It’s everywhere. From images, to videos, to Tiktoks, to adverts … I’m over saturated with opinions, replays, player ratings, hyperbole and the like.

There’s only so much you can take.

Example 1. The Newcastle goal vervus Arsenal. Never ending discussions on the decision. The hyperbolic nature of the punditry. The uneven opinions of the same people.

Example 2. Handball against Newcastle. Hundreds of videos all moaning, complaining over and over again. The same pundits complaining and restarting their opinion.

And now the new one - the ref not giving Man City an advantage in the Tottenham game. It starts all over again. The videos, the complaining, the shouting Tiktoks…

I just don’t care anymore.

Rational discussions are gone, replaced with hyperbole and drama.

It’s too much. I can’t watch any football related content anymore.

The only thing to do is to shut it all out but the commentary is just as bad.

  • ClockAccomplished381@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I understand the train of thought, there was a certain innocence to football in the pre-internet era, like you’d turn the radio on and there would be shock news of Andy Cole joining Man United etc. nowadays nearly all transfers are leaked days in advance. Legendary goals would just be, well, legends rather than something you could just watch instantly on a mini computer pulled from pocket.

    But of course back then I craved the access to stats etc we have now. Digging out newspaper cuttings or old VHS tapes was a right faff compared to the on demand info we have now.

    Overall I think it’s better to have the wall to wall coverage and choose to ignore it, rather than not have it at all.

    • Portmanlovesme@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m not complaing about the access to football. I love all that.

      It’s the analysis after analysis of the same things over and over again, with no balance.

      For example, the foul that the referee gave to City yesterday at the end of the game. The ref probably thought the ball over the top was to heavy and the advantage was wasted so bought it back. That’s it. Thats all that happened. He made the wrong call? Maybe? But it doesn’t deserve the amount of hyperbole now that exists around it. It’s tiring.

      • ClockAccomplished381@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I think it’s just a natural evolution, more money more hype more tech, the equilibrium is going to end up being highly analytical. The TV networks have panels of expensive pundits and often run on for over half an hour beyond FT, so they will feast on whatever the controversy of the day is. Once they’ve covered the facts (replays of goals etc), they need something else to fill the time.