You have expressed my feelings excellently. I find football a very entertaining sport (not that I have the money to watch it, or the time / energy / social media connections to keep very up to date with it) but the fanbase can be absolutely braindead.

I mean, I love rivalries and some shithousery, but things escalate too often, too much, and too quickly.

Still, wish I knew of ways that would allow me to keep up to date with stuff without costing me a good chunk of change or a huge amount of time, or having to have a twatter account or whatnot.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

umm, piracy bro. Pirating sports streams or torrents is an ancient practice, check out !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com their megathread, ask their or check out the freemediaheckyeah site (you find it on their subreddit).
for news I use an arabic site called Kooora I don't know what English site is popular, using a British free VPN you can view youtube videos of highlights from their local channels, they make these highlights cuz they hold copyrights.
I'm not urging you to watch football, just that not having money isn't a reason not to do so.