...because you'd never know!
I've not seen a single car with stick on flags, no George flags hanging from houses, barely anyone sporting England T-Shirts - and even the pubs round my way seem half-arsed about it.
Has the football bubble burst? Or do we all accept we're not getting past the group stages! 🙂
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Maybe traditional England supporters are so 'anti-woke'/racist that they won't support England any more over the kneeling thing.
the England team have lost 52% of their fan base due to the teams politcal kneeling
Same here in Germany, complete lack of the normal visual signs that a major tournament is about to start, guess it is due to lockdown. Maybe the flag manufactures and sellers have been experiencing supply problems.
Has the football bubble burst?
Hopefully
52% of their fan base
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It's only because England fans know that the Scots are gauny pump you!
No point celebrating the international football if you can't cram shoulder to shoulder into a dingy boozer to watch it before having a scrap because your team won or a riot if they lost is there?
It's not like club football where folks are actually invested in someway.
Pumped by wee Billy from Ardrossan.
It’s only because England fans know that the Scots are gauny pump you!
That would be quite hilarious.
Is there a major football competition starting this weekend?…
Apparently so, but unlike previous episodes, notably 1986, 90, 96 & 98 when I was one of the eager anticipators/joiner-inners, I couldn't give 2 hoots anymore. Top level pro football is garbage in my opinion (not that that counts for very much I know) and just downright bloody boring. Cricket is going the same way too for me. This makes me quite sad.
Has the football bubble burst?
Please let it be so.
Pumped by wee Billy from Ardrossan.
I played amateur with his dad. Oh how that makes me feel old!.
It’s not like club football where folks are actually invested in someway.
Aye, always wondered about the difference with rugby. Your average footy fan isn't really interested in internationals, the average rugby fan seems to be the opposite.
Please let it be so.
Not a chance, even after a year of telly football, season ticket sales are massive.
Massively fair weather fan here, IF I have the time, AND there are beers in the fridge and ideally mates over and wife isn't watching sexy-teenage-vampires AND I am physically unable to ride bike instead, I would usually enjoy sitting down to whatever international match was on, in fact I was more like a rugby fan, found internationals more interesting.
But now with Covid and half empty stadiums etc. it's just a bit ersatz. Also has there been a lot more football on telly recently? It feels like they've just crammed all the tournaments and matches into what is left of the season, total overload.
Its weird I actually quite like football as a sport and a spectacle I just utterly despise all the tribal bullshit that goes with it, particularly in my part of the world.
As a result I quite like international tournaments as most of the tribal bollocks is turned down a couple of notches (yes its still there but its at a more tolerable level)
Has anyone answered the OP's question yet? Is there a major football competition starting this weekend? I'm curious because I've seen lots of football themed groceries, but not a whisper about it on the telly.
Also has there been a lot more football on telly recently?
Err yes - special arrangements were made so fans could get to see games because of the Covid you mentioned.
It feels like they’ve just crammed all the tournaments and matches into what is left of the season,
Well yes, because of the Covid mentioned above.
Has anyone answered the OP’s question yet? Is there a major football competition starting this weekend?
I think it was a rhetorical question. It's Euro 2021 which was postponed from last year. Starts with Turkey vs. Italy on Friday.
Given that Ingerlund only managed to beat Romania by one penalty on Sunday in their last warmup match, they're likely to get stuffed. Again. (in my very much non-expert opinion)
I’m very much club over country these days. Born in Leeds so I guess that makes me English. Although I do have Irish blood in me too.
Having watched three seasons of Bielsaball, I’m afraid Southgate’s brand of football is just downright dull.
Hope Kalvin has a good tournament and comes back uninjured, but really don’t give two hoots how England get on.
To answer the OP's question,I believe there is a footie competition starting later this week.
If it was possible to have less than no interest...
Err yes – special arrangements were made so fans could get to see games because of the Covid you mentioned.
Yeah fair point, I got the tone of my post wrong, I just meant that because of all the extra (perfectly valid) football on telly recently, I had reached overload and wasn't especially excited for the Euros, which was sort of the point of the OP's post e.g. lack of hype or excitement over the Euros
It’s Euro 2021 which was postponed from last year
Probably for the best. It's bad enough 2021 bikes come out in summer 2020, having 2021 football tournaments in '20 is just silly.
Probably for the best. It’s bad enough 2021 bikes come out in summer 2020, having 2021 football tournaments in ’20 is just silly
🤣 Very good!
I’ve not seen a single car with stick on flags, no George flags hanging from houses, barely anyone sporting England T-Shirts – and even the pubs round my way seem half-arsed about it.|
That's because, in this country you can go to jail just for saying you're English.
I usually watch most of the European and world cup games but as Ireland have the worst team since the ice age I'm not too keen. But lots of good football to be played but I'll probably prioritise my riding.
I'm so intrested in football these days, I couldn't even tell you who is in England's group and whether Wales definitely qualified (I think they did). As the years go by, I'm watching decreasing amounts of pro footy, used to watch MOTD every Saturday night decades ago.
... If I'm in, bored and remember, I'll stick matches on in the background.
when - not 2020, maybe 2021 any bets on the final getting moved or even just not happening
where - nobody really sure, but that might not matter as nobody knows if they can attend, and if the can do they want to
pubs - cant see it working so well with social distancing regs
fanzones - as above
televised - who knows, is it BBC, ITV, ITV4+2+1, Sky, BT, Amazon, Youtube
the criterium de dauphine was easier to get into this year
All the matches are on either BBC or ITV.
I'm not really a football fan but I'll be following it. At least until the Tour starts.
Have you been in a taxi recently @Drac? 😉
The lack of hype this time around could well suit England. Although one win in the group stages and everyone will be comparing us to Brazil '70.
but not a whisper about it on the telly.
How have you avoided the BBCs dire cartoon adverts for it?
Didn't think it was just me who wasn't very interested this time. None of my friends have even suggested a get-together on Sunday. Or they may be doing it behind my back! 🙂
Although one win in the group stages and everyone will be comparing us to Brazil ’70.
I'm no expert but I don't think that's an unreasonable comparison. Brazil in 1970 were a brilliant team with so much potential but also didn't qualify for the knockout stages of the European Cup.
but also didn’t qualify for the knockout stages of the European Cup
Technically correct is the best sort of correct. 🙂
How have you avoided the BBCs dire cartoon adverts for it?
Must be pure luck. Actually, come to think of it, I can't remember the last thing I've watched on the beeb except a bit of Breakfast. That might have something to do with it.
turns out the beeb are listening and have answered a few of my questions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57404223
25% capacity at Wem-ber-lee, Semis and Final there, other venues...... oh and vaccine passport or -ve LFD test for entry to Wembley...
i honestly know better than to read the comments - but i couldnt resist a peek
A friend once suggested that a tournament is organised to decide the winner of football forever, thus rendering any further tournaments unnecessary.
I'm definitely down with this, I think that it's a fantastic idea.
There is football yes. And my daughter has just received a spangly new projector for her birthday so I am goig to try to get my hands on it ready for the first Ingerlaand match 🙂
No actual football fan gives a toss about International football. All it does is provide the opportunity for your star player to pick up an injury that will keep him out for half of next season
I bloody love football and will happily watch every Premiership game, but if there was never another international game played ever again I’d be delighted. No more pointlessly interrupting the ‘proper’ season to go and play some meaningless, tedious friendly against San Marino
Once again the moronic Engerland ‘support’ are busy being a toe-curling embarrassment to the nation with their celebratory racism. Same old, same old. At least we won’t have to watch these ****-wits smashing up foreign town centres this time around.
For what it’s worth I’ve bet on Engerland losing to Croatia and Scotlandshire and failing to get out of the group. The football they play is absolutely dire!
friend once suggested that a tournament is organised to decide the winner of football forever, thus rendering any further tournaments unnecessary.
I could say that about a lot sports I don't like such as that giant scalectric that Hamilton Lewis does.
'European Cup'? 'Premiership'?
Where's the forehead slap emoji gone?
Just be grateful nobody has used the ‘S’ word yet 😉
Once again the moronic Engerland ‘support’ are busy being a toe-curling embarrassment to the nation with their celebratory racism. Same old, same old.
Quite so, and it definitely never happens in club football.
My main problem with international matches is that the football is rarely good to watch.
The only time I’ve ever heard flagrant overt racist chanting is at an Engerland match at Wemberley. I’ve been going to Old Trafford for decades and never heard that shit.
We all know the clubs with the nobhead meathead racist supporters and there’s a huge crossover to the Engerland support, and it’s yet another reason why the supporters of other clubs who tend not to have racist nobheads as supporters want **** all to do with it .
England shouldn’t be so dull to watch when you look at the attacking options: Kane, Sancho, Foden, Rashford, Grealish, Sterling. But they are. Southgate is caught between a rock and a hard place due to their dodgy defence and goalie. They’ve all got massive clangers in them.
Southgate is caught between a rock and a hard place due to their dodgy defence and goalie.
There's also the fact that as previous England footballers have expressed, if they perform badly/make mistakes they will get hammered by the press and pilloried by their idiot supporters. The whole circus around the England football team is horrendous. It feels like they often play with fear/weighed down by expectations.
That’s a good point grum. Had 5 live on tonight and that clown Dion Dublin seems to think they’ve already won it.
There’s also the fact that as previous England footballers have expressed, if they perform badly/make mistakes they will get hammered by the press and pilloried by their idiot supporters.
Exactly! Like most United fans, I’ve got no time for Engerland after the vitriol aimed at Becks then Phil Neville by nobhead Engerland fans. And that’s before the days of the cesspit that is Twitter
Which the FA and the Engerland set up gave them absolutely zero support and just threw them to the wolves in the press. The FA sat back while Engerland fans and the tabloid media published pictures of gaving effigies of the burnt
Seriously? Get a ****ing grip
Is it any wonder Scholes and other United players announced their early international retirement and every United player developed phantom injuries whenever internationals came around.
The whole culture around Engerland is absolutely toxic and occupied almost exclusively by racist bell ends
We all know the clubs with the nobhead meathead racist supporters and there’s a huge crossover to the Engerland support, and it’s yet another reason why the supporters of other clubs who tend not to have racist nobheads as supporters want **** all to do with it .
Last I heard, they were supporting Spain.
Huge football fan, will search net for any game thats on, in the past though - Covid has changed everything for me, I still watch as many games as I can but its out of habit, not passion.
Daughter and I would normally be putting up the wallchart, collecting the stickers. picking teams we want to do well etc, but this year...just no interest at all. I will still watch it but used to make sure I had enough leave to watch the afternoon games, this time round if I miss some so what - and thats so unlike me.
I think, its due to the fans, watching games with no fans is like a training session, and now some of the fans are back its slightly better but still just meh about it all...
Mates all feel the same, no days in the pub around England games planned, no competitions or bets, no buying team shirts, used to do so much around the big competitions and now no one cares ...
I'm the opposite of binners. I don't care about club football but I love international tournaments 🙂
binners
Full MemberJust be grateful nobody has used the ‘S’ word yet 😉
Solskjær?
Lol @ binners 🤣
Wallchart up gor the kids to fill in
I'm organising the sweepstake in work.
Tbh I enjoy playing football more than watching it these days, but will watch the England games and semis, final with the kids
I think the "proper supporter" not caring about International football is only really reserved for supporters of the traditional big clubs.
I have no idea how England will get on but for the first time in a while looking forward to seeing how the likes of Foden, Grealish, Sancho, Mount (and Ben White but that's purely down club bias) get on and if any of them will be able to make an impact in the tournament like Gazza did in 90 or Rooney in 04.
According to ITV4 there seems to be some football thing on the way - I know this as I tend to have ITV4 on in the background as it shows some terrible shows from 70s and 80s that seem to work well as background noise without being massively distracting. However, last week has been tennis and this week tennis is tailing off and it seems to be football, so something is definitely happening.
Quite simply I think it needs a break.
It's been on non stop for what seems like forever due to every single PL game being televised.
I'm a Leicester season ticket holder and I just couldn't give two shits about England atm.
Saturation point reached.
Get yerselves a shirt for £70, or about £25 in a couple of weeks.
Just consider it a warm up for the spectacular that will be Qatar 2022!!!
@binners rugby makes perfect sense, it's just that it's all a bit much for the average footie fan to cope with that's all 😉
I love basically any international tournament. Olympics, footie, rugby, tennis, cycling, the lot. Although I did draw the line at watching triathlon on telly. I can barely think of a worse spectator sport.
I’ve got no time for Engerland after the vitriol aimed at Becks then Phil Neville
Yet you’re happy to heap the same shit onto players of teams that you don’t like, before your traditional masturbation over something that “straight-talking team-betraying dog-walker” Roy has spurted for the pleasure of the not-so-deep thinking fan. I realise, where football is concerned, hypocrisy comes easily to you binners, but you usually manage more than two or three posts before the flagrant one.
You’ll deny it of course, but I suspect you’d be a lot more “interested” in international football if your team didn’t routinely qualify. I’d point out the arrogance your attitude would display to fans of smaller nations that get to have a go at the group rounds every ten years or so, but it would be lost on you.
Just be grateful nobody has used the ‘S’ word yet 😉
State of Origin starts in a minute. Or are you talking about soccer, not football?
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You’ll deny it of course, but I suspect you’d be a lot more “interested” in international football if your team didn’t routinely qualify. I’d point out the arrogance your attitude would display to fans of smaller nations that get to have a go at the group rounds every ten years or so, but it would be lost on you.
Nah, there's always been a club over country attitute towards England if you support a northern club. I'd say a (northern) Utd supporter would be more likely to get behind Ireland or Wales in a tourney than England, I certainly would and my club is L2 so never even slightly troubled by Internationals.
Glad to see the BBC are making their matches available in UHD HDR. Their HLG streams look fantastic so looking forward to it.
Quite simply I think it needs a break.
It’s been on non stop for what seems like forever due to every single PL game being televised.
Yeah the combination of VAR nonsense/no crowds/complete saturation/ESL drama has just completely switched me off football.
Well I am looking forward to it. I had goosebumps listening to the crowd at the FA Cup final (not a supporter of either team) so seeing and hearing a home crowd cheer England on in the lovely warm early summer sunshine will be wonderful.
I'm looking forward to seeing what imaginative way of failing gloriously Scotland manage this time. The woman's team really raised the bar at the world cup. I'm thinking we'll lose to the Czechs and Croatia but hammer England, with Billy Gilmour playing keepie uppie just like Jim Baxter.
Yet you’re happy to heap the same shit onto players of teams that you don’t like, before your traditional masturbation over something that “straight-talking team-betraying dog-walker” Roy has spurted for the pleasure of the not-so-deep thinking fan
You’ll deny it of course, but I suspect you’d be a lot more “interested” in international football if your team didn’t routinely qualify. I’d point out the arrogance your attitude would display to fans of smaller nations that get to have a go at the group rounds every ten years or so, but it would be lost on you.
Bloody hell Bravissimo, you’ve had you’re grumpy-flakes this morning 😂
I know you’re peeved that Roy was howwid to poor Jordon but it’s hardly death threats is it?
I couldn’t give a toss wether Engerland qualify or not. There’s so much to dislike about the whole set-up. It’s pretty impressive for their meatheaded, knuckle-dragging supporters to come up with yet more this time around
the irony and sarcasm appear to be lost in the typing.
Has the football bubble burst?
Nooooooo!
It keeps all the riff-raff contained at the weekends. Take away football and what do you get? Drunken louts wandering around with nothing to do but cause trouble.
I know you’re peeved that Roy was howwid to poor Jordon but it’s hardly death threats is it?
He is a complete prick of a guy to be fair.
I'll never forgive him for Saipan.
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I know you’re peeved that Roy was howwid to poor Jordon but it’s hardly death threats is it?
I couldn’t give a shit what he says about Jordan Henderson. I’m not sure many people do…other than you of course who seem to hang on his every ejaculation of word cocktails.
Yep was feeling the same not much interest (but then my interest in football has been in decline ever since Mourinho was made Spurs manager, have preferred watching the lad on a Sunday morning)
But the office fantasy football email went around yday and my interest has improved greatly ... I like a bit of tournament fantasy, a whole season is too long to hold my interest.
So I'm looking forward to it now, I like watching tournament football with no allegiances and the first game could be quite good ... Turkey for the upset ??
I saw my first car flag today whoo!
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I know we are meant to try and understand where people are coming from and not just dismiss them as racist idiots, but when people are just so indescribably dumb where do you even start? People like this get to vote in elections too. :-/
