World Cup fever?

[smallblueplanet]

Well there must be someone else watching?

Anyone growing any WC shaped veg? You know carrots in the shape of the map of Paraguay? Football-shaped courgettes!!!

Course there is lots of you guys living in Scotland?

[Squirrel]

Watching what? I am afraid my telly is very firmly off! BUT I do hope that those who are watching, enjoy the game and get the result they are looking for!

[Alice]

Don't watch much telly SBP, but sure we here in Scotland wish England every success in the tournament.

[pigletwillie]

I thought that there was a run on Trinidad and Tobago flags up there cos there is guy with the surname "Scotland" playing for them.

Alice, was your tongue very firmly in your cheek when you posted that. I thought all you Scots supported two teams, Scotland and anybody who plays England.

[valmarg]

Roll on the, whenever it is of July, when this silly kickball contest is over!

valmarg

[Don Vincenzo]

I must be the only Italian not watching football. I never understood why 20 people run and fight in order to get the ball and then kicking it away again, surely if somebody would give them a ball each all this wouln't happen unless one wants two balls. But I wish that an unknown team or half team from an unknown country would win this..........or yes!! The world cup.
Don Vincenzo......give me a nice ripe melon and not a ball!!!

[lyndap]

I came on here,and into the garden to get away from the blasted game!!!No,I'm lucky really.My better half can't stand football anymore(he grew out of it),my youngest son's not the least bit interested,and my eldest son moved out a month ago so it's his other half thats suffering!!!Oooo football free house.Pity its everywhere else you go.Just when does it finish, so I know its safe to go out again????

[sewer rat]

Alice
'Fraid I'm with our wee first minister and am supporting anybody and everybody who play against England. Before you all start shouting at me, I admit that I am arabid Nationalist, but it's not the English that I dislike, it's the way the predominantly English media assume we (Scots, Irish and Welsh)are all English and go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how England won the cup in 1966 and how they are going to win it this time round too

[smallblueplanet]

'Course you're only going on like that 'cos we won in '66!

[sewer rat]

sbp
We beat you in '67 so in our eyes you were only world champions for one year

[JennieAtkinson]

I quite like cricket

[Jaxom]

I get a little bit disgruntled when sports men and women suddenly become English when they are winning but revert to being Welsh or Scottish when they are losing.
The sporting commentators are the people who do the border hopping. The Scottish women who won the curling at the winter Olympics for Britain are a prime example. All of a sudden they were the "English Team" rather than the "British Team"

[Lesley Jay]

We have spent today in Anglesey and I was amazed to see English flags in shops and decorating pubs.

[Alice]

I have no interest in football , and even less interest in nationalism . As I see it we are all chidren of the universe. I had no tongue in cheek when I gave our English friends my best wishes for the tournament. Good luck in the cup England

[Jaxom]

There is also the fact that Welsh and Scottish footballers play for England. Michael Owen is a prime example of a man born in Wales and playing for England. Perhaps this country would have won the cup again since 1966 if it had been an untied Britain playing as one team?