Is football now treated as Opium for the masses?

[bobby1]

The coverage has now reached the lowest level saturation point I can ever remember.

Todays headlines on TV sports channels, discussion topics and 'special' guest are that some Chelsea players were a bit mad that they didnt get picked on Sunday. So what, that happens at every club every week in every Country.

There are 2 page spreads in some dailys under 'Chelsea in crisis' and 'Turmoil at Chelsea' because they lost the cup final.

Football stories are now being created out of absolutely nothing and dragged on and on for days just to fill air time and print.

Is the general man on the street falling for this rubbish all the time or has the time come to say enough is enough?

[turny]

absolute bollocks as always, sensationalising by the press is at an alltime high and the standard of journalism in this country when it comes to football is laughable.

it is time for the man on the street to boycott the continual made up drival printed in numerous tabliods but i cant see it happening because fans love to read about problems for rival teams regardless of the substance of the claim because they  want it to be true.

[AndrewT]

The Premier League is dull as ditchwater, the players are spoilt arrogant wankers and the people who shell out £40 to watch this rubbish every week are idiots.

Sod football. Compare it to the absolutely fantastic day of Six Nations rugby on Saturday and football is just a shower of shit.

[bobby1]

I have gone from football odds compiler for years to hating the game, I barely watch a match these days and find the coverage on sports channels laughable. Grand Slam Sundays my arse and the way they just pretend that every match and every goal is the most important yet is driving me away from watching, I wondered if it was the same for others or just me.

[TightEnd]

Agreed. Complete dross most of it

In common with the unfounded speculation to be found in rags like the Sun every day

and all the transfer rumours planted by agents in the Sunday papers..which at least now is rather limited by transfer windows


It sells though, sells papers and ad space.


I listen to 5 live a lot, and find you get far better coverage and some interesting pundit debates (not 6-0-6 which drives me bonkers). There was a very good one last friday night with Claridge and Collymore, both of whom have had serious addiction problems in the past, debunking a lot of the Gazza stuff.

[bobby1]

The Premier League is dull as ditchwater, the players are spoilt arrogant wankers and the people who shell out £40 to watch this rubbish every week are idiots.

Sod football. Compare it to the absolutely fantastic day of Six Nations rugby on Saturday and football is just a shower of shit.

The greatest sportsman of our time broke another long standing record over the weekend by hammering another golfer 8 and 7 in the match play final yet this barelty gets a mention in most sports media. Football football football seems to be the only thing they want to print and you are right, the standard of the game is at its lowest ebb too.

[Tonji]

My interest in football has declined considerably in the past few years. Its become a monster business, feeding a media frenzy, that will eventually implode.

[Horneris]

My interest in football as a whole has declined a bit. I dont even watch motd anymore and dont enjoy premiership games anymore.

Im only interested in games Leeds play, and the league Leeds are in. My love for Leeds is everlasting and i have my season ticket and love every game, but my interest in premiership football is dissapearing.

[AndrewT]

I listen to 5 live a lot, and find you get far better coverage and some interesting pundit debates (not 6-0-6 which drives me bonkers). There was a very good one last friday night with Claridge and Collymore, both of whom have had serious addiction problems in the past, debunking a lot of the Gazza stuff.

Claridge and Collymore are both very good actually. Claridge always does the Championship and lower league stuff and this is the true heart of football. The Premier League is away on a different planet, full of foreign mercenaries who is it difficult for fans to connect with.

606 was bad enough when arseholes like Alan Green did it, but Tim Lovejoy has managed to plumb new depths of banality.

Actually, Tim Lovejoy is representative of the decline of football. Soccer AM was a golden jewel of sports broadcasting - born of a love for the game, yet treating it with the irreverence which something that is, at heart, only a game, should deserve. But then Lovejoy, like football, lost his way. Got too big for his boots and forgot where he came from. Now he's a idiot's sounding board, taking calls from retards.

[bobby1]

Most people I speak to say the same. Could the reason that the coverage is getting so bad be that the people that rely on football to be watched and read about are now scared that 'their' product is going to the wall and feel the need to push every little thing down our throats.

As for Lovejoy, you forgot cooking programmes on BBC on Sunday mornings

[AndrewT]

The Premier League is dull as ditchwater, the players are spoilt arrogant wankers and the people who shell out £40 to watch this rubbish every week are idiots.

Sod football. Compare it to the absolutely fantastic day of Six Nations rugby on Saturday and football is just a shower of shit.

The greatest sportsman of our time broke another long standing record over the weekend by hammering another golfer 8 and 7 in the match play final yet this barelty gets a mention in most sports media. Football football football seems to be the only thing they want to print and you are right, the standard of the game is at its lowest ebb too.

Yeah, I read on the BBC site yesterday that Tiger was planning to go unbeaten throughout 2008, and I thought he was referring to just matchplay events. But no, Tiger has won six tournaments in a row and thinks he can win everything he enters for the rest of the year.

[TightEnd]

I enjoy Championship football..enjoy possibly the wrong word..and lower league football. Also heavily involved in a non-league club. 

The premiership? simply not interested in the hype though back in the day when my club was involved the novelty was exciting

Sky account for much of my malaise (its overdone, and over-analysed), as do the people that run the clubs themselves

[TightEnd]

Most people I speak to say the same. Could the reason that the coverage is getting so bad be that the people that rely on football to be watched and read about are now scared that 'their' product is going to the wall and feel the need to push every little thing down our throats.

As for Lovejoy, you forgot cooking programmes on BBC on Sunday mornings

but Helen Chamberlain, who supports Torquay with a passion and makes great effort to get to games, I put in a different category

[AndrewT]

As for Lovejoy, you forgot cooking programmes on BBC on Sunday mornings

The great thing about that cooking show is that you know Lovejoy spends every second yearning to be back on the sofa with Helen on a Saturday morning. He knows his career is going to shit.

[boldie]

The Premier League is dull as ditchwater, the players are spoilt arrogant wankers and the people who shell out £40 to watch this rubbish every week are idiots.

Sod football. Compare it to the absolutely fantastic day of Six Nations rugby on Saturday and football is just a shower of shit.

The greatest sportsman of our time broke another long standing record over the weekend by hammering another golfer 8 and 7 in the match play final yet this barelty gets a mention in most sports media. Football football football seems to be the only thing they want to print and you are right, the standard of the game is at its lowest ebb too.

Yeah, I read on the BBC site yesterday that Tiger was planning to go unbeaten throughout 2008, and I thought he was referring to just matchplay events. But no, Tiger has won six tournaments in a row and thinks he can win everything he enters for the rest of the year.

Tiger is truly asthonishing at the moment...it's unreal how good he runs.

I quite like to watch Arsenal and ManU play when they are playing well (Spurs can be entertaining as well) all  other premier league footie I do not watch..it's boring and over hyped.