Things In Football That Grind Your Gears

Neeson wrote: »

Raised 35,000! (And trebled it)

That's some job for a group of lavishly paid young men.

And i'msure he got it trimmed a bit every few weeks so it wouldn't go completely out of control.

Fair play to him for raising the money, I wasn't aware he was doing that.

fullstop wrote: »

You think Tom Huddlestone is useless? That grinds my gears.

Average at best, I had to laugh when Football Focus were reporting the haircut story this morning and they think he has a chance of making the WC squad. Ok, he's not useless but if he makes the England WC squad then it shows just how average they are.

Not sure if this was posted before, but players who take their shirt off to celebrate.
I have never in my life gotten good news and then had the urge to take my shirt off.

Especially last night, somebody like Gerrard last night who plays in midfield so is likely to pick up yellow cards over a season - Yes please referee, give me a yellow card!!
If I was manager I'd fine them for stupidity.

Omackeral wrote: »

"Who are ya? Who are ya?"

It most definitely happens.

It's even fairly common at LOI grounds

I was at a few Whitecaps games in Vancouver..Guess what the opposition player got any time he came over to take a corner...
"Who are yuh, who are yuh!" full on trying to wrap their tounges around an English accent.
Funny as fcuk.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

If any of the people I know who like American football or basketball only cheered in American accents they'd be ridiculed by the same lads from Mayo who cheer on Arsenal in a London accent. Or what they think is a London accent.

Anyone watching American gridiron or baseball deserves ridicule

Posted this same post in the Trivial Things That Annoy thread in AH:

Football commentators in the following scenario: Player takes a rasping shot that seems to be heading in, but the keeper makes a great save at the expense of a corner. From the resulting corner, the same player heads a chance at goal and it hits post and goes wide or something similar.

Commentator: "Oh. Player A could have had two goals in a minute". No he couldn't have, because if he scored the first chance, there wouldn't have been a corner and thus he wouldn't have had the second chance. Has been bugging since I first starting listening to commentary as a kid.

castletownman wrote: »

Posted this same post in the Trivial Things That Annoy thread in AH:

Football commentators in the following scenario: Player takes a rasping shot that seems to be heading in, but the keeper makes a great save at the expense of a corner. From the resulting corner, the same player heads a chance at goal and it hits post and goes wide or something similar.

Commentator: "Oh. Player A could have had two goals in a minute". No he couldn't have, because if he scored the first chance, there wouldn't have been a corner and thus he wouldn't have had the second chance. Has been bugging since I first starting listening to commentary as a kid.

Or a team missing 2 or 3 chances and the commentator says they could be 3 nil up.

Just no, If they'd scored one goal the entire game would have taken a different course.

dreamers75 wrote: »

"this centre back can play a bit and bring the ball out"

You would think all professional footballers could do that regardless of position.

It is all relative to tempo and the players around them. I'd be a technical genius playing in an under 12s game, couldn't close to hold my own even at AUL level. The so-called brutish centre backs of the Premiership would nearly all be silky ball playing centre backs at LOI level. The guys that the media say that about are able to do that even amongst some of the best opponents in the world.

BT Sport and the all the annoying commentators and pundits that go with them. that stupid split screen camera and having Mark Halsey saying what a great decision the referee made.
And sports anchors and commentators apologising for any offence caused by a bit of bad language over heard on the microphone. i mean for christ sake if you are offended by a curse here or there you have no business watching football

"The next goal is hugely important" - Yeah no s**t

The amount of times this is said on Sky is embarrassing. Now there are some that will argue that it is usually true but it is said in every single game regardless of the scoreline. Now I can understand why it'd be said in the second half of a 0-0 dead rubber (although it is too obvious of a thing to be saying in my view) and even when a game is 2-0 it does make sense if it is backed up by a statistic about how good the losing team is a scoring late goals (but it is never backed up by a stat).

However I could't help but laugh at the tele when I was watching the Liverpool-Arsenal game and Liverpool were absolutely cruising 4-0 and that gobs***e Martin Tyler goes and says, "I know we say it a lot but, even at 4-0, the next goal could be crucial."

oldyouth wrote: »

Matches getting postponed because of the weather :mad:. C'mon, the ball can float FFS

ahh come on in todays world where everything is PC, if those games on Wednesday night went ahead and some one in the crowd got hurt the clubs would have been sued

United fans chanting "You scouse b@stard" at Liverpool players, eventhough they have Rooney playing for them and they pretty much adore him

evil_seed wrote: »

United fans chanting "You scouse b@stard" at Liverpool players, eventhough they have Rooney playing for them and they pretty much adore him

Derry fans often would sing "dirty Dublin b*stard" to opponents when SK was our manager. :rolleyes: