Sport is an obvious subject for discussion or avoidance at the moment. Football World Cup, cricket and Wimbledon. You don’t have to be interested in sport of any kind to enjoy the drama, or at least get some entertainment out of finding the news and your viewing schedule totally disrupted. The teeming thousands who venture abroad to support their country’s football team may not have been able to get tickets for the match, but more fun is to be found on the streets of the host city. Taking in the ambience and the experience, saying hello to Mum or your wife if you get to be interviewed by a television reporter. It all looks quite fun from the comfort of my sofa, but I would not like to be part of that seething mass of humanity, might not be able to find a nice quiet coffee shop.
Cricket looks very serene and I like the idea of stopping for tea, no need for hydration breaks. Wimbledon involves queueing early in the morning for lots of fans, part of the tradition.
Meanwhile the players themselves provide drama, suddenly dropping out of Wimbledon with stress fractures or maybe just stress, missing your country’s match against the favourites because you have a stomach upset. I can sympathise, having been struck with watering can shoulder, putting Zumba Gold or a swim in the sea in jeopardy.
While some are out, others are making historic comebacks. It’s not just players who are in and out. Football managers seem to resign every week whether their team is winning or losing, thus heralding much discussion among the commentators in the TV studio, though not as much talk as the English cricket captain caused by resigning in the middle of batting.
Politics rears its ugly head in sport, though sport is supposed to bring people together and forget this country doesn’t let women play sport, that country is executing people back home and your hosts are going to arrest and deport you at any moment.
But it’s all good fun and if you don’t want to venture far from home, but are fed up with sitting at home, get yourself down to the nearest club or pub with a big screen and meet up with like minded people. Here you will be filmed for Breakfast Television giving your predictions, then filmed by the Evening News yelling and cheering and hugging everyone.
Our team won last night – at the last moment… I only saw the first kick and the end as I was watering the garden… but apparently I saw the best bits.
Have you enjoyed any big sporting moments lately or are you going into hibernation or aestivation for the next couple of months?
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hibernation for me or I might use the time fircwriting my last book if I ever get out of this hospital.
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Hello David, hopefully they won’t wheel a BIG screen into you room then.
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If they did they’d only wheel.small pieces out again.
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I used to like Roland Garros, always used to make sure I was in France around about that time. But it is every bit as expensive as Wimbledon. That price offends me now.
I don’t mind the World Cup but falling asleep with the radio on freaks me out when I wake in the middle of the night and some commentary is on.
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The commentary must have been boring to make you fall asleep, but exciting to wake you up.
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You know how you almost surface a few times a night? I could tell it was commentary, but had no clue of teams or scores. And it made my own drems a bit weird.
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Sporting events bore me to tears, the associated drama just as much.
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I imagine you dislike the way commentators talk about sport as if it is actually important!
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It drives me crazy!! The YELLING, the banal interviews with players and coaches.
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I love your plushies!
Not much with sports (watching usually ice skating and gymnastics of all kind, a while ago horse contests too), but I watched the three openings. I like ceremonies at World Cups and Olympics
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Ice skating and horses jumping are my favourites too.
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I usually know who has won, thanks to radio news, but don’t actually watch anything. Computers and mobile phones aside, I may as well be living in the 1940s. 🙂
I can relate to watering can shoulder! Might be at risk of developing it.
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Yes Audrey, I might have to start a petition or support group for watering can shoulder, it is not taken seriously enough!
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I’m not keen on watching sport, even sports I’m passionate about – I would rather do it.
And I can never get over the irony of a society that pays people stupid amounts of money to kick a ball around a field rather than paying a living wage to those who save lives or do valuable work like nursing or caring. I know it’s supply and demand, but I often wonder what an alien coming to Earth would think about where our priorities lie!
I hope your watering can shoulder gets better soon. I am so sorry, but it did make me laugh 🙂
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Yes and then they have to sell shirts to children at ridiculous prices so they can pay the players!
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Capitalism at its best 🙂
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I have no interest in watching any kind of sport, no matter how patriotic, dramatic, or Olympic. As my wife also detests it, she thinks she has found the perfect partner in me. Since the world cup started, it has disrupted our ‘Eat Out Wednesdays’ a little, as we no longer go to any local pubs that will be showing football on big screens inside. But we have managed to find quite a few pubs and restaurants where we can escape from it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My father and brother had No interest in sport. The only sport we watched on television was the show jumping, I still miss the days when it was regularly on real television. So marriage was a shock and I did plead with my husband not to let our little boy know football existed! Fortunately my younger son does not like football.
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