It looks like you just don't like contact sports WW. Which is fine, but not really football's fault.
I'm not actually a big football fan, it's just so hugely prevalent here that I'm completely basked in it. I was 6 years old when we won the World Cup and I played it all the time as a kid in the school yard. It's definitely not the best sport out there, it has a lot of issues, but it's more fun than some people like to pretend.
I like rugby a lot, as far as sports with contact go, but it has the additional problem of fouls being very subjective (unlike in football when they are generally clear-cut on the replay). And although it has gotten worse, the players are generally better sports than in football. As the British say "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen".
I'll stop derailing this thread now by complaining about the fact that there are no matches today. Rest is for losers, what is this nonsense ?