Boring weekend of football

BluesJr said:
I genuinely believe football is only interesting when Man Utd are actually good and relevant.
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This for me.

In fact the only teams I've ever regularly watched with some interest apart from our men's team are the Man United women and the U21S!
(I occasionally watch the last parts of rival's games when it's tight and I'm hoping whichever underdog they're playing holds on to win. Unfortunately sometimes the rivals go on to score almost immediately after I start watching! :lol: )
 
Think its because the players are still getting up to speed after their breaks. All the games were played at pre-season pace because players aren't fully ready yet. Don't think we will see a true pick up in excitement till maybe Gameweek 5 or 6.
 
I just struggle with non-United football in general and have done for a few years. Without emotional investment, I don't really get any entertainment from it. I keep persisting out of habit, but the City/Chelsea game had me nodding off. I think I need to just break the habit, but there's always a lingering feeling of FOMO.
 
Players are being run into the ground, and its bound to have an effect eventually.

Play from august till june, then straight into some international competition for 5 or 6 weeks, then a couple of weeks and they are back to flying around the world for exhibition matches and then straight into the league. Its not just physically, they need a mental break from it all I'd think.
 
All predictable.

Got 7 out of 9 correct so far. With 5 correct scores too.

City need to get fecked in order to save this league
 
Stadjer said:
Maybe when you get older and older, football becomes less exciting? Or football in general is more boring because football is more tactical focus and less indivual player quality focus.

During the Euros many were whining about the lack of quality and how boring it was. Now the Premier League has started and it is still boring.
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I definitely think this is the case and it's been this way for the better part of a decade in my opinion. With everyone trying to imitate Pep's playstyle it's just two teams trying to implement the same system and the team with the better players/athletes will more than likely come out on top. I actually found the Euros (Group stages specifically) far more entertaining because it was the opposite of 'Pep ball', teams had their own identity and were playing a completely different way to what we see in the Prem on a week in week out basis. There was a statistic from the Euros group stages where it was something like 40% of all goals scored were from outside the box.. That is not something we see in the Prem at all, it's all tiki-taka, gegenpress, statistics based football whereby you're holding onto the ball until the highest percentage option for a goal appears and you try to make it work, if it fails, retain possession and pass the ball around until said high percentage opening appears.

Pep and his robotic style of football, over the past decade, has ruined football in my opinion, it's no longer full of flair and sporadic individualism but instead calculated opportunities and percentage based attacks. It's literally what I'd imagine robots playing football would look like, constantly calculating the impact of EVERY touch of the ball and the percentage of success at the end of each touch.
 
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I coach 10 year old kids and all their favourite players seem to be past players. Even my 5 year old sons favourite player is Ronaldinho.

It won't be nostalgia for them but even they seem a bit bored with watching football.
 
Lay said:
I coach 10 year old kids and all their favourite players seem to be past players. Even my 5 year old sons favourite player is Ronaldinho.

It won't be nostalgia for them but even they seem a bit bored with watching football.
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Do kids that age actually watch full matches to your knowledge? The only kids I know who play and enjoy football, collect the cards etc. very rarely sit and watch a full game. When I was that age I’d be consuming full matches of literally any football no matter the level that was on tv. I was obsessed.
 
Judas said:
Do kids that age actually watch full matches to your knowledge? The only kids I know who play and enjoy football, collect the cards etc. very rarely sit and watch a full game. When I was that age I’d be consuming full matches of literally any football no matter the level that was on tv. I was obsessed.
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I despaired a bit about that when my son was 10 but he’s 15 now and regularly watches full 90 minutes games. I think it’s an age thing. Plus when we were 10 we had feck all else to do.
 
I actually expected big teams to struggle a bit more as key players are barely match-fit while most of the mid-low table teams have been training for a month so have some advantage.
 
Judas said:
Do kids that age actually watch full matches to your knowledge? The only kids I know who play and enjoy football, collect the cards etc. very rarely sit and watch a full game. When I was that age I’d be consuming full matches of literally any football no matter the level that was on tv. I was obsessed.
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Nope. They have no interest in full games but weirdly enough my 5 year old does. He will sit and watch 90 mins, no matter who is playing. I just took him to see Valencia v Barcelona and he was enthralled by it. My 10 year old enjoyed it but despite loving football has less interest. My 5 year old supports 3 teams in 3 different countries and will watch all their games (or try to as one of them is Boca Juniors)

I find that a lot of the conversations are still Messi V Ronaldo stuff and how Haaland is a shite footballer :lol:

I do wonder what happens when them two retire, will they latch on to other players? They don't seem to care about any of the players nowadays apart from Lamine Yamal who is peaking their interest
 
Pogue Mahone said:
No upsets. No high scoring games. Barely any kind of excitement at all. This is heading toward being a very boooooring weekend of football.

Any chance tomorrow turns things round?
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I was thinking the same. Is the Premier League's product broken?
 
The Serie A took it upon themselves to do something very Italian, 12 of the 14 teams who have played so far all drew.

Only two teams won so far this weekend!
 
Already said it, I didn't mind the games I saw. Results boring though.

The previous weekend I was bored shitless watching the community shield. Bumped that "football is boring" thread to complain about it and turned off after an hour. This weekend was a marked improvement on that.
 
Chelsea vs City got itself turned off after an hour. Absolute wet sandwich of a game.

Don't think coming off the back of a Euros helps but also football is going through quite a boring spell. Struggle to think of any teams or individual players I'd go out of my way to watch.

The good teams almost invariably win with a degree of comfort and don't seem to do it with the same swagger as in the past.

The officiating and constant money related garbage also dilutes the entertainment/excitement value.

It'll get a bit better I a few weeks when the derby/rivalry games start coming round and pressure starts building on the teams not getting results
 
Agree with some of the sentiments, I think the issue with football generally is it's too congested, finish the long season and immediately international tournaments then barely few weeks later pre season again.

Olympics probably didn't help being relived of sport overall, but there was multiple games I lost interest in couldn't be asked to observe.

The game has also become more tactical which is beneficial from a competitive standpoint, your average team in the league can hold their own but it makes for a largely dull spectacle.

There's not really a plethora of exciting teams, I think more case scenarios with trajectories like Leverkusen would be good throughout the top European leagues where the underdogs triumph or are combative.

Watched Sociedad in parts last season when Kubo / Barrenetxea played well and followed Bologna loosely given the momentum Motta was building.

Hopefully there are some breakout teams, would be nice to see Ipswich do well under Mckenna.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Nearly 30 minutes in and this Leicester-Spurs game is on brand for the most boring opening weekend ever. Apparently this is the highest scoring fixture in the history of the PL. Dull as feck so far.
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Spurs should be 3 up in fairness.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Nearly 30 minutes in and this Leicester-Spurs game is on brand for the most boring opening weekend ever. Apparently this is the highest scoring fixture in the history of the PL. Dull as feck so far.
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The vast majority of top flight football games are boring nowadays. To be honest it really surprises me how the game has retained its staggering popularity. I think it’s the ease of which it’s played that keeps it ahead of other sports, people play it young and retain an affinity with it
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Nearly 30 minutes in and this Leicester-Spurs game is on brand for the most boring opening weekend ever. Apparently this is the highest scoring fixture in the history of the PL. Dull as feck so far.
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Do you just hate everything in life?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Why would you extrapolate me thinking one weekend of PL fixtures has been boring (and they have been) to me hating everything in life? There’s a hell of a lot more to life than PL football!
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Maybe I've just been stumbling into threads where you're moaning a lot. :D
 
T00lsh3d said:
The vast majority of top flight football games are boring nowadays. To be honest it really surprises me how the game has retained its staggering popularity. I think it’s the ease of which it’s played that keeps it ahead of other sports, people play it young and retain an affinity with it
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It is a great sport to play. The best really. I’m part of a family that plays three different team sports. We all like playing football the most. Recently I’ve definitely enjoyed watching it less and less (and other sports more) but if I ever have a chance of a kickaround there’s no hesitation.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It is a great sport to play. The best really. I’m part of a family that plays three different team sports. We all like playing football the most. Recently I’ve definitely enjoyed watching it less and less (and other sports more) but if I ever have a chance of a kickaround there’s no hesitation.
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Oh don’t get me wrong, I love playing, played every week since my 20’s.

My point was people play it easily in their youth, all you need is a ball and some jumpers for posts. Different to the rugbys and crickets which need more gear, facilities etc etc.

As a spectator sport top level football is way behind other sports - my personal theory is that familiarity masks the fact it’s actually quite a crap watch
 
T00lsh3d said:
Oh don’t get me wrong, I love playing, played every week since my 20’s.

My point was people play it easily in their youth, all you need is a ball and some jumpers for posts. Different to the rugbys and crickets which need more gear, facilities etc etc.

As a spectator sport top level football is way behind other sports - my personal theory is that familiarity masks the fact it’s actually quite a crap watch
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Yeah, totally. Agree 100%. As a spectacle football seems to be getting worse and worse, while other sports get more and more entertaining.
 
Don't think that's fair, to be honest. So, there were no upsets, maybe except Spurs. And? Competition looks fierce to me, just two draws but no 0:0. Many different teams could finish 3th-8th, and in very different order, not just the usual from before.

Although I agree that the football itself is perhaps worse than before, but that's the current top level meta.
 
Telsim said:
Don't think that's fair, to be honest. So, there were no upsets, maybe except Spurs. And? Competition looks fierce to me, just two draws but no 0:0. Many different teams could finish 3th-8th, and in very different order, not just the usual from before.

Although I agree that the football itself is perhaps worse than before, but that's the current top level meta.
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I think the combination of United have being shit for 11 years has demoralised United fans so much that they're extrapolating their feelings across the whole of football. And then Pep winning 6 out of 7 has made everyone sad.

Not that long ago we used to have a "big 4" who were basically guaranteed top 4 every season. Then Spurs and City made that a "big 6". Then Newcastle made it a big 7. And Villa have come from out of nowhere and got themselves a top 4 finish. So there's more competition for European places than ever before.

We basically just need Pep to leave City, and we can at least have some competition for the league titles.

Ultimately it is hard for United fans to enjoy football as a whole when we want to be winning leagues and champions leagues and we're nowhere near.
 
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