Blue Since 76 wrote:I know we need it as a club, but I'm losing interest already with the level of diving and cheating you see first hand from a team like Barca and the, at best, bizarre refereeing decisions you see, even with 5 of them on the pitch.
I'd much rather watch us play Palace away than put up with grown men falling over everytime someone goes near them and everyone pretend it's the pinnacle of football. It's the emperor's new clothes of competitions.
ITV tell us it's the pinnacle of football, but I sat through about 30 minutes Real Madrid v Bayern Munich the other night and felt absolutely no emotion or excitement at all. Why should I have any kind of emotional connection to these superclubs that seem to play each other every year? I've lost count of the times Real and Bayern have met each other over the last few years... sometimes Real win, sometimes Bayern win, I can't remember which won which year, and at the end of the day, I don't care. ITV tries to make us feel that we are only proper fans if we do care, if we marvel at Ronaldo's skill and Robben's ability to cut inside, blah blah blah.
At the end of the day, they're two massive clubs who've won more than we could ever dream of winning, but unlike the World Cup, where you make your judgements on whether you like a country in general or not, and it's easy to latch on to a team you don't usually support, I find it impossible to get excited or even vaguely interested at yet another trophy for one or the other.
And by the end of the night, I was listening to radio commentary of Wigan's game, because at least there is a connection with Uwe and hoping he does well. Or, at least, better than Mark Hughes.
