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1) Formula 1
2) Show Jumping

err that’s it
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F1
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Women's football
F1
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Formula 1
Boxing
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Darts
Snooker
Golf
F1
Anything American
Horse racing
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Proposition Joe wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:40 am Women's football
F1
At the highest levels womens football is ok, but some of the group stages of the european cup games and all of the WSL games are shocking. I see better down at level 9. If womens football is to take off I think they need to make the goals a bit more proportionate to the average size of a woman. Some of the goalkeeping is Hackney & Leyton league stuff.
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Post by Chicken Dhansak »

Basketball
Horse Racing
Rugby League
Darts
Show Jumping
Golf
Cycle Racing
And any other football league club other than
Leyton Orient FC.
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LittleMate wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:16 pm
Proposition Joe wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:40 am Women's football
F1
At the highest levels womens football is ok, but some of the group stages of the european cup games and all of the WSL games are shocking. I see better down at level 9. If womens football is to take off I think they need to make the goals a bit more proportionate to the average size of a woman. Some of the goalkeeping is Hackney & Leyton league stuff.
I don't care about what they have to do to improve it as a spectacle - maybe nothing? Maybe it's fine as it is? - I just don't really care. Aware it's probably a bit of a mad position, it's still football, it's not like it's a different sport, but I just don't have room to feel anything about it. Maybe it's a victim of overall football saturation.

Also, and again this is probably counter to other things I believe in and practice, I get annoyed that women's football is increasingly labelled 'football' on the BBC and Guardian sites so you see the headline 'Arsenal sign Sanchez' and think, 'oh aye?', and then you click and realise it's about the EWPL and I don't care.
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Anything horse related
Rugby league and Union
F1
Long distance running
Sailing
Bowls
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Formula 1
Rugby
Cricket
Horses
Lobotomised Toffs shooting or chasing animals. (I'd like to see how they like it and would pay to watch)
Darts (not even a sport)
Basketball
American Football
Golf (just about a sport I guess)
Boxing. (Not saying everyone that likes boxing is a moron, but every moron I've ever met, does)
Swimming


Only really into:
Football
Tennis
, with a vague interest in cycling.
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Anything horse related
Rugby league and Union
F1
Long distance running
Sailing
Bowls
Table tennis
Squash
Basketball
Cycling
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Horses
American sports
Cricket (although I pretend to when I get invited to the hospitality suites at Lords)
Golf
Rugby (both types)
F1 (got into it a bit quite a few years ago, but then just zoned out)
All posh sports
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I'll agree with everyone about F1, which is a shame as I used to love it as a kid but I gave up when they introduced the DRS push to pass thing. If you need to artificially allow people to overtake your Motorsport class is already broken.

Football, outside of team you are emotionally tied to it's hard to argue it isn't a shocking sport. Ball in play figures are pathetic and watching every break get stopped by someone holding the player back is just dull, and so on and so forth.

Rugby, a game that punishes attacking play and encourages passing sideways until the defending team gives a way a penalty for having their shoe laces untied or some other arbitrary foul that changes game to game depending on the referee. There's a reason ruby fans have to get so drunk to sit through games.

Darts which shouldn't be in this list as it isn't a sport but enough dullards who are too fat to play actual sport think it is, as it gives them an elite sport they can relate to.
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Horse racing darts snooker
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formula one
Basketball- watching it but enjoyed playing it.being 6 ft 4 helps
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Basketball
American Football

Given the Formula 1 mentions above, will say I used to follow it big time but am totally bored with it now, never bother with it.
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Is fishing a sport? If so... fishing.

Rugby
Anything with horses
Anything on ice
Anything with judges (e.g gymnastics, synchronised swimming, ice dancing).
Motorcycling
BMX (adults racing around on kids' bikes - meh!)
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Post by Chief crazy horse »

Formula 1 and basketball.
I'd even put indoor bowls way ahead of these two.
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Post by tuffers#1 »

Not many sports I dont like if I'm honest . F1 Is probably the most Tedious .
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Darts fishing, snooker, bowls.
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Rugby & Formula one (Yawn)
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