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| A simpler time |
I can't watch football as a fan. I don't care about any of the teams. In my 20s I could identify, at a pinch, with the players. Now I'm too old for that and I haven't watched any games for years.
Recently though, I've found myself obsessively following results. The key is the managers. I doubt I could name more than twenty Premiership players, but I'd have a fair stab at most of the managers. Greying men, their primes behind them, trying to ride chaos. These are the guys I can relate to.
The third stage of my interest in football might kick in when I'm in late middle age: an identification with international managers, the semi-retired. Right now, though, I couldn't care less about those old geezers. And I don't care about their players. So how can I care about the World Cup?
Guys, what's the way in?
4 comments:
May end up supporting Bradford, I suppose, through my kids. Still, don't think they're sending many players to the World Cup.
Through the countries obviously!!!
I do really like the three stages notion, though!
Just seen your excellent post on ways to enjoy the World Cup. I think my main problem is isolation. If I watch any games it'll be alone. None of the josh and blather of drinking with friends with a TV on in the corner.
The main problem for me with the world cup is that there are insufficient games for me to follow the results and start enjoying (at a remove) the managers and momentums. The only way in is to watch the games, and that's probably a non-starter.
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