There are three Premiership games today, involving three of the biggest "pulls" in football: Spurs, Liverpool and Man United.
Yet, a dispassionate, honest look at today's sporting fixtures shows that football isn't even in the day's top-three most-important sports.
A resurgent GB has fought its way to the Davis Cup Final, the world's top team tennis event. Britain's Lewis Hamilton has been battling Germany's Sebastien Vettel in the F1 GP in Singapore. While the Rugby World Cup continues to focus the attention of sports fans across the Commonwealth and beyond.
The Premier League is - at best - the fourth most important sporting event today. Is this a portent of football's fading relevance?
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You are comparing an once every four year event in the rugger and a once in a quarter of the century event in the tennis with a once every Sunday event in the football.
In any case "jumping the shark" refers to a ridiculous plot device to save an ailing TV show. What has football done differently?
Although I missed the tennis
Motor racing and rugby not for me
Secondly when Comparing football to the Rugby World cup, arguably the event that appeals second most to the British public ( Ironically behind the Football world cup) is quite simply wrong.
And really the only reason for people watching the Tennis is due to Britain overachieving.
If we put an England World cup game on it would smash the views accumilated on all 3 sports above, so I find this arguement a bit weird.
There is as much chance of any of those sports achieving 10% of the world popularity of football as there is of it been discovered that Jeremy Corbyn is in fact the illegitimate son of the Queen and is next in line for the throne.
Been checking the football results every 15 minutes. Football will always be king.
Davis Cup, genuinely no interest and I've no idea why. I like pretty much all sport but just can't get into Tennis even though it's pretty much made for tv.
Enjoy and get behind England in the rugby but my lack of understanding of the rules gets on my own nerves as I can't shout at the ref for a making bad decisions.
Struggle to watch the Prem anymore.
And let's not forget the Solheim Cup, or maybe we can.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
If you're really expecting the Davis cup to be beating Football in the ratings you'll be disappointed.
I watched the Tennis, but has been said, GB in a Davis Cup semi final is hardly a regular occurrence
For me it just seems like a load of random fixtures taking place sporadically throughout the year. The Murrays are one win away from putting team GB into the 2nd round against Spain, that sort of comment I hear throughout the year, means nothing to me.
I was listening to talksport today. Georgie Bingham banging on about how she's going to have 5 devices when she gets home, rugby, tennis, football, F1, something Sodheim Cup. You're talking out your backside Georgie. You're just saying that because there's a lot of sport on.
I often am interested in what other sports people follow outside football, we have a few threads on here dedicated to other sports. Me I'm only really football and cricket. I think most people are only 2/3 sports at most. Anymore and I think you can't have a real deep interest.
Maybe you can, just not for me.
As they years have gone by I've become more and more disgusted with football and its incompetent officials, douchebag players and twat pundits. There was wall to wall football on TV today and I didn't watch any of it, instead I've been on NFL, F1, NASCAR and baseball
Rant over...
The point I am making is that it is becoming clearer to all but the most blinkered that the Premier League is no longer the biggest, most exciting and *most important* sporting contest in the world - if it ever was.
Today, people all over Europe and Asia were watching the Singapore GP; people all over the Commonwealth were watching the Rugby World Cup; many people around the world were more interested in the tennis than the football; and ask any of our American cousins what the biggest football match today is and you can bet that the majority won't be guessing the Nar-ridge match-up with the Mercy-siders.
The point is this - the Premier League's smug presumption that "everyone watches English football" may be increasingly inaccurate.