Didn't take long for this to turn nasty did it?

So you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't then John.

Just look at the pictures if you're struggling.

But by that token watching and enjoying football doesn't turn one into a moron either?

Nor indeed does it make one a sheep

Do you know what I don't really get? The expression "follow like sheep." If you watch sheep in a field or a fellside, they're actually quite independent animals when left to their own devices. Cows, on the other hand, hang around in groups and will follow anything anywhere. So why not the expression "follow like cows" instead?

What if the people who watch it actually enjoy it? or is it a case of only McField can decide what is entertaining or not.

I never said it did.

I thought it was implied though

Do you think the suicidal Saints fans who think SL is doomed might enjoy this sport?

Where?

last nights game was rubbish but i've seen some shocking rhinos games this season too.
stick to watching a talent show where karaoke singers are used as fodder to feed the judges ego's.

or get back into the kitchen where all women belong!

In the post where you split Lord God Mourinho's quotes. I can't work out how to quote separate posts in a single reply yet!

i apologise if that wasn't your intention but its certainly how it read to me

I am not sure what my intention was and I can see why you would draw that inference so no need to apologise.

For a sport I have said I have no interest in I have devoted a lot of energy discussing it on this thread so I'll leave it be for now.

You're getting the hang of this now.

Mooo-oooo

Would have been shocking to have royally p***ed someone off two weeks into my return

At least in the talent show the 'stars' are not big pussies who role around on a pitch injured, or who are supposed to be great players, but miss sitters, (Bradley Johnson not included in this cos I think he is ace!).

I wont answer your last sentence. I will just mention it to your wife next time I see her.

Every boring football game I have ever seen was infinitely more exciting than whatever garbage Cowell and his sycophants puts out on TV

Football can produce some fantastic games.

It's like any other sport you get great games and god awful ones.

And rugby league is not immune from that.

I watch quite alot of football. The worlds greatest sport. I only watch Sky games now and again. Whenever United are on, about 5/6 times a year usually, at a guess. Depending on PO matches and stuff. I watch any game thats on BBC/ITV/Five etc. Unless it's Aston Villa or Everton. Or any English team playing in the Uefa Cup that have no ambition. Just a shame the 10 Championship matches the Beeb got will all be Newcastle games.

Anyone watching the Chelsea game? If this was a Scum game and it was 3-0 Clive would be spunking his pants over how good they've been. I hate him.

Shouldn't this be O/T?

Lock and ban.

If anyone watched our game tonight, you would be let off for saying football is boring. It was a shocker.

You're more likely to alienate yourself by the company you choose to keep. Ditch Danny and you'll be welcomed everywhere!

They may not feign injury, but they do burst into tears roughly every 8 seconds, before proclaiming that singing is "their life" and how hard they've worked (by the age of 17 without ever having had a job while touring the pubs and clubs with 5 people in a clapped out van). Nauseating.

However, I will agree that feigning injury in professional football is really nauseating. It's another area in which Sunday League football is far better to watch than the professional game. If somebody starts rolling around and pretending to be hurt, they will usually find that their next possession of the ball ends in a real reason to stay down. Legally, of course.

I find football to be the most frustrating sport on the face of the earth. For me there is no feeling of catharsis, just constant build up of stresses and tension at some of the 'quality' on display. I follow the results, but often struggle to make it through highlights, never mind a full 90 mins. I dip my toe in the waters only to keep up with basic knowledge of 'the beautiful game' for social purposes.

To respond to the comment about too dim to engage in small talk, in my experience it can often be that the other party is too dim to discuss anything other than football or the weather, so to stay on safe ground can be best so as not to offend.