Hate all kinds of sport so don't watch any of it. Find it utterly boring. I'm fortunate that OH only likes watching the Grand Prix, which I can tolerate - just!
Sorry Hosta but last season, Chelsea and Man Utd averaged just under 2000 per women's game and there are lots of other clubs at their level and in lower leagues in England.  Clubs in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany etc have similar figures but I expect it will shoot up after this world cup and also get more TV coverage.
Personally, I wouldn't pay to see either and I have to leave the room if OH has the Grand Prix on TV. Nasty noise gets right in my ears.Â
One of the reasons (not the main one) that I married was because OH was not interested in sport. However of late, he has decided that he needed to indulge in the male bonding thing - mainly because the beer is cheaper at the cricket club. Had I known this 40years ago, I would have deleted him.
A few years back I was rehearsing early english church music with a chamber choir. One of the other sopranos and I were nipping out to listen to the penalty shootout in an England world cup match on the radio and one of the choir members commented on how pointless football was in the scheme of things. Hang on, I thought, we're spending our evening singing music that virtually nobody wants to listen to and you're criticising football....
While I was staying with her I subjected my 94 year old, football crazy mother to the England vs Norway women's world cup match inspite of her bias against women's football. I was thrilled to discover that she had then chosen to watch the next match against the USA. It is possible to be interested in football and gardening!
I havenât curmudgeoned for ages, but all that sport on TV drives me nuts. I was and still am a great disappointment to my family for not living up to expectations in that department, coming from a football-mad city as we do. Fortunately my OH hates sport too @B3 (an early bonding moment) but was inveigled by friends into watching the womenâs match the other day for reasons of solidarity. Iâm worried.
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@Obelixx, I'm not suggesting there should be as much opera on TV as sport, but surely all of us opera fans who pay the same for our TV license as sports fans should have more than one every 2 years. I can't understand why the BBC and ITV can't have dedicated sports channels then those of us who don't like it don't have "normal" scheduling disrupted .
Because itâs actually good for folk to experience things they thought they didnât like  ...  and because peopleâs tastes  change and develop ... if we hadnât been exposed to a wider variety of foods many folk would still be existing on chicken nuggets, fishfingers, chips and spaghetti hoops  ... in fact Iâve come across quite a few people who still are ... they say they donât like other food but when I enquirer further theyâve never tried anything else. Sports only channels are the tv equivalent of indulgent parents who only give their child what they already know he or she will eat.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Personally, I wouldn't pay to see either and I have to leave the room if OH has the Grand Prix on TV. Nasty noise gets right in my ears.Â
While I was staying with her I subjected my 94 year old, football crazy mother to the England vs Norway women's world cup match inspite of her bias against women's football. I was thrilled to discover that she had then chosen to watch the next match against the USA. It is possible to be interested in football and gardening!
I can't understand why the BBC and ITV can't have dedicated sports channels then those of us who don't like it don't have "normal" scheduling disrupted .
Sports only channels are the tv equivalent of indulgent parents who only give their child what they already know he or she will eat.Â
Thatâs me being curmudgeonly đÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.