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Why does football get so much time on TV?

8:00am Friday 19th March 2010 in


SIR – Reading Stanley Parr’s letter (March 6), I must admit that I wholly agree with him in regard to TV programmes.

I, like him, do not understand why football takes up so much time on TV and is treated like a religion. Even after the game is over, an inquest is then shown for an hour later in the evening. Then it gets mentioned on all TV news bulletins for the next 24 hours. Other sports are not given so much TV time as football.

When the football appears on the TV listings, I either change channels or put on a video, or I read a book.

N M DUNKLEY
Worcester

Comments(19)

Tulstar says...
9:15am Fri 19 Mar 10

I agree with you - I think it gets far too much programme time. A 90 minute game regularly becomes a 3-4 hour programme.

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CJH says...
10:07am Fri 19 Mar 10

It has to be that long on commercial stations to fit in all the advertising that pays for the programme!

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Angus Mecoatup says...
7:26pm Fri 19 Mar 10

Well, it is a religion. Watching a football match on Sunday TV probably draws in a lot more people than those who attend Church.


And to upset a few God fearing people, it's a lot more entertaining as well!

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
8:33pm Fri 19 Mar 10

Steady Angus Mecoatup you remember what happen to John Lennon and Co.My opinion for it appearing so often and so long is the amount of money evolved ,plus the amount of people (fans) who subscribe to it in one way or another .This coming week end I shall be like many thousands glued to the box Why !! Franch V England. Then in a matter of a few weeks the thud on willow. I suppose you wouldn't get to much enthusiasm say on a Saturday afternoon in England watching a game of curling although having watch it played I know from my in laws it has quite a following .But so has Tittle the Wink I believe.

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New Kid on the Block says...
9:40pm Fri 19 Mar 10

It might be a religion in your house but it certainly isn't in mine.
Can anyone tell me what proportion of the population watch football, and what proportion of TV time and expenditure is given over to football?

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Ctrl Alt Del says...
9:51pm Fri 19 Mar 10

I should get used to it, it's the world cup this summer.

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Angus Mecoatup says...
12:42pm Sat 20 Mar 10

World Cup!!
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Whoo-Hoo!!!
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C'mon Saint Rooney and Co!

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Logik says...
3:32pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Angus Mecoatup wrote:
World Cup!!
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Whoo-Hoo!!!
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C'mon Saint Rooney and Co!
That's all we need - Shrek and the donkeys that masquerade as the England team.

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
8:52pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Is there any way the No hopes easy losers from Scotland ,Wales, and Ireland can do any better logik pick a team from the three for naval gazing and they would lose by a large margin.

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Cheesed Orf says...
9:53am Sun 21 Mar 10

Oh, Logik! I hope you're not English, because if you are, you just about sum up the attitude of today's England. How about getting behind the Country you live in for a change, get positive and support the team.
If you are a Johhny Foreigner, then I guess you're team never even made it to the World Cup Finals!
Also, if you know anything about football, you'll know Rooney is as near to Pele as anyone has ever got. And I'm not a United supporter! We should be proud he plays for England.

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New Kid on the Block says...
1:36pm Sun 21 Mar 10

World Cup this summer means it is time to make sure I have a good selection of films recorded as there will be very little I want to watch on telly for the duration.
If you want to watch it good for you; but why does it have to be inflicted on the majority of the population who don't want to watch it?

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Common Sense says...
2:33pm Sun 21 Mar 10

The secret of a happy marriage, is....two televisions!

My wife watches skating, skiing, dancing on wood, dancing on ice, ballet and all the other sports - but not football or Rugby, both of which are getting more than their fair share of prime-time TV!
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I shall be joining New Kid with a pile of video recordings, during the "mad season"!
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I don't like football, the spitting, the obscene salaries and all the bad behavious that goes with it - and we even take it abroad and inflict it on nations that know how to behave!
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Great Britain? Don't make me laugh!
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...and they breed - and have the vote! How scary is THAT?

CS.

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
3:49pm Sun 21 Mar 10

As an English man may I say how wonderful for all you Foreigners to come and dwell in my country from the pig sties you originate from and be able to chastise our National Sport. Please don't waist your money on books and videos to entertain yourselves through the coming Summer No why not do a great completed job and buy a third rate ticket to your home .Then you will be well rid not only of our National sport you would also be rid of us awful English you despise so much .

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Angus Mecoatup says...
8:33pm Sun 21 Mar 10

Ah!...well spoken Cromwell!
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When will people like Common Sense realise this is not Great Britain, but ENGLAND!
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A completely different entity!

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New Kid on the Block says...
8:47pm Sun 21 Mar 10

Sorry to disappoint you Cromwell, I am British born and bred. So I shall ignore you ignorant xenophobic rant.
Just because I am British it doesn't mean I have to like football. If you want to watch it best of luck, just don't expect me to join you.

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
9:21am Mon 22 Mar 10

Your British New Kid that could mean anything and any one from any where,just like calling yourself a European Like many more I'm miles ahead of you I'm ENGLISH and I was once told God is.And here's a few more names to add to your Xenophobia play ground name calling ,Euro-phobic.Nationa
lism,Fascism,Little Englander,All very childish showing a lack of intelligence that Quislings, nut cases and allsorts have called us over these many years So do yourself a favour and everybody else. ether Grow up and get a life. Or disappear from whencs you came.

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New Kid on the Block says...
9:45am Mon 22 Mar 10

If I really must spell it out to you Cromwell my ancestry is from England, My father was born in the Cotswolds, his ancestors coming from Bristol and London. My mother was born in Liverpool, her ancestry being a mixture of Yorkshire, Scottish and Manx.
Perhaps you will now stop your ridiculous childish insults and accept that we don't all follow your slavish devotion to football.

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moonpig says...
7:50pm Mon 22 Mar 10

I can never understand why football fans are totally unable to appreciate that some of us just do not have any interest whatsoever in the sport. I am English and proud of it but fail to see how not supporting a group of overpaid men running around a pitch makes me unpatriotic? I am able to understand that some people enjoy playing and watching football so why can't they understand that I don't?

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Common Sense says...
3:00pm Tue 23 Mar 10

"Great Britain" - should be England!

Of course, Hang my Coat Up, it was a slip and I haven't used that expression of Great Britain for about 10 years, now! Certainly not since the "Great" went out of it!
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I too am English - I tried to trace back and found links near Manchester and somewhere in Derbyshire, but my own immediate family (those that are left) are all B'ham and Solihull. I was born in Moseley. (Pre drug era!)
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All the world is now "British", but I am still proud to be pure English and I write it wherever it requests Nationality! I trust you do, too?

(Pure English is 3 generations born in this country - or maybe, on second thoughts, make that 6!)
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I totally agree with Moonpig above, about football.

CS.

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