As a lifelong supporter of a small, local provincial team
I like my football. I enjoy going to the games and getting behind the team, having a laugh, feeling the pain when we lose and so on. And I'm interested in how my team is doing, and how the other teams around are playing.

But I have little or no interest in watching televised football, whether it be internationals, Euro games or even (especially) Old Firm games or Manchester Utd vs Chelsea or whatever. That's not proper sport. It's commerce with a ball.

Edit: Actually, come to think of it, I don't watch much sport of any sort on telly, except for Formula 1, because I can't afford to go to all of the races, only one or very occasionally two a year.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:54, Reply)