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When I think of football/footballers and football supporters I have, at best detached disinterest, sometimes their antics provoke contempt, or at their worse disgust. I have absolutely no interest in football, it bores me to death.
For many people you can read politics instead, where I write football and politicians for footballer and supporters. Someone told me that the World Cup is this year and one thing I can guarantee, I will watch not one single match, even in the unlikely event of England reaching the final.
For a bent/expense fiddling politician - there are bent tax fiddling footballers
For a political sex scandal - there is Tiger Woods (OK he is a golfer but you get the point, I can't think of the names of contemporatry footballers)
For baying politicans at PMQs - there are the baying crowds in football stadia
For arguing football fans - there are aguing political opponents
For violent football fans - there are...........errrrrr, the BNP and the political thug-like tendancy
For by-elections and local elections - there are league games
For General Elections - there is the World Cup
For an own goal - there are Gordon Brown's slips of the tongue
Tonight on ITV at 8.30 We will have an important 'play-off'. I will be watching the pre-match commentary, the match and the post-match analysis. I will be sat on the sofa with a beer or two, I will be supporting the bookies favourite, I will cheer at well delivered attack from my side and jeer the performance of the other side. Yes it is the first of the Prime Ministerial debates.
For there is indeed a very direct correlation between sport and politics. If ever you want to sniff at the politicians arguing or the behaviour at PMQs you might want to think of yourself and your behaviour at a football match or whatever other activity that takes your fancy. The feelings and emotions are exactly the same.
Now how much beer have I got in for 'the season'....?