I was annoyed to when sawing the Football stuff, not interested in that so and i dont like stuff that i dont want like most of you.
but just 5 minutes searching in the settings and you can disable most of the stuff, only thing that stays is the Football Button when you press the Opera Symbol at the right bottom of the start site.
to getrid of the navigation shorcut and the Tickertape banner press opera sign.
then the settings symbol on the bottom,.
the settings for the shortcut are under "Navigation Shortcut" .
the settings for the tickertape banner are under "Personalization" disable sport scores there