Footie, football, soccer - whatever you want to call it!
We're more passionate about the premiership than we are about politics - why?
2006-06-06 23:51:25 · 37 answers · asked by welly 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
tell me about it it drives me mad!
2006-06-06 23:53:02 · answer #1 · answered by everybody loves chris! 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Politics sucks. Football is the best thing ever more important than life. All politicians are liars the country is in a mess and the good hardworking people are suffering. Football is a way to forget normal life its brill.
2006-06-06 23:56:20 · answer #2 · answered by VIRDS 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's taken over from religion in our thankfully, secular, society. We all like to belong to some tribe or other and football provides the bond that holds thousands of like-minded people together. Plus you get to see 22 young men running round in shorts - what more could a girl want?
2006-06-06 23:54:40 · answer #3 · answered by Roxy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it does my head in. Saying that, the rest of the world seems to be under the misapprehenshion that we're stuck up snobs, so the footie thing kinda levels it out.
2006-06-06 23:55:51 · answer #4 · answered by kissshot85 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because playing football is funny, relaxing in comparing with politics, where it's very boring and stupid! I don't like football like the British do like it, but I love to watch good football games, when it's worth to watch them!!!
2006-06-06 23:55:49 · answer #5 · answered by bestthing80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like the Americans are mad about their football … and they call it football even though they hit it with foot once in entire game!
2006-06-06 23:56:44 · answer #6 · answered by trojan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britishers have always know to be colonisers and fighters . The once ruled the entire world and have fighting instincts . Football lets them bring out their roudyness and thus they love playing it.
Thats the reason its getting so popular with the Bush ruled USA.
2006-06-06 23:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by Razor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a tribal thing, we all have our own team, and it means we can go down the boozer, have a few pints watch the game and hurl abuse at eachother. it brings the country together better than politics, religion or anything else!
also it breaks down social, racial and religious barriers; it's about the game, not the colour of your skin or your background.
although we are tarnshed by hooliganism, but nowhere near the worst. i think that football brings a nation together, even my mum watches the world cup.
and it'll prove that the greatest country in the world is..................brazil?????
2006-06-07 00:15:59 · answer #8 · answered by ben_r_coupland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is mad about football!
They couldn't wait till the Fifa World Cup come!!!
2006-06-07 00:00:04 · answer #9 · answered by YA!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Escapism. Football is just entertainment, it's provides something to be involved in and to belong to. No worse than all the millions that tune into soap operas every night.
2006-06-06 23:58:49 · answer #10 · answered by djmowgli_2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what else have they got going for them heheheheh...just kidding.
The people where I live are crazy about the world cup too and there's not even a team from the country going there (I don't think anyway...I'm not into soccer).
Who's cuter...Beckham or Blair...Who's got more money...Gerrard or Straw? Who participated in the last invasion on Iraq?
2006-06-06 23:56:31 · answer #11 · answered by stacey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋