What do we do without footy?

OK, I’m bored now! The World Cup filled some time that would otherwise have been spent watching sports that are like watching paint dry, cricket, tennis etc, but it has gone now and there are nearly three whole weeks until the season starts again.

Net

Some of the World Cup wasn’t all that exciting but it sure beat watching Nadal and Murray hit a ball over a net hundreds of times before Murray eventually hit it into the net. I know Murray is Scottish but I don’t actually know the name of any English tennis players.

Alternatively, if I had got bored of watching the England football team lose I could have watched the England cricket team lose to Bangladesh instead. Bangladesh for goodness sake, that would be like the football team not managing to beat Algeria. Unthinkable!

Walking

So what are we going to do for three weeks? I’m told that there is some golf to watch but if I want to watch people walking around I can sit at my window and watch people doing that in my street.

I know there are a couple of sports in America in which the Americans are the world champions. Of course, that is mainly because they are the only country that plays the sport. I suppose Australia are probably the best at Australian rules!

Relief

I’m at a loss now. I get some relief as my own Wilton Town team are back in pre-season training so at least I get to take that twice a week and we play our first pre-season friendly this Saturday as well, but when I get home from that what on earth shall I watch on television?

It is so boring without any footy to watch. Now my wife says that I might be slightly obsessed with football and that it doesn’t do me any harm to have a few weeks without watching any. Obviously my wife is a very dangerous woman who should seek psychiatric help.

Weekend

My weekend should consist of watching the football build up on a Saturday morning, managing my team on a Saturday afternoon, a couple of pints in the pub watching the late kick off game on Sky television before ending the day with Match of the Day on BBC1.

On Sunday morning you can watch a review of Saturday’s games before hopefully watching two live games in the afternoon. In the evening, there should be some Spanish football to watch on Sky before tuning in to Match of the Day 2 on BBC 2.

That is a perfectly reasonable weekend and for anyone to suggest otherwise is nothing short of ridiculous.

Unfair

We now have three weekends when it will be hard to find any games to watch and this is totally unfair and discriminatory against me and thousands of other footy fans. All these calls for a Winter break are annoying me as I would rather we didn’t even have a Summer break!

Also, as a football writer, it is a challenge to write every day about the game when nothing is happening other than ridiculous transfer rumours that are based on absolutely no facts what so ever. Already this Summer it seems that Manchester City and Manchester United are interested in signing every player who got onto the pitch at the World Cup. I suppose that might be true in City’s case.

Obsession

I’m writing this on Tuesday afternoon in my football kit. The reason is that I have training tonight, in about three hours time. My wife thinks that for me to get ready three hours in advance is a further sign of my obsession. I’m afraid she just doesn’t understand.

Of course I know that there are more important things in the world than football. One of them is relationships. What I don’t understand, however, is how you can have a relationship with someone who doesn’t understand that there is nothing more important than football!

Anyway, I’d better go now, I’ve got training in two hours and fifty-five minutes.