Things In Football That Grind Your Gears

This rule/law about advantage, where players get away with bookings that they actually deserve.

The referee can wait a few seconds to allow a possible advantage to develop, and if the non-offending team does not benefit and gains no advantage, the free kick can be given for the original offence. However, the non-offending team should not be given two chances to benefit. For instance, if a player is fouled, recovers, has a shot at goal and fails to score, the referee cannot go back and give a free kick for the original offence.

If the referee plays the advantage following an offence that would have resulted in a red or yellow card being shown, the card must be shown the next time the game stops. However:

• if the offence was denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, a yellow card is shown instead of a red card, as playing the advantage allowed the attack to continue
• if the offence was stopping or interfering with a promising attack, no card is shown as playing the advantage allowed the attack to continue
  

Personally, I think its ridiculous. Wonder what would happen if a team stopped playing and pointed to the foul?

It's a relic from the early to mid 1900's when British workers in the cities would work full day Monday to Friday and half day Saturday with Sunday off

So Saturday lunchtime was the start of their weekend, their "Friday night"

So they'd have the few bob in their pocket and head off to the match with the lads

I get that people are nostalgic for that, but they talk as if it's some holy period of deep reverence that can't possibly be moved

The default should be that you allow as many fans to watch their team play as possible. Any rule that results in people not having a legal way to watch their favourite team play at the weekend is not fit for purpose in my book

Watching United on a 16:30 kick-off on a Sunday might suit those in their armchairs, but is awful for travelling Brighton or Bournemouth fans.

Its been mentioned before but penalties when a forward falls over a goalie who is not trying to bring him down are ridiculous. Brentford got one last night v Newcastle.

The "cobing back from offside" ruke is also in the news again. A player who was in an offside position but who is onside when the ball is played should not be penalised.

Fans throwing bananas at black players.

DDunno , when i hear Casemiro is on 350k per week, I understand that he is a burden on Man Utd.

How Internet feeds on my phone have so many links to articles about something Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards or Roy Keane said.

New ones every, single, day.

Does anyone care what inane drivel comes out of these guys mouths any more?

1000% this. I wonder does the media think it's slightly obsene if they mention annual salary instead?

Gianni Infantino.

A myriad of reasons, but the latest, a desperate attempt to ensure that Ronaldo appears at the summer tournament.

Also, related, the fact that FIFA are trying to link the purchase of WC2026 tickets to this ridiculous competition.

And, for the hat trick, rumours of dynamic pricing being introduced for WC2026 tickets sales.

It screams of desperation from Infantino. Plans for this WCC clearly are not going to plan.

Tragedy chanting is a topic that will probably ratchet up to the Liverpool fans next season after yesterday's incident. The PL really need to nip that in the bud very quickly if it does start to happen.

This is probably the lowest thing I've ever seen at a match. This poor excuse of a human should've done time. How anyone can be that sick is beyond me.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/bradley-lowery-football-sunderland-sentencing-b2449082.html#:~:text=Bradley%2C%20a%20mascot%20at%20his,illness%20aged%20six%20in%202017.

They've been plenty guilty of it themselves over the years. Loads of evidence of 'pool fans shouting "Munich….Munich" and singing "who's that dying on the runway" at Utd fans for decades at this stage. Any reason you're calling for it to be nipped in the bud now that it affects one team in particular?

Even their official Twitter account has been guilty of it.

What grinds my gears:

"he got the ball"………………….means absolutely nothing if he also fouled the player. Getting the ball isn't licence to then go through someone.

'Experts' who haven't a clue about the laws of the game. 90%+ of football fans don't know the correct law regarding offside, including here on boards…….here's a test………finish this sentence………….."A player is in an offside position if any part of the head, body or feet is in the opponents’ half and nearer to the opponents’ goal line than the ________ opponent".

The amount of foul throws and how unenforced they are. Every game these days has at least one. At least. I haven't seen a foul throw given in about 10 years.