As some of you will be aware the 'new' Football season started yesterday (although frankly it is hard to tell when one ever finnishes).
As someone you really only has a passing interest in England games I can't say I'm filled with joy at this. It'll mean that every sports bulletin will now comprise of 99.999% (instead of the usual 95% ) dross of who said what, how much bettter a side would have played if so and so was playing and who's potentially going where.
Don't get me wrong - I appreciate that some people like football - but in my mind it isn't the most important thing in the world.
So, do you think Football is given to much coverage and is over-hyped or not???
I enjoy watching a good game of footy, and I get bored stiff watching a bad game. I won't have sky in the house, so there is not much footy watched here. Yes its overhyped, the people at the top of the game are overpaid and the people at the bottom and those running youth football are dreadfully underpaid/resourced as usual.
I hate 'football parents' who behave like twats on the touchline. Refs are leaving the game in droves due to personal attacks/verbal abuse etc etc from the mindless morons.
I always played rugby, and was far enough away from the scrum, and fast enough on me feet to stay away from all the 'nasty stuff'..well most of the time anyway..except two teams that beat you up regardless
1) The Junior Leaders Regiment at Bramcote near Nuneaton (never mind the ball, get on with the game)
2)The Steel workers at Consett who were a bit rough now and again (all say aaaah..)
I enjoy watching a good game of footy, and I get bored stiff watching a bad game. I won't have sky in the house, so there is not much footy watched here.
I think footie makes a great spectator sport because there is so much to enjoy at any one time. The team tactics, the individual performances, the interaction, the ebb and flow of the game and the psychology of it... I really don't enjoy highlights, because you lose the context. Each game is like a story unfolding...
Oddly, I have never really enjoyed watching an form of motorsports. I'd rather be behind the wheel myself. Similarly, I cannot understand why anyone would get any pleasure out of WATCHING golf. :shrugs:
Nah - dont get too many away games these days. Try to go to the city ground as often as poss though and started taking my 5 yr old son at te the tale end of last season
The depressing thing is i was brought up on european dominance and trips to wembley in the late 70s and 80's - My son is being brought up on third division football
i thought British people loved football..
in Cyprus football is becoming professional and despite the very low standards here people is just mad about football. Unfortunately the reason is political as all the big political parties in Cyprus have their own respective clubs which they 'manage' -under the table-... On the other hand when i was in the UK i used to go see Man City quite often [i was a member for 2 years] and after that i moved to Derby so i was a Derby County fan .. i LOVE CITY though...
I think its over hyped, and there's far too much money connected to it now. What is interesting though is if you look at it from a cultural perspective. Go to any city (particularly North of Watford) and football stadiums are the new cathederals, dominating the towns and cities where they are located. And I've often thought that sport pundits in general, and football pundits in particular, are the new seers and necromancers - predicting sports results rather than if it will rain and there will be a good harvest. Perhaps this gives us an insight into being human - we need to build monumental structures and try and control the future.
Absolutely, the premiership is out of control, so much money in it, but it does make it entertaining, with the influx of skilled foreign players, and unfortunatley the "gamemanship" (Grr!) that comes with them....
as far as the rest of what you say, i think its more a case of "soma" like tv, celebrities and shopping, a pacifier for the masses, sport in general, football in particular, it keeps people occupied...
Actually, after last night's loss to Peterborough, I would like to change my vote.....
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