Can You Do The World Cup Sober?

And I know some people listening will probably be... might be struggling a little bit with how to cope with upcoming games, certainly with England's current form and matches that are coming up.

So, yeah, we thought we'd kind of

have a bit of a chat about it, right? I mean, football is fascinating.

Like, there is something about football... and alcohol, and let's be frank, drugs.

That is just so ingrained.

And, you know, I've spoken about it on the pod before.

I've spoken about it in interviews before.

I've spoken about it in the West Ham program before.

But there's something about football, which seems to be like, I guess, the equivalent of like airport pints.

Do you know what I mean? Like, it doesn't matter what time kickoff is.

You get to the pub at nine in the morning.

Like, you're probably on the gear by midday.

You're having a three o'clock kickoff.

Like, win or lose on the booze.

Like you're going out afterwards and it's just kind of built for like 12 hour sessions.

And I think what's going to be really interesting with this World Cup is you've got five o'clock kickoffs, you've got nine o'clock kickoffs, you've got 2am kickoffs.

And I think if you're someone who's like figuring out where to watch matches, figuring out whether you feel comfortable going out boozing, figuring out comfortable whether you want to be around your mates, like, It's kind of a recipe for sesh disaster because if you've got a kickoff at nine, you're probably going to meet your mates after work at five or six.

So you're probably three or four hours deep into sesh before kickoff.

And then you're probably games finishing at 11.

So you're probably going to kick on for a bit.

If you've got a kickoff that's at like five, you're probably going to start early and then keep going.

And if you've got a kickoff at 2am, then fucking there's no hope.

So I think it's a real recipe for disaster, not necessarily like the World Cup in general.

But I think if you are thinking of trying to challenge your relationship with alcohol during this period, like there's definitely got to be some framework that you can put together.

alongside yourself.