Ahhhhhh, soccer

Depressed looking people on the train, quiet everywhere (even the traffic seemed muted somehow), into the office and a couple of folks crying.... who died? Was it the Queen? Did Backstreet Boys get back together? No, a football team lost! Obviously an English team against another country (no idea which or what the game was in aid of) and they lost! Oh my, shock, horror, get me a Prozac®!
Being a New Zealander and with rugby, cricket and netball being our sport 'religion' I just do not understand this obsession that the English have with soccer (alright, alright, football). Though of course if we lose to Australia in the Bledisloe, which we haven't since 2002 (and just the by NZ has won it 67 times and the Aussies just 30 since 1932!) the tears shed will be of course just be something getting in our eyes!