"Even if I got rid of all my problems, I'd just go out and get new ones..."

Call me a stick in the mud...
12:45 p.m. on 2004-06-25

...but I didn't watch the game last night.

England lost. In case you didn't know.

It's impossible, if you live in the UK, to NOT know about the football. It's everywhere. On the tv (both main channels), on the radio, in the newspapers. All sorts of products, particularly food and clothing ranges, have brought out football-themed items.

Even now, Jeremy Vine is on BBC Radio2 discussing why football has such a 'universal effect' on the nation.

Speak for yourself, Jeremy.

The reality is that 25 million people watched the football last night. That's actually less than one in three people I looked it up). More than two thirds of the country weren't watching.

So why is it assumed by everyone that we're all football fans?

Listening to: Gene Kelly "I Got Rythym"

Quote: "One suspects, though, that Nutrileum is actually called something like 5-gamma-hydroxychlorphoni-quinone, and the marketing chaps chose its new name after deciding that 'kittensoftium' was over doing it." - The Independent, on shampoo

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