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ridgeway kid
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I have to confess my attitude has changed greatly with time.  Football used to be a very important part of my life but now I don't watch it unless the Millers are involved or it's an England game of real significance.  I haven't watched a Prem League game or even MOTD in a decade although I do sometimes listen to the Sunday afternoon matches on Radio 5 Live.

Other sports I used to watch but now avoid at all costs are cricket and tennis.

My favourite spectator (TV that is as I don't attend live events except NYS due to terrorism and bird flu threats) sports are:

Golf (I love Peter Alliss as a commentator)

Snooker (ditto John Virgo)

Formula 1 (used to hate it, now I love it)

Rugby Union (England only in serious comps, 6 Nations or World Cup).

Athletics and swimming (Olympics and World Championships only) although I am having increasing doubts about the validity of the former.



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Cricket, football and rugby in that order.

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sickly child wrote:

Cricket, football and rugby in that order.

 Yes, I don't really know what happened with cricket.  Used to watch Test Matches, JPL and Gillette Cup on TV and regularly took in Headingley and Old Trafford Tests.  Just went off it and can't put my finger on why.  Football I think was ruined by money, foreign players and changes to format of European comps.



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Agree regarding football, I have no interest in prem due to the greedy sods who have ruined the beautiful game.

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sickly child wrote:

Agree regarding football, I have no interest in prem due to the greedy sods who have ruined the beautiful game.

 When I started watching footie in the 60s over a period of several seasons you could name every First Division side and even tell them apart from the style of play.  A big new signing was a major event.



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Plenty to lament I am afraid.

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sickly child wrote:

Plenty to lament I am afraid.

 I just don't get that the Prem is such a "great product".  Most games are pretty poor imo and most seasons the top four picks itself.  And why have the managers been elevated to such importance?  Those garbage post-match interviews drive me crazy.  The great Wenger-Mourinho feud - who gives a flying fig!



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The only part of it I remotely like is the relegation battle.

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The only part of it I remotely like is the relegation battle.

 Yes, I have to agree that can be very exciting over the last few weeks.  I always want a couple of really big teams to go down.furious



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Yep bigger the better.

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I have to confess. Ice Hockey. Not only is the game itself better than football, there are no wusses, what the ref says goes, but the whole experience of it at the Arena is absolutely brilliant. When we lost to Wednesday last season, it was very quickly washed away when Steelers won the last game of the season in a packed arena to win the league. You are not subject to the language, old man beer farts, and absolute idiocy of some people that follow football. Its a massive shame its never really taken off in this country like the NHL.

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BY far and above all else, for action, favourite stars, personalities, hiss boo entertainment and a great belly laughs............Saturday afternoons 4.00pm the World of Sport and Kent Walton presenting wrestling (pre Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, it had lost its way by then). Happy days.

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Towdlad wrote:

BY far and above all else, for action, favourite stars, personalities, hiss boo entertainment and a great belly laughs............Saturday afternoons 4.00pm the World of Sport and Kent Walton presenting wrestling (pre Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, it had lost its way by then). Happy days.

 

He specified favourite "sport" not panto.



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I have often pondered about snooker. Is it a sport or a pastime?

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I thought it was a sport at the time, it was on World of Sport afterall  laughing.gif



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Towdlad wrote:

BY far and above all else, for action, favourite stars, personalities, hiss boo entertainment and a great belly laughs............Saturday afternoons 4.00pm the World of Sport and Kent Walton presenting wrestling (pre Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, it had lost its way by then). Happy days.

 Les Kellet, Dickie Davis and jumpers for goal posts. That was a golden age for sport.smile



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MMA.

I'm fully converted.

No wusses, no faking, no idiots.

Ref respected.

It is a real for real sport.

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ian wrote:

MMA.

I'm fully converted.

No wusses, no faking, no idiots.

Ref respected.

It is a real for real sport.

 Not only that but it's Putin's favourite sport.  But wrestling?  Please give me a break. Now boxing USED to be a top sport and there was a rerun TV series once called "Great Fights of the Seventies" which reminded me how great it was.  Then that w****r with the stick up hair took over and screwed the entire sport.



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What do you mean Wrestling isnt real - now my childhood has been robbed again, like when the dog went to the farm to live when we where on strike.

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Football, Rugby, Cricket



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