leeds United for a while

 

[Christiffa25]

I used to like it, but now as I grow older, my general enthusiasm has just deadened.

Maybe I've just become more cynical but it seems less about football and more about politics these days.

When Sven came in, it completely ruined international football from an england perspective for me. It was an admittance that we weren't the best. Still though, I'll watch much of it, but with little enthusiasm, and only as a stop-gap till the league starts again, much as the Olympics were a few years ago. I'll feel less connection to it truth be told.

I've felt like this for a few years now. However I think its a mix of getting older plus the fact that England as a team have been stale for some years now, with the same players seeming to be failing for 10yrs now!!

Tbh I liked the Sven period. This supposed golden generation were young and most fans were full of hope it might just click at some point. Obviously it didn't but since Sven it's been truly awfull. Havnt liked any of the managers since!!

There's something about this squad tho with the youngsters, although whilst credit for picking them I don't think hodgson is the guy to get the best out of them or have the balls to put his trust in them starting.

Good times could be on the way back tho I think. The euros I think we'll be a force (with a new manager!)

 

[Moomin]

I love the World cup, forget about England and the numptys that play for us. Its just a great occasion.

I've started saving for the Euro's in 2 years, hope to spend 2 weeks in the south of France catching a few games.

 

[teppic]

I find that now England are useless it is much more appealing. I loved Euro 2008 without all the nonsense of England being there. I think England will not get out of the group, but that doesn't really bother me as it might have 20 years ago... oh wait, England weren't there 20 years ago!! Wow was that USA World Cup 20 years back?

Anyway, I agree in a world of awful tv and satirised entertainment, it's nice to have a focus of 64 games in a month for us all to get behind as footy fans.

 

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[WA Toffee]

I think it has become trendy to dislike the World cup, but it is still the best tournament in the World.

It has lost some of its appeal, which for me was seeing a bunch of players that you had never heard of before, but with easy tv/internet access to almost every league in the World, and the saturation of the Champions league, that mystique has now gone.

I used to love waking up at 3am to watch champions league games, but haven't done that for several years now - I don't even bother getting up for the final any more, but the World cup is once every 4 years and is still a must watch tournament