The sub popped up in my feed a few months ago and all I really see here is people complaining (mainly about City, Newcastle, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and refs) and posting about conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
There’s very little in the way of moderate football discussion, and it feels like a circlejerk at times.
Has it always been this way? R/soccer has had its own challenges for a long time, but even there the proportion of interesting content tends to be higher.
I enjoy participating in subs like r/championship and r/theother14
Genuinely, what is there to like more over at “the other 14”?
It was supposed to be a sub that highlights news from clubs ignored by the media, but all it actually is a cesspit of people moaning about the existence of “the media 6” and “overdramatic” fan reactions quoted from this PL thread. The only difference is that it is dominated by the next biggest club’s fanbases instead.
I love going there and defending a top 6 club from obvious bitter hypocrisy
Well this is going to be a new hobby, people on here take football too seriously
Everyone takes football too seriously.
It’s funny going in there and talking as a neutral because as soon as someone is sad enough to dig in to your post history and reveals you’re a “big 6 intruder”, suddenly your knowledge of football is minimal and you couldn’t possibly understand how smaller clubs are ran.
The pure meltdown is hilarious you get downvoted for the most sane comments.
I had a recent example of that when discussing the pointlessness of Xg with someone. A Villa fan essentially came in afterwards and made exactly the same point. I got downvoted in to oblivion and the Villa fan ended up on like +10. The tribalism is just silly at times.
Not like Arsenal have been overdramatic lately… 🤔🤣
That’s kinda my point though. Overdramatic Arsenal fans (or other big 6 clubs) shouldn’t be a point of discussion for “the other 14”. The whole point that sub exists is to avoid talking about clubs like mine. But all it ends up being, more often than not, is an opportunity for people to slag off big clubs, their players, or their fans with very little opposition, and then thinking they’re definitely right because everyone else in the sub shares the same bias? It’s literally become a circlejerk.
People are generally better informed about football there in fairness
People in here are informed, but the conversation just resorts to nonsense tribalism after maybe 3 comments, and that’s not an issue only caused by “big 6” fans.