It’s everywhere. From images, to videos, to Tiktoks, to adverts … I’m over saturated with opinions, replays, player ratings, hyperbole and the like.
There’s only so much you can take.
Example 1. The Newcastle goal vervus Arsenal. Never ending discussions on the decision. The hyperbolic nature of the punditry. The uneven opinions of the same people.
Example 2. Handball against Newcastle. Hundreds of videos all moaning, complaining over and over again. The same pundits complaining and restarting their opinion.
And now the new one - the ref not giving Man City an advantage in the Tottenham game. It starts all over again. The videos, the complaining, the shouting Tiktoks…
I just don’t care anymore.
Rational discussions are gone, replaced with hyperbole and drama.
It’s too much. I can’t watch any football related content anymore.
The only thing to do is to shut it all out but the commentary is just as bad.
I’m not complaing about the access to football. I love all that.
It’s the analysis after analysis of the same things over and over again, with no balance.
For example, the foul that the referee gave to City yesterday at the end of the game. The ref probably thought the ball over the top was to heavy and the advantage was wasted so bought it back. That’s it. Thats all that happened. He made the wrong call? Maybe? But it doesn’t deserve the amount of hyperbole now that exists around it. It’s tiring.
I think it’s just a natural evolution, more money more hype more tech, the equilibrium is going to end up being highly analytical. The TV networks have panels of expensive pundits and often run on for over half an hour beyond FT, so they will feast on whatever the controversy of the day is. Once they’ve covered the facts (replays of goals etc), they need something else to fill the time.