Too Much Football

There has always been loads of football on over the Christmas period, but it has seemed even more extreme this season.  I think this is because it feels like there has been at least one match on almost every day - even this week even though the holiday period is already over.  In fact, a quick check of the fixtures reveals that from Friday 22 Dec through to Thursday 4 Jan, there were/are only 3 days where there wasn't a game on.  And two of those were Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  They televise all the games here, so that has meant a LOT of football on American telly - and I have neither the time nor desire to watch all the games, so a lot of fast-forwarding just to watch highlights.  The English league is clearly slave to the TV market - for better or for worse.  They also televise some of the rugby here, so if you include those days then there was only Christmas Day where there wasn't any British sport on.  Jeez, they even televised the Darts final live here today (though it was only live on the East Coast, we had a 3 hour delay on our "live" darts - I've never seen or heard of the guy who won).  The controversy over the guy allegedly coughing whilst the other guy was throwing their darts even made the "weird news" part of the sports roundups!  This all goes to show that American sports suck - and that they are even turning Americans to follow soccer.  When strangers hear my accent, they always ask which Premier League team I support - the English league is a big deal here, and only getting bigger.