| The most pointless things in sport 21:22 - May 24 with 1713 views | Keno |
Got into a discussion about this earlier and came up
Buying tickets to the last scheduled day of a test match
Norwich City FC
Baseball
The losers ribbons
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| The most pointless things in sport on 11:25 - May 25 with 302 views | Radlett_blue |
| The most pointless things in sport on 08:30 - May 25 by Kieran_Knows |
When Sky (or any other broadcaster for that matter) try and get on the pitch interviews just a few minutes after the final whistle of players from the team who have won the final. Just let them celebrate with their team mates and fans ffs. |
You could add most interviews with sportsmen to the "pointless" list as they have all had media training & give anodyne answers. Golfers are usually the dullest, but darts players!?! There's very little to "analyse" after a game of darts, usually along the lines of "he hit his doubles and I didn't". |  |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 11:26 - May 25 with 300 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
I'll get pelters, but darts. Especially in the old days. Any sport you can play while drinking beer is not a sport!
Any sport where you're so far away, or the thing you're watching is so small, that there's a big screen to watch (see darts again). If you need to watch a screen you might as well stay at home and watch the telly.
Formula 1, especially going to it. All you're going to see is the occasional blur go past. Even on telly it's mostly boring. It's the one sport where things going wrong is preferable/gives the most excitement.
Bookings for over-celebrating. Killjoys.
VAR. Just moving the mistakes on a step. And stopping fans from properly celebrating. |  |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 11:28 - May 25 with 300 views | Radlett_blue |
| The most pointless things in sport on 11:11 - May 25 by Jrm_72 |
The most pointless thing I've seen was this season, Newport vs Port Vale.
Port Vale are 5-1 up, Newport are down to 9 men, 90mins comes around, 16mins added. Whole ground groans/empties.
In my american football days, if we were up by loads and not long left we could inform the ref our intention to 'knee out the game' and they'd end the game early rather than make us pantomime the final minutes. Wish that was allowed on that rainy September day in Wales... |
Agree, but if a title, relegation or promotion could be decided by goal difference, someone might object. | |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 11:46 - May 25 with 265 views | Churchman |
| The most pointless things in sport on 11:26 - May 25 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I'll get pelters, but darts. Especially in the old days. Any sport you can play while drinking beer is not a sport!
Any sport where you're so far away, or the thing you're watching is so small, that there's a big screen to watch (see darts again). If you need to watch a screen you might as well stay at home and watch the telly.
Formula 1, especially going to it. All you're going to see is the occasional blur go past. Even on telly it's mostly boring. It's the one sport where things going wrong is preferable/gives the most excitement.
Bookings for over-celebrating. Killjoys.
VAR. Just moving the mistakes on a step. And stopping fans from properly celebrating. |
Actually, I agree regarding darts. I actually find it really boring. A couple of work colleagues who hate darts went to see it some years ago and they actually had a whale of a time. Mind you, they confessed they were shtfaced before they went and matters didn’t improve!
Same with F1. Round and round they go and the dude in the best car wins. Yawn. I know it sounds cruel, but the jeopardy was made it interesting and let’s face it, nobody made them do it.
Weightlifting. What’s that all about? A load of gorillas are led in by their handlers and lift a few weights up. Hardly a sport.
Marathon running. Zzzz. 2+ hours of people looking unhappy and the Ethiopian or Kenyan wins. You never see a happy jogger! |  | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 12:03 - May 25 with 246 views | Keno |
| The most pointless things in sport on 11:04 - May 25 by tcblue |
But the same teams always make the final |
See also the boat race
Surely one year another university will win through | |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 12:09 - May 25 with 237 views | backwaywhen |
Wrestling in the box at corners ….does my head in ffs. |  | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 12:22 - May 25 with 218 views | Jrm_72 |
| The most pointless things in sport on 12:09 - May 25 by backwaywhen |
Wrestling in the box at corners ….does my head in ffs. |
Referees not doing anything about it winds me up more. Remember fondly that one world cup where they actually took it seriously and England got something like 5 penalties from it.
'I've asked you nicely to stop doing that. You leave me no choice but to... ask you nicely again.' | | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 12:36 - May 25 with 205 views | RonFearonsHair |
The little plinth the referee picks the match ball from when leading the teams out, only for the ball to be booted out of play within 30 seconds and replaced with another one. |  | | |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 13:06 - May 25 with 171 views | Plums |
| The most pointless things in sport on 09:24 - May 25 by iamatractorboy |
The six second rule for goalkeepers. Only ever seen it enforced once and that was in a Sunday league game I was taking part in! |
Isn't going to be 8 seconds next season and will result in a corner if not adhered to? |  |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 13:16 - May 25 with 158 views | MattinLondon |
Rugby union |  | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 13:20 - May 25 with 154 views | DavoIPB |
Norwich, VAR,
The following things for Ipswich this season.
Corners
Free kicks
Var
Our summer signings.
A foreign recruitment team. | | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 13:22 - May 25 with 151 views | iamatractorboy |
| The most pointless things in sport on 13:06 - May 25 by Plums |
Isn't going to be 8 seconds next season and will result in a corner if not adhered to? |
Yeh think you may be right there! Wonder if it will ever be enforced... | | | |
| The most pointless things in sport on 14:30 - May 25 with 114 views | Keno |
| The most pointless things in sport on 13:16 - May 25 by MattinLondon |
Rugby union |
you spelt league wrong | |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 15:21 - May 25 with 91 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The most pointless things in sport on 10:51 - May 25 by Ryorry |
"The ashes"
Really have to down you for that, sorry! |
It was a bizarre mix of a list that I couldn't downvote due to the mix on it.
Corner flags - how do you decide whether it is a corner or a throw in without them when the ball goes out in the corner?
The ashes (most televised cricket is yawnsome but playing for a week and then drawing?!) - if you know the history of the ashes you understand why but the justification is also a claim against Test cricket (and most sport where it can end in a draw)
Dress codes on golf courses / club houses - I get this. It is something that is less common at less exclusive clubs nowadays anyway but what's the issue with it really? If I played a decent level of golf I probably wouldn't want to see some topless bloke or girl in a boob tube playing on the next tee anyway.
Second place league trophies - I get this but there isn't any great harm either. I guess it comes from introducing a trophy for the play off winners because surely gaining automatic promotion is a greater achievement.
Firms (also embarrassing, particularly old thugs reminiscing) - I agree. |  |
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| The most pointless things in sport on 15:33 - May 25 with 76 views | Swansea_Blue |
The loser’s final at the World Cup. Poor sods. You’ve just been knocked out of the semi final and are looking forward to getting back to your home/family. And then you have to stay another week and play what’s little more than a meaningless friendly and just a money spinner for the tournament. |  |
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