#ihc watches football

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sneaking in some rennes before arsenal...we sacked the manager thank fuck. the bagpipes of roazhon park :')

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as i said yesterday and have said many times before, when you support croatia nt even when they lose you win, even when it’s so painful and you feel their pain too, because they’re the team who represent you, or who stole your heart

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i love you gabi martinelli i love you arsenal not having one big star i love you team working together to score goals i’m !!!

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BENNY BLANCO GOAL I'M FUCKING SCREAMING

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From someone who does not like any kind of sportsball: Why soccer? Why this sport? Why these guys? Make me love it, too. Signed, a shy friend.

ok i’ll do my best, though i don’t know how good i am at making people like stuff i like 😂 i don’t have too much in common with a lot of people so that might not bode well 😂

my family are huge american football and baseball fans but nothing ever really stuck for me?  i like watching american football when My Team is playing but otherwise i’m a little neutral. i am and have always been an olympics fiend (especially winter) in a large part because i really like the international-ness of it, so keep that in mind.

i was unaware of the world cup until one summer when i was actually in france during the world cup and the vibe was fantastic.  like there was just so much energy and EVERYONE was excited and people were smashing bottles in the street cause france won a game.  once i got back home i kept watching the games. the 2014 world cup caught my interest because the final was two countries i Enjoy for various reasons.  also @ariannenymerosmartell An American Who Likes Soccer/Football watched that game with me and she was a Fan of the german nt and it was exciting to talk about it with someone who was excited!

in the 2018 world cup i watched almost every game including like france vs. belgium on the crosstown bus on my phone, and i got caught up in Croatia Fever (after hating them for beating argentina) and that made me Start Getting Into It for real.  i also loved the women’s world cup last summer too.

like with the olympics i love the international aspect; even when it’s not national team break the clubs are composed of all sorts of people.  i love that the sport is so incredibly universal.  someone like me who, like i said before, doesn’t really have a lot in common with most people--when there’s a football reference i get it!  when someone is talking about a game i can easily participate!  it’s amazing?  and for someone who has a shitty attention span for watching things on a screen, the game moves Fast and has lots of legit cool moves (like this one) and footwork and technique and (hopefully) strategy, and for someone who gets really stressed when things have no defined time span, you know approximately how long a regular club game is gonna last no matter what.

there is a huge community of fans that isn’t just one particular demographic, which i also love, because some “fandoms” get very insular cause everyone is like, a queer afab nerd, you kow what i mean.

and as for the dudes, well.  i like a good-looking dude, what can i say?  and the footballers have an Aesthetic that sits well with me, and there’s Lots of fuckin drama queens and people praying before matches and i’m Into that.  as for why each of my favs is my fav, that’s a whole separate post, lol.

also as you get more familiar with the games you can start having opinions about refs, managers, club presidents, commentators...it’s infinite ~

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the boys hugging each other looking so genuinely happy and loving the fans singing so loud mikel’s huge smile..........the way i love this football club so much. all of them. the way granit is my fav but unlike other clubs where i have favs i’m just as invested in the rare times he’s not playing.  “i fucking love this football club.”

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-sardar is starting todayyyy but i’m so sad he cut his hair and shaved imagine seeing all that sweaty hair for a full 90s

-i’ve very much lost the plot and had no idea el clasico was this weekend until yesterday morning 😂

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WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST SEE?????

TAA CORNER KICK TO ALISSON HEADER?  IN THE LITERAL LAST MIN? LIVERPOOL STAYING IN UCL FOR YET ANOTHER WEEK?

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wow love how trippier is already back with atleti so šime will never play again!

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WAIT YALL WAIT ALL OF DEKI’S CURRENT BOYFRIENDS HAVE SCORED TODAY?

A BLESSING

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epl commentator: mo salah has been doing a great job today!  what a fantastic first half he’s had!

*switches to la liga*

phil schoen: AND THEN HE SPANKED THE BALL 

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here we go with the fucking var checks for fuck’s sake

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“in the tunnel, ah yes that infamous slogan, ‘more than a club,’ and it sure seems like they’ve been beating themselves over the head with one this season” 

PHIL SCHOEN YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO GO THAT HARD...BUT YOU DID

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well from 10-11:30 i’m gonna have a game on my laptop and a game on tv...Stress

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me weeping at the cant del barça because our dumb asses obviously won’t win la liga and i hate this stupid team but obviously i love them,

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after seeing the leaked away and 3rd arsenal kits i can only say that mister mourinho better wait another year to try to snatch up his granit prize; i need to nut eternally to that black and gold kit much to all of your dismay 💦