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

  • tmfitz7@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I love going there and defending a top 6 club from obvious bitter hypocrisy

    • Nels8192@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • tmfitz7@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        The pure meltdown is hilarious you get downvoted for the most sane comments.

        • Nels8192@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          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.