I never enjoy watching football games, I find the combination of players, coach's and managers quite disgusting. I do not have to watch grown men, supposedly respected, sitting on the side line or whatever they call it, chewing their gum like dairy cows out on a picnic for the day. Have they ever watched themselves in replays? Personally I request visitors to my home to put their gum in the bin on arrival, and then try to make a mental note not to ask them back.
Then there is all the jumping about and hugging each other, or the jumping about and swearing, (yes, I can lip read), when things are going well or not. Are these esteemed coach's and managers unable to express themselves in a verbal manner unless it is with the expletive? If so then what is their purpose in the coaching and managing of their team? I have to ask how does communication take place in the dressing room!
What about the players then, do they have to run around the field spewing phlegm in every direction for other players to pick up in which ever way possible, i.e. whatever part of their anatomy lands on the playing field. Did their parents never teach them that it is not nice to spit in public?
Is it also necessary for them to hold tightly onto their private parts when free kicks are allowed? Or, is this them trying to show the crowd their maleness in a not so discrete manner. Here my thoughts tend towards thinking that they believe they are lacking in this field and therefore their egos insist that there is some form of a joint and group show of the masculine.
Is this a man/football thing or do other sports men and women do it as well? As far as I can remember I cannot recall seeing any of these peculiar behavioural patterns when watching cricket or tennis or other sports.
I must also admit to the fact that sport has become so political I am seriously thinking of watching parliamentary debates instead as they seem to be a bit more of what sport aught to be about.