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

Times change and with it the people who make a difference, it's not just us it's all the clubs attracting tourists at the top level.

In a few years time we will all be watching it on VR headsets, hell the players may even be AI generated and you could pick your own score :)
 
Fans holding cameras up while the games going on.
The lack of quality pundits
Commentators Ian Darke, Lee Dixon, Jim Beglin, Spit and Ratface
Champions walking off to an empty stadium
 
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Guardiola gets the blame for this, but I think a bigger part of it is the low block getting popularised as a defence for this.

Not to mention England as a country is tactically bankrupt. There are no genuinely great English managers to me.
The over coaching started well before Pep. Pep introduced a different and successful way of playing the game which is possession based, but he is not responsible for the over coaching, that will have been the money men who have in there opinion to much to lose.
 
Pretty much everything. Attending modern football is shit. Stupid kick off times, sanitised stadia, this unfounded fascination with the champions league which is utter dross and corporate syphoning off loads of away tickets. I've had a season ticket since 88, on the cup schemes and used to go away too until recently and if it wasn't for the fact I'd fall behind with ticket points and never claw my way back, I'd give it up at least for a while. Oh and the shit transport too, getting home to Altrincham which is 9 miles away from the ground is like getting home from the fucking moon.
 
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
 
Pretty much everything. Attending modern football is shit. Stupid kick off times, sanitised stadia, this unfounded fascination with the champions league which is utter dross and corporate syphoning off loads of away tickets. I've had a season ticket since 88, on the cup schemes and used to go away too until recently and if it wasn't for the fact I'd fall behind with ticket points and never claw my way back, I'd give it up at least for a while. Oh and the shit transport too, getting home to Altrincham which is 9 miles away from the ground is like getting home from the fucking moon.
Move closer then ;)

All jokes asides fully agree with you
 
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…
 
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