world cup

[DreadlockDan]

well the england team is just a premier league allstar XI really isnt it? As someone above has just said, john terry, rio ferdinand, ashley cole etc. I can not bring myself to support a team full of these (forgive my language) utter c**tbuckets.

As for a watford cup final, of course I would watch it, I am nothing if not a hypocrite!

I know its a boring cliche, but football is ruined now and not what it once was and I just dont really the current version of top football fits with the "glastonbury ethos" (sorry for using that awful term)

[tubs]

def wasnt just me, most the group i was with agreed (all english). Poss could have sometihng to do with the oasis attitude at the festival also that year though!

[Langdale Wolf]

It's group E or F we need England to be in:

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That ensures only 1 England game over Glastonbury, and that'll be on the Thursday so no acts would be missed.

[maninkilt]

Yes but we lost then. Don't forget England are winning the world cup in 2010 so they only be victories thus enhancing an already great atmosphere. If the game is on Wed or Thur it has to be on the Pyramid else it'll be on the Other Stage I imagine. Anywhere smaller and you'll be asking for trouble

[maninkilt]

I like to think of glastonbury as a magical place to escape the mundanity and disgusting excesses of the real world.

Football nowadays, top level football that is, just about embodies everything that is wrong with the world today.

Why anyone would want glastonbury polluted by the grotesque thing that football has become is beyond me.

[Langdale Wolf]

I'm just guessing - and not just via the content in his posts - that maninkilt probably isn't that interesting in seeing England play?

Not quite sure why I think that. Intuition maybe?

[maninkilt]

I'm just guessing - and not just via the content in his posts - that maninkilt probably isn't that interesting in seeing England play?

Not quite sure why I think that. Intuition maybe?

[Billy09]

The fact that it's England or who ever they may be playing is utterly imaterial to me, just dont want the vile atmosphere that follows football way too much. Just dont need it at Glasto.

I know that loads of people are totaly commited to football but beleive it por not most people couldn't give a shit who is playing.

There will be an Eastenders episode on some time during the festival, shall we have that on the pyramid stage too?

Edited October 7, 2009 by dr_billy

[DreadlockDan]

Couldn't agree more, football is all pervasive in society now, a place where we are all different, justb for a weekend is vital.

Edited October 7, 2009 by DreadlockDan

[Billy09]

I like to think of glastonbury as a magical place to escape the mundanity and disgusting excesses of the real world.

Football nowadays, top level football that is, just about embodies everything that is wrong with the world today.

Why anyone would want glastonbury polluted by the grotesque thing that football has become is beyond me.

Edited October 7, 2009 by dr_billy

[maninkilt]

Maybe alcohol and unhealthy food shouldn't be allowed at the festival. Both are pervasive in society as well and have far worse consequences than football. How about music, theatre, comedy, buying / selling of goods? All of them are far more wide spread than football is.

Whats so vital about football not being shown at a festival and how will it make us different if it isn't shown exactly?

Sooo, because it is immaterial to you it shouldn't be shown? And you seriously think the atmosphere for Glastonbury, this mythical, amazing festival would be ruined by possibly 180 minutes of football? Do you think comparing one of the world big sporting events that happens once every 4 years bringing people together from all over the world compares to an episode of a tv series that has been on 2 to 3 times a week for the last 20 years?

[Billy09]

What I said is immaterial to me is WHO is playing. And my point is that to you the football matters while to me and many others it is as revevant to Glastonbury as Eastenders. I dont think either should be shown.

Edited October 7, 2009 by dr_billy

[DreadlockDan]

What I said is immaterial to me is WHO is playing. And my point is that to you the football matters while to me and many others it is as revevant to Glastonbury as Eastenders. I dont think either should be shown.

[fullfathom5]

This thread is stupid - any England matches need to be shown, end of!

[maninkilt]

No you said "most people couldn't give a shit who's playing" as well.

[glasgowpete]

And you seriously think the atmosphere for Glastonbury, this mythical, amazing festival would be ruined by possibly 180 minutes of football?

[maninkilt]

This thread is stupid - any England matches need to be shown, end of!

[MEGABOWL]

They should show it if it falls on Wednesday or Thursday, stick it on the pyramid. Otheriwse leave it and stick to the 'contemporary performing arts' that it is a festival of

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

What i'v learnt from this thread..

People like football.. people dislike football... (which I already knew!)

& I am kloot are amazing (which I already knew!)

Some funny posts though.. "Jog on" Hello danny dyer!

[jameshunt]

Football games have to be controled licenced (I think) and policed in a special way, any legal or somerset council bods out there know if a public screening of a live match would need any thing special?

[Billy09]

Do you think that they do? Football is just a sport, enjoy it if it is your thing but realise that in the sceme of things it does noty matter. I have a good mate who is a great bloke and mad on football, his life revolves around it, all he wants to talk about at work. He has convinced himself taht I am a Birmingham fan and takes the pee when they loose.

He cannot beleive that I and most people dont care about football.

Edited October 7, 2009 by dr_billy

[sprocketrocket]

Foooooooootbbbaaaaaaallllll

Edited October 7, 2009 by sprocketrocket

[Bobs]

Ah lets face it,

Unless England are playing someone massive like Germany, Brazil or Spain, Even though i'm a massive fan, im not gonna miss the entertainment to see Ecuador or North korea.

[Billy09]

Ah lets face it,

Unless England are playing someone massive like Germany, Brazil or Spain, Even though i'm a massive fan, im not gonna miss the entertainment to see Ecuador or North korea.

Edited October 8, 2009 by dr_billy

[Tugger2k]

Ah lets face it,

Unless England are playing someone massive like Germany, Brazil or Spain, Even though i'm a massive fan, im not gonna miss the entertainment to see Ecuador or North korea.