Comments on: 10 Things I Hate About the World Cup

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:46:43 +0000

NO 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE THE WORLD CUP

By: PeeJay

PeeJay — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:58:24 +0000

I prefer the Champions League and even the European Championships. The quality of CL football is much better than the World Cup one, look at all the good players who have never played in a World Cup but have played in every Champions League season or almost; Weah, Shevchenko, Giggs, etc.

By: Strikarz

Strikarz — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:32:13 +0000

I used to be a keeper and I love penalty shoot outs!

I think the World Cup is fine as it is. I’m sick of all these bell end style changes that apparently need to be made to perfectly good competitions – eg the European club competitions.

The last World Cup wasn’t necessarily a ‘classic’ but only because players are shagged out due to all the club matches they need to play nowadays in order to line everyone but the fans pockets full of cash.

By: erikk d

erikk d — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:25:56 +0000

I enjoy the world cup in general, but your list left out my personal #1: the concept of “deciding” the cup on penalties…I admit that as a former goalie, I despise this approach to a match, but what really bothers is me is that the last world cup was full of games played for PK, not for the win…to me that made for unenjoyable soccer…(yes im american, that may also be why i hate PKs, we do seem to prefer sudden death in our sports)…

Kyle, your comment is exactly why i love world cup…and will watch next time too

By: KyleAusGooner

KyleAusGooner — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:18:03 +0000

World Cup is great, When Australia qualified for the first time in 32 years and our second perfonmance there, every single Ozzie watched every game we played, our nation of footy turned to a nation of the round ball…It was amazing, 13,000 in melbourne at 2 in th emorining watching football..Great

By: iqnadirshah

iqnadirshah — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:32:41 +0000

That bit about the neo-chelsea fans is too correct. There are quite a lot of those specimens around. You guys forgot one though. And thats all those diehard Brazil fans, who dont watch any league football, but come world cup, they go bring on brazil. My favourite part of the world cup, france humping the hell out of brazil the last two times they met…………..

By: surface

surface — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:15:42 +0000

my fav is 9,8,5 and esp. 4. how do they learn ALL about football sooo fast? it’s a mystery.

By: StGeorge

StGeorge — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:45:27 +0000

People Put England flags out for an extremely good reason. To Show some Pride in a country lacking it, we are a Great Nation with a Great history, so why not fly the flag? Go abroad and they fly it any day of the year, e.g. USA. So how is it bad to fly it for 4 weeks every 2 years?
Rule Britannia!

By: Fan guy

Fan guy — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:37:04 +0000

Excellent article.My fav is No 10.Glory hunting bunch of morons,the lot of them.

By: Mark Heenan

Mark Heenan — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:35:52 +0000

The thing I hate most about World Cups, given that I’m in England, is the compulsive desire to cover EVERYTHING IN SIGHT with a St. George cross. Why do people do this? Sure, I’ll put on an England shirt like everyone else when we’re actually PLAYING that day, but more than that, if you ask me, is just a teensy bit over the top.

Also why is it every advert has to have some football-related theme, like newspaper ads where you’re supposed to buy a TV because there’s a footballer on it/standing next to it…