Is your DH forever watching football on TV?

I am in my craft room typing this while my better half watches football yet again. I used to mind, but I now love the time to myself, no interruptions. However, I will have to endure the post match postmortem over Sunday dinner.

Good point HazelGreen, at least I know where DH is as he's also an avid (TV) sports fan. Not only that, he's always saying 'just come and watch this' and rewinds and replays the relevant bit so it takes twice as long as it should!

My husband's favourite is snooker, he'll watch for hours on end, so that's when I go online.
Also rugby, he shouts at the referee. I usually watch rugby too, we used to go to the matches when we lived in Hull (FC.)

Slightly different angle here. DH doesn't watch football on TV and neither do I but I do go to live games home and away as I have supported and watched our local team for 50 years. It is and has always been "my" time although I did take the children and now my oldest grandson has got the bug so he comes with me now.

Oh joy! Hamilton's in pole position today - just like watching scaleletrix, round and round and round.

I've just been informed that the match starting now is the first of 3 this afternoon!

Scrrreeeeeeeaaaaaaaammmmmmm!

In all probability there will be football on during evenings next week too, so might not get a break. I do need craft room time with many cards needing made, but it's the principle! Grrr!!!

It's my own fault really as I worked night shift for years so didn't follow any programs for myself and when DH came along he just carried on his football (actually he'll watch any sport) habit. What mostly annoys me is that when I ask if there's football on he replies yes, but nothing he has to watch ... then watches it anyway!!!

No, but rugby and F1 are another matter. But in his defence if we had sky I would lose the summer watching cricket all day!

Sometimes there is just no escape from it.

After the Asian tsunami a dd was working in Aceh, Indonesia, and after she'd been there a couple of years we went to visit her.
We met her in Medan, a big Indonesian city I'd never even heard of until then.
She recommended a particular restaurant to eat in that first night - guess what, there was a massive TV with a Manchester United match on!

Previously, while Dh was based in Jakarta for a while, I went to join him for a holiday in the area. We flew to Sulawesi, to a fairly (to me) remote place where there was a lovely beach hotel right on a peninsula looking over the Celebes Sea. There were very few guests - Indonesia had recently been through massive political upheavals - and the poor barman was dying to practise his English on us (dh did speak some of the local language) - and what did he want to talk about? English football! Man U etc. Dh did his valiant best, but I swear that if he just about knew who David Beckham was, that was it. I felt sorry for the poor barman, who evidently thought anyone English would know all about it!

Accept it as an addiction! at least you know where he is and not down at a pub or betting office. Just a pity it is 24/7 or seems like that. What with subs to sky sports, I dont feel guilty about the odd treat for myself. I have separate decent tv/recording box. But do seem to watch less and less these days and always prerecorded stuff. Tablet makes for good viewing alternative and not restricted to any room.

P.S. He complains about our Virgin Media bill every month and their price increases, but £35 of that is to include his sports package and I have to admit he gets his money's worth there

We don't have SKY which is where most of the sport resides I understand. DH likes to see his team (spurs) if they are playing and sometimes England but he is a rugby/cricket man and I don't mind those being on but he usually records the highlights and watches them when I'm not around.

DD2's DH watches all sport all the time so my has and when I said something about this quite nicely asking if they ever watched films, dramas etc his mother rounded on me as she watches it all the time too!

My DH has a paper strewn man-cave with a huge telly, a recliner chair, his desk and two computers and a laptop (don't ask) and the phone within a two second grab. Suits me; I just shut the door and give it a bang at feeding time.

Tell me about it!!!! A friend of ours calls the game of rugby "Legalised Thuggery"

older men seem to get addicted to certain TV programmes! Mine has gone off football, but now watches rugby. Even worse, he has the TV on very loud (he is rather deaf and won't do anything about it) and then shouts loudly at the players. When there is no rugby, it is endless repeats of Grand Designs, war films, news, trashy romantic films on obscure channels. Thank goodness I love reading and going out with friends!!

Why is it the woman of the house who is banished to another room?
I'm rarely 'banished' - in fact DH usually says 'do you want me to go in the other room to watch football?' But I nearly always say no to that because the other room has my sewing machine, my iMac, my lovely heated massage chair and footstool, and a TV. The only thing it doesn't have is the fire, but I have a fan heater if I need a blast of warmth. I'd much rather be in the 'other room'

Yes, he always has done, football and any other sport known to man. I used to watch football too but over 40 years the novelty has worn thin so I only watch when either England or my club side are playing. He would be lost without the telly, if it's not sport it's every variation of CSI, Avengers, Star Trek and the like. Just as well I would rather read so we don't end up fighting over the TV in the lounge. Often he will go upstairs to watch something if I am watching 'Enders or Strictly or Missing. We don't watch much of the same stuff now except for Planet Earth or Bake Off that was.

Fortunately my husband is an F1 fan so it's not on all the time. I agree why do they have all those endlessly boring discussions pre and post race/ match.
Can't say too much as I am a soap fan sadly but we manage without too many arguments. I really do dislike darts though and he is a fan.

I think it would almost be preferable to have a sport mad husband; mine watches the news channel all day and Dave all night if I don't moan and grumble a bit. We do watch series on the Terrestrial Channels if I keep saying "That looks good," often enough in the trailers and spot them as he flicks through the program list other wise I sit on my Mac contributing to MN and GN!

I am sure they are playing football 24/7 somewhere in the world and my husband watches most of it. He even watches women's football now and says they are more skilful than the men!

I have my own tv and watch what I like, or read, or use my computer or go out with friends to follow my many interests. He is very happy for me to do this. I have a smattering of football knowledge in my head which is useful in quizzes.

The nice thing is that at half time he comes to see if I am OK and tell me he loves me. . He doesn't get upset when his team doesn't win.

Thankfully, DH has no interest in any kind of sport. I've often wondered why there isn't a sports channel, so the rest of us can watch something else without continually having to dodge sports programmes.

Does he watch football did you say .......

All the time - weekends, week nights - surely to goodness there can't be so many ways of seeing a ball go into a net that he hasn't seen them all by now

Many of them are 'good goal', 'good goal' - these people are paid millions to kick a ball for an hour or so a week, every goal should be good - having said that if the ball goes in the net surely it's good

The odd match I don't mind - but England, all the English leagues, Scottish leagues and Italian leagues, we have the lot

There - enough said

My husband never watches football but does watch endless quiz shows. He doesn't even notice when he watches repeats that he has seen before. I just leave him to it.

I can safely say my husband has never watched football on TV and never will!

It's a bit different in our house, I absolutely love watching football, also tennis, F1 and sometimes golf. It's my OH who's not keen, he will watch the England matches with me, and the F1, but other than that he's not really interested. We have more than 1 TV so it's not usually a problem.

I feel your pain, MrsMopp. If it wasn't football, it was anything that involved a ball of some shape or size, occasionally interrupted by crab fishing in the arctic circle or time team! Unfortunately, he died last year from pancreatic cancer and I till feel guilty for not having the /golf/rugby/football on tv.