People who only take an interest in a sport when their nation is winning C/D?

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I had a cricket rockist ponificating about this earlier on, and I was tempted to ignore it, but then I remember how when England is playing in a major football championship how only fuckwits hang flags from their roof, so he may have had a point.

Also discuss: female newspaper columnists doing the oh-so-irony "Sport, eh?" columns.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but consider: whatever mechanism makes people do this is probably the one that allows them to sit through their children's terrible school plays, dance recitals, and so on.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Hey, if the bandwagon's there, you'd be a fool not to jump on it.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Though I suppose it's possible that there are child-performance rockists wandering from school auditorium to school auditorium: "Which kid is yours?" "None of them, and to be honest the private school uptown had much better set design."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I do this, or at least pretend to, sometimes. Well, when my nation is taking part, not winning. I am English, after all.

I mainly do this around workmates etc, cos people already think I'm weird because I don't support a football team.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

(do you honestly think that the female columnists bring the idea of 'sport, eh?' columns to their editors?)

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

it gets tired when your nation always wins the table tennis.

lol

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

(do you honestly think that the female columnists bring the idea of 'sport, eh?' columns to their editors?)

No, I don't, and yes the editors should be shot for those "Hey, have you considering ranking the centreback superhunks?" type articles.

Also: yearly Radio Times features on "Women be watching sport!". Die.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, there's sport qua sport. And then there's family/local/national spectacle and pride and when it comes to that anything can be drafted in really. Just natural.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

We are classic.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Tom, I was about to post exactly the same sentence. Not that my country ever wins anything without there being a drug scandal afterwards, but still...

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

It's never worked for rugby, mind you.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"pray whilst sticking your ass out" was never going to be a successful gimmick

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I like to to think of it as protecting my mental health to only get excited when we're winning. Life is too full of disappointment as it is.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

No, I don't, and yes the editors should be shot for those "Hey, have you considering ranking the centreback superhunks?" type articles.

Also: yearly Radio Times features on "Women be watching sport!". Die.

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― woah, Monday, 12 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

To give this a Welsh perspective, it's a win win situation. If England win, great, for obvious reasons, and if Australia win (or more pertinently, England lose), also great.

― mei (mei), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

It surprised me that I actually care LESS about the Ashes than I did about the rugby World Cup. Considering I'm indifferent to cricket and hate rugby, I still had a flicker of "ooh, we've won something!" a couple of years back. I can only put it down to the novelty value.

(This flicker was well and truly extinguished by the time the fucking parade went down Regent Street, as everyone who remembers my thread on the subject will know).

Anyway, dud. You are bad people.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I will go out of my way to watch Canada get smoked by the All Blacks or the Kiwis every few years we end up in that rugby world cup. I couldn't care less about our cricket team despite being one of the best second rate teams in recent years.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I'd say dud. Jonathon Ross should not have been allowed into the Oval.

I remember the days when the highlight of the test series was Jarvis flicking the ball onto the stumps to fashion an unlikely run out.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

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