Mine have.
Used to watch a lot of premiership and champions league football in the last five years, neglecting the football league and overseas leagues stuff.
This season, i have not seen a single game on the telly from start to finish at any level, and have only seen a couple of Match of the Day's. The Championship i fast forward through to us.
Anyone else watching much less football ??
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Hardly any Charlton though :-)
Last year I hardly watched any football, either on Sky or MOTD because I hated seeing us lose and hated watching the satisfied smugness of those teams doing well whether we were playing or not.
This season I have tried to watch the crap that is ITV's The Championship, and have watched quite a bit of Premiership stuff either live or via Sky +. I find I can enjoy the premier league games much more without any emotional buy in to any of the games. Am I weird - yep!
To be honest "The Championship" is that bad that I'm just as happy watching Aliwibbles edited versions posted on here.
I thought i'd enjoy watching top level games more as a neutral, but its turned out i've majorly lost my appetite for it all.
When I do watch MOTD I enjoy it more as I'm not concerned about who wins/loses as much but it is no longer essesential to catch it.
I quite like the Championship when it is a full show eg when there is no F1 and they just show the goals from the lower divisions and short highlights of the CCC. All I want really from a round up show. Think it is OK and not trying to be something it ain't.
Never watched much Sky as don't have it and while I have Sentanta I don't watch that much either.
The only difference is that i started to lose interest in TV football about three years ago. It's got to the point where Mrs McMoist and I have been talking about the posibility of cancelling Sky Sports.
Strangely enough, I've been more excited about going to watch Charlton than I have been for years (considering that I thought that it was the end of the world when we went down)
Always watch Champions League football, it's the same as having a nice meal once a week.
The only show i watch regularly is MOTD2 as it's short, can see all of the goals and its a bit more lighthearted.
Always buy The Times on a monday to read The Game which keeps me up to speed.
Unless Charlton are involved I can take or leave televised football although there are times I enjoy a game if it happens to be on. If the wife wants to watch X factor or whatever other rubbish might be on I won't argue unless Charlton are involved.
I've never been able to afford Sky so since football got taken off scumbag telly I've got out of the habit of watching it. Digressing the same goes for cricket sadly.
over the last month it seems the entertainment value in the Premiership has gone up a notch with Arsenal a joy to watch, United going for all-out attack and, under Avram, Chelsea becoming the 'Entertainers' - the heirs to Kevin Keegan's Newcastle side of the mid-90s
I have watched more of the champ. matches as well to see how our competitors are doing.
watched a bit of mondays game and all of tuesdays game. Always watch champs league too. Almost always watch either celtic or liverpool in their games, but would always put on man u or arsenal if they're on. don't bother with thursday night uefa games tho. watched the highlights of the carling cup last night too. it was better than the scary films!
Don't tend to pay much attention to the results/league position etc in the prem, just like to watch some entertaining games.
there have been some great games on recently. arsenal at the weekend, liverpool v everton etc, coventry v west ham.
I might have the football on in the background and do stuff around it, but i can't remember the last time i sat through a game without moving.
To be honest I've not missed Sky at all, my TV has built in freeview so that provides 20 or 30 channels with nothing on, why add another 50?
(Do miss Sky+ though as when the odd thing's on that I want to watch I invariably miss it now). When I do sort out Sky it will be basically for that little box.
There's no reason for me to haul myself down to the pub to see Sky fawn over the Premiership (my local's gone down the pan too, which is a factor), and The Championship is so piss-poor I really can't be bothered.
Once Sky Sports News gets the chop from Freeview, I'll hardly see any football on telly at all!
if the games don't look too appealing, i have a few long odds bets to keep an interest.
enjoy watching the champions league matches.
as for games in our division, i find myself channnel hopping after 20 mins or so and flicking back to see if it's getting any better.
Have no interest in England games (which is a shame as I am now the 'owner' - on behalf of my employer - of a box at Wembley) or any other premiership matches that might be on... Never watched a champions league / UEFA cup match apart from a few years back at the sponsors evening when Liverpool were on (think they beat Chelsea, I can't remember...but was sat at Danny Murphy's table, who couldn't take his eyes of it...lol).
Just can't get excited about watching football without the emotional involvement that comes from supporting one of the teams that is playing.
i only have freeview so only games worth making the effort to go to the pub for are charlton, the midweeks while you're drinking before clubbing or the big ones like arsenal v manutd
Like Ketman used to watch Goals on Sunday loving the analysis. Don't watch it now and don't care.
Watch The Championship even though it's shite and The Big League (which cnut thought up that name by the way).
Best of all, if Sky have a Championship game on and Setanta have a Prem game I find myself preferring Burnley v Southampton to Portsmouth v West Ham or Hull v Barnsley rather than Newcastle v Spurs.
So true Oakster - Also I think I watch a lot of football to compensate for the fact I don't live in the UK anymore (I must admit homesickness on a Saturday for obvious reasons). When in the UK I'd only watch Charlton and games down the pub.
Only watch the "big" PL games - don;t watch MOTD at all now - mainly because I am up at 5am on sundays anyway