Armchair Football

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MJM said:
I find that there's almost too much football on TV at the minute. You can't get away from it.

After the first lockdown lifted and the football came back I was like "yes give me all of that football" and watched pretty much all of it. Now, barring the Blades games, I'm really not very interested in watching any of it. Although even watching the Blades this season has become somewhat of a chore.

I used to like how I'd look forward to my weekends to watch the football - whether that was going down the Lane or going to the pub and watching Super Sunday. Now though, as it's on pretty much every day, the experience of watching football just seems very diluted.

I think I've lost a bit of love for the game. Both due to the frequency of the matches and how utterly Luther Van we've been this season.

Hopefully this roadmap pans out and we can get back to some kind of normal later on in the year.
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I agree with you. I watched a lot of Premier games until the start of the New Year.
Since our season fell off a cliff, I’ve lost interest.
There’s just too much to watch.


I’ll no doubt continue to watch the rest of United’s games even though it’s a lost cause and quite depressing.
This is simply because knowing Utd it will probably be another couple of decades before we’re back in the Prem again.
 

Sportbilly said:
Not watched any games this season, United included. Football without fans is sterile, isn't the football I know and love, and it's just not doing it for me. Irrespective of whether we're top or bottom, I can't do this empty stadium shit.

Feels like watching a chess match!
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What's wrong with chess? It is a great game! Mad Mick , Hartley Hare and billyblademan play chess too!
 
It is a pity the Sheffield Chess Congress came to an end in 2017. I throughly enjoyed the last event.

I hope the local clubs will one day find someone to organise this event again. Although, I accept this would be no small undertaking.

HH
 
Sportbilly said:
I was 10 in 86 and remember when those two played it was big news. My stepfather was a massive chess fan, and maybe I dreamt this, but I'm sure he played chess matches by post?!

Isn't Kasparov a big Putin critic these days?
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It is called Postal chess. Am not a fan of it.

Yes, Kasparov stopped playing competitive chess to go into politics
 
Nine Inch Nalis said:
Not even the past year has made me an armchair fan, I've watched two matches in the entire time, one live stream and one cup tie on BBC.
The idea of supporting Sky and BT in any way, shape or form makes me sick to my fucking stomach quite frankly. I'd rather wait until I can be there in flesh, surrounded by the rest of the bellends on the kop.
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Brian Clough was not everybody's cup of tea, but in my book he got one thing spot on, take Football off the TV, and then if people' want to watch it pay for it through the turnstiles👍 and at least it gets rid of these fucking dense commentators/ Pundits! I miss the Match day exsperiance☹️
 
Fascinating titbit of information on a correspondence chess match;

"Dr Reinhart Straszacker and Dr Hendrik Roelof van Huyssteen (both ZAF) played their first game of correspondence chess in 1946. After 112 matches, with both men having won half the games, their record play of over 53 years ended with the death of Straszacker on 13 October 1999."

I can't help wondering what Roelof did when his mate Straszacker passed away.

Somehow, in a strange way I can see the attraction and excitement of a correspondence chess game. Waiting for the post, feverishly opening the latest letter to find your opponents next move. Spending hours thinking about how to respond.

I need to get out more.

HH
 
Working Class Hero said:
Obviously I have watched football on TV before, but I'd never watched a Sheff Utd game on TV at home before lockdown, as far as I can remember. I had watched plenty in the pub (where it's hard to properly pay attention) but I'm nearly always in the ground. The difference in how you see the game is massive, it's boring for a start, but you also just don't see the game in a natural way as others have said above.

What it has done for me is give an insight to the world of all the twitter idiots/armchair fans/foreign fans and the commercialised, multi camera angle, commentator-influenced version of matchday that they get. It's no wonder such a skewed proportion of them tend to stick up for VAR, support stupid kick off times and quote pointless stats all the time. Their version is geared up for all that. It's not real football spectatorship. It's actually quite sad that that form of viewing is now the majority, and they seem to be catered for much better. The real fans are now an afterthought.
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It's definitely geared for the ever increasing US market. They go mental for stats about anything in any of their "Home" sports. It's frustrating watching
 
When I was a lad our family doctor kept leeches in a tank on his desk, and always wore a crash helmet when driving in his car.

He was a good GP.

HH
 

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