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This.
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Also might be looking for a regular friendly kick about in the new year are you kn London?
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I just don't get the rabid fanaticism that is rampant within football. The financial entity club I vaguely follow is purely because it was the nearest one to where I grew up. If they were bought by the Saudi's or similar I'd have no problem stopping following them, binning the few shirts/shorts I have, and explaining to people why I've done it.
It's not just the fanaticism (admittedly there is a lot of that, often fairly unpleasant) but for a lot of places the town's identity is intrinsically tied in with the football team. It's probably not the same with Fulham but for somewhere like Burnley the only time they tend to get mentioned is the football club or a depressing cost of living story.
Stopping watching is a huge upheaval for many. There are friends who I probably see about a dozen times a year that I'd end up seeing once every couple of years without football. For home matches three generations of my family meet up, I don't think that would happen without the added impetus of football.
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It's possible to like football, and be an England fan, and still think that Qatar WC is utterly awful and so are a large number of England football fans. I just don't get the rabid fanaticism that is rampant within football. The
financial entityclub I vaguely follow is purely because it was the nearest one to where I grew up. If they were bought by the Saudi's or similar I'd have no problem stopping following them, binning the few shirts/shorts I have, and explaining to people why I've done it.My level of Qatar boycotting is limited to not buying the Panini album (which I'd usually do with my daughter) and not buying any of the Qatar 2022 Adidas footballs (I usually get a few of the WC/Euro balls as we go through quite a few in a year playing 5-a-side).
But I'm quite happy sitting down and watching it on telly.
I'm not a huge fan of attending big football matches in person anyway. I prefer to watch from the comfort of a sofa or in a pub (ideally with beer in hand). I'll watch the #PORURU game tonight at my desk with a can of lager whilst also refining a presentation I've got to give tomorrow (internal thankfully).
(Also, I much prefer "playing" [or whatever you can call a bunch of 40/50 year olds shinning a ball around a small cage whilst wheezing heavily] football to watching it. But the days of playing 5 or 6 [sometimes 7] times a week are long gone.)