Watch football on TV with no sound. Try it. It's fun. This is how I watched Spurs-Chelsea today, not necessarily out of choice.
What it did was free me from the reliance on the technical expert to tell me that Chelsea needed to do something to get back in the match (score a goal?) or that Tottenham's defence were doing an excellent job of closing down and space for Chelsea. I watched, enjoyed and made up my own mind about how Dele Alli did an excellent job of creating two huge gaps in the Chelsea defence to score his two headed goals.
The no sound reminded took me back a number of years to watching football on Italian TV. It was quite common for there to be a journalists' strike in Italy, amongst many other strikes, and this meant that live matches would be shown without commentators. It felt odd. We grumbled about the non-stop chatter normally but when there was silence I missed somebody telling me what was going on, even though I could see it all myself.
I won't be watching in silence on purpose from now on. Listening to the commentators can be a big part of the fun. And I have been known to turn up the volume to listen to the supporters. And that reminds me of a suggestion I have: subtitles for the supporters' songs.
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