If I hear anyone else ask me if I’m going to “watch the match”, I’m going to lose it. No, I won’t watch that extremely boring snooze fest of a sport played by overpaid divas in a terrible country, organized by the most corrupt organization on earth, even if it supposedly “brings people together”.
Because it doesn’t. It divides people, and it won’t change anyone’s life for the better, ever. Football is crap.
@thelinuxEXP I understand being annoyed by all the people asking you about football (must be a lot in France, you can imagine it's even bigger in Brazil where I live)
But really on an individual level sports in general have a great impact in people's lives. Even for myself, football has always been the best way to make me come out of my shell and be able to socialize a bit as a kid (which now I know was autistic)
Generalizing based on just the bad parts only hurts the good ones
@thelinuxEXP I actually meant watching it, not playing it. The feeling of belonging plus the connections made around the sport really help! It connects people of all kinds and for me it meant being able to fit in at school/work and not being the "weird kid". Other hobbies could work, sure, but they weren't universal
It sucks that rotten people paint such a bad image of the sport but I think it's easier to change it when we acknowledge what's good vs just discarding it as a whole
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