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Modern Football Is Rubbish.

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Let's get it all off our collective chest.

What gets on your tit end about the game, these days ?

I'll start....

All that basketball-style running about in the penalty area as a corner is being taken, and, also, all the shirt-pulling and extra nonsense that never gets punished.

GO !
 
there is no consistancy from the refs, if you pull someone's shirt outside the box more often then not it's a foul so why change when someone's shirt is pulled inside the box? a foul is a foul regardless of where it is commited.
 
The reeeeeaaaaally shit announcer at The Emirates.

"Number THREE, Bacary *cheesy Pantomime bollocks*.......SAGNA !!!!

Fuck.Off.
 
The behaviour which Ferguson and his team have been allowed to get away with over the years, doing real damage to the game in the process as well as ramping up their trophy tally.
 
[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=45078.msg1320687#msg1320687 date=1303588995]
Why do you watch it if you think it is rubbish?
It's not rubbish, its fucking great.
[/quote]

Fucking hell Stulikesdrums !

Chill out.
 
the offside rule, the FA, the complete lack of sense of every single ruling body. The lack of technology, the diving, the metrosexuality, the fact that United are still top of the table.
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=45078.msg1320731#msg1320731 date=1303592808]
the offside rule, the FA, the complete lack of sense of every single ruling body. The lack of technology, the diving, the metrosexuality, the fact that United are still top of the table.
[/quote]


But, apart from that.....what has modern football ever done for us ?
 
The *Sky Barclays Premiership* generation.

Thick, know-fucking nothing cunts.

One cunt, in response to a Liverpool fan, laughing at Arsenal's capitulation last week, responded, on Twitter "have you ever won the league though ?"
 
I've always hated how defenders shepherd the ball out of play when it's slowly rolling out near the corner line. They usually obstruct the attacking player from getting the ball, by making no attempt to actually touch or play the ball themselves, but every attempt to make sure the forward player doesn't get it.

And if a forward player does barge the defensive players (who's making no attempt to play the ball) he's usually deemed to have fouled him.

It's one of those unwritten nonsense rules that seems to be generally accepted; right up there with the protection goalkeepers get for any high hanging ball that a forward has the audacity to contest (usually in Spain/Italy; to be fair, in England, goalkeepers aren't sooooo protected).

That, and diving/simulation - there needs to be retrospective punishment for clear acts of cheating which especially lead to penalties/goals.

That's alway got my goat.
 
[quote author=RolandG link=topic=45078.msg1320669#msg1320669 date=1303587303]
All the play acting and diving when tackled is ridiculous!
[/quote]

This drives me crazy ... I think it may fall under Ross's term, 'metrosexuality of football'
 
[quote author=LeTallecWiz link=topic=45078.msg1320743#msg1320743 date=1303594439]
[quote author=RolandG link=topic=45078.msg1320669#msg1320669 date=1303587303]
All the play acting and diving when tackled is ridiculous!
[/quote]

This drives me crazy ... I think it may fall under Ross's term, 'metrosexuality of football'

[/quote]

Nah, "metrosexuality" is all the stupid hair/primping and preening bollox

Diving is just straightforward shite.
 
Who decided that football should be "family oriented?"

Before the match there is a 2-minute lecture over the PA system about the severe penalties for any lapses in political correctness, viz.:- racism, sexism, homophobia etc. etc.

Stewards prowl the stands listening out for bad language.

The charm of football grounds always used to be that they were a place for blokes to behave in a boisterous, manly sort of way. This does not have to be connected in any way with criminality. Plenty of women used to go on the Kop and they were always treated in a gentlemanly fashion . . . but they never told us how to behave.
 
[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=45078.msg1320748#msg1320748 date=1303595107]
Can I ask why you guys even bother watching football if this is how you feel?
[/quote]Is there nothing about your missus that wind you up Stu?
 
My answer (along with most of the things Rosco has posted) is the need these days a lot seem to have to be an expert or armchair pundit than a fan.

Too many fucking experts and tactical geniuses these days. To many people quick to critiscise their own team to be seen as a superfan or to try to microanalyze every facet of the game and ignore things like goals or PASSION in your team.
 
[quote author=Portly link=topic=45078.msg1320775#msg1320775 date=1303602335]
Who decided that football should be "family oriented?"
[/quote]
£
 
[quote author=themn link=topic=45078.msg1320663#msg1320663 date=1303587017]
Let's get it all off our collective chest.

What gets on your tit end about the game, these days ?

I'll start....

All that basketball-style running about in the penalty area as a corner is being taken, and, also, all the shirt-pulling and extra nonsense that never gets punished.

GO !
[/quote]

Coloured boots. Short socks over long socks. Hairbands. Pay TV. Stadium name sponsorship deals. Play-acting. Players being overhyped by media. 100k-per-week-deals (working man's game my arse). Inflated ticket prices. Champions League and Europa League (I preferred the old European Cup and Uefa Cup and I miss the Cup Winner's Cup too). Expensive beer. Plastic flags and song sheets. Sheiks, oligarchs and sugar daddys. Grown ups in jerseys with player names on their back. The Bosman rule. Agents. Joseph Blatter, Michel Platini and Gareth Bale.
 
I dislike the fact that 90% of the clubs sing the same generic songs. Bloody write something of your own!

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There's an awful lot of aggravation to be found in modern football, but nothing beats the feeling of when a ball flies in the back of the net and that's why we're all hooked. I still think rugby is better all round though.
 
'Fans' calling their own players "cunts" and preferring to continually ignore good performances from certain players as it fucks up the agenda they've had with him for so fucking long.

Oh, and people denigrating Rafa Benitez's achievements as our Manager.
 
diving, diving and diving. Players hitting the ground like they've been shot and rolling around like they're on fire. Also I think players who get paid 90 grand a week to play football should hit the target far more often than they do. Practise your fucking shooting for fucks sake.
 
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