17 Signs Your Life Revolves Around The World Cup

Football isn’t just a game, it’s a way of life. Want to know if you’re in too deep? Here’s our guide on how to know if your life revolves around the World Cup! Play for yourself with EA SPORTS™ 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ from EA SPORTS™, out now!

1. You put a tenner on England to win

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Even though you might as well have thrown your wallet out of the window.

2. If your team actually wins a match, you believe it's down to your day's routine

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So you do that for the rest of the World Cup: until your 'lucky boxers' need to be cut off you.

3. You wake up in the night in a cold sweat because you dreamt that your team lost in the final

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Then panic that this was prophetic.

4. You seriously resent relatives who are choosing to get married during the World Cup

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Sister's wedding? Can't I just catch her second one, or watch the highlights?

5. For reasons that you don't even understand yourself, you have put a flag on your car

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And debated internally about whether or not this is a pretty uncool move.

6. You have installed all the football video apps, ever made, on your phone

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Just in case you are stuck somewhere where you can't watch it. Which makes people want to do that ^

AND you've set the background of your phone to your country's flag.

7. You've developed poker-like reactions

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Including the 'under desk air punch' to be used when you're secretly watching a match somewhere you shouldn't be - like work or your nephew's christening.

8. You listen to sports radio shows

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Just to loudly disagree with all the callers and angrily shout at the radio.

9. You know which pubs are showing the game - in a three mile radius to your home, work and kids' school

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And you find yourself irrationally angry at your kids for wanting to be picked up and ferried around on time.

10. You have family members whose lives you care less about than your team

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And you've considered starting starting a family feud just so you don't have to attend a pre-planned family party.

11. You're always in a rush

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Because you have to be at home in time to watch highlights of all the

matches by the teams you forgot existed.

12. Your work diary has become a bit 'eccentric'

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Because you're booking all your work meeting around games.

13. Your partner, colleagues, know not to talk to you the day before, day of, day after a crucial game…

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…Unless you win.

14. Your laptop has become your right arm

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You've started to take your laptop everywhere with you, just in case you've got some spare time to watch the match between appointments. Consequently, you arrive everywhere either 45 minutes early.

15. You have memorised the squad number of every player in your national team

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And are more likely to know their vital statistics than your wedding anniversary.

16. The shopping list on your whiteboard has been updated to include team tactics

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And a heavily annotated subs list.

17. Forget counting sheep

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You send yourself to sleep by running through your team's World Cup statistics.

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