Modern game

[Gary25]

Many aspects of it are really quite shit isn't it?

From fans getting ripped off with ticket prices, to Club's getting ripped off by teenagers, to shit atmospheres at grounds renowned for their passion and hostile environment for opposition...more so than Anfield these days, to every little and irrelevant topic analysed to the extreme and often by nobodies getting more airtime than they should.

Some old timers must be saddened by how it's going, I know times change and all that, but todays game really is a turn off. I wish I was about to see proper football...players who actually cared for their Clubs, who didn't demand this and that from their Club, players who respected and had time for their fans and the connection was much stronger. Less egos about.

Maybe it's just because we've lost 2 big games but the whole game seems to have gone to pot and that's sad.

 

[Fabio]

The footballing world was already shit, but you don't notice when things go your way.

 

[Gary25]

The footballing world was already shit, but you don't notice when things go your way.

Maybe, but it can't have been as shit as it is now.

I still love going to the games, it's one of the main things I save my £ for but Anfield is a joke nowadays.
Myself and a mate(both of us half bladdered) were told to keep quiet when we tried to get songs going in the Upper Anfield Road during the United game whilst some people wore half and half scarves(against United FFS), some sat in complete silence all game and others took great care with their big fucking fancy cameras taking snaps every 5 mins...tourist central and that's me saying that as an out of towner myself. If you don't get it(as in being a Liverpool fan) fuck off. It's ridiculous getting now.

 

[Gary25]

And I don't mean every single fan has to be up roaring and shouting, because everyone is different but it's clear there's far too many in that ground who don't give a shit about the Club. LFC love that though because the same people are more likely to go into the Club shop and spend a small fortune and buy their warm Carlbergs at £3.50 a poxy bottle.

 

[C/O]

I think we're all just getting old and bitter. I know I am.

 

[Piedro]

Chinese fella in front of me at the Utd game had a selfie stick.

Yep.

 

[red_maradona]

Soon players will be on one million a week and average craig noone's of the league will be earning 100k a week. It's going to get ridiculous.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

Chinese fella in front of me at the Utd game had a selfie stick.

Yep.

Ridiculous.

 

[dantes]

Soon players will be on one million a week and average craig noone's of the league will be earning 100k a week. It's going to get ridiculous.

I don't think the uptrend is going to last long enough for that to happen. You need supporters to buy tickets, shirts and TV subscriptions. To do that they need to be passionate about football and their clubs. To be passionate it needs to be passed down from your family or friends. Now take a look around. The next generation won't give a shit about football because we don't.

 

[Piedro]

I also remember the Besiktas game. Had a fella next to me, half and half scarf and all that. Maybe his first game.

Anyway, we get the penalty. What does he do? Takes his phone out and actually films the penalty being taken. Why don't you watch the fucking thing and actually celebrate a crucial goal, rather than worrying about filming it on your phone? You can watch the pen being scored anytime on the Internet. Why would you choose to film it rather than jumping around celebrating an important goal?

Baffling. I fucking hate football fans.

 

[Piedro]

Next cunt I see doing anything like that is getting a sausage roll launched at him. Not a £3 LFC one either. Pound bakery or Sayers.

 

[737Max]

Lfc one would better Piedro, the contents are hotter than The Lying Rag

 

[gkmacca]

Women. I don't mind them being much more involved as supporters these days, but it's the hypocrisy that grates. About twenty years ago, if a middle class feminist heard you talking about football you'd get this haughty disdain that suggested you were some sort of neanderthal. Now loads of those very same feminists are claiming to be lifelong fans of Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester United. Never the likes of Huddersfield or Ipswich or Gillingham, oddly enough. You used to be able to get away from the middle classes at football matches; now the stadia are full of the bastards. (Poor-postured BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis, the Balok lookalike from Star Trek, is a classic example: apparently she's a 'passionate "Man U" fan. Yeah, right, since when - 2010? Absolute nonsense!)


Chronic hype. It's like living inside the head of that character in the Fast Show who thought everything is 'brilliant'. Take yesterday - two really awful games on TV, but still the relentless babble about 'the greatest league in the world'. It actually drains any real enthusiasm from you.


Fake fans/corporate fans. I think that's why the atmosphere is so crap these days. Loads of people who can afford to go to games these days at the top clubs don't really like football, know about football, care about football. They're just there because it's what you do these days. I bet if someone was to announce, 'Okay, the fashion's over, football's no longer cool, you're free to go off and do something else that we've just deemed to be cool,' it would look like St James's Park after half time - masses would be rushing to get out, so relieved the torture was finally over.

 

[red_maradona]

I don't think the uptrend is going to last long enough for that to happen. You need supporters to buy tickets, shirts and TV subscriptions. To do that they need to be passionate about football and their clubs. To be passionate it needs to be passed down from your family or friends. Now take a look around. The next generation won't give a shit about football because we don't.

i doubt it. we have just signed a record tv deal - even if british fans start feeling alienated, there is the rest of the world, many of which have yet to experience consumerist culture and with ever increasing disposable income, will fill in the gap and feed the monster.

 

[Ryan]

Chinese fella in front of me at the Utd game had a selfie stick.

Yep.

Ridiculous.

Yep, letting chinese into the matches like, world's gone to fuck.

 

[Silver Sean]

Many aspects of it are really quite shit isn't it?

From fans getting ripped off with ticket prices, to Club's getting ripped off by teenagers, to shit atmospheres at grounds renowned for their passion and hostile environment for opposition...more so than Anfield these days, to every little and irrelevant topic analysed to the extreme and often by nobodies getting more airtime than they should.

Some old timers must be saddened by how it's going, I know times change and all that, but todays game really is a turn off. I wish I was about to see proper football...players who actually cared for their Clubs, who didn't demand this and that from their Club, players who respected and had time for their fans and the connection was much stronger. Less egos about.

Maybe it's just because we've lost 2 big games but the whole game seems to have gone to pot and that's sad.

Compared to the 60s, 70s and 80s it is awful. Everything about it it shit. I wish I could just give up on it all together. When finishing 4th is an achievement, the world cup is to be held in Qatar and 19-year old players are demanding over £100,000 a week it's time to look elsewhere. "The big clash between Portsmouth and Norwich only on Sky sports 5!!!!!!" Wankers.
I watch more replaying of old football than live modern football. There is more enjoyment in a youtube clip of The Big Match or FA cup highlights from those days than in any of the bloated shite they sell nowadays.
Luckily for me the baseball season just started so I can ignore football even more.

 

[Silver Sean]

Women. I don't mind them being much more involved as supporters these days, but it's the hypocrisy that grates. About twenty years ago, if a middle class feminist heard you talking about football you'd get this haughty disdain that suggested you were some sort of neanderthal. Now loads of those very same feminists are claiming to be lifelong fans of Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester United. Never the likes of Huddersfield or Ipswich or Gillingham, oddly enough. You used to be able to get away from the middle classes at football matches; now the stadia are full of the bastards. (Poor-postured BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis, the Balok lookalike from Star Trek, is a classic example: apparently she's a 'passionate "Man U" fan. Yeah, right, since when - 2010? Absolute nonsense!)


Chronic hype. It's like living inside the head of that character in the Fast Show who thought everything is 'brilliant'. Take yesterday - two really awful games on TV, but still the relentless babble about 'the greatest league in the world'. It actually drains any real enthusiasm from you.


Fake fans/corporate fans. I think that's why the atmosphere is so crap these days. Loads of people who can afford to go to games these days at the top clubs don't really like football, know about football, care about football. They're just there because it's what you do these days. I bet if someone was to announce, 'Okay, the fashion's over, football's no longer cool, you're free to go off and do something else that we've just deemed to be cool,' it would look like St James's Park after half time - masses would be rushing to get out, so relieved the torture was finally over.

The hype is painful. Don't sell me West Ham v Palace. I don't care. The people who do care will watch it anyway without the ridiculous hyperbole.
This is exactly right.

 

[keniget]

We get a couple of these threads a season, usually when everyone realize we're not going to climb back into the elite any time soon (convenient timing), and it's the same old shit.

Turn off the TV, delete your apps and your bookmarks... stick to MOTD and the papers and when / if you go to the game, get hammered, piss in the stands and sing songs.

 

[Rosco]

So we need to get rid of women, the Chinese and Wolands mates

 

[hmmmmm1]

We get a couple of these threads a season, usually when everyone realize we're not going to climb back into the elite any time soon (convenient timing), and it's the same old shit.

Turn off the TV, delete your apps and your bookmarks... stick to MOTD and the papers and when / if you go to the game, get hammered, piss in the stands and sing songs.

This x 2.

Were (the same) people falling out of love with the game last season when we were challenging for the league?

 

[gkmacca]

We get a couple of these threads a season.

We used to get way more in the old days. And they were much more interesting. And no one said 'of' instead of 'have'. And don't get me started on the state of acronyms [cont. page 64]

 

[Piedro]

This x 2.

Were (the same) people falling out of love with the game last season when we were challenging for the league?

Nah, Selfie sticks weren't around then.

 

[gkmacca]

Nah, Selfie sticks weren't around then.

They were. They were called 'suppositories' in those days.

 

[Silver Sean]

This x 2.

Were (the same) people falling out of love with the game last season when we were challenging for the league?

I was. I hated that I even cared. Modern football just makes me feel dirty and depressed and I am seriously considering having hynotherapy to free my mind of it once and for all. It's like a woman that I used to adore that has repeatedly let me down but I still think can make me happy. Diminishing returns.

 

[hmmmmm1]

I was. I hated that I even cared. Modern football just makes me feel dirty and depressed and I am seriously considering having hynotherapy to free my mind of it once and for all. It's like a woman that I used to adore that has repeatedly let me down but I still think can make me happy. Diminishing returns.

Can't see it changing with the amount of money in the game.

 

[Silver Sean]

Can't see it changing with the amount of money in the game.

Nope.

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

Compared to the 60s, 70s and 80s it is awful. Everything about it it shit. I wish I could just give up on it all together. When finishing 4th is an achievement, the world cup is to be held in Qatar and 19-year old players are demanding over £100,000 a week it's time to look elsewhere. "The big clash between Portsmouth and Norwich only on Sky sports 5!!!!!!" Wankers.
I watch more replaying of old football than live modern football. There is more enjoyment in a youtube clip of The Big Match or FA cup highlights from those days than in any of the bloated shite they sell nowadays.
Luckily for me the baseball season just started so I can ignore football even more.

I was agreeing and feeling your sorrow/pain until that last bit about baseball.

 

[Rosco]

Yeah, the Nba playoffs are next.

There's no point in looking at baseball til they're over

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

Baseball has got to be the most boring and inane sport ever, right after lawn bowl obv.

 

[SummerOnions]

Someone somewhere hit a nail. When all the cunts swan off to something else equally gentrified we can have our sport back. Until then, enjoy watching the game through the guy in front of you's ipad