# Please don't post World Cup Match spoilers in thread titles! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403 "2002-06-04T23:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/1 "2002-06-04T23:50:11Z")
Due to the location of the World Cup this year, many of the games will not be viewed live by a large proportion of the soccer enthusiasts that frequent the SDMB. So if you feel the need to mourn / celebrate the outcome of a particular match, could you please not post the result **in the thread title** , which would eliminate the element of surprise for some poor unsuspecting Doper who happens to glance at MPSIMS before viewing her videotape of it? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/2 "2002-06-07T01:10:14Z")
I quite agree. Mind you I did it to myself once. I taped a sporting event, because I was out all day. I carefully avoided newspapers, radios and conversations. Then I came home, put the TV on the wrong channel and got the result. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/3 "2002-06-07T05:22:08Z")
I did that for the Euro2000 final. I had told all my colleagues, don’t tell me the result, I want to watch the re-run tonight. I glanced away from all the newspapers in the train on my way home and managed not to hear or see a thing. Beaming, I opened the door and told my wife: “I managed not to hear the result of the final.” “Oh, France won”, she said… (in all innocence - I had not told her that I was going to watch later). ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/4 "2002-06-09T09:16:07Z")
You mean, _ex_-wife, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/5 "2002-06-09T16:37:32Z")
I had the same thing, though not as big. I was backstage at my muscial, and missed most of survivor. A group of cast were watching it in a spare room, and I walked in, before realizing what I’d done. I was like “Whaa, don’t tell me who got voted off!” To which a helpful (:rolleyes:) friend replied “Who got voted off? Tammy!” Grr. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/6 "2002-06-30T18:13:29Z")
And that’s all she wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/7 "2002-06-30T18:14:47Z")
P.S. All official results can be found here: [2002 FIFA World Cup](http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com) ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/8 "2002-07-01T02:33:32Z")
Thanks very much for doing this, **Arnold**. May your potency inside the box never diminish. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-post-world-cup-match-spoilers-in-thread-titles/112403/9 "2002-07-01T08:28:56Z")
And may your dribbling always be controlled.