It’s everywhere. From images, to videos, to Tiktoks, to adverts … I’m over saturated with opinions, replays, player ratings, hyperbole and the like.

There’s only so much you can take.

Example 1. The Newcastle goal vervus Arsenal. Never ending discussions on the decision. The hyperbolic nature of the punditry. The uneven opinions of the same people.

Example 2. Handball against Newcastle. Hundreds of videos all moaning, complaining over and over again. The same pundits complaining and restarting their opinion.

And now the new one - the ref not giving Man City an advantage in the Tottenham game. It starts all over again. The videos, the complaining, the shouting Tiktoks…

I just don’t care anymore.

Rational discussions are gone, replaced with hyperbole and drama.

It’s too much. I can’t watch any football related content anymore.

The only thing to do is to shut it all out but the commentary is just as bad.

  • JetsNovocastrian@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Solution: don’t consume football content on social media or newspapers. Only watch the games. You are in control of how you enjoy the game. You also are not forced into reading every headline or watching every video. Enjoy it precisely the way you can.

  • Baylisstico@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This seems like such a dumb statement, act, opinion … whatever you want to call it.

    How about you get off your phone and just enjoy a game and form your own opinions? OP is blaming football for his social media / phone addiction.

    • Portmanlovesme@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Because I want to watch football related programs, however everything is saturated by the same stuff. When something like Arsenal- Newcastle goal happens, everything becomes repeated, chewed up and regurgitated and all quality disappears

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      10 months ago

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  • CyberShiroGX@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Surprised that’s what annoys you… Not the hundreds of videos mentioning football and the comment section is just filled with “Messi Messi Messi…”

  • LawProfessional6513@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I don’t think anyone’s gonna miss you bud but You’re constantly on Reddit commenting on football posts maybe stop doing that

  • Major_Smudges@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I agree with you to a certain extent - but at the end of the day there are just too many pundits constantly giving their opinions all over the TV. When I was a kid (70’s / 80’s) we had Match of the Day with Jimmy Hill on BBC and the Saint and Greavsy show on ITV - that was it as far as I can remember. And there wasn’t the endless talk about tactics and playing styles that dominates today - you just watched a game and enjoyed it, without trying to break it down and endlessly analyse it - I find it all a bit tiring, tbh.

  • btmalon@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Just change how you engage with it. Don’t tune in to the punditry. Maybe watch games on mute (but then you don’t get the crowd).

  • niko_bellic2028@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Your taking in too much . Get off Twitter , reddit and the internet in general . Just watch football games and don’t watch all of rhe games on a weekend . Have a team and follow them and just slightly update yourself with highlights that’s it . No 4 hrs getting deep into it .

  • maverickf11@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I was a kid in the late 90s/early 00s and we had MoTD on a saturday, the back pages of a newspaper and (maybe) a weekly magazine.

    Now it’s 24/7 news channels, constant updates from clubs, players, managers, god knows how many different panel show/analysis type programs… A million different social media accounts repeating the same shite clickbait articles, a million different people saying stupid things they don’t even believe because some attention for being an idiot I’d better than no attention at all.

    And it’s literally no better. Nothing has changed except how much media we consume.

  • Noratio_hellson@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    If you think that having Gary lineker trying to get anything interesting out of Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson was any more insightful or uplifting then afraid you’re wrong. It was never good.