Premier League games 6/7/8/ November

SebastianBlue said:
If am truly honest with myself — and I said this at the beginning of the season but hoped it would change — I am much less interested in football generally this season. I am trying to care, as I could use a distraction, like so many of us could, but I am struggling to muster it.

That may sound minor, but football (as it has been for most of us) has been an integral part of my life since I learned to kick a ball. It’s been fundamental to my daily experience for three decades. And know it’s been the same for others for many more years than that. Any loss in appetite is quite a shift. And the loss is rather substantial.

Now, there are obviously many other things contributing to that relative disinterest, many rather serious and deserving of attention and focus over a game I am not even playing myself.

But I do think it is also partly down to how the game is changing, how the manipulation is becoming so obvious, how the fans are being marginalised in favour of a fully commercialised ‘product’, the absurd economics of the football market in a time of immense strife for so many, and the general corruption pervasive in the sport that just becomes more difficult to ignore the longer you are exposed to it, especially when certain entities have begun to effectively lord it over others.

I still love City, that will not change, barring something truly abhorrent happening. But I just am not remotely as excited about watching us or other games (which I used to do quite a lot, as I generally just loved football).

I suppose it’s just the natural progression of things. You move on.

Still, for me at least, it’s a big change and somewhat sad to feel it happening.
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Thank you for putting words to how I feel. Well done! Wish I could like this post more than once.
 
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