Watching people watch the World Cup is a nightmare | Zoe Williams

It’s great to see England progress through the tournament – but supporting loved ones who care deeply about the results is much less fun

‘I like it when they run about all pleased’ … England's Bukayo Saka celebrates with Harry Kane and Phil Foden after scoring a goal during the match against Senegal.‘I like it when they run about all pleased’ … England's Bukayo Saka celebrates with Harry Kane and Phil Foden after scoring a goal during the match against Senegal.t’s a beautiful thing to watch a football team, particularly such a young, fresh, united one, from your very own nation, winning a match.

At the same time, if you don’t care especially about the football yet the people around you do, and very deeply – let’s call them your sons or daughters, your spouses, friends, those you like the look of on social media platforms – getting to this point in anis a bloody nightmare. You can get in all the Doritos you want, and nothing will change the outcome. You spent all that time hoping they would reach the quarter-finals up against someone rubbish, and it was wasted. It was illogical.

You will almost be able to taste the disappointment if England loses against France next weekend; you can map its awful progress, the grey pall it will cast over everyone in the house, even the ones who were just waiting for the TV to be free so they could watchlose against France? But is that old 90s intel? It’s too stressful to Google.

Psychotherapy, I’m sure, would have something useful to say about this; something about not trying to micromanage other people’s emotions, letting them sit with their impotent rage without seeking to minimise or dispel it. This is probably a useful skill to take into life post-World Cup: a bit more compassion, a bit less empathy, resilience in the face of other people’s disappointment. Sure, fine, whatever. I don’t want emotional learnings.

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