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Sports obsessed Ireland
Opinion: Is EVERYONE a sports fan!?
Is it me or is it impossible to leave the home, go out into a public place, interact with other human beings and have at least one conversation free of the following words: ‘hurling’, ‘GAA’ or ‘rugby’? In my quest to see if this is possible, I have found myself in places where one would think it a guaranteed certainty that the topic of sport would not come up. I have specifically tried to avoid any and all sport related talk so as not to trigger a further outbreak of eczema brought on by the inability to escape these topics of conversation in everyday life (yes, I have no interest in any of these topics).
I have sought refuge from same by virtue of my sex (of the so-called fairer variety), but I was obviously sleeping at that very precise turning point in history between the general consensus that ‘Women do not like sport’ to ‘Every woman in Ireland is a sports aficionado’. When exactly did this happen? Perhaps I was dreaming at the time - though not about hurling, GAA or rugby.
I honestly thought that my womanly charms and the glazed-over expression on my face each time I hear people talking about sport would be enough to deter the most passionate of sports fans. However, it seems that having no interest in what they are talking about does not appear to affect their ability to bombard you with the sordid details of every match you don’t care about, in every sport you care even less about. And to make matters worse, it would appear that the best way to meet potential partners is by pretending to care/understand rugby or GAA.
Does this mean that I am condemned to a sports-free life alone? And would it be worth it just to save myself from that exquisite form of auditory torture referred to by some as ‘talking about the match’? And if I were to ‘bag a partner’ through my ‘pretendy’ sporting knowledge, would I be supportive of him, or would I develop murderous fantasies at the prospect of having to listening to tales of ‘the match’ on a daily basis? And would my acting ability be strong enough to pretend that I give two hoots about ‘the match’? What about one hoot? Is it just me?
By: Jusus_Chreest
