Things you hate about modern football

Unbelievable really that BT can spend billions on the rights and then pay eegits like them to be pundits :smiley-laughing002:

RTE have Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy on tonight.. Much better :icon_mrgreen:

 

Most things. If it wasn't for Celtic I think I would only follow football during international tournaments.

Hate the current fan/lad culture.

Overpaid players who are generally poor athletes playing.

Lack of commitment from players - how many of them really care?

The * cliches that get wheeled out again and again 'game of two halves' etc

The general pussification of the sport, and the fake hard men who strut about the pitch thinking their only job is the look mean.

The obscene financial gap between the big leagues, mainly the premiership, and the rest that has seen some famous teams with global support relegated to just bystanders in Europes too composition.

The seeding system which bizarrely lends a hand to the bigger/richer sides, all in the name of ensuring maximum cash for those very sides. Pretty much the opposite of what sport should be.

High level professional players generally being *.

Tbh it's a quality game in many ways, maybe the best sport to simply pick up and play with your mates, but the more commercialised it's become the worse it's generally got.

 

You have much to learn my friend :smiley-laughing002:

Most polarising sport personality in Ireland outwith Roy Keane :smiley-laughing002:

 

Is Eamon Dunphy the same guy who is referred to in The Van by Roddy Doyle?

They call a sausage a 'Dunphy' because it looks like a *, I think :smiley-laughing002:

 

He's also referenced in "Joxer Goes To Stuttgart" :smiley-laughing002:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPU65KCNug[/ame]

 

Haha :smiley-laughing002: brilliant mate!

*, listening to that, I wish we were going to the Euro's

 

+Steve Nicol, Craig Burley.

 

I watched 5 minute's of that show and that was enough. Basically gumsy talking * over everyone..

Shaka Hislop as well. Nah..

 

I only watch it for Gab Marcotti and Sid Lowe.

 

1) Lucrative TV deals inflating the Footballing Industry forcing other European Leagues to find other sources of revenue.
2) Players have rarer loyalty shown to Football Clubs.
3) The Champions League format and predictability.
4) Pantomime dives.
5) The foundation of the English Premier League. Some think Football wasn't played for 1993.
7) Sky Sports which has bred delusional ego while using Football Manager during transfers.
8) Matchday prices.
9) People using punditry as a context of authority.
10) Monday Night Football.
11) Altercations of the Offside Rule.
12) Players getting booked for celebrating.
13) "He must be good if he played in the Premier League" or "Hes playing the SPFL he couldn't hack it in the Premier League". * embarrassing.
14) Sports Science.
15) iPads at Football grounds.

 

Sports science?

 

Aye, they have them in Football Clubs now.

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Money. Ruining the game. Rich getting richer with the fat cats in UEFA & FIFA forever in cahoots with the major rich clubs. The sole aim: lining their own pockets, all at the expense of the average punter. Genuine competition is slowly being filtered out as the rich protect their own interests.

 

We all know what's wrong with the game. The money is obscene. The lack of any real enforcable law to stop these rich * from ploughing money into * little clubs and turning them into powerhouses. Financial fair play my *

Even in America, the home of soulless capitalism, they have wage cap rules in the NFL to at least ensure some semblance of equality. It's a disgrace our game has been allowed to go this way, and the worst times are yet to come.

 

Folk covering their mouths to hide what they are saying. When did that start and why is it necessary? The players do it, managers, assistant managers, directors and so on. What is so important they have to mask what is being said. Who cares? When they are swearing and landing the referees obscenities they don't cover their mouths.

 

Ordinary players getting paid more in a week than life saving surgeons get in a year

Defenders only having two arms round strikers at corners/free kicks. Give a penalty every time, it'll soon stop

Teams playing not to lose

 

Think it was Platini that would rather have a tactical chess like 0-0 than a thrilling 3-3 with mistakes