Football, Reality TV, Soaps, Sports Betting, Horse Racing, Drugs..
Couldn’t care less about these things.
Pretty much all of the above.
I don’t really get spectator sports at all, but the sheer obsessiveness of football is sufficient to put me off. Why watch someone else having fun rather than doing something yourself?
I’ve followed some sports in the past – I used to go to Manchester Storm ice hockey games and I’m partial to a spot of American Football – but they’re kinda niche sports here so you can get away from it occasionally. Yet after a couple of years maybe the novelty of hockey wore off and I stopped going, and aside from catching a few games on holiday recently about the only American Football I watch these days is the Superbowl. For me it’s like, I like music and love going to gigs, but even with my favouritest band I wouldn’t go and see them on every leg of the same tour playing the same set every week.
So yeah, I don’t get it, the whole sports / football thing completely passed me by. All those armchair experts who know better than the professionals and will drone on and on about players and statistics and who’s shit this week, you know the ones whose opening gambit when meeting someone new is “what team do you support” and when told “I don’t really follow football” proceed to talk at you about it for fifteen minutes? Gods kill me now, they’re only slightly less tediously boring than people who have drugs as a hobby and iPhone owners.