Premier League

Football at the top level has become a TV show that’s getting even worse now it’s going through a YouTubeification.

Watch the game, and other highlights and then stop. It’s all click bait anyway for views and stupid statements made on purpose to wind people up.

Before social media I feel like being a fan of a thing was actually only down to just enjoying the thing, and perhaps any meet ups or clubs / groups / communities that enriched your enjoyment or brought you new friends on this basis.

Ofc now with all these social media platforms it can be constant bombardment and then make you feel like to be a fan of football you've gotta like those things as well.

You can just go back to enjoying football specifically, and cherry pick your feed or the groups you interact with if that would make you happier.

Watching the games and the pre & post game shows, the odd YT channel and Reddit is enough for me. You can curate more specifically for yourself too.

Delete the apps that have this annoying rhetoric. Focus on the parts you actually enjoy

Support your local team. Premier League is like Marvel Football. It's not real, it doesn't matter. It's just a TV show. A very decent TV Show but it really doesn't matter.

As an American, I’ve given up espn for years now. Just watch the game but don’t subscribe to the extra bullshit it’s not that hard.

Okay

I think you should just watch the games and nothing else. When the commentators start annoying me I turn the volume down and play relaxing music to keep my mood from dipping.

Just unsub from all football related news and content for a month and only chat with your mates about the games. That’s what I did during the 1-pt loss season a few years back and I’ve been a happier fan sincez

Just stick to watching the games then?

Then do what I do. Just watch the matches. Ain't that difficult.

If you think that having Gary lineker trying to get anything interesting out of Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson was any more insightful or uplifting then afraid you're wrong. It was never good.

Tune yourself out of content. When a game is on now I tune in just as the teams are going out, I do something around the house during the half time break, and turn off or switch over then the FT whistle goes.

Drip feed a little Reddit and Twitter for club-related stuff, avoid TikTok entirely. It’s much better.

Yeah it has jumped the shark a bit.

In simple terms the sport is administered incredibly poorly. From rolling over for state ownership to the referees on matchday the whole infrastructure is unfit for purpose.

Then don't watch that shit... you moron

I barely bother with any of it. Of course, I'll have the odd argument on Reddit to pass the time, and I check fixtures, team news and results on the Sky or BBC apps, but apart from that, I avoid it. Even the commentary and punditry during the games - I miss them because I tend to watch matches a couple of hours after they're live. Partly due to family commitments, partly because I prefer to watch matches at x2 speed.

Get off tik Tok for a start

This could be avoided if you weren’t addicted to social media

I bet if you got off twitter, tik tok and instagram you be a lot less bombarded and could consume football at the level you want

Yup no one talks about the great goals or defensive skill. It's all about the controversial calls and playing them up, in turn winding fans up. I swear at half time and full time they show the failed penalty shouts before the actual goals scored. It's sad

It's not the game, it's the internet. Enjoy the game and ditch the internet.

Your problem isn't with football, it's with engaging in all the bollocks around it in media and social media too much

i’ve low key been getting into smaller leagues recently. Less drama and money, same sport. You’d be surprised too. The J-League is free on youtube, and it’s highly tactical and super entertaining. You’d never expect it from a league of that caliber but i enjoy it more than some CL/PL games

i thought players were also a lot more put together and organized than danish superliga/mls games (the other two smaller leagues i’m familiar with), even though those are generally considered better leagues and feature better players (though i still love watching both of those leagues too)

i still love the prem, and like others in this post, i ignore the punditry and hyperbole, and it’s still entertaining, but watching more local, grassroots football excites me more these days

Stop watching it then you fucking pussy

This seems like such a dumb statement, act, opinion .. whatever you want to call it.

How about you get off your phone and just enjoy a game and form your own opinions? OP is blaming football for his social media / phone addiction.

just watch the games without the punditry! its what i do and its wonderful.

You can just not watch all that crap and stop ruining it for yourself.

The trick is not to take the opinions of idiots like Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher seriously.
Considering the utter rubbish they come out with most of the time, this isn't that difficult.
As for the decisions you mention, personally I'm amused how Eddie Howe is happy with VAR one week and then mysteriously against it the next. No prizes for guessing why.
And as for the "new one", if Haaland wasn't such a flat track pony and hadn't missed some sitters, the plastics would have been out of sight before the incident even took place.

Why do you watch football related content?

What would happen if you just stopped watching after the game was done?

The numbe rof pundits stealing a living now is ridiculous. I've literally no interest in what Gary Nevillle, Micah Richards or Jamie Carragher have to say.

I do reserve a little love for Ally McCoist, these days/ I hated him on Question of Sport.

It feels tiresome at this point, I feel like the football manager heads have taken over with ratios, stats and xg per game 🤷 just takes away the innocence of a cracking weekend of footie, waiting to see how they'd perform, not turning your team and the opposition inside and out for likes and retweets etc.. even the football games now, FIFA, EA fc, just don't have that ring to them anymore, the novelty has worn off football. The world is a smaller place now with these phones, too many fingers in pies. I just want the championship back on a Sunday morning 9:20am 😅😭💯👌footie shirts to be massive again with beer sponsors and shit... I wanna love it again but I can't! Totally feel you mate 👌💯

Hockey is more competitive and is even more of a spectator sport. Surprised it hasn’t gotten even bigger in Europe etc it’s like sorta popular.

Literally just watch your team play and check out. Unsub from your youtubers, twitters, reddits, etc. surrounding the topic and you’ll be uncluttered.

Just watch the games...

Love football me, pay £50+ per month to watch it, just go to fall asleep on the sofa 🙃

Solution: don't consume football content on social media or newspapers. Only watch the games. You are in control of how you enjoy the game. You also are not forced into reading every headline or watching every video. Enjoy it precisely the way you can.

Im the same and i know it means i just have to give up on social media. Bit harder than it sounds.

See you next match day.

This reads like op just discovered the word hyperbole

If you expected good punditry from Tiktok and Twitter then you are the problem mate. Quit social media and follow only few pundits that you respect, that’s it!

I’m with you bro. It’s very hard to shut out all the noise. I just watch games now and go about my life and don’t engage really beyond the 90 mins I watch but often times those 90 minutes are unbearable these days to add insult to injury.