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The Most Overrated Sporting Events

For fear of sounding too grumpy or annoying anyone ... I've done Most Overrated Sportspeople, but what are the Most Overrated Sporting Events? All hype. Consistently disappointing. Self-mythologising. Barely sport at all. Inexplicably popular etc The Masters ... the obvious place to start. I quite like the Masters, but the fact that it thinks itself the most important thing in the world and a quasi-religious experience does my head in. It rarely turns out to be a great pure golf event (it was this year, I admit), it's the same course over and over, a limited field, it's a bit racist, an enormous way up its own arse, and I often feel it punishes good golf too much and doesn't punish genuinely bad shots enough.. So, yeah, not that I haven't watched all four days of it every year for about three decades. the Masters is the most overrated sporting event going. The Old Firm game ... Graeme Souness fiercely saying it's bigger than Liverpool-Everton, bigger than