I respect people having principles and I would love to see the major national teams withdraw from this tournament, including my own, and I would support it 100%. but... if the question is, would I personally restrain from watching it with every NT participating, every player being there, every manager being there, every TV house doing coverage, every reporter enjoying the trip, basically, everyone else enjoying it without any issues, then the answer is no.
there's little sense in having higher standards for myself than for those who should be preventing or at least speaking out against all of this, and I'm not going to change myself and my habits when the same is never expected from those who are directly involved and have much more influence than me.
biggest murderers I've seen in my life will be singing and dancing at that crappy music festival without any remorse in month or two, with European leaders sleeping like babies and being perfectly fine with ongoing genocide, as well as this war. so being the only sucker that was doing... whatever during games, while everyone else involved just carried on with everything makes little sense.
the world where USA invade other countries and kill or kidnap foreign leaders while the rest of the Europe pretend they deserved it, is the only world I know. so this last couple of months is nothing new for me and the same goes for Trump. the issue is, I also learned something about Europe in the last year or two and what I know today will be more lasting than these 3 weeks of football.
there will be repeat of this somewhere one day but we will be left with the same spineless cowards and their usual bullshit once again. because when you listen to the likes of Merz or Ursula, or even that dumb bitch that is obsessed with Russia, you have to ask yourself what's even the point anymore.
we have hosts bombing one of the participating countries without any issues. and lack of reaction from Europe, and by that I mean big, looooooud statement on those girls that were killed just because they were born in wrong country is insane. again, no sanctions, no consequences, not even for Israeli clubs at least, even after that recent brutal attack on Lebanon. it's not even being considered.
if you aren't even willing to do the bare minimum, you basically support this agression, no way around it. so why would I pick this tournament for boycott but keep watching UEFA competitions soon after without any issue, given what I've witnessed from Europe in last two years? we are basically an accomplice, period. if I can accept that, I can accept this tournament as well.
now, I will miss vast majority of the games anyway so instead of writing all this crap I could simply pretend I'm boycotting it, but it's not that, it's the schedule. I'm not going to watch any match that doesn't start before 22h. I won't bother with my NT either. if I'm not too tired that evening, I will probably watch our opening match against England, miss the next two games and after that, who knows, that could even be the only game I will watch if we go out early. I couldn't be bothered with our recent games against Brazil and Colombia either.
football seems to be the least important thing currently, but it's mainly the schedule that makes my decision easier.
