don't know about any off-board chit-chatting on the subject (you'd surely be more up-to-date than me on this) but he didn't like much the fuss around the world cup either, if i recall correctly.
i have nothing to say today, especially because i've burnt out most of my communicative energies with my long, unnoticed ( ) posts on the sex tranquillity thread yesterday. So I'll just post this one as a symbolic way of participating to forum life, and let's hope tomorrow brings more hope and bubu.
Actually I wasn't feeling happy at all, but yes, all those world cup madness annoyed me, mostly for the reasons rahvin already explained, now I can turn on the tv, see there's the usual crap in all channels and turn the tv off again, as opposed to turning on the tv, see there's world cup crap in all channels and turn the tv off again