A Czech Writing About Football in Africa

Hang on, hang on,

hang on.

When you say every game, come on, you can't do it all.

I have two screens, so sometimes I watch two games at the same time, but even with two screens, you can't watch it all.

So you have to tell me, be honest, which

leagues

or

competitions do you really specialize

in?

no okay so competition wise it's just the Czech League so that's of course the key for me to be able to like I barely even watch the Champions League maybe the final um the Premier League I was once fond of and actually that was my I would consider it my primary uh League maybe like um eight years ago or something like that but for the last uh six years or so it's definitely just the Czech League um and at the same time full full admission like the Prague Derby yesterday was basically the first and maybe even the last game I'll watch live during the season.

So normally what I do, because I have access to download through my side job, I have access to download the games and I, of course, also skip all those, you know, play acting and that sort of stuff.

So basically I make it a clean time.

Yeah, so...

i i cut through all the all the boring stuff so basically like one game uh takes me maybe something like uh 50 minutes or oh my

god

50

60 minutes

yeah

which is very that's ingenious that's ingenious but that also means you have an amazing insight into all these nerdy stats As in, for example, our coach of one of the best Czech clubs or arguably the best Czech club at the moment, Slavia Prague, he often talks about it.

He complains about the fact that there is there's too much downtime, like we don't we don't play football as much.

And there's a lot of, you know, interruptions and stuff.

stuff like that so obviously we have been trying to when i say we i mean the football the football world the uh the officials have been trying to crack down on it right yeah we saw we saw what happened at the world cup um the the new rules they they decided to implement and i think uh they are following suit in the in the czech league in the premier league now so that that's probably that's going to mean too much that you will probably be watching more football

yeah yeah in a way but i also actually going into the world cup because that's of course one event where i i don't speed through the games and i just watch it on tv like everyone else i was actually worried that i'll i'll be snoozing off during the games because there'll be just too much wasted time and i'm not used to it from my usual way of watching the games But in fact, as you just described, the way they cracked down on all those negative trends, it actually felt quite okay.

And I managed to watch a lot of games.

So, yeah.