A message to whingeing Yanks on the Summer Solstice
Above the border, Canadian footy blogger Richard Whittall is just as fed up with the American Exceptionalists as your hostess here at IIMKI:
“What I want to tell you is that if you’re American and you don’t care about the World Cup, I really don’t give a fat steaming shit about it. The apoplexy of those not in the soccer know asking what it will take for America to really, really finally oh pretty please just love soccer already is now just about more grating than the forty thousand vuvuzelas I sometimes dream are in my closet. The piercing, droning noise is coming from all sides, both here and England for some reason, who seem obsessed with the idea that their gimpy little cousins might finally take to their Best Sport in the World if the Yanks make, oh I don’t know, the quarterfinals.”
Treat yourself and read the whole bloody thing, because there’s so much more, such as this:
“You know who else doesn’t give a shit if America loves soccer? MLS. And, thank Christ, American soccer fans. Even so, soccer will continue to be played in America by Americans, it will continue to be watched on American stations by passionate Americans packed in American bars. Soccer will not rescind its citizenship because Glenn Beck thinks it’s gay. And it doesn’t care if you think it’s low-scoring, boring, features lots of diving, that the vuvuzelas are loud and what’s the deal with Ronaldo’s stupid face etc. etc. etc. It doesn’t care if you think it’s terrible compared to the Best League in the World, or that you don’t know who Gooch is supposed to be.”
