Present Day Football, Fans and Any Other Stuff You Hate About It!

[yozzerblue]

Players going down and screaming like they've just been shot in the leg, only to get up and run off 5 seconds later.

 

[Pepmanc]

Kicking off at all times for TV, not considering how fans get to matches.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

Keepers doing that stupid drop to the ground, when winning or drawing against a team they expected to lose to.

 

[Gorbachev]

- The game is now way too over-coached, and you are seeing the true effects of this with the younger generation of footballers coming through. It seems every player now needs to find a "system" to thrive within and all ingenuity is nowhere to be seen for the most part in their game.

The only positive to this is that i think the mid-table level teams have got better because of it. I think the current set of best of the rest would decimate the best of the rest 20 years ago.

- I might get jumped on for this but the FA and League Cup are both dead competitions now for the top teams. Champions League and Premier League just take precedence and if the new Club World Cup format takes off, with the money involved in that, it will be as important to be in it as the Champions League. It will be the difference between a team buying and not buying another £60m-£100m player.

- Manchester City are no longer a community association football club, they are a tourist club and a "global brand" who will happily sell their tickets and merchandise to the show to the highest bidder. This will only get worse in my opinion.

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

VAR taking 10 minutes to check if the player’s toenail was offside because the liner made a clear and obvious error by not spotting it.

Drives me insane and sucks the whole enjoyment of celebrating a goal.

 

[give it to gordon]

- The game is now way too over-coached, and you are seeing the true effects of this with the younger generation of footballers coming through. It seems every player now needs to find a "system" to thrive within and all ingenuity is nowhere to be seen for the most part in their game.

The only positive to this is that i think the mid-table level teams have got better because of it. I think the current set of best of the rest would decimate the best of the rest 20 years ago.

- I might get jumped on for this but the FA and League Cup are both dead competitions now for the top teams. Champions League and Premier League just take precedence and if the new Club World Cup format takes off, with the money involved in that, it will be as important to be in it as the Champions League. It will be the difference between a team buying and not buying another £60m-£100m player.

- Manchester City are no longer a community association football club, they are a tourist club and a "global brand" who will happily sell their tickets and merchandise to the show to the highest bidder. This will only get worse in my opinion.

Your last paragraph I agree and disagree.
Regarding tickets, ticket prices etc I agree.
But on the City in the community I think this is still going strong.

 

[Winchester]

I'm the same age as you and agree with everything you say.

Yesterday I had an Arab lad next to me who spent the whole game on his phone, speaking into it and then looking down so he could post it on some site or other.

3 rag fans also sat near us.

I'm very fed up of it all and very near to packing it in.

It was the Same v Feynoord in SS3

 

[Winchester]

It was a depressing sight on Sunday with the amount of half and half scarves, big groups of tourists milling round etc. Derby days used to be so intense plenty of hatred knocking around, absolutely none of that on display Sunday. The modern sanitised product is so shit now it does put you off going to the game

I don't miss the hatred tbh kicking off etc

 

[Damocles]

The game is now way too over-coached, and you are seeing the true effects of this with the younger generation of footballers coming through. It seems every player now needs to find a "system" to thrive within and all ingenuity is nowhere to be seen for the most part in their game.

That's just a consequence of football growing. It grows, it becomes more professional, more research is done at academic level, more funding available, the standards become higher, etc. Individualism is punished more often by the opposition so players need to be smarter when using it.
Same happens with darts and snooker and rugby and a million other sports. The more seriously sports are taken, the more a clear line of how to be successful is drawn and margins become finer.
Arguably F1 is the best example of this. It's changed dramatically in the past 50 years to where now the difference between the world's champion and backrunner is a couple of percent because the meta has been figured out and now marginal gains are thr thing that wins.

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

The ball not being placed in the quarter circle at corners.

 

[Norbiton]

The ball not being placed in the quarter circle at corners.

It doesn’t have to be. Any part of the ball overhanging any part of the line is fine.

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

It doesn’t have to be. Any part of the ball overhanging any part of the line is fine.

I appreciate that but I’m just Old School.

 

[Durutti City]

It doesn’t have to be. Any part of the ball overhanging any part of the line is fine.

I'm with DM4M on this. If they were any good (remember, they are professional footballers, after all) at taking corners, surely they wouldn't need the ball to be overhanging the line. Not having a go (perish the thought) Norbiton. But I don't see what advantage it gives the taker.

To put it another way, assuming our own beloved set-piece specialists also go in for 'overhanging', what good has it done us?

 

[East Level 2]

I appreciate that but I’m just Old School.

But being in the quadrant was never in the laws AFAIK.

 

[Shellac]

I don't miss the hatred tbh kicking off etc

Absolutely loved the hatred way back. Schoolyard City against Utd fights 70s and 80s

 

[Winchester]

Absolutely loved the hatred way back. Schoolyard City against Utd fights 70s and 80s

Innit,man innit

 

[jamielowndes]

Every single bad run of results being an immediate trigger for calls of sacking the manager regardless of how successful the club has been.

 

[grecian55]

Hate dickheads who get a YouTube channel and think they’re experts
With knee jerk reactions after every single game.

Just for example. City play Everton and Foden doesn’t score or assist.
Arsenal play them the following week and Saka scores.
“OMG Saka is so levels above Foden man it’s scary”
That sort of shite

I could add so ,so much more to this but as I respect the Mods and don't want to get banned I'll keep stum.

 

[unicorn]

Not being able to celebrate a goal until the restart due to VAR.

Feeling like I can't swear at games anymore.

No real ale in the Etihad.

 

[Blue2112]

City goalkeepers always getting a yellow card for time wasting unlike almost every keeper that comes to the Etihad and does it for 90 plus minutes without a single word. Again today at Leicester Ortega booked.