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Is Football Over Hyped, Over Done and All Over Everywhere???

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#1 ·
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%:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ) 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???
 
#38 ·
I agree that it's overhyped and overdone...well the Premiership anyway!

But I love it and can't wait for the season to really get going :) Although it's going to have to be a good one to beat last year :D
 
#42 ·
Overhyped? yes, well the premiership anyway but I love the game. The roller coaster of emotions, the expectation, the fantastic highs, the disapointments!! It's like a marriage! Love it!!
 
#45 ·
Now if I may right royally chuck the feline in amongst the tweetie pies.......... Swap all the football coverage for 50% motorsport and 50% RUBGY!!!!:D (be gentle with the tongue lashings please) :lol:
 
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#46 ·
I love motorsport as much as (and probably more than) the next man, but generally it's just not great television. To watch live, there is no greater sport IMO, but on screen it loses so much of the atmosphere.

One thing I WOULD like to see more of (although it'll not happen anytime soon) is better NASCAR coverage. Channel 5 have 1 hour severly edited highlights a week, enough to sate my passion a bit, but not enough to win new fans over.

NASCAR is about 1,000,000,000,000 times more entertaining than F1, and Mr Ecclestone could learn a thing or two from his american counterparts about motorsport as an entertainment package rather than a highspeed advertising procession.
 
#47 ·
Love football but sometimes I think I shouldn't bother as when my team loses I am in such a bad mood it annoys me - however it quickly passes when my little ones do something to make me laugh - it's great but there are more important things :)
 
#48 ·
Come on though, you have to admit the Maclaren-Ferrari / Hamilton - Alonso battles have been pretty epic this year. And then there is the BTCC, they are always full of action. Either that or my life is so empty and boring that even the smallest things entertain me :lol:
 
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#49 ·
I DO enjoy the BTCC, it's always been great to watch. Strangely I loved the super-tourer era of the mid-late 90's most of all, and that had much less excitement than todays races. :lol:

And the 'excitement' at the front of F1 is pretty much a myth, how many times have we seen the leaders actually battling wheel to wheel with each other this year, overtaking on track rather than in the pits? It just hasn't happened, and it will continue in the same vein. F1 is the pinnacle of racing technology, but not the pinnacle of racing.
 
#51 ·
I will definitely concede that formula 1 could be so much better but i do think this year has been the best year in a long time with the top drivers far more evenly matched than they have been for a long time, maybe even since Senna, Prost, Mansell era's
 
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#52 ·
i do think this year has been the best year in a long time with the top drivers far more evenly matched than they have been for a long time, maybe even since Senna, Prost, Mansell era's
Agreed 100%

One of the saddest things IMO is that we never got to see a Schumacher/Senna championship battle. Schumi is a legend, no doubt about that, but would he have won 7 titles with Senna still around? I doubt it very much
 
#53 ·
one thing I always felt was that one thing schumi was lacking was any emotion on the track, he seemed a very clinical driver. Now dont get me wrong, that probably made him a much safer driver. But it just took away that edge from the sport that we had in the previous era.....I mean just look at Mansell.....if he was behind someone he didnt just sit there waiting for them to make a mistake or for the 'right corner' but he fought tooth and nail to get past on every part of the track. Now this (IMO) made him a very entertaining (if not dangerious) driver to watch, and I can just see some of that starting to creep back into the sport with the fourway of Hamilton, Alonso, Massa and Raikonnen......
 
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