Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Table 3. Roughly the number of pages in Aftonbladet sports (a random day, fairly evenly spread across the year).
Green = most text on the day, yellow = second most. The 11/9 was 13 of the 16 pages of hockey about the
burial of national team goalkeeper Håkan Liv (Who had recently died in a plane crash in Russia). If the
pages are excluded football dominate even in that number.
Sport 110729 110911 120124 120316
Badminton 0 0 0 0
Bandy 0 0 0 0
Basketball 0 0 0 0
Billiards 0 0 0 0
Table tennis 0 0 0 0
Boxing 0 0 0 0
Wrestling 0 0 0 0
Curling 0 0 0 0
Cycling 0 0 0 0
Darts 0 0 0 0
Fencing 0 0 0 0
Athletics 4 0 0 0
Football 4 4 9.8 3
Golf 0.7 0 0 0
Gymnastics 0 0 0 0
Handball 2 0 2 0.7
Floorball 0 0 0 0
Hockey 3 16 2 10
Canoe 0 0 0 0
Skating 0 0 0 0
Cross country skiing 0 0 0 0
Motorsport 1 1 0.2 2
Orientation 0 0 0 0
Rowing 0 0 0 0
Rugby 0 0 0 0
Sailing 0 0 0 0
Swimming 1.3 0 0 0
Biathlon 0 0 0 0
Skating 0 0 0 0
shooting 0 0 0 0
Downhill skiing 0 0 0 0.3
Tennis 0 2 1 0
Volleyball 0 0 0 0
But not even the most diehard football consumers I know, sees anything just because it's football. What is it
that makes a game interesting/entertaining to watch To some extent find out why, the participants were
asked to rank a few different football matches (table 4). It may be noted some patriotism even among these
responses, at least among the respondents who ranked matches with Swedish men and/or women's national
team high. Though the fact that most rated a match with the women's national team significantly lower than
a champions league match (where Swedish teams never are involved) or a match in a World Cup that
Sweden does not participate in (then not even some Swedish players participate), suggesting that the
pleasure of watching football for some/many are about something else than patriotism.
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