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

[CTID1988]

I still enjoy football, but its basically just entertainment to me now like a tv show or film. I can see myself not bothering at all in the next couple of years and just following my local lower league side.
Years ago it was my life, now I can easily miss a match because I have something better to do. Modern football has made me feel like a consumer/customer rather than a fan.
Im just glad that at the tail end of my relationship with football I saw City do the impossible, can walk away happy now

 

[BlindEyeSeesAll]

I still enjoy football, but its basically just entertainment to me now like a tv show or film. I can see myself not bothering at all in the next couple of years and just following my local lower league side.
Years ago it was my life, now I can easily miss a match because I have something better to do. Modern football has made me feel like a consumer/customer rather than a fan.
Im just glad that at the tail end of my relationship with football I saw City do the impossible, can walk away happy now

That's pretty much the way I feel about it too

 

[TedofChume]

People film everything these days. Was at a gig recently and couldn’t move for cameras in the air. Will they ever watch it back? Will anyone ever watch it if they put it on line. Dunno!

When I go to see The Chameleons I film one song every year. I hold my phone low out of sight (the sound is often better). I do it because one day (soon) Mark Burgess won't be doing it anymore. I watch them occasionally and they're my memories of my favourite band.

I also film bits of City matches, the opposition fans, the light shows etc home and away and compile videos at the end of the season to remember it by.

I'm not at it all the time. Just a few moments, here and there. I guess when lots of us do that it probably looks horrendous. Again I do it discretely during the match.

My treble winning season video ended up being over 20 mins and yes I have watched it a lot.

My memories of the 80s, 90s and 00s are fading but I know when I'm too old to go anymore, I'll have these compilations to remember some of the best times of my life.

 

[eastmanc]

1. Hate the schedule.
a. Leading to injuries
b. Affecting the product for spectators and TV viewers. Best players aren't in their best moments at crucial times end of season because they're knackered or just out injured.
c. All about money. What is the point of UEFA nations league, expanded champions league, expanded club world club, etc. only money
d. Some kick off times are dumb ash. TV rights/contracts also come before common sense and player safety when scheduling/rescheduling cup ties or games due to cup ties.
2. Too expensive
3. All about pics and videos. This isn't just about football but concerts and any other live event.
4. Social media fans and fan TVs that are now so popular are cringe and unnecessary.
5. Referees and punditry is mostly bad especially in England.

There's a lot lol

So what you are saying is, you're not happy.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The short attention span.

Your team can win 4 titles in a row, that no other club has ever done. You can win a treble. Reach 100 points. Win the CL for the first time in the clubs history. Set record after record...

But then have a bad run of results and everyone at the club is finished, everyone needs fucking off and selling, the manager is done and found out...

We've been talking about these issues for quite a while though. Probably we've been prepared to overlook or accept them because of the success.

I know that's pretty well what the club have counted on, with their belief that we'll pay more and more, and put up with more obstacles and indignities, to watch the most successful club of the last decade. But when those successes don't continue, chickens will come home to roost. It's fans like you, who'll ignore all the shit we have to put up with, who are a large part of the problem. One day it'll be you they come after, or piss off, because you don't make them enough money.

I'll probably start taking my granddaughter to the women's games this season and if she likes it, will do it regularly next season.

 

[CheshireExpat]

Going are the days when you could relate to the players, the manager or even the backroom staff to an extent. To see them as an extension of yourself, your team, your identity, etc.

Which was also why so many get in trouble when emotions run high, including myself.

When Newcastle or Forest lads are getting a bit arty bargy on the tram. I'm not going to fucking fight them over 22 millionaires, I have nothing in common with, kicking a ball about. It's embarrassing to see.

This includes the national side, which I used to be very emotional about and watch most games, I find myself caring less and less about.

 

[argyle]

We've been talking about these issues for quite a while though. Probably we've been prepared to overlook or accept them because of the success.

I know that's pretty well what the club have counted on, with their belief that we'll pay more and more, and put up with more obstacles and indignities, to watch the most successful club of the last decade. But when those successes don't continue, chickens will come home to roost. It's fans like you, who'll ignore all the shit we have to put up with, who are a large part of the problem. One day it'll be you they come after, or piss off, because you don't make them enough money.

I'll probably start taking my granddaughter to the women's games this season and if she likes it, will do it regularly next season.

I don't like the constant cost increases, the ignoring of local fans and the hassle of getting there as much as everyone else. With the new hotel and the 'entertainment' areas the club is also wanting it to be more of an American all day experience, like at NFL games.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Young football "fans" who have never set foot in a stadium and think supporting a club is done by sending around memes mocking other clubs. Also the modern day obsession with size of crowds and "quality" of support. Fucking do my head in.

If you want to talk about fans being "great" then look at a Morecombe fan who travels to Slough on a Wednesday to see them lose, not a succesful club followed by thousands of detached glory hunters.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

I hate how City still put the toilets right in the middle of the smoking shed. For a none smoker it pisses me right off!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I don't like the constant cost increases, the ignoring of local fans and the hassle of getting there as much as everyone else. With the new hotel and the 'entertainment' areas the club is also wanting it to be more of an American all day experience, like at NFL games.

Sorry if it looked like I was having a go. If people still get the buzz then that's fine. I tend to go straight to the stadium then straight back home again, so it's not like I have the craic of meeting up with friends in the pub.

The thing I will miss more than anything is the people around me. I've got to know them and their families over the years, seen kids grow up and even have kids of their own. I've seen old colleagues and other people I know from the outside world. And many on here of course who've become good friends.