The World Cup 2010 and no ties to goalkeeper gloves

Football blog from a blogger who doesn’t watch that much football, so what are you expecting to read here?

It's football season again, and I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest football fan there is. I do know how to clean goalkeeper gloves though in case you hadn't noticed that on this site. It's not just football season, it's the start of the 2010 World Cup, and you know what that means? It means that world goes mad for football. The public eat, sleep and drink it, they watch it, hear it and breathe it and no matter where you are you are guaranteed to be sucked into the football madness at some point.

It is crazy mad. There are flags of the St. George cross hanging off every other car window that passes me by, and while it's all very well to show your support and patriotism, and to feel the spirit of ‘66, but I think flags on cars just look plain stupid. Of course, me like everyone else in this country wants England to do well in the world cup, who wouldn't? Our last few performances haven't been all that impressive though, but maybe this is the year that all this will change? Maybe this is the year when we really will bring it back to England, when we'll bring it back with three lions on our shirts and pride written in big letters on our foreheads.

I have to confess, too, that I once knew every member of the England football squad, not personally of course, but I could name each one when someone asked, but that was when I was about 13 and had nothing better to do. Now there are a lot of new players, all with some amazing talents that I could only dream of possessing, but what is it that puts us below par with the other teams from around the world? Is it that our skills are less honed? Are we not as good as we think or are they super human in their abilities to dazzle on the football pitch?

One thing is for sure though, and that is that the next few days and weeks will continue to a see a rise in football related everything, from Mars Bars with England Branding to gazeboes donning the England flag, and then it will all be over and the hype will die down, but lets hope we all have some good memories of the times we had, right? Let’s hope that the entire excitement running up to the event wasn’t all wasted time. Mind you, I sometimes think that the excitement and the anticipation is more fun than the event itself, I’m sure you’ve had Christmases and birthdays that remind you of what I’m talking about.

Time will tell as the World Cup goes on and the weaker teams fall out, maybe because they didn’t wash their goalkeeper gloves properly. I have a high hope that England will perform well though and that they won't let us as a nation down with any silly mistakes like in years gone by.