This week was blighted by the occurrence of Transfer Deadline Day which fell on Monday. Many lamented that is an extremely boring Transfer Deadline Day with little dramatic transfer activity. What they omitted to mention was that every transfer deadline day is boring.
Here are sporting events which fail to live up to their billing in some way.
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals
We're open to the idea that some citizens in some nations might derive enjoyment from these contests. From our perspective they are uniformly awful experiences.
We would be in favour of abolishing quarter-finals and creating two round robin groups of four on the model of the 1982 Spain World Cup.
All Floyd Mayweather fights
Against their better judgments, many erstwhile sensible individuals are persuaded to get up at stupid and a half in the morning to watch Floyd Mayweather emerge unscathed from his latest encounter.
Most end up feeling cheated in its aftermath, resenting Mayweather for being so technically proficient.
The first race of the Formula One season
Of course, all Formula One Grand Prix are disappointing in their own way but, following the first race, most fans have long since stopped expecting any excitement thus precluding the possibility of disappointment.
Furthermore, for those who followed Formula One in the 1990s, the opening race of the season took place in Melbourne meaning that they were forced to get up at ungodly hour to see the guy with the fastest car win.
Transfer Deadline Day
Nope, nothing whatsover wrong with this image pic.twitter.com/KWBe2YPAVg
— Ian Prior (@ianprior) September 1, 2015
The curse of the purple dildo is what people are dubbing it these days. Transfer deadline days have been largely devoid of interest since that seminal moment, even for hardened transfer nerds.
Groans about how little transfer activity is going on is as much a feature of transfer deadline day as Paddy Power inspired bantz on twitter.
Irish Open
*Only applies to years when Shane Lowry doesn't win.
Usually won by some anonymous Scandinavian with a surname like Hanson or Karlson or Svenson. Irish interest, as often as not, ends on the Friday. Was better when introduced by Myles Dungan sitting in front of a blue screen.
All recent and future Leinster football finals
It's enough to make a nostalgic of even the most forward looking types. There was a time when the Leinster Football Final was a humdinger of an event, a tense showpiece in which the result was always in doubt. Sadly, it's been neutered by the lack of occasion in modern times.
The last two Leinster Finals have been won by sixteen points and thirteen points respectively, and Westmeath were content to keep the margin down the latter in 2015.
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