FOOTBALL!!!!

The World Cup is once every 4 years and is the most watched tournament in the world on TV.

Meanwhile we have to put up with the endless drivel of soaps on a daily basis.

Why do people who don't like football complain about how much the players get paid? They're entertainers who bring in millions for their clubs through advertising, sponsorship, tv deals etc. Why shouldn't the players make the money.

Do you also complain about film stars, other sportspeople etc

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The plots are usually the same too 😂

My DW loves that channel
I walk past the TV and noticed the same actors are in a lot of them.

It’s so fxxxing boring. It can be ignored on the tv but I need a would you like to opt out of football option like when they do it for Mother’s Day to stop all the stupid email and Google doodle style images.

"Every channel" 🤣

Have I slipped back to 1992?

Haha! I always love this wank argument! As though these women would be calling them ‘overpaid men kicking a bag of air about’ if their husbands were the ones doing the kicking and bringing home hundreds of thousands of pounds a week! They’d be ‘wagging’ it up with the rest of us within seconds!

“It’s just a load of overpaid men kicking a bag of air about blah de blah de blah”

Change the bloody record.

It was all going so well until you got Ivory Coast and Cape Verde mixed up. Maybe a few more hours of football will help out. There's Mexico v South Korea at 2am on Friday morning to start with😁

Yawn.

There are tens upon tens of Freeview channels, as well as possible Netflix etc if you pay for it. Surely there’s something else you can watch?!

I love a celebration and the World Cup ticks that box for me. Nice lead up to the summer holidays.

Get yourself a dodgy stick like everyone else and you will never have to watch football again

I’m not watching all of it because who has the time or wants to stay up all night?
However, lots of football fans are locked out of so much now because it runs across Sky, Amazon, TNT the costs are just ridiculous.
So here they get to watch it on BBC and ITV and it is only once every 4 years.
It is also on at a time when they start showing lots of repeats anyway as it’s summer.
There are so many other things to watch even if you don’t have lots of streaming services, find yourself some good box sets even within the main 5 channels there are loads to choose from.
I got NOW TV on a deal recently and I’ve found loads of great stuff on there.
And as for football I’ve really loved watching Scotland and some of the African nations because of the absolute joy they bring on and off the pitch.
Yes there are some wealthy players but this week it’s been all about the Ivory Coast, who couldn’t afford to bring their own families over, got a draw against Spain and have become overnight superstars. It’s lovely to see.
Anyway, that’s my take. I understand it’s probably frustrating and God knows how the BBC will manage when Wimbledon is on as that’s my favourite and it usually dominates as well.

That old dismissive cliché again.

You have a bit of a problem to put it politely, if you needed to start this thread to create something 'interesting' in your life 👀

Get ready OP, the next men's Euros are in the UK. Not only will it be all over the TV, we will be awash with actual fans! 😁

Whilst I’m not a massive football fan it’s not interrupted my life at all; and I like that the World Cup brings lots of countries and people together and gives many people lots of pleasure. How can you complain about that?

I'll probably watch and enjoy the final.

We don’t all like soaps, or Dramas, or shite where they’re marrying someone they’ve never met and become surprised when it goes tits up, or dating shows where the contestants only offer to society is how fast they can get their knickers off. So, being that I don’t like those things, I opt out of watching them by doing or watching something else!

twiddlingthumbs69 I am so in your camp! It’s soooooo boring and all the talk and chat show predictions do my head in. I come home from work every afternoon to look at something semi intelligent only to be faced with pundits talking sh*t.

I know it’s not on every channel, it’s just everywhere - every morning news show, local radio, social media feed from people/groups I don’t even follow,, even the fecking gym music this week - and I’m sick of hearing about it. No other sport gets as much air time and most other sportspeople are paid a hell of a lot less then footballers and deserve the same amount of recognition.

The England squad actually donate their international pay to charity. It’s only once every four years while Eastenders, Emmerdale and Corrie are on all year round.

Roll on the Women's World Cup next year, hope all the home nations are there.

As for men's football and tv coverage, what I don't want to see is Wayne Rooney as a pundit, the man who thought it ok to visit a sex worker.