Wimbledon..Wimbledon ..Wimbledon

Kate1949

I put the TV on the other day. It was Wimbledon BBC1 and BBC2, football on ITV and a Grand Prix on C4. Ridiculous.

I agree, I don't like watching sport on TV and I've only just recovered from DH watching the rugby.
The best thing about smart TVs is that you can watch virtually any programme after the event, so why on earth don't they limit it to one channel and give the non-sports people amongst us an alternative.
I'm really not looking forward to the Olympics, might watch a few finals but it really does go on.

Goodness it's only 2 weeks in a year. The football seems to have been going on for weeks. It just happens that Wimbledon, the Euros, the Open and the Olympics all come at once. Its not as if there arn't dozens of channels to choose from.

I hate all sport except tennis and the Grand Slams are avaiulable only on paid-for services - except Wimbledon! So I'm happy and there are many other free channels for peopel to use. I particularly loathe the way football domates all year round now.

When I had severe whiplash in 2002 (hit at 60mph whilst stationary by a woman on her mobile!) I spent 11 days lying on the couch with a neck brace but able to move my eye from one side of the screen to the other I watched daytime Wimbeldon coverage all day every day (other programmes then were limited!) - I really haven't watched much tennis since!

Wimbledon Wimbledon Wimbledon ....love it ..love it ...love it. Definitely a love match for me!

I think that most of the Olympic coverage will be on iPlayer.

I love tennis but too much is too much when you get the same game on both BBC1 & 2? And then Clare Balding incessantly dissecting every match!
Please can we have the veterans ! That’s worth watching!
Sunday was tennis tennis, football & motor racing 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

I am so fed up with football & tennis on all the time

Love the tennis and never tire of watching it. It's only two weeks a year whereas football seems to be never off the screen. A bit disappointing and a bit worrying this year with lots of injuries, court-side physios etc. I can't help wondering if the players nowadays push their bodies to limits that are too extreme. Sad to see young players such as Raducanu with injuries and undergoing surgery.

I have just had knee replacement surgery so housebound for 6 weeks and I am going stir crazy with nothing but sport on TV, on every channel, and I do not subscribe to streaming channels eg netflicks etc, and olympics starting soon, I am climbing the walls with boredom!

Why is sport equated with balls? There are plenty of other INTERESTING sports available, many of which would make good tv viewing.
I remember Manchester Evening News refusing to report any Judo because it didn't involve a ball

It’s same 2 weeks every year you could always record stuff previous to it starting. Personally I love Wimbledon and go when I can.

It’s about time the BBC had its own dedicated sports channel with red buttons for what is available on that day.
Not everyone wants wall to wall tennis, football, athletics, snooker etc etc.

As a retired PE teacher and netball player/ umpire I love all sport but I really don’t ENJOY football 🤷‍♀️
I will watch aspects of Wimbledon but not all matches. I love it when there are very close games.
My day at the London Olympics was one of my best days ever and I so admire/ respect all of the training, hardship, heartache our athletes in all of the sports go through. I think football is overrated and top players over paid for falling about. They need to train with rugby players then they will know how to train hard!
Sport, for me , can be a great leveller but increasingly it is becoming out of the grasp of young people with limited financial means . I shall soak up the Olympics like a sponge !
I would like to see a new Wimbledon champion though and feel a lot of the charismatic players have disappeared.

What about Football.... Football.... Football, disrupting our soap schedules?

farview

I love watching Sport...but I like other programmes as well...why does it absolutely take over 😡...what percentage of viewers watch it soooooo much?

What annoys me is that they take off the usual channels to put sport on. In this day and age of technology, surely they can make a special channel for sports and not disrupt my evening viewing. I end up watching films.

By the way, I hate sport. Our two sons and my late husband were sport mad. Football, Cricket, etc. etc. you name it they watched it. I used to go out and leave them to it when it was on TV or have a lovely quiet afternoon in when they went to matches.

I love the Olympics, so it’d be churlish of me to complain about the tennis, which leaves me cold. A dedicated BBC sports channel seems like a sensible idea, but perhaps they don’t have the wherewithal to buy the rights to enough sport to fill it?

Well I would love to see some sailing , but fat chance! Give me the rugby not that other game with the round ball!! But actually it is a good time to catch up with things that needed to be done and just watch the bits I am interested in. I enjoy a good match rather than just endless aces however good. But our favourite was always to go and pick strawberries on the wimbledon finals day. we usually got good weather, hardly anyone about, and would get a good amount and go home and make strawberry jam that night. Then when you are eating it in the middle of a miserable patch of weather in November enjoy the memory of the picking day to remember that yes we might get some better weather!

Can you get iPlayer, fsrview?

There are loads of old programmes on there, we watched an Antiques Road Show we hadn't seen before.
We did leave Djokovic to get on with it and watched Long Lost Family instead

My H has Alzheimer's/dementia..I have just 2 hours of peace and quiet 8-10pm...Its the only time i actually watch tv for some "me' time...some quiet time... from repetitive questions from H starting at 6a.m...

Sunday's I look forward to watching Antiques roadshow..didn't happen..
absolutely no need for both BBC channels to be taken over by Wimbledon ...should be a designated sports channel 🤦‍♀️

I absolutely love tennis and look forward to Wimbledon. Compared to the overload of football all year round I don’t think Wimbledon is overdone. Other channels are available

RosiesMaw

The clue is in the name Wimbledon Fortnight, not to be confused with MOTD every Saturday night or Euro24 or the Six Nations or Ski Sunday .
But for those bored by all the sports programmes this summer, cheer up, only 3 weeks to the Olympics.

Ooooo you are awful... but I like you !!!!

Seriously I love it. Watching Tennis , the Footie and F1..... especially when Lewis wins at Silverstone........

The clue is in the name Wimbledon Fortnight, not to be confused with MOTD every Saturday night or Euro24 or the Six Nations or Ski Sunday .
But for those bored by all the sports programmes this summer, cheer up, only 3 weeks to the Olympics.

Calendargirl

RosiesMaw

It’s only two weeks a year - live and let live.

Yes, preferably on just the one channel though.

Would you be so keen if it were a sport you’re not remotely interested in, I don’t know, darts or ten pin bowling maybe?

Oh no, don't mention the snooker
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Maybe the news is available on line, but I like to watch it, properly, when it is supposed to be on. It was just guesswork as to when it would start.

I was pleased when Lulu Sun won.