Fed up with football on TV all the time
15-March-2010
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Most days when I get home from work I prepare a meal and then turn on the television to catch up on the latest news headlines.  Unfortunately though, there is too much emphasis on sport on the news and TV in general these days, so much so that it sometimes seems to be taking over!
Football news not what we want

Instead of current affairs, you get the latest football news.  Man United scored these goals and Arsenal did this.  Not really the most important thing going on in the world today!!

It's an obsession in this country

I'm sick and tired of the obsession in this country with sports news and in particular football and rugby.  I don't have anything against sport and think that on the whole it is a positive thing; not only for the health benefits if you participate, but it can also be useful for developing effective teamwork skills.

My main beef is really with the amount of time dedicated sports news in the media.  It's fine if they provide an update of the English premiership results at the end of the main news, you can just switch off when it starts and at least you have a choice.  What I do find infuriating however, is when the news bulletin starts off with some form of sporting drama.  Who cares if a football club sells a player for an extortionate amount of money, or that Australia kicked England's butt in the cricket again. This isn't newsworthy!  It's sport and as such should be scheduled with other sport related programming.

I think that real news should be shown first because our economy, politics, health and education etc. involve everyone; football on the other hand, is a recreational activity that is not appreciated universally.

Right, I'm off to watch the Grand Prix now, because it's time for my nap and I've had enough of all this bloody football news!!

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tonight

these are my plans:

1. watching Football on sky (not sure what game as there are 2).

2. putting in a tape for Ice Road Truckers on 5.

3. listening to Sunderland destroy Portsmouth away.

4. more work on my sites.

better than the usual tripe that's on!
*Skeletor  09-Feb-2010 18:38

 
" And it has been all over the front pages of the papers as well this week, this John Terry buisness "

Only on the front pages of the gutterpress and the Daily Mail.
*MikeP  05-Feb-2010 00:01

 
And it has been all over the front pages of the papers as well this week, this John Terry buisness, shouldn't it have been put on the back pages with bthe rest of the sport.
*adul terry.  04-Feb-2010 23:23

 
I tell you what is boring- reading your life commentrary that clearly revolves around nothing but sitting on your fat backside watching football and tossing off over highly paid prats.
*r.p.may!  21-Jan-2010 07:55

 
last night & again tonight on bbc 1 I watched 2 brilliant games of football.

in the carling cup.semi-finals:

first leg Manchester City 2 Manchester 1

second leg Aston Villa 6 Blackburn 4 (agg 6 5).

tell me thats not boring?
*Skeletor  20-Jan-2010 22:31

 
OK... I like the game (football), and understand it, But, every weekend, football is on TV! Families do not have a chance to do things together, because football is always on! I feel it is wrong to have it on every single, solitary weekend, keeping husbands away from their families!
*Energy11  17-Jan-2010 23:26

 
Tonight I put on ITV at 7.30 pm hoping to see a really good programme.

And I was right it was

the F A CUP third round replay between

Liverpool & Reading

finished 10.30 pm

Better than the usual rubbish that's on!
*Skeletor  13-Jan-2010 23:09

 
Butt numbing, mind deadening, hour after hour, calendar day after day, totally wrecks my
peace of mind and actually my personal peace and presence of mind. I LIKE FOOTBALL.
Just as eating too much spinach will upset your stomach, and too much pie sends you to the bathroom quickly, too much football unbalances my time order, my ability to think, my ears hurt After a weekend of football, my butt is needing a more comfortable chair. Too much, just too,too much. There are regulations on almost everything we do and there should be regulations about how much football is offered on television. Why not switch to better use of the English language for one hour, Or, consider the man other things we could instruct in some ot that time: better diets for the family, lawn keeping in shorter time, teaching children history by taking then to important sites, exercise for the family, reading classic literature, studying the history of your state or my state or the world or just inventing a new tool to clean the toilet bowl.
*Ginger Pie  08-Jan-2010 04:33

 
I am not fed up with the amount of Football on tv.

I am DISGUSTED with the amount of football on tv.

it should be

ON MORE OFTEN>
*Skeletor  04-Jan-2010 17:49

 
Bukowski

Last night I was watching sports personality of the year, and every so often I would put x-factor on.

And when Joe won I went mad.

The South Shields lad did us North Easterners proud

Off now to watch Football (taped for me as I was away).
*Skeletor  14-Dec-2009 14:10

 
Roll on

june 11th - july 11th 2010

a feast of football

the world cup

I can't wait
*Skeletor  05-Dec-2009 00:18

 
Skeletor, I have a wheelchair bound daughter, I do honestly 100% feel for you,

As for soaps being moved, I havn't watched them for years, but with eastenders being on in the background on sunday, I am suddenly hooked again, a brilliant storyline at the moment, someone has been murderd and buried in the square,

Got to be more gripping than a footy game.
*Gainsborough lad.  03-Dec-2009 21:25


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