Kinda bored with World Cup hype ?

The run up to any major sporting tournament that is heavily hyped, does create problems for broadcasters/newspapers etc, viz; what do you actually put out?

You could do the whole, “speak to former players, coaches etc to get their opinions” bit. But it’s tedious stuff, mostly repetitive and pretty obvious, (Ian Rush on Sky this morning “You need to score goals to win games”) or, “the lads are really up for this game” etc

Or, you could do reports from the various teams training camps, but in essence all this amounts to, is some bullshit montage of players running about a bit fore a few seconds and saying they feel confident.

Or, you could do injury reports – is there anything more tedious?

The Daily Mail yesterday, opened with (yes, it was their lead, page 1 story!) that a player’s wife, (a former singer from 10 years ago) had a bunion, (accompanied by pictures) which had no impact on the team, the player, or the players wife in any way at all.

The World Cup is starting to grate on me a bit