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World Cup Blues By Chopper Van Bommel Ok I admit I’m a big kid when it comes to the World Cup so that’s why I find it hard to slag it off. Even though I know full well the event is a massive cash cow and you don’t need to scratch very hard on its surface to realise it represents everything that’s wrong about football. I’m not naïve enough to think the host country will really see any benefits of the World Cup unless the cure for aids happens to be an all seater stadium. No, I conveniently push all the home truths about this event aside and enjoy it for what it is, an entertaining spectacle that I can lump a few bets on and watch in the pub. As cynical as I am about the ‘beautiful game’ there are still some elements of it that will (hopefully) never change. I’m not an England fan, never have been. But I love the fact that when Fat Fwanks shot that crossed the line wasn’t given, people around me wanted to invade Germany. I'm not even kidding. Name another sport in which you genuinely want to invade other countries when you lose, golf? It the only sport that still turns adults in blabbering idiots. I any walk of life, exceptional circumstances apart, grown men crying would be quite rightly ridiculed but in football, it’s okay. Take El Diego, once hospitalized for too much drinking, smoking and overeating. How can you not love Maradona? Spanked by Germany, he still managed to break the record for full-body man hugs during a sports tournament. People say the tournament was too boring. I disagree. Though not always pretty to watch, there’s too much at stake for these teams to play like the Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle. If you want entertainment, go and watch some crap Yank sport where pretruatory gland freaks play girl games. That’s why football will never take off in America, they can’t get their stupid heads around the fact you don’t have to be seven foot tall and be able to run a mile in 4 minutes to succeed. Look at the best players, Iniesta, Schnider and Xavi – all smurfs but all wonderfully gifted, in fact coming to think of it, these three would probably never had made it at a ‘Premier’ league club would they. Anyway, I’m off on a tangent here - that’s my tuppence worth, I loved it and can’t wait for Brazil 2014.
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