How long did I last?

N

Norlye

Player Valuation: £150k
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one 😁
 

Norlye said:
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one 😁
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Yup, well at least you gave it a go and were smart enough to not waste any more time on it.
 
I really only watch us and my local non-league team now. I used to watch loads of footie but I'm finding it harder and harder to connect with a bunch a multi-millionaire man babies rolling around on the floor and whining at the referee whilst sports corps, oligarchs and human rights abusers squeeze every last penny out of the supporters. Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the problem.
 

Norlye said:
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one 😁
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You might not have enjoyed the result but you missed a cracking game of football between Liverpool and Bournemouth, in fact I thought Bournemouth were going to make it a great night, the certainly were worth a point at least.!
 
Norlye said:
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one 😁
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Have you thought about maybe watching some lower league footy ?

Much more entertaining.
 
Norlye said:
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.
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Norlye said:
Didn’t survive week one 😁
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The players are fitter and there's less career ending challenges thrown in for a laugh.

The segue into the cricket was a fine sojourn.

Rent a gob pundits hyping up their gravy train is nothing new, don't have a sky tv subscription (or anyone else for that matter), wont have a sky tv subscription. rupert murdoch owned bskyb, and that same nasty piece of work owned a certain paper. Absolutely screw him in both eye balls!

As for the new season, I was enjoying the break, it was pleasant having no Everton to fret about, and they've started the season up even earlier.

I'm not sure what I'm more depressed about, fading summer, another nic coppola project, my adductor tear I've reinjured, or Everton being back and being an all consuming black hole of anything positive.

Tired, and it only took the first half last night. :/
 
Everton remain my addiction.
But for football I look and occasionally travel abroad. The football is contaminated and under attack , same as here , but the decay is less advanced and there is more resistance and less acceptance from the supporters.
It will go the same way in the end , but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
 
Cameron Manning said:
You might not have enjoyed the result but you missed a cracking game of football between Liverpool and Bournemouth, in fact I thought Bournemouth were going to make it a great night, the certainly were worth a point at least.!
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But could Sky accept it was a cracking game of football or was it all about what is wrong with Liverpool rather than Bournemouth can play football and have a very good manager.
 

Until fans start boycotting games, nothing will change. Unless a game involves Everton I won't watch it. Champions League and Europa league have never been more boring. People whinge but don't do anything. If fans let's say waited outside ground for 1st 20 minutes and you had empty seats everywhere it would send message to higher ups.
 
Norlye said:
Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one 😁
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I have a similar outlook on modern football and Sky's coverage of it to your own.

In terms of live Premier League matches, I only watched our game last night and the second half of the extemely dull Manchester United vs Arsenal game. Nothing will deter me from watching our games, but I can't be bothered with much else. Watching the Manchester United vs Arsenal game, I was left wondering where the creative players had gone. There are no players like Ndiaye in those teams - everyone just takes a touch and passes it along the ground on repeat, much to my boredom. Like you, I thought I would have a go at watching other teams (with the exception of that lot), but I regretted it.

Having little better to do on Saturday evening, I also decided to put ITV's EFL Highlights show on and I enjoyed their coverage. Later that evening, I watched a bit of Match Of The Day once the EFL Highlights had finished. The contrast in coverage is glaringly obvious. On the EFL show, there was minimal punditry, a handful of interviews and a community segment. Meanwhile, around half of Match Of The Day's running time was spent on punditry from Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer.

Although some may point to the EFL Highlights show containing less punditry due to the need to squeeze in three divisions worth of matches rather than one, I still think it is a better model for coverage than the one pushed by Sky and the BBC.
 
….the game has certainly changed for the worst but I wonder if we’d all feel a bit different if we were continually around the top of the table and chasing trophies.

It’s no fun supporting Everton but maybe football would be a little more enjoyable if we were very good.
 
Eggs said:
….the game has certainly changed for the worst but I wonder if we’d all feel a bit different if we were continually around the top of the table and chasing trophies.

It’s no fun supporting Everton but maybe football would be a little more enjoyable if we were very good.
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The experience of watching our games and trying to predict how our season is going to pan out would certainly be more enjoyable if we were a better side. However, I still don't think it would change my perspective on the competition as a whole and the certain group of clubs who tend to hold sway in the Premier League.
 

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