IS it wrong to watch a World Cup game on your phone in the bathroom?

I don’t think so.

It depends on how you look at it really.

This is the first World Cup where the mobile phone has truly taken over.

Yes, the mobile was around four years ago but, back then, I had a rubbish phone, so couldn’t watch any games.

Now I can watch any game, at any time, in any place.

I have even found myself watching the highlights of a game I had already seen in full.

Sometimes I will watch the highlights of old games from other World Cups to fill the time between matches.

I realise that admitting this may not be healthy, but what is one to do?

The thing is I love having three games a day to watch.

This does not make me fanatical, but watching the World Cup in the bathroom was not in any way over the top.

I would say I am football fundamentalist at times.

The problem I now have is that I don’t want to watch any games with anyone else.

I hate listening to people giving me a running commentary of the game, or telling me some fact they read on some website earlier in the day.

The most annoying thing was one guy telling me about a story that he had read on the very website I edit!

Yes, I posted the story, and now you are telling me about it, and pretending it was yours.

Slowly, I have become almost oblivious to what is going on around me when the football is on.

The World Cup is meant to be enjoyed, but this has become an effort more than anything else.

The more I think about it, the more I realise that the World Cup was invented for the middle-aged gentleman.

At this time of his life he wants to be left alone to watch game after game, after game.

In between the games, he wants to eat, maybe sleep, and talk to the family.