World Cup - It is important to us, ladies.

Football is a RELIGION.

While some of us may not have the discipline to be church on a beautiful Sunday morning or praying in the mosque on a Friday afternoon, we never failed to catch a match on s Saturday night.

If Ramadan is for the Muslims and Christmas holiday is for the Christian, in couple of days time, we are going to experience one of festive season shared by billions of people all over the world, regardless of their race and ethnicity.

The World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

 

Once in every four years.

 

Even if you are not a real hard core football fans, you would still feel the presence.

 

All of a sudden your boss ranted less about work, more about Marco Reus is out injured from Germany team.

 

Your colleagues started to organize a world cup pool game in the office.

 

You bought toilet roll from Tesco, and received world cup printed tissue pack as free gift.

 

Your fiancé/boyfriend/husband started to do stock-checking on the fridge. (But beers only).

 

Forgive us.

 

That is how BIG the occasion is.

 

A woman will never understand the passion/attraction for a game of football.

 

This is football for guys.

 

 

 

But with woman, is a totally different story.

 

This is "The Football".

 

 

 

 

There was one occasion when I am having dinner with a bunch of girls and all of a sudden, the football topic came up.

 

Girl A: World cup is coming, who you guys supporting?

 

Me: As for me, I am a pretty loyal England fan, so I will take that.

 

Girl B: Why not Manchester United?

 

Me: .................

 

Girl: Yeah yeah, they have this cute Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham on the team!

 

Me: OK, No.1, world cup is a competition between countries. By the way, No.2, both of them are in Real Madrid now.

 

Girl A & B: Whatever, they looked gorgeous in their underwear advert. Isn't it? (Grin**)

 

 



It happens. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

 

I am pretty sure that whenever a woman asked a guy "When is the match between Liverpool and Germany for world cup? 3 am", the guy will feel like strangling himself (or the woman) with a wire rope.

 

So, ladies, we understand your lack of knowledge about the football world, and we forgave you.

We understand totally.

 

But during this one month period of the World Cup, please do remember to abide by these 10 rules.

 

1. Do not ask us what a offside rule is. It doesn't matter. We don't care also. All we wanted is a calm and peaceful environment for us to enjoy our football show.

 

2. If your friend is having a wedding, you have two choices. Go by yourself, or get him/her to postpone the wedding. Nothing else matter now.

 

3. If your family wanted to have a reunion dinner, refer to rule No.2.

 

4. 20 Meter radius within the television is our territory. Please apply for permission to enter the zone, if you really need to. Trespassers will be prosecuted. That is why I bought you an Ipad.

 

5. Do not laugh/insult when my team is losing. It will make me feel like you are insulting my mum or my dad.

 

6. Do not tell "Honey, you got to sleep early". or "I can't sleep without you". This is like our "pregnancy period" for 1 month. And what we need is not our wife. Is the TV. And the Astro connection.

 

7. Do not panic when we went nuts looking for batteries. It is for the remote control. It is a life and death situation. So let it be.

 

8. Do not try to seduce us by wearing those sexy lingerie, your self esteem will be blown away. TV is sexy to us. Not a lingerie.

 

9. Do not threaten to divorce us because of the lack of attention issue. It is because we would probably sign it without looking at it.

 

10. We will still survive without home cooked dinner, but not without beers and chips.

 

These set of rules is just for one month. But it could ended up saving the marriage.

 

Cheers.

 

Time to stock-check on my beer compartment.