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I'm slowly falling out of love with football... And it's because of the neverending hyperbolic nature of it. (alien.top)
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It's everywhere. From images, to videos, to Tiktoks, to adverts ... I'm over saturated with opinions, replays, player ratings, hyperbole and the like.

There's only so much you can take.

Example 1. The Newcastle goal vervus Arsenal. Never ending discussions on the decision. The hyperbolic nature of the punditry. The uneven opinions of the same people.

Example 2. Handball against Newcastle. Hundreds of videos all moaning, complaining over and over again. The same pundits complaining and restarting their opinion.

And now the new one - the ref not giving Man City an advantage in the Tottenham game. It starts all over again. The videos, the complaining, the shouting Tiktoks...

I just don't care anymore.

Rational discussions are gone, replaced with hyperbole and drama.

It's too much. I can't watch any football related content anymore.

The only thing to do is to shut it all out but the commentary is just as bad.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The current non-stop punditry is designed to hyperbolise everything to keep people engaged with the "product" and arguing about it ad infinitum keeps people on apps.

The Sky pundits for City-Spurs at half time were fine, then fine after the game, then there was an ad break, and when they came back they launched straight into an argument where they all took 3 positions and wouldn't back down from "theirs".

They always do it.

It's not about fans being fans, it's not about football, it's about keeping people engaged with advertising. Clicks and screen minutes.