A little thread to discuss the money, the laundering, the sportswashing, the absolute shite like the Club World Cup, and the continued dismantling of our institutions.
Anon polls
I love football more than ever
I love football less than I used to
Football has gone from a passion to an interest
Football has gone from an interest to something I no longer care about
Iāve lost all interest in football
Iāve lost most of my interest in football
I watch more football these days
I watch less football these days
0voters
Money and sportswashing has ruined football
Money and sportswashing is ruining football
Itās the same old game, it doesnāt affect my enjoyment
Find it very hard to care about anything not involving my team, apart from half-watching premier league matches most Sundays whilst i cook dinner
Have watched maybe 45 minutes of champions league football this season, donāt like it
Donāt care about international football, will watch finals, but wouldnāt care if they didnāt exist
Canāt get in to womenās football at all, no interest
Havenāt been to a match in person for a few years
Never really played football, was far too shit as a kid and never got picked
Online football culture in general is largely horrible and off-putting, with very, very few exceptions
Still love playing football and watching live shit football, then have the big leagues as fairly detached entertainment but have never been a season ticket holder or supported a team who win anything so itās pretty much fine for me. Go to a handful of Us and Fulham games per season, mostly away which is much more fun.
Do wish there was still room for unathletic talents at the top level, and they need something to sort out the gap between the prem and championship, but mostly still like the sport yeah, donāt even get as worked up over Var as most people
the sportswashing side of things āannoysā me, but Iām too lazy to get actively involved in doing anything about it, except i donāt pay for sky or bt any more. Not directly anyway.
Remember before the Qatar World Cup, all the Guardian writers were doing some journalism about the country and situation and relationship with fifa. Then continued to keep saying āthe important thing is we donāt just speak up now, we canāt forget this as soon as the football starts!!!āā¦Then they all forgot it when the football started and havenāt followed up on anything at all since.
Been getting increasingly disillusioned over the years but had largely been in the āthats ok, ill keep watching that garbageā camp, however I think my interest has waned massively over the last year or so.
Wolves jacking the prices up by nearly 20% for the season just gone after a lacklustre 23/24 (so itās now nearly Ā£50 even for the shit fixtures) and the ownerās response pretty much being āfuck off and support the Villa if you donāt like itā and almost complaining about the fact they canāt fill the ground with tourists was a fairly hefty nail in the coffin.
Only went to 3 or 4 games last season, after doing at least a dozen the season before. Canāt be fucked paying Ā£50 and not getting home until 11.30 because itās been moved to 8pm on a Saturday night for TV. Certainly not coughing up Ā£60 for the ābig gamesā just to see them get turned over by City or whoever.
Would love it to all go bang spectacularly.
Keep intending to get down to Alvechurch a bit more often but I work 2/3 Saturdays and Iām not wasting my Saturday off going to watch that dross, when I can watch something of similar quality like Bournemouth v Leeds on TV without leaving the house.
Generally very happy with football. Am not going to wring my hands about sportswashing or certain clubs having more money than others.
I just regard it as entertainment with no more cultural worth than anything else on the TV.
It was much the same when I had a season ticket - the football was really the pretext to meet up with mates. More fun if you won, but not worth losing sleep if you lost.
Think this might be the first season in my lifetime where I havenāt seen a single second of Premier League football and I havenāt missed it in the slightest. The coagulation of money at the very top of the game is just gross and while itās clearly still finding its audience Iām happy not to be part of it.
Have become one of those tedious people who goes to non-league football and wonāt bore everyone by droning on about how much fun it is but yeah, itās loads of fun.
Oh, and by and large online football discourse is fucking awful and thatās probably played a significant part in my loss of interest.
Not saying youāre āwrongā, you know how you feel better than me obvs. But itās interesting you see it this way, these two points seem at total odds with each other to me.
I enjoyed football and had a season ticket for forty years. But I stopped going once matches were increasingly played at inconvenient times and as my friends became too old or ill to come too. I did one season going on my own and jacked it in.
While at matches, youād see people making themselves sick with fury if the result didnāt go their way and I decided early on that it wasnāt worth doing the same.
Now I enjoy my team on the telly and appreciate the mindlessness of football generally. Itās the most important non-important thing in my life.
Mostly follow football via the football threads on here, BBC/Guardian coverage and sometimes watching goals on r/soccer. Oh and 5Live too (probably my favourite way to enjoy it).
Still really enjoy going to a game even though the experience is significantly shitter than it used to be and the football is as bad as itās ever been. Pour that garbage down my throat.
Pretty much only watch my own team bar the odd champions league game, so have little idea whatās going on elsewhere.
following started to lose its joy for me some time in the late 00s. lots of reasons, but mostly itās just exhausting to have that deep a tie to the fortunes of something you have no control over
I enjoyed the 2018 World Cup, but after that, Iāve found it very hard to want England to win because of all the shitbag football fans we have
