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Post by mashiniblick on Mar 8, 2014 1:19:18 GMT
Just a few of my pet hates to get us going...
1.Fans being well and truly shafted by those that run the game, switching kick off times for TV
2.Semi finals being held at Wembley. National stadium should be saved for the final, not used at every single opportunity to claw back millions the FA spunked away on building the ****** in the 1st place.
3.Squad numbers instead of numbers 1-11. Get back to proper football (RB = 2, LB = 3 etc).
4.cost of getting in. Total rip off! Especially when you consider how much they pay to see games on the continent. I couldn't give two fucks how our boys play, as long as we've won. So the entertainment factor doesn't bother me, if we play well it's a bonus. Still a con tho.
5.Cost of transport to away games. Set of robbing *******s an all.
6.Banners/flags must have a 'fire safety certificate' even in this age of 'no smoking in stadiums'.
7.Poxy new build out of town stadia. NO TO KINGMOOR PARK!
8.Overpaid ******s employed by clubs - which again result in fans being ripped off to watch them each week.
9.Electronic turnstiles & lack of cash gates...
10.Spineless *******s who are **** scared to call a match off until it's far too late and fans are already getting to the ground. Why not just call it off the day before? 9 times out of 10 the ******s's get postponed anyway...
Feel free to add a few more.
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Post by bstandblue on Mar 8, 2014 8:16:06 GMT
Agree with you, there is very little atmosphere at games now too, I'd rather watch my kids play nowadays, at least their hearts in it.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 8, 2014 15:54:55 GMT
-Pre match handshakes -Coloured boots -Player wearing gloves with short sleeve shirts (can't recall a time playing football when my arms have been warm and my hands cold) -People crying at matches when their teams loses or gets relegated, get a grip FFS -All seated stadia -15 min half time instead of 10: why? -FA Cup final not being 3pm on the Saturday after the league season finishes
Probably loads more thats just off the top of my head, no doubt il be back with more!
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Post by mojo on Mar 8, 2014 17:49:52 GMT
stewards on a power rush premier league, championship, league 1, league 2. it's divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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Post by stephen68 on Mar 8, 2014 20:36:43 GMT
The European Cup being called the Champions League, when it has the top 4 instead of just the national league champions.
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Post by champions95 on Mar 8, 2014 21:14:41 GMT
1)SKY Sports - the root of every evil in today's game and with that a lack of football on free to air tv. Saying that - ITV's coverage is such a big bag of poo , leading us on to....
2) Andy Townsend - enough said.
3 Speaking of which there is a slightly weird idea amongst TV execs that good players make good pundits. Kilbane - average player yet intelligent and insighteful. Michael Owen , quite a decent player in his day but in a tv studio actually manages to make Shearer sound interesting by comparison.
4)Massive squads for the top teams - top quality players who would rather sit on the bench at Chelsea than be a regular at Sunderland etc.
5) Top teams not giving a toss about the domestic cups. It was bad enough when it was the league cup , now they've had a go at the FA cup as well. Some Liverpool fans actually said they would rather finish 4th than win the FA Cup. You'd actually rather qualify for a trophy you have no chance of winning anyway, than simply just win the one you're already in. Nob heads!
6)Diving - well played Tony Pulis for handing out fines to divers at Palace. Now , go on Brendan - Can you do the same? Bringing us very nicely on to...
7) Suarez. If he's going to dive anyway why doesn't some nice big burly defender just kick him up in the air first and give us all a good chuckle. Just know what's going to happen in the world cup though!
8) Whinging managers who fail to spot their own hypocrisy. SAF went purple when his player got sent off against Real last season but I don't remember him offering to retract any of the hundreds of decisions that have gone his way over the years. Likewise Jose - having a good moan at Barca for diving whilst overlooking the fact that he used to have both Drogba and Robben and their strange relationship with gravity.
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Post by mashiniblick on Mar 8, 2014 23:54:04 GMT
-Electronic subs board.
-Lack of old school floodlight pylons at away grounds.
-Number of substitutes now permitted (get back to 12-14).
-No more bottle of Whisky for our Player of the Month.
-Changing kit every season.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 9, 2014 1:11:17 GMT
-Electronic subs board. -Lack of old school floodlight pylons at away grounds. -Number of substitutes now permitted (get back to 12-14). -No more bottle of Whisky for our Player of the Month. -Changing kit every season. - Ah player of the month, here's a litre of Teacher'a usexitcwisely, class! - I'll disagree with changing the kit every season, it winds me up something chronic when parents moan about kits changing every year when they can't afford to keep buying them ... Well stop being a shallow tool and buying your spoilt brats a new kit every year, maybe they'll learn something. Why do you have to have the latest kit anyway, what difference does it make? Idiots. There's a few items of clothes that have come out I'd love to buy, I can't afford them, but I don't twine to the people selling them. The worst thing a out football strips coming out frequently isn't that people can't afford them, it's the sense of unjustified entitlement of the people who want to buy them.
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trotter
Youth Team Player
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Post by trotter on Mar 9, 2014 9:22:50 GMT
Kick off times
Yellow cards for celebrating a goal with supporters
Players who take shirts off and get a yellow card when they all know the rule
Goal music
Super Sunday
Premier League clubs going abroad for pre-season rather than helping out local lower league clubs
ITV coverage
Injured ex players who are guaranteed a job with sky/itv/bbc without having any ability in their role
Rules around administration and how it can benefit clubs, see Leicester, Bournemouth etc
Food and drink prices
The main one as already said for me is ticket prices
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ellbell
Ball Boy
**** Off Nixon & Pattison
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Post by ellbell on Mar 9, 2014 14:47:41 GMT
Clarke Carlisle's commentating Diving- grown men going to the floor when barely touched and especially when they are pulled back but end up doing a superman style dive forward? ? Scott Mathieson - awful ref
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 9, 2014 15:46:03 GMT
Ian Holloway
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Post by mojo on Mar 9, 2014 17:15:11 GMT
players getting life saving medical attention (having a cold spray sprayed on their ankle) 18 inches from the touch line with everyone standing around bored. they should be made to get off the pitch.
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Post by CCU on Mar 9, 2014 20:37:30 GMT
Mon Night Football - Never been a Football Night to me! Would rather we had a Fri Night game to start the weekend than a Mon Night...
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Post by flumeblue on Mar 9, 2014 20:50:25 GMT
Cheating - on and off the pitch. Couple of Examples on the pitch (others have been mentioned above): Holding your head and going down (especially in the penalty area); Obstruction - stopping the opposing player touching the ball as it goes out for a goal kick
Off the pitch: when you're team is leading informing the player who is coming off and he goes to the far end of the pitch - then looks away, feigns surprise and wanders off (eventually)
I pay to see football.
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Post by mojo on Mar 9, 2014 20:55:39 GMT
that bloody last 3 minutes huddled round the corner flag trying to run the clock down when we have a slender lead but have been under the cosh for 85 minutes and invariably giving a free kick away cos we're crap at it.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 9, 2014 23:52:53 GMT
- Karren Brady:
"We have an 18-year-old who works in our ticket office on £15,000 a year, and I’ve got another 18-year-old who trains for 45 minutes a day and occasionally plays a match who earns £15,000 a week. I make sure they mix so there’s an understanding."
A real woman of the people.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 10, 2014 0:03:04 GMT
just had a scroll through, up to 54 so far !
*55: managers not naming 7 subs. If you can't name a full bench of pros put one or two of the youth team on the bench so they know what to expect if they're ever called up. Basically a cowardly ploy of saying "woe is me look how lolo title I have to choose from" by the manager to cover his own back
*56: Players kicking the ball out because an opposition player is injured. The Laws of the game now state that's if the referee deems there is a head injury, he will stop the game. If there is a tackle where a player goes down injured, the other team has every right to play on.
*57: Uncontested drop balls. The ref has no right to tell players they shouldnt contest a drop ball or to pass it to the keeper etc. I loved when Mick McCarthy said "we will be contesting every drop ball this season" a year or two ago.
Next!
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Post by bluemooner on Mar 10, 2014 0:30:30 GMT
Cheating - on and off the pitch. Couple of Examples on the pitch (others have been mentioned above): Holding your head and going down (especially in the penalty area); Obstruction - stopping the opposing player touching the ball as it goes out for a goal kickOff the pitch: when you're team is leading informing the player who is coming off and he goes to the far end of the pitch - then looks away, feigns surprise and wanders off (eventually) I pay to see football. Quite, a free kick is awarded for this occurring anywhere on the pitch except the 5 yards at either end. If a player prevents another from playing the ball whilst making no attempt to do so himself then that is obstruction. Referees should enforce the rules.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 10, 2014 5:07:37 GMT
-Pundits saying a penalty shouldn't be awarded when a player is clearly fouled because he's "going away from goal". So if a player is facing his own goal and attempting to pass to his keeper or fullback and gets chopped, is that not a foul either?
- Goalkeepers warring different shorts and socks to their team mates, often clashing with the ref. keep it simple, refs wear black, keepers wear same as their team but a green top, to be changed if playing a team in green.
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Post by bluemooner on Mar 10, 2014 5:15:15 GMT
The BBC telling us all day every day how much we all love 'Motty'.
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Post by bluemooner on Mar 10, 2014 5:17:48 GMT
Glasgow Rangers Queens Park Rangers Coventry City Swindon Town Wolverhampton Wanderers Derby County Leeds United Portsmouth
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Neil Warnock, his attitude is that all Corinthian Spirit and sportsmanship has to be totally stamped out of the game. Maybe he has now retired.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 10, 2014 5:23:21 GMT
You missed Bournemouth and Leicester
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Post by bluemooner on Mar 10, 2014 5:28:36 GMT
I would put them all into a special Bankruptcy League, sponsored by RBS, such that they could only cheat each other.
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Post by baggieblue on Mar 10, 2014 10:24:51 GMT
Team walking out together, I want to cheer my own team not the opposition. Football is tribal, let me show my support..
Names on the back of shirts. Each player has his own squad number, why does he need his name on his shirt as well? It can't be read from the back of the stand!
Teams who wear stripes/hoops having to have plain backs to their shirts to accommodate the above.
Changing to the away shirt when there is no colour clash.
Wolverbloodyhampton.
Rehearsed goal celebrations. I sometimes wonder if teams spend more time working on these than set pieces! Just express your joy at scoring
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Post by screamingbluemurder on Mar 10, 2014 11:06:51 GMT
Prem players earning in a week amounts that would keep L1 & L2 teams operating successfully for a year.
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Post by sirjimmyglass on Mar 10, 2014 12:19:46 GMT
Substitutes having to wait until the player who is coming off reaches the line before they're allowed to go on the pitch. Just get on the pitch as soon as you can.
In a similar way, substitutes being called to be told that they're being brought on, then spending the next 10 minutes putting their strip, shinpads and boots on. Why aren't they ready already?
The offside rule - or more specifically the ruling on 'interfering with play'. There are so many times when players are most definitely interfering with play because their presence makes defenders make a decision. Just because you don't touch the ball, that doesn't mean you're not interfering. Joleon Lescott yesterday was a prime example.
Booooooooooooooooo!
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Post by cufcmike on Mar 10, 2014 12:42:14 GMT
When the pundits need to see a replay 9 times in slow motion from different angles, to decide the referee made the wrong call, then berating him for the decision that he only saw once.
League One appeals are never even looked at. Its rare in the Premier League now that a red card results in the appropriate ban.
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Post by lufbrablue on Mar 10, 2014 13:02:11 GMT
Agree with the pundits and replays
A few of mine: -Diving -Ticket prices -Overhyped and Over covered to suit 24hr sports channels, we dont need the level of analysis they go into and things are blown out of proportion -Karen Brady - criticises BT sport for hiring Andy Gray yet has spent 20 years working for the owner of the Daily Sport -The English National Team - players see it as a stepping stone to commercial deals and think they can decide when international career is over -Poor punditry - Gary Neville has been superb but too many of the others state what us mortals already know i.e He should have done better with that shot or the defender was in the wrong -Supporters attending games treated as dirt as opposed to Customers, we are a line on a balance sheet. No other business can treat customers the way clubs do -Players Wages, How does Wayne Rooney deserve a 2/300k a week deal drop wages and in turn drop ticket prices -Making injured players go off the pitch. How is it fair if you win a free kick in an attacking position that your striker who was just fouled has to go off - Players and Managers blaming refs espcially in post match interviews. - Sacking managers without giving them a chance -The United Trust- in it for themselves operating off the North Korean communication hand book.
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Post by bluemooner on Mar 10, 2014 13:26:25 GMT
a)Players in the North Lancashire League having agents.
b)Agents at every level convincing players that they are worth several times their actual value. Clubs in Leagues 1, 2 & Conference should pay players according to what can be afforded and not try to get around the latest rules. Then there would be no financial crisis in the game. If you are a Conference level player and no better, do not expect to be paid 3 times the national average wage.
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Post by siamesedream on Mar 10, 2014 14:38:17 GMT
*People calling penalty shoot-outs "a lottery". How is it a lottery? The most basic premise of football is a player kicking the ball into a 192 foot square area past another player who is trying to stop it. How is that a lottery? Chances are, if you're good at football, you'll be able to do that.
*"Sports Psychologists, or more so the perception of them. I personally don't see the point. But if you criticise them, you're viewed as some Charles Hughes-esque dinosaur. If all teams get one then surely we are back to square 1 and may as well not have bothered
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