I've just wasted two and half hours in front of the television watching the much-hyped Man. U-Barcelona match. 

I don't watch football, as a rule* - and when I do I realize why. A sort of guilty, empty feeling afterwards. Couldn't I have used the time better? 

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(*Maradonna handing the ball into the net in the World Cup and not having the decency to own up made me realize that football as a 'sport' had lost its relationship with 'sporting' behaviour. Careerism, greed and corporate interests were the new names of the game).