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

When I think about football objectively, I don't know why I'm still interested.

But supporting a team is a sort of addiction. Very hard to give up completely. Even if I walked away completely, I'd never be quit of it. Even if City went out of existence, they'd still be burned into my heart. The truth is I could never follow anyone else and I don't give a flying fuck about the great majority of other teams.
 
8.15 kick offs
Sunday games
All international football
Sterile maximum 3000 away allocations
Recording the game on phones
People doubling up in seats and making it all very uncomfortable
European group games, format is shite, would go back to old 2 legged format
The changing demographic of our home support, and the pricing out of locals
 
It's the fake head injury thing that really does my head in.
Also goalies taking a seat pretending just so the rest of the team can go to the sideline for a chat with the manager.
The other thing is the epidemic of players grabbing other players by the shirt or what have you when they get past them in midfield. This is a new thing isn't it or have I just never noticed the last 50 years?
 
fathellensbellend said:
8.15 kick offs
Sunday games
All international football
Sterile maximum 3000 away allocations
Recording the game on phones
People doubling up in seats and making it all very uncomfortable
European group games, format is shite, would go back to old 2 legged format
The changing demographic of our home support, and the pricing out of locals
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Basically what you say is that you are missing City as a standard second division team.
 
A few weeks ago I went to watch my local non league team Trafford fc. Went for a pint in the pub 100 yards from the ground. in for a tenner, Very cold Thatcher's cider in a can £2ish. Sat drinking them with my mate watching the game and really enjoyed the whole experience. A far removed experience of travelling for hours, crowded trams and necking a pint of the devils piss in a miserable concourse. It has got me thinking.
 
Among all the many things already mentioned on this thread there is one thing above all else that really makes my piss boil. Apart from 'defenders' rarely making any challenges or tackles of note, preferring instead to allow opposition strikers to saunter forward unchallenged there is now something that is even more infuriating. That being what I class as 'shithouse defending'. Take a look at how many preventable goals are conceded by teams week in and out due to so called 'defenders' turning either sideways or backwards, with their arms firmly tucked behind, and making no effort whatsoever to block even the tamest shot other than hopefully sticking out a stray leg. These so called 'defenders' are cowards, are more concerned about their appearances, and are an affront to the type of players one saw in the 60's and 70's who regularly put their bodies on the line without a second thought. I would line these soft f*ckers up in training the next day and have someone blast balls at them from close range which might just stop this epidemic of 'shithouse defending'.
 
Kaini Industries said:
I watch lots of non-league football and unfortunately there's plenty of timewasting, pretend injuries and attempts to con the referee at all levels of the game. It's endemic.
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I also watch a lot of non-league football and am glad to say that it rarely happens at the level I attend. That being level 11 which is the Cheshire League Premier Division. I suspect though that the higher one goes up the non-league pyramid the closer it is to League football and is therefore more susceptible to over the top cheating.
 
Buckshaw Blue said:
Players who blatantly fake being hit in the face to try and get someone sent off (like Walker last week).

Should be a retrospective 1 match ban when it’s so obvious. Players would soon stop doing it.
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I feel like there should be some kind of "red card incident" check for VAR. Any time there's something where there's the potential for a straight red, it should be checked by VAR. If a player has been found to dive or simulate, he should be given a straight red instead.

Diving and play acting in general is terrible for the game and it needs fixing.
 
red 2 hats said:
I hate stats and football manager, modern football fan is obsessed with them, expected goals, passes, percentage of possession, headers, left or right foot shots, distance covered, everything is a statistic.

Just watch the game and make up your own mind if someone has played well or not.

Statisticaly 7/10 people will disagree with me :)
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73% of stats are pure invention.....
 
As mentioned above, I absolutely hate the ‘cowards block’. The number of times a goal would have been stopped if a defender had stayed facing the ball.

Jesus Christ, it’s a football not a bullet.

Samir Nasri says ‘hi’.
 
Like others have said, perfectly good challenges being penalised is my pet hate. Yes, I get it if two feet are off the ground or unnecessary force is used, but there were 2 in the game last night, the worst one being a foul given for Maddison taking the ball cleanly just after he'd been wiped out by TAA and no foul given.

Prolonged camera shots of some ex player or manager looking gormless in the stands while the game is going on is another. Like the guy who started the thread, i was a regular match going fan but have kicked it on the head (Mainly down to VAR for spoiling the live experience) and haven't regretted it, the game is getting steadily worse.
 
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