If you drew a venn diagram showing in one circle people who know something about football, and in the other people who have little tesco St George's Crosses on their cars, then there would be a very small intersection.
However, if you drew a similar diagram of people who put shit plastic 'Ingerlund' flags on their cars, and people who read tabloid newspapers, believe stories like those going around that THEY are stopping people flying the flag, and are somewhat suspicious of foreign people and believe that they smell and are sometimes evil, then the two circles would almost overlap one another completely.
Things during a world cup that are crap:
Cheap flags hung in windows, especially those which have 'England' written across the middle in case you don't recognise the flag itself, or a brand name such as 'Sports Soccer' or 'Carlsberg'
Plastic George Crosses, either on cars or waved in pubs.
Knock-off 'England' clothing or nylon football shirts. The only exceptions being a proper red 1966 replica in cotton with no manufacturers logos, or genuine Admiral retro 1982 England shirts. add crass points for the names 'Lampard' or 'Rooney' on the back.
Stoodents in the pub wearing Brazil or Holland shirts that they have just brought, because they don't dig the hysteria man, and just want to watch the beautiful game. the affected twats. Unless they are actually Brazilian or Dutch.
Being so drunk by kick-off that you have no idea which country you are in, let alone which ones are playing.
Only wanting to watch Ingerlund matches. also pubs that only show Ingerlund games, despite there being a full 31 other teams involved some of which are much better at football than Ingerlund.
Why are 1982 England shirts acceptable?
ReplyDeleteAnd your spelling is poor in some parts.
Oh nOeS! Poor Speeling!!
ReplyDeleteThe 1982 shirt is acceptable because it was the last good looking one before you get as far back as the Mexico '70 airtex numbers in light Blue or the '66 cotton jerseys.
Generally any form of shiny nylon should be shunned by grown men as a sartorial choice, but certain shirts have enough retro-chic coolness about them that they are ok as long as like me you don't have a significant gut for them to cling to.
You may disagree, as is your right, but I'll need at least 200 words of decent and perfectly spelled prose to convince me otherwise.
What about the '82 short shorts?
ReplyDeleteAre you a grown-up?
ReplyDeleteGrown-ups have no business wearing shorts in public unless they are at the beach or a sporting event.
And don't get me started on men who wear 3/4 length trousers.
But even so, as far as i remember the '82 shorts where a little to brief for most people to get away with in any circumstances.