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

[Pingu the Penguin]

The goalkeeper making himself ridged and blocking with whatever part of their anatomy they can.
Them big stupid gloves they all wear.
They never hold a ball after a save.
The amount of goals that go in coz he has his fuckin eyes closed throwing himself in the way.
Give me an old fashioned keeper, with the reflexes of a feral cat. And gloves that allow him to feel and catch the ball.
Anyway, Merry Xmas to all you blues out there, and a happy new year.

Latter part of that post basically describes me in my heyday. Wish my body wasn’t so fucked i can’t play anymore. Really miss it

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Choose modern football…

Choose pathetic footballers and their incessant diving, feigning injury, forced ‘Time Outs’ while a player has a sit down, fake limping, time wasting, claiming everything is their ball, moving the ball off the mark, arguing against every single decision…

Choose tourists, day trippers, nobodies, half’n’half “friendship” scarves, fans wearing other teams’ colours in home sections of our stadium, fans of the opposition in our home sections, fans of opposition players in our home sections, general football visitor non-City fan (nor fans of the opposition) in our home sections when those tickets could go to a local fan, constantly ignoring and doing things contrary to the wishes of the core fanbase, calling us ‘Legacy Fans’, prioritising global ‘fans’ over local core fans, advertising themselves to global ‘fans’ yet the club having no presence in areas like Wythenshawe (the largest district in Manchester with a gigantic City following, yet never see the club active down here in any way whatsoever), Trophy Tours all over the world and never in Manchester for local fans, big groups of kids from Scotland/London/Birimgham/USA sat together in big chunks in the ground and never groups from Manchester, YouTube dickheads and OnlyFans slags being given tickets for City games when those tickets could go to proper core fans…

Choose incessant season ticket price rises, constant stupid match ticket prices for games, the price of tickets for kids, no new Season Tickets, no ticket initiatives for local people like Liverpool have, real lack of numbers of cheap tickets like German clubs have in huge numbers, Platinum Loyalty Points, kicking fans out of seats to create new types of areas and in some cases not giving those fans seats with people they used to sit with or not giving them seats at all, core fans who used to have season tickets not being allowed one back yet chunks of seats are available on foreign tour and foreign tout sites, despite years of fans wanting a proper home stand for atmosphere the club building one and then not making it specifically for atmosphere despite it probably being the last ever chance we’ll have to have a dedicated proper home end for atmosphere, games like the Madrid semi where tickets went to any wanker who wanted one by signing up the day before and not to City fans, the way away ticket allocations are divided and handled with a massive issue with far too many tickets not going to our core supporter base…

Choose stupid gimmicks like the Moon being associated with Manchester City when the Moon has got fuck all to do with our football club, Blue Moon banners on the pitch, a Blue Moon on the big screens, Moon crater print on kits, aliens from the Moon as mascots… we are the Citizens (look up the meaning of that word), City from the city of Manchester, Mancunians, aim to be Manchester City FC, not portraying us as some generic non-Manchester specific bollocks like we’re called AFC Moon City or something…

Choose signing up to the European Super League, releasing a statement by Joel Goazer as our official statement on the matter, staying silent over the disgraceful Istanbul car park situation, sending close-up pictures of Blues invading the pitch to the press yet when Liverpool fans hospitalised a teenage girl those amazing cameras that zoomed in to pick out freckles on City fans’ noses against Villa couldn’t pick out a single one of the Lpool fans throwing things down at City fans, bringing out statements in the media reprimanding our support for things like ‘Tragedy Chanting’ or graffiti on toilet cubicles of a word City fans never use before any proof was established or where they don’t understand that ‘It’s never your fault’ is not a tragedy chant, yet never having our backs when we need them…

But apart from that everything else is OK?

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Latter part of that post basically describes me in my heyday. Wish my body wasn’t so fucked i can’t play anymore. Really miss it

Oh and merry Xmas mate great post

 

[TFC]

Footy is almost a completely different sport to the one I grew up with, and I reckon I'll eventually fall out of love with it for a lot of the reasons already mentioned. I'm still on the hook for the time being tho ;)

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Footy is almost a completely different sport to the one I grew up with, and I reckon I'll eventually fall out of love with it for a lot of the reasons already mentioned. I'm still on the hook for the time being tho ;)

I think i hate more about modern football than I actually like

 

[yozzerblue]

Latter part of that post basically describes me in my heyday. Wish my body wasn’t so fucked i can’t play anymore. Really miss it

Me to mate. Me too. Get your body behind the ball and hold it. Oh to hear the cry of a large crowd of three shout, "Well Held keeper". Nearly 70 now but remember it well.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I just hate the modern day footy fan who has suddenly taken an interest in the last few years even though they've no real love for the sport. They're everywhere at every prem club and just one more reason not to attend matches anymore

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

I just hate the modern day footy fan who has suddenly taken an interest in the last few years even though they've no real love for the sport.

Fans screaming at the top of their voice "Get in!" with dead emotionless eyes as they watch streams from their iPad whilst filming themselves for reaction shots.

 

[bluemoon32]

Fans screaming at the top of their voice "Get in!" with dead emotionless eyes as they watch streams from their iPad whilst filming themselves for reaction shots.

Imagine going to any sporting event or music festival & fucking filming yourself.
Fucking hell

 

[jimharri]

It's not the sport I grew up watching. It's more a business now, than a sport. Bottom line; money. One of the very few good things about the modern game; the pitches. They're like bowling greens now, compared to the ploughed fields back in the early seventies. Think The Baseball Ground. Or even Maine Road. Look up the game when Ronnie Boyce "lobbed" (more of a punt, but however) Big Joe on YT. Think it ended up 5-1 to the Hammers. Spot the grass!