The next month is going to be hell for non-football fans. With wall-to-wall football coverage until July, there is going to be no escape from the \u201d\u02dcbeautiful\u2019 game.<\/p>\n
Or is there? Here are some things you can do while the rest of the country wastes their time with football…<\/p>\n
We would say that, wouldn\u2019t we? But time is the most common reason people don\u2019t tidy up, and you\u2019re going to have plenty of it over the next month.<\/p>\n
96 hours, to be exact (not including extra time, half-time banter and other nonsense). Plenty of time to round up your CDs, DVDs, Games<\/a>, Electronics<\/a> and Clothes<\/a> and sell to us, eh?<\/p>\n A skill takes 100,000 hours to master apparently, but we reckon that 96 is plenty.<\/p>\n Esquire have put together a list of essential skills for men<\/a>, while this list is more for everyone<\/a>\u00a0(i.e. nothing involving growing a beard). You\u2019ll be able to tick off a fair few.<\/p>\n Or, you could learn all the rules of football, read up on players past and present, and be ready for the next major tournament. But who would want to do that?!<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been meaning to watch it, but I haven\u2019t had time\u201d\u009d. A sentence heard in every pub, workplace and home every single day.<\/p>\n Well, now\u2019s your chance to catch up. We\u2019ve done some maths and figured out how long it would take you to watch some popular shows:<\/p>\n Breaking Bad (5 seasons):<\/b>\u00a0 62 hours (34 hours of football remaining)<\/p>\n The Walking Dead (4 seasons):<\/b> 51 hours (45 hours of football remaining)<\/p>\n Mad Men (6 \u00bd seasons): <\/b>85 hours (11 hours of football remaining)<\/p>\n The Wire (5 seasons): <\/b>60 hours (36 hours of football remaining)<\/p>\n Game of Thrones (4 seasons): <\/b>40 hours (56 hours of football remaining)<\/p>\n That means you should be able to watch at least one series over the next month, with time to do something else too (or you could just watch all of Game of Thrones<\/i> and The Walking Dead<\/i>).<\/p>\n Remember that scene in 28 Days Later<\/i> where the streets of London are empty? That\u2019s what your average town centre looks like during an England game. Basically, the world is your oyster when the football is on.<\/p>\n As most of the games will take place at night, your options are limited. Pubs are a no-go zone, obviously, but restaurants won\u2019t be. Try out all those restaurants you\u2019ve been meaning to visit \u201d\u201c you won\u2019t have to book and you\u2019ll get served quickly!<\/p>\n Your wallet won\u2019t thank you, but your stomach will.<\/p>\n Effective ways of ruining a football match for others include:<\/p>\n Constantly asking who every player is<\/strong><\/p>\n Constantly asking what the rules are<\/strong><\/p>\n Walking in front of the screen carrying out a pointless, but suddenly really important, task<\/strong><\/p>\n Finding out which team everyone is supporting…then loudly supporting the other team<\/strong><\/p>\n Flying to Brazil and streaking at every match<\/strong><\/p>\n While these methods might stop people from watching the football, they may ruin a lot of relationships. Use them responsibly.<\/p>\n Have you got any alternatives to watching the football? Share them with us in comments, on Facebook<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next month is going to be hell for non-football fans. With wall-to-wall football coverage until July, there is going to be no escape from the \u201d\u02dcbeautiful\u2019 game. Or is there? Here are some things you can do while the rest of the country wastes their time with football… Declutter …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,159,179],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Master a skill<\/h3>\n
Watch that TV show you\u2019ve been meaning to watch<\/h3>\n
Visit every restaurant in town<\/h3>\n
Ruin it for everyone else<\/h3>\n