Anyone else hate football ? (soccer if you are american)

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I don't like any sport with a ball. Well I don't like sports. Soccer isn't as bad as rugby though.

I don't like football i don't watch it when england are playing.

Also, it seems that you don't even have to live in the same country as your favourite team or have any connections to the home town to support them.

Manchester United seems to have fan bases all over the world including India, China and Brazil. It was quite surreal stumbling across this accidently on TV. Some Indian lads were all sitting round watching a match on TV wearing their Man United football shirts.

The Clubs seem to be operating like a multinational company with the aid of multinational sponsors seeking out fans across the world, which would kind of obfuscate your plan even further.


Cultural and economic factors are at work here.
I think that some of it is just an excuse to flog expensive merchandise.

I don't know.

I'm all for freedom of choice but some of this seems well, surreal.

As an analogy, that's like me buying all the Chicago Bull's basketball memorabilia, and posters; and worshipping players even though I've never been to Chicago and don't have any relatives out there. This isn't something I'd consider doing. I wouldn't see the point. It'd just be surreal. I live thousands of miles away.

Edit: I found out about this team from a free gift in a sugary cereal that I was "force fed" when I was younger. Other teams are available

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Lol, well that was gonna be my next point, wasting all the money on a sport only Americans enjoy. Plus, I can't see why they call the padded rugby football, when the um ball? Which isn't even round, spends a lot of time in the players hands Lol real football is a growing sport, still. Soon if you add Asia into the equation, the NFL earnings won't come close.

Has anyone noticed any footballers who might be on the spectrum?

i have strong feeling that Zidane is, has anyone seen his film, where they just film his face and body for 90 mins while hes playing....facinating, he was deffinatly hyperfocused and very intuitve and not communcative at all. another guy who seems to be is Andrei Arshavin i think hes so cool and outspoken.

"Squad" cards and fantasy football leagues.
Boys would just sit around and swap cards when I was younger.
They'd talk about football all day.

Social preoccupations with a narrow topic?
I think so.

Sort of like team based Pokemon with photos of people on the cards instead of mythical creatures.

I remember those

I like soccer. I was in England for the last World Cup and watched every game I could. It was more than a game. And it's one of the few sports I've actually played, but not well. Still, I much prefer American football with its intense mental aspects (I love X's and O's) and, yes, its violence. One of my obsessions is single-wing football. Buck lateral, anyone? Or, how about a fullback spinner, which Arkansas reinvented and the Miami Dolphins were unsuccessful at, to say the least. I watched a Canadian game with a poorly-designed quarterback spinner with a handoff to a wingback.

I love NFL footbal, baseball and NASCAR.