Scotland THUMPED Curacao (I didn’t even know this was a country) at the football yesterday and, there you have it: the moment the actual football season ends, the World Cup hoo-hah begins.
I’m pleased that most of the games will be on too late to interfere with the quiz. Impact will be minimized, although not entirely negated. It could be worse.
Meanwhile, there’s no escaping the marketing storm. I went to the Co-Op on Friday evening. There were stickers in the window, showing people in the act of celebration, accompanied by slogans such as “SNACK SMART – CHEER HARD”.
The obvious implication is that you need buy a lot of snacks and drinks in time for the televised football match because… well… imagine if you didn’t.
I’m glad I’m too posh to watch TV. I remember back in the day watching telly during these tournaments and every single commercial, whether it was for bleach or cakes or shoes, suddenly involved football. Usually models pretending to watch TV and pretending to celebrate.
They never showed you real fans, like the guy in Brass Monkey Gorgie who punched out one of the screen in there a couple of Saturdays ago when Celtic scored and his anger could not be contained.
He apologised afterwards and said he would pay for a new one (after initially trying to fob off the bar staff with a fake name). I don’t know if they’ve got their money yet.
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