If y'all read Sunday Lifestyle a few days back you'd notice an article by this guy (I can't remember his name) saying that women do not understand football and should just leave football and the men watching football alone. Is that the silliest thing ever, or what? I don't claim to be a beer swigging, peanut munching football fanatic who sits glued to the gogglebox for 90 minutes, and however much more extra time is given, waking up half the neighbourhood when Peter Crouch scores a goal and does his robot dance. I may not paint myself yellow and green and buy football jerseys by bulk so I can distribute them to my fellow Brazil supporters. But one thing for sure: I can understand football. What is there not to understand anyway? I'm sure not all men think that women don't understand football. Okay maybe some do; but then, are they against women trying to understand football? I doubt so.
I mean, I watch football with my dad. (Forget about my mom, her msn nickname now is FIFA Hater, she says when the Wimbledon starts it'll be Anti-Wimbledon) He doesn't have anything against me watching football! So this guy, writing the article in Lifestyle, he also said that the main reason why women watch football is to ogle at cute men. Eh, is Roberto Carlos goodlooking? Ronaldo is fat, Oliver Kahn looks like a bulldog, and Peter Crouch looks like one of those Stikfas toys. Don't tell me no guy has ever come across Maria Sharapova playing Wimbledon and gone, Whoa, hot legs, and continued watching despite the fact that they don't know what an ace is? Like, c'mon. Isn't this a free country?
Men who think that women don't understand football and for the love of the game, should stop watching and supporting completely, are such male chauvinist pigs!! Okay I admit, some of my friends who have previously never mentioned, in all my less than four years of knowing them (cos the last World Cup was 4 years ago), their interest in football and now are simply jumping on the bandwagon and are totally into staying up late just to watch Brazil vs Australia or betting that Switzerland'd win Togo (They DID! :D :D Btw, I am a fan of Switzerland, not Swiss football.) But so? There are so many others who do follow football and watch Man U or Chelsea or Kaiserslautern or Bayern Munich or whatever football clubs there are. I don't know cos I don't follow them but whoever said I'm a diehard footie fan anyway.
So if football is a men's sport and women shouldn't watch it... then men shouldn't be ogling at Sharapova (who would want to though) or Hantuchova (at least she's prettier.) playing tennis, right? Wrong. That's why there is absolutely nothing wrong with women watching football. Of course, those who pretend to know a lot but actually know nothing are plain annoying... But that's beside the point.
Oh and something else that totally pisses me off is when people say, football is so dumb it's just 20 people chasing a ball around a field. That is like the most overused phrase to discriminate football. Ever. Then can't I also say, tennis is so stupid. It's just a couple of people with oversized pingpong bats hitting a hairy green ball to each other. Or, bowling is so lame all they do is roll a big stupid heavy ball and try to knock down a bunch of pins. I can't say that. Isn't skill and technique also involved in all of that? Football is NOT stupid, and neither is tennis or bowling. So it's just plain rude to say something like that about a sport other people love.
That's about it. I'll go eat my roasted garlic and permesan biscuits now.
Forget about Rafa, Rogi is the BOMB! I love you Rogi and I hope you win a gazillion more grand slams and I hope I see you in the Maldives when I go at the end of the year!! I LOOOVEEE SWITZERLAND
& I like yummy yummy roast pork.
a Wishlist
iPod speakers An iPod video (like my MOM'S??!!) I seriously need a new phone. I NEED to watch a Grand Slam, how deprived am i?? A trip to Switzerland or the Maldives.
& I like yummy yummy roast pork.