I have a confession before I start this- I don't get football. I find it for the most part boring and less skilled compared to other sports. I am dreading the TV schedules being filled with the World Cup this summer. I hate the assumption that you have to care about it because the national side is involved. I can't be bothered to be patriotic in general. I only vaguely care about my local side (Charlton) but that isn't that much.
So it is odd then that I really enjoy reading a blog about football. Back of the Net is a very different type of football blog. It is run by Mark Watson (who I like anyway as has previously mentioned), his brother Paul (who also runs the national football team in Micronesia) and John Foster. Rather than talking about fixtures and transfers of players etc. it makes up stories and are whimsical and very silly. Things like players making cakes, shopping during penalties, being lost in ticker tape parades and Flight of the Conchords being named in the New Zealand World Cup squad. They also satire the nature of football, the over played players, the general commercialisation of the game and the desire to keep things the same.
Even if you don't like football, read this blog: http://backofthenet.markwatsonthecomedian.com/
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