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Originally Posted by cashman
He aint been online since posting that, must be busy watching the World Cup?  |
Nope but I have been lurking....just didn't really see the point arguing that I'm not a true football fan.
The fact that I had a season ticket at Ewood for 30 years (which can neither be proved or disproved on this forum) is irrelevant to my argument that the world cup as a spectacle has become meaningless.
I've watched or listened to most of the games, sure there have been some good games and good goals..but I'd argue that 1978 and 1990 were better spectacles than this one.
The point I'm trying to make is that money has taken the World Cup away from the 'true fan'.....if they have to give out song sheets before the game that kinda proves my point.
4 years ago we had vuvuzelas, this time we have half finished stadia, crap opening ceremonies, real fans priced out of watching the games, and in a few years we will probably have a world cup that is held in winter, halfway through our domestic season, where the players have to take water breaks every 15 minutes (kinda like tennis at wimbledon)....but hey...Cahill scored a cracker and Brazil were shown to be an average side that had been media hyped as unstoppable.
Then again..I'm not a true football fan
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Those words ring truer than ever now! Wonder if Guinness watched it?
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Yup and I also watched the following game.....the ringing kinda fell flat