yayas trusty right foot said:
I am not as interested in football this season,dont know why...
Is it just me or does anybody else feel the same at the moment.
There's been an underlying negative feeling towards football with me for a while now.
I'm getting absolutely sick to death of so many things whilst trying to convince myself that things are all rosey.
From all the diving, feigning injury, time wasting, swearing at the officials; to the terrible atmospheres; to the ridiculous ticket prices; to things at City with it feeling like a kids theme park, everyone sitting in silence unless it's to moan at the players, even away games have really lacked a good atmosphere and enjoyment factor recently; to things like the Qatar World Cup, lack of interest in evolving the game with modern technology; then to players who on the whole seem like chavvy wankers with loads of money who seem to think they can do and say what they want...
There are many many things which make me feel that, really, this is a sport for big girl's blouses and cünts! and it's a game which lacks class.
I try to ignore it all - and i really do ignore all the media stuff, which i do think people do get overly paranoid about, but it is there a little bit - but there's something just not right about the game on the whole at the moment.
It isn't in any way related to the money side of things with "rich foreign owners buying clubs as a play-thing". I think that's a load of bollocks. Football has always been about money. The richest, or those spending the most have always been the ones to succeed: Davies at Newton Heath, Norris at Woolwich Arsenal, Gibson at United, the Moores on Merseyside, the Edwards at United, Harding at Chelsea...all buying success right throughout the history of the game well before Sheikh Mansour came to City, the Qataris went to Paris or even Abramovic going to Chelsea.
For me, it's not that. It's something else. A wider thing. It's like there's no class in the game. I feel embarrassed by some of the things that go on. It's got to the point with the diving and feigning injury that i'd rather just turn over and watch something else, or if it's a City game (and luckily we don't have too many of this type of player) where everyone else is crying at the ref i'm actually shouting at our player to "get the fuck up and get on with it".
I think the game needs a major shake up. Someone at the top not afraid to tell everyone their cünts and they're acting like cünts and making this a game for cünts. Someone to bring some class back to the sport. Let the sport move with the times, with technology across the game. Not let clubs rape as much money out of the fans as they possibly can - but that will only start when chumps stop paying for and going to the games which are overpriced (it's your fault more than the clubs if you pay for the prices they set) - because overall increases in ticket prices bring in very little overall profit to clubs but it could be a huge hit to the fan. Someone who will properly stand up and bring in Safe Standing. Someone who won't set stupid rules about not being allowed to take in flags with sticks over 2m long. Someone who will shake up clubs' Academies from the jokes they are at present and get a system in place where clubs can actually produce their own local talent rather than just wai 'til U16 where they just bring in a ready-made foreign lad...
I also want fans to be much more proactive at trying to change things. The atmospheres in this country - now even with away fans too - is utterly dreadful. But so too is the attitude of fans who just sit there and take it when clubs do certain things - again, like Arsenal away last year with all the chumps that paid that money and went to the game, you're all just saying "yeah charge what you want, i'll still pay it"! All the ShowSec shit with us being told to sit down and so on...
I actually love football. But not football as it currently is.
