Nah
The game itself is tedious in the extreme. I tried to get myself interested in football during the 1998 World Cup by watching matches while sitting on the exercise bike at my gym - so about as far from the traditional footie atmosphere as you can get - and I still left after 15 minutes.

Another thing is that if you suddenly decide to start watching football after a lifetime's abstinence, you feel extremely excluded. When people talk about rugby, for example, they usually talk about what happened on the pitch during the previous match, and occasionally about any injuries/scandals that have popped up over the past few months. People who talk about football drone on for hours about Player X's form when he played for Club Y five years ago and they got to the quarter-finals in some obscure tournament forming part of the Football Association's trophy octopus that serves only to drive up the price of commemorative silverware. If you haven't already been following football for years you have no fecking clue what they're on about and it's stultifying.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 7:00, 1 reply)

i do think it's dull
but it serves a purpose. it keeps kids active, healthy and entertained, so i'm willing to put up with the game itself, as long as i don't have to deal with the supporters or hype
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 17:34, closed)