watching football whilst out for dinner

[Avoiding]

My DH and DC and I, stopped for something to eat after spending the day shopping, DH then remembers that the football is on, whips out his phone, means it on some glasses and proceeds to watch the entire thing while we're eating.
It wasn't a fancy restaurant, just a chain, with lots of people including kids so it was loud anyway and he didn't really have the sound up anyway.
I was pissed off because j think it's rude to this whilst out, DH says IWBU because we weren't out on a date and I was busy talking to the DC anyway so it shouldn't bother me.
would this have annoyed you?

Yanbu, your DH is rude as fuck.

Depends really. If he was dipping in and out of watching the match then fine. If he was giving it his full rapt attention and ignoring you and the DC completely then I might be cross

Yes because we have a family no mobile phone at the table rule.

It can only be overturned with the agreement of the entire table for something minimal like a quick Google to get info about something. Check the dates of future events etc

My DS is the most rigid about the rule. He works in the restaurant business and sees tables full of people who have seemingly lost the ability to socially interact.

My DP is fond of saying 'the family that eats together stays together, but sadly I think this phrase predates mobile phones!

Yea it would because we have always had a no mobile at table rule, phones at tables are rude imo

i thought it was more rude because we were out, if we were at home and a match was on I'd understand because he doesn't do it often.

He only have us attention to tell us what was happening even though none of us asked or care about football really.

Yanbu, your DH is rude as fuck.

^^ this

But you are on MN....

I'm not out right now. i don't go on MN whilst with my DC.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks he's rude. He says I'm uptight and need to relax and it was an important match apparantly.

I’m torn on this because DP and I (and our children) are all football daft so it wouldn’t bother me personally, in fact I’d be likely to watch with him.

BUT if you’re not into it at all and he completely blanked you and the bairns throughout the meal I can see why you’re annoyed.

It's not as if it was a competitive match. Checking the score a couple of times perhaps would be OK, nothing more.