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In the late 90's/Early 00's I reckon I would have watched 90% of football that was on telly but now days it pretty much just United. Watched about 5 Juve matches at my mate's early on in the season. I've not bothered to watch any of the cup finals properly in years too. |
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Not to mention I pretty much despise footballers as a group. You get the feeling the majority of them would prefer it if there were no fans and wouldn't piss on the average man if they were on fire. |
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Some special players - Batistuta, Baggio, Chiesa, Crespo, Vieri, Ronaldo, Del Piero, Inzaghi, Vialli, Ravanelli, Signori...but the games were very tactical and defensive. There's less special players overall I agree, but still quite a few around, although obviously they all gravitate to Barca and Real Madrid. Certainly right now La Liga is very open at times with plenty of freedom of expression on the pitch, and a good number of goals. Same goes for the Bundesliga. |
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Goals don't equal quality. Can see plenty of goals in league 1 if that's what you're after |
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For me, it's a combination of life becoming chockablock with more urgent things and yes, football becoming a load of %@#$&!s.
Don't take this the wrong way, but also the make up of the teams changes things. Has the internationalisation of our teams helped? I remember the excitement of Kanchelskis coming - I bought a 'Russians Are Coming' tshirt from Middleton arndale. Now? Rashford coming through is the same - a buzz, a Manchester lad coming through but it's the exception rather than the rule nowadays. The over analysis doesn't help - and some of the fun seems to have gone from the matches. Perhaps it's an age thing - I only have 2 people in real life nowadays with whom I physically talk about united with - so it's naturally not the same as being 18 going to the games. Still nothing like it of course - but yes, it does seem to be shitter in many ways. Flip side of course is seeing Leicester do well (I've no axe to grind with them) and the possibility of Pep leading City into the Europa League is a thing of joy. Let's hope city don't let us down. |
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Anyway my point is neither league is filled with chess-matches. |
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Both leagues are pretty open though, definitely. But what does that really count for? As I say, League 1 is very open too |
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I partly agree, but I do think winning the league every year with great players and great games has its part to play
I watch far less football the older I get because, well, I'm busy. I work late and don't always have time to watch us and often the time I do have, I don't want to spend getting frustrated, pissed off or bored. I still get the same gurn from the big goals and nervous before big game, but the days are gone when it would dominate my week or weekend. I'm far more animated on here than I am in real life. I enjoy it when we win and move on as quickly as possible when we lose. TV off, go do something else. Why people watch us lose and then go and watch Liverpool straight afterwards or something, I've no idea. I find it rather sad when I see guys in their 30s, 40s Nd 50s saying how a game has 'ruined their week'. Really? Your week has nothing in it more important than that?? |
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Top 3 in Spain are obviously levels above anything we have right now, but past that I would take most sides in the Prem to beat their equivalent in Spain. |
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On the flip side United are in an FA Cup quarter final tomorrow and while we all have differing opinions on the result, i'm sure a lot of us on here aren't really looking forward to it that much. What a £#%&!ing sad state of affairs that is. |
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Really think mostly this is an age/memory thing. Lots of mid-30s people have super fond memories of Italia 90 for a lot of reasons, most of them having little to do with the football. That was a mostly dreadful World Cup, but it's easy to forget that when you just remember being young and carefree etc. |
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