Things In Football That Grind Your Gears

Not sure if this one has been done already as I haven't time to read through the full thread.

In anyway I was at a match on Sunday morning and they had a young left full playing. He made a mazy run towards the byline and was disposed by the oppositions centre half. The young left full had a tug of the CH jersey and gave away the free kick. All I could hear from the line and people around me was that was the lads inexperience showing.

Fast forward about 10 minutes on the opposite side and then much older right full makes an almost identical run forward which is also cut out. He gives away a free just like the left full but this time I'm hearing that that was a great bit of play to stop a possible counter attack. That was his experience that helped him there :rolleyes:

Younger players do something that might be unnecassary yet there deemed to lack experience and the older, more experienced players do the exact same thing or worse and it was great move because they are experienced!

What nonsense! :rolleyes:

Des wrote: »

What a strange post, the crowd at that game were idiots imo.

I'd have applauded the youngfella as much as the older guy in that situation.

Strange in what way Des?

Exactly. They both did the same thing but in thier eyes the younger player showed inexperience while the older lad showed experience.

I ****ing hate defensive midfielders; go and bloody attack and stop trying to break up play!!

The line 'the handball has to be intentional'; eh, who the hell handles the ball intentionally!?

The moving advertising boards on the side of the pitch now; you don't even have to look at the game anymore!

Naming stadiums after companies; **** off. And **** off, Aviva.

How gambling companies are quickly worming their way into everything to do with football- Ray Winstone and all that.

How European club football is now just a pissing contest between Russian and Middle Eastern oligarchs/slave owners and success can be bought.

Ok here a few things that i'm surprised haven't been mentioned already.

1) Football management speak which appears to be coming from some form of updated handbook of cliches and terms. Pundits and players seem to be using it aswell. The phrases (usually at the end of every sentence)

"For me"

"If ya like"

"The Staff"

"The Group"

And the best of all is this insistence on referring to it as "the football club" at all times. (its a very important result for the football club) as opposed to the cricket club?

Its a recent enough thing but "the football club" is mentioned in nearly every interview you will see. And its contagious I'm waiting for the first goon to mention 3 points for the football club when he is on international duty.

Ok rant over there.

2) 2-0 is a dangerous lead. Lets forget scoring this penalty to put us two up, 1-0 is safer for us at this moment in time.

3) Trevor Welch. The single worst commentator in all of football and there are some shocking ones. Manages to keep his job despite gaffe after gaffe. My personal favourite being when he mistook David N'Gog for Ryan Babel despite the fact Babel was substitued at half time. It was very funny when N'Gog scored in the 85th minute and good old trev had to pretend like he knew it was N'Gog all along.

4) Lou Macari is just annoying. Manch united.

5) Craig Burley, clearly happy in any job where he can give an opinion, has often overspent his time arguing about some incident only to be shown on the replay that his view is the opposite of what actually happened.

6) Players mouthing at referees for sake of it to save face even when the player knows he is in the wrong- the presumption they are right and the ref is wrong. Says alot about the character of alot of football players.

7) Soccer AM- a horribly bad programme, with cringe inducing forced banter with "friends of the show" who were relevant last time the show was relevant- around 1999.

8) Sky Sports fantasy football show with Paul "The magic man" Merson (who is visibly cringing throughout) and that absolute goon "Fenners" who thinks everyone is a top man.

9) Ironic Cheers

mike65 wrote: »

That pass back to goalie, return ball to defender, pass back to keeper routine. A high risk tactic and nothing good comes of it as a rule.

This used be 100 times worse before the rule was changed, remember West Germany v Austria '82 World Cup?

When players' tweets become lead stories in the media

Furore over T-shirts and who doesn't wear them

Foreign teams being dismissed as cannon fodder just because most pundits know flip all about them - DO YOUR RESEARCH!!

Crowd trouble

Players waving imaginary cards at the referee

Additional Assistant Referees (aka goal-line officials)

Transfer 'sagas' being done to death