| Football on TV 05:11 - Aug 25 with 2779 views | Chrisd |
Is it just me or is anyone else out there getting a little bored of the shear volume of live games on TV? 2/3 weeks into the new season and already it’s becoming dull and predictable. I come from a generation where the Big Match was a weekly event, I’d really get excited looking forward to a live game on ITV, now with games on all the time - I’m already bored, it’s a rarity that I genuinely look forward to watching a game. It just feels like overkill and for me it’s draining all the interest I have for football, especially with the majority of teams - from all levels - playing a similar style. Surely, less really can be more instead of forcing as many games down our throats as possible? I appreciate money talks in the modern game, but surely this is simply overkill now?
On reflection, it’s probably me just getting older and I could simply choose another channel to watch! [Post edited 25 Aug 5:25]
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| Football on TV on 11:33 - Aug 25 with 687 views | Smoresy |
Ha I agree with your second bit really, unless you live with someone who bosses the remote. I think it's great we have so much content but it does mean disciplining myself re how much I watch and listen to, same for transfer gossip nonsense. | | | |
| Football on TV on 11:43 - Aug 25 with 658 views | MattinLondon |
| Football on TV on 11:32 - Aug 25 by WeWereZombies |
I'm conflicted on this, I took interest in the Women's Euro's (but only watched the final half hours of a couple of England games, which nevertheless had high drama) and went to our pre-season in Aberdeen, which was an excellent game and very rewarding.
That being said I agree with Radlett's point about the summer break, it was a necessary palate cleanser in my opinion. I missed a football a bit on those summers but the weather was generally better, the days longer and parklife (meeting up with friends a lot in Christchurch Park) and beachlife (ah, Felixstowe) put a different complexion on life. Then early September we were hungry for the new season and stayed hungry whatever success, or lack of, occurred.
Nowadays there is a danger of the lack of variety through the year sapping the appetite for the game (or even the increasing number of festivals and ways of extending those through the winter with holidays to the Med getting a roster of acts added in maybe adding the potential for too much live music into our lives.)
So maybe I am getting old, but I hope to live long enough and for the forum to keep going long enough, to see MattInLondon post similar to the rest of the posts and become even more of a curmudgeon than he already appears to be... |
What’s a curmudgeon? |  | | |
| Football on TV on 11:49 - Aug 25 with 647 views | ronnyd |
| Football on TV on 10:06 - Aug 25 by Scuzzer |
Agree.
Why do we have to watch all though.
Get up out of our comfy armchairs and do something in your community. Do some volunteering or something. Our society, if there is one nowadays, needs people to be more actively engaged. Go live a life! Shankley was wrong. |
One gem that Shankley came out with was regarding offside.
"If he's not interfering with play, he shouldn't be on the pitch". Or something along those lines. | | | |
| Football on TV on 12:15 - Aug 25 with 611 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| Football on TV on 11:01 - Aug 25 by WeWereZombies |
This is where we miss Facters, no doubt he would tell us that the Reverend Herbert Haste was the original false 9... |
Bert was the original wingback wasn't he? |  |
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| Football on TV on 12:53 - Aug 25 with 572 views | ThatMuhrenCross |
I lost interest in football outside Ipswich Town a long time ago. Will re-schedule my entire weekly plans around a Town game as that's a genuine passion, but if Liverpool were playing Man United in my back garden, I'd draw the curtains. I don't enjoy what football has become. |  |
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| Football on TV on 13:09 - Aug 25 with 562 views | ronnyd |
| Football on TV on 11:43 - Aug 25 by MattinLondon |
What’s a curmudgeon? |
Miserable old git.  | | | |
| Football on TV on 13:34 - Aug 25 with 535 views | Illinoisblue |
Same. Watched about ten minutes of Fulham v Utd yesterday and then realized I’d much rather have a productive Sunday and went and mowed the lawn. |  |
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| Football on TV on 13:44 - Aug 25 with 528 views | weepingx2018 |
Agreed...VAR is killing the game for me | | | |
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| Football on TV on 14:13 - Aug 25 with 514 views | J2BLUE |
So don't watch it.
I dislike all the reality shows so I go out of my way to avoid them. No one has turned up with a gun and some rope and forced me to watch Love Island yet. |  |
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| Football on TV on 14:23 - Aug 25 with 504 views | MattinLondon |
| Football on TV on 13:09 - Aug 25 by ronnyd |
Miserable old git. |
I’m one of the more positive posters on here.
And in this thread it’s mainly a bunch of old dears who hark back to 1988. | | | |
| Football on TV on 14:27 - Aug 25 with 492 views | ronnyd |
| Football on TV on 14:13 - Aug 25 by J2BLUE |
So don't watch it.
I dislike all the reality shows so I go out of my way to avoid them. No one has turned up with a gun and some rope and forced me to watch Love Island yet. |
Don't answer the door. | | | |
| Football on TV on 17:10 - Aug 25 with 452 views | WeWereZombies |
| Football on TV on 12:15 - Aug 25 by You_Bloo_Right |
Bert was the original wingback wasn't he? |
A bit before my time, will have to bow to your more informed view... |  |
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| Football on TV on 17:14 - Aug 25 with 448 views | Wallingford_Boy |
I love it, but I’m a little invested in the game, vice chairman of a club, coach of an adult team, I love watching any match that I can.
Try watching non league footy, it’s miles better than the boring sideways/backwards passing of the Prem. |  |
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| Football on TV on 20:17 - Aug 25 with 293 views | urbanpenguin |
I think it's fine. I would advocate for ALL football being on TV, but also lobby for people really deciding if they wanted to watch it. I mean, if I supported Mansfield or Crewe or Ipswich and the game was available on TV somehow, great - especially if like me one simply can't get to the match.
But I would also want entrance tickets to be far more affordable, like in Germany, so if your team's game was on TV but you can get to it, you would prefer to get to it if you can get a ticket.
Anyway, just to say that other models to the current British system of raising prices for both supporters in the room and at home are available, and to also say that you don't need to watch football on tv, you can just not watch it and then you would never even know it was on. |  | | |
| Football on TV on 20:51 - Aug 25 with 249 views | Coastalblue |
| Football on TV on 14:23 - Aug 25 by MattinLondon |
I’m one of the more positive posters on here.
And in this thread it’s mainly a bunch of old dears who hark back to 1988. |
It all went to sh1t long before 1988  |  |
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| Football on TV on 20:54 - Aug 25 with 241 views | Mark |
I just watched the first half of Newcastle v Liverpool and would like to add ref cam to my list of dislikes, along with referees having to explain their VAR decisions to the crowd through a microphone. |  | | |
| Football on TV on 22:18 - Aug 25 with 149 views | north_stand77 |
| Football on TV on 20:54 - Aug 25 by Mark |
I just watched the first half of Newcastle v Liverpool and would like to add ref cam to my list of dislikes, along with referees having to explain their VAR decisions to the crowd through a microphone. |
Agree, not refcam fan. But what a game, with a fairy tale ending for the 16 year old!
This is why I love watching football -any game! |  | | |
| Football on TV on 22:32 - Aug 25 with 119 views | Radlett_blue |
| Football on TV on 20:17 - Aug 25 by urbanpenguin |
I think it's fine. I would advocate for ALL football being on TV, but also lobby for people really deciding if they wanted to watch it. I mean, if I supported Mansfield or Crewe or Ipswich and the game was available on TV somehow, great - especially if like me one simply can't get to the match.
But I would also want entrance tickets to be far more affordable, like in Germany, so if your team's game was on TV but you can get to it, you would prefer to get to it if you can get a ticket.
Anyway, just to say that other models to the current British system of raising prices for both supporters in the room and at home are available, and to also say that you don't need to watch football on tv, you can just not watch it and then you would never even know it was on. |
Hmm...if the handful of Saturday 3:00 kick offs were available on live TV, that would have a big affect of attendances in the Football League, surely? |  |
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| Football on TV on 22:34 - Aug 25 with 118 views | SomethingBlue |
The key is only to watch what you want to watch. | |
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