Sorry Gazza....can't let this one drop without referring back to your opening post in this thread . . . . and I quote . . .
"I don't care that the World Cup starts this week.
I wish I could get more excited, but I can't. It doesn't have the usual excitement and anticipation that it usually has. SA had some excitement to it, so did Brazil. Russia has little going for it.
Who will win? I don't care."
Is it just a teensy bit possible that your are feeling slightly different now and that you also might afford the same latitude for others who are suddenly a bit more interested in who wins the World Cup?
We all need a bit of feel-good and people shouldn't be denied that just because they have previously preferred to find it in other ways, surely?
As a whole no. Didn't watch the game last night. Have seen parts of games but as an example, I genuinely hadn't realised Serbia had gone out of the tournament until Friday. I don't even know who they lost to. I even had Friday afternoon off work and forgot the France was game on watched the cricket instead. I have watched all of the England games, but outside of that, still very unbothered by the whole thing - and I am very happy for the England team for just getting on with it all so easily.
I am frustrated by the people who mock football as a sport for most of the year that have suddenly got on the bandwagon for the past few days. Suddenly the overpaid prima donnas ain't so bad.