Anyone else a bit fed up of football?

[purplenose]

Bizarre world sometimes. Not all that long ago City played League football at the Moss Rose Macclesfield. Since then we have won leagues and cups galore and welcomed the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich to the Etihad. Meanwhile Macclesfield have gone through a torrid time finally going to the wall and out of existence.

Now they have been bought reformed and can look forward to starting life in NWCL2 which will see them having away days at the likes of West Didsbury & Chorlton, Maine Road, Cheadle Heath Nomads and trips into deepest Shropshire to play St Martins....oh and the Isle of Man quite possibly, as well as places uncomfortably within the area of Stoke on Trent.

Despite all of this their fans are now just as pleased as ours were when the take over happened, they are buzzing about the future of their club and looking forward to the ride. Much more so it seems than the vast majority of City fans who despite all the glory can see an awful lot about Premier League football for what it is.

You can see their point though, they will be paying 5 quid, having a few beers, standing up, walking round the grounds, having a reasonably priced pint, and most probably just like us in so much as winning cups and leagues for a few seasons to come. Not to mention meeting up with some fantastic people when visiting all these random non league clubs.

You have to suspect that their next few seasons will be if nothing else much more interesting than ours will be.

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Bizarre world sometimes. Not all that long ago City played League football at the Moss Rose Macclesfield. Since then we have won leagues and cups galore and welcomed the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich to the Etihad. Meanwhile Macclesfield have gone through a torrid time finally going to the wall and out of existence.

Now they have been bought reformed and can look forward to starting life in NWCL2 which will see them having away days at the likes of West Didsbury & Chorlton, Maine Road, Cheadle Heath Nomads and trips into deepest Shropshire to play St Martins....oh and the Isle of Man quite possibly, as well as places uncomfortably within the area of Stoke on Trent.

Despite all of this their fans are now just as pleased as ours were when the take over happened, they are buzzing about the future of their club and looking forward to the ride. Much more so it seems than the vast majority of City fans who despite all the glory can see an awful lot about Premier League football for what it is.

You can see their point though, they will be paying 5 quid, having a few beers, standing up, walking round the grounds, having a reasonably priced pint, and most probably just like us in so much as winning cups and leagues for a few seasons to come. Not to mention meeting up with some fantastic people when visiting all these random non league clubs.

You have to suspect that their next few seasons will be if nothing else much more interesting than ours will be.

Mad, isn't it? In the '90s when I was growing up, City were crap and the only remotely cool thing about them was that Oasis were fans. Nobody would have guessed they'd end up being domestic treble winners managed by some guy who used to manage Bayern and Barcelona.

 

[Gazza]

Mad, isn't it? In the '90s when I was growing up, City were crap and the only remotely cool thing about them was that Oasis were fans. Nobody would have guessed they'd end up being domestic treble winners managed by some guy who used to manage Bayern and Barcelona.

Watch it, we were, but only City fans are allowed to say this ;-)

 

[ancoats]

yes to international football and england, no to manchester city

this so called new nations league are a joke and playing them once a month when football is in covid-19 so wrong
asking to much of players and there clubs ? i said the other day a think city and our players have to about 26 games before christmas that is crazy amount of football in a small space of time

football need fans at games and without fans its just a training match and this alone is why football is on its knees
being fed up of football never crossed my mind before covid-19,in the lockdown i was ok we have no choice other than waiting and hoping we can get football back quick

but without fans is not the same and you don't get to feel the pressure and atmosphere, its the 12th man your part of the whole thing on match days

 

[BrianW]

I think football has been (gradually) ruined by greed and corruption, and by the cartel of influential clubs and their hangers-on in the media.

However, I have developed a special detestation for international football. There's waaay too much of it these days and I find it boring. One world cup every four years would be quite adequate.

A good example of what sickens me is the recent proposal to cut the PL to 18, abolish the League Cup and scrub the Community Shield. And you know that this is not to reduce fixture congestion or ease the burden on players (which is actually excessive, mainly because of COVID and the pointless internationals) but to free up dates so that "certain teams" can go on lucrative tours around the world. Fuck it.

I am quite tempted to go and watch Prestwich Heys or Radcliffe Borough instead. OK, the standard will be shit, but there will be none of this false corporate bollocks and the people running the clubs will be doing it largely for the crack, not to make millions and get paid via a tax haven. And if the referee makes a bad decison I'll know it's because he's incompetent, not because he's been bribed by a gambling syndicate or corrupted by the elite team agenda.

 

[purplenose]

I think football has been (gradually) ruined by greed and corruption, and by the cartel of influential clubs and their hangers-on in the media.

However, I have developed a special detestation for international football. There's waaay too much of it these days and I find it boring. One world cup every four years would be quite adequate.

A good example of what sickens me is the recent proposal to cut the PL to 18, abolish the League Cup and scrub the Community Shield. And you know that this is not to reduce fixture congestion or ease the burden on players (which is actually excessive, mainly because of COVID and the pointless internationals) but to free up dates so that "certain teams" can go on lucrative tours around the world. Fuck it.

I am quite tempted to go and watch Prestwich Heys or Radcliffe Borough instead. OK, the standard will be shit, but there will be none of this false corporate bollocks and the people running the clubs will be doing it largely for the crack, not to make millions and get paid via a tax haven. And if the referee makes a bad decison I'll know it's because he's incompetent, not because he's been bribed by a gambling syndicate or corrupted by the elite team agenda.

It is interesting to see how the non league below conference have gone up by alot this season. Lots of people who perhaps have never been to non league football before. I really would not be surprised if a few Premier league attending fans getting the taste of real football decide to remain watching their new found non league club.

In all honesty over all I do think a non league ground experience is a much nicer one than a modern Premier league ground experience, less impressive maybe but more enjoyable all the same.

 

[Harrilew]

Var, Media bias, bent decisions and now the virus.
Traveling up for a game from Devon seems a long way away sadly.

I got a half season ticket at Exeter last season. Like someone earlier said re similar standard, pants footy, pants refs, pants facilities.....but at the moment it feels far more real.

 

[Kenward Garg]

I hate writing this because I know I’ll get painted as a fickle fan. But honestly I’m from the Manchester area and I’ve supported city all my life. Never been a season ticket holder initially cos of money, and now cos of my family and living a bit further away. But have always been to 5 games a season for the last 30 years and watched all the games on sky. I’m just genuinely a bit fed up of it all. I think VAR is the main thing that’s done it, and the ridiculous amounts of money in the game just seems on another level now. I miss the days when the players genuinely wanted to play for the shirt rather than just going to the highest bidding club.. I guess Foden might be an exception but there was a time when it felt like we had half a dozen foden’s in the squad. I think I’d honestly trade the success for something a bit more authentic. Now with no fans football is just feeling a bit empty for me.

Anyone else feeling the same way or am I just being a d***?

Football has prostituted itself to the highest bidder and is now in terminal decline; after all:

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

- King James Bible, Timothy 6:10

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Watch it, we were, but only City fans are allowed to say this ;-)

To be fair, Everton were also shit. I was at that game where we nearly got relegated in 1998.

 

[Kenward Garg]

More than a bit fed up, I won't go into VAR and the 'protectionist' bullshit, mainly, more than most things I'm sick to the back teeth of the obscene money involved and how people within the game are revered and looked up to like some omnipotent, god-like beings, when a top footballers weekly wage would set most families up for life, many who go about their day to day lives making a real difference in society yet struggle to make ends meet, well, that should tell us something is very very wrong.

Plus, it's never sat right with me watching the City pre-match video's when ground staff would open doors for the players and coaching staff, and very few actually showing any kind of manners, instead, just waltzing through like it was beneath them to acknowledge it.

Idolatry of false gods.