FOOTBALL!!!!

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Why does bloody football need to be on every channel. Why can’t they have a dedicated channel for it instead of messing around with the tv schedules for weeks on end!

Contrary to what the BBC etc would like you to believe, we don’t all love the ‘beautiful’ game, or even like it!

Grown men getting paid millions of pounds to run around after a little ball for 90 minutes and fans (agreed not all) that get all emotional/het up/drunk/aggressive and aren’t happy unless they’ve had a fight over it.

It’s pathetic!! AIBU

Each to their own though.

I love the football. Have grown up with it and we are a football loving family.

I find it barmy that people love line dancing or karaoke but I don't judge those that do. The world would be a boring place if we all loved the same things.

At the end of the day the average game of footy is 90 minutes plus added extra time so hardly like you are spending the whole day indoors glued to the TV anyway. Just the duration of the game itself. Plenty of time to go for a walk, enjoy the weather and admire the views.

I don’t like tennis. I’ve no interest in it. So I don’t comment on it. I’ve no opinion on the players, the fans, how much they all get paid.

”associated with domestic violence”

Of course, I’m sure those guys would be model husbands if it wasn’t for the air-bag kickers.

But line dancing and karaoke don't have the same problems with racism, sexism, hooliganism, violence and domestic abuse as far as I am aware?

I agree, people like all sorts of things, and it wouldn't do if we all liked the same things. Indeed I prefer my interests to be less popular so they aren't as crowded. But we can still find it hard to relate to sometimes. Especially when so many people support a sport with such a toxic culture associated with it

Get a grip

It’s true, though! That’s why you hear it said a lot.

Bring back 80,s/90's,
4 channels & ceefax!

Oh are you on daddy's yacht!
70s ..BBC 1 & 2 & ITV.
And no remote ..well apart from us kids who were told to change channel.

They bring in millions to the companies that employ them. Don't they deserve to be paid well for doing that?

Very upset that WDYTYA was cancelled for it

Put the football on BBC 3 or someting, or 4 or 2, and let the normal programmes continue.

Why is every other programme sacrificed for football?

Because more people love World Cup football than Eastenders or Love Island. We have to put up with that shit 52 weeks a year most years. Yet dare to put something else on and the Chase and Emerdale fans are up in arms. Go out and do something else

WDYTYA is on iPlayer. Watch it there. Or on BBC3 or something and let the main channel be for a special, live, one off.

Not this weeks.

This^
can we have a thread with moaning about Soaps please 🙏

You might have ro wait a few days. Or watch a past episode. If you’re not too “really upset” that is. 🙄

It’s the World Cup, OP. A few weeks every four years when millions of sports fans can actually watch top-class live football without a subscription. I’m loving every minute.

Don’t worry, prime-time TV will be back to the usual diet of banal generic mindless crap soon enough. Until then, suck it up.

They are more than well paid!

For bringing in multi millions to clubs.

Yes bringing in multi millions to multi million clubs.

But being paid 1000s of times over the average wage doesn’t seem right to me.

But they are bringing in that income to the club. It's a highly skilled and competitive job.

Is it that they are just footballers to you? Not worthy of earning millions?

Not just footballers.Compared with some other jobs, I don’t think quite a few others are worthy of earning millions, footballer, tv celebrities, film stars, singers, influencers to name a few.

I hate football and everything about it, so I just don’t watch it and choose another channel if I want to watch TV. I remember a time before the choice we have today of terrestrial and streaming channels; you would have had a point then, but not so much now.

It's said a lot because people who don't like football often know very little about it and they wear it like a badge of pride. There's a lot of snobbery and condescension going on too.

It’s not. Plus you can stream in 2026 😂😂😂😂😂

Do you people get a memo? Because it's always the same clichés that people are supposed to find biting but are actually just pathetic. What do you find interesting then?