Football, what is it with it?

[Barneyballbags]

Want to see how a referee SHOULD be?

Watch this and note that you wouldn't get much change from 16-17 stone from either one of the players.

This is not soccer - Nigel Owens

Compare that with the diving, moaning, whinging, acting, handbag-toting lawn fairies in the top flight leagues, and you soon begin to see what's wrong with 'the beautiful game'

Don't get me wrong, to see some of the skill the players have is brilliant. It's just all the s**t that goes with it, both on and off the pitch, that forms the reason why I dislike it so much.

I think some of the football "fans" have a lot to answer for too. There's a reason why football fans are segregated whereas rugby fans aren't. Don't get me wrong - the vast majority of football fans are decent people who enjoy a bit of banter. But there is enough aggression amongst them to justify splitting them up into separate areas in the stadiums - something which you NEVER see at a rugby match, even with 80,000 people packed in together.

Oh, and as for the blood capsules? That was an isolated incident. Cheating is present in every single sport on the planet. Unfortunately, with football it's present in virtually every single game in the top flight leagues.

 

[konatime]

What is it Isaac?....well if you've never experienced it.. then the noise the ball makes slapping the back of the net is 'well fit'....so to speak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDzasp1-60

and sometimes it's even a little bit Kinky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DHi5gMsHs

 

[swannymere]

Don't get me wrong, to see some of the skill the players have is brilliant. It's just all the s**t that goes with it, both on and off the pitch, that forms the reason why I dislike it so much.

Luckily the England rugby team always act with dignity and respect :roll:

 

[highlandsflyer]

During the Manchester Derby Zabaleta showed there is still fair play amongst some of the elite players.

 

[not_fat_matt]

I understand the point of football as a sport, as a pure game thats popular world over i think thats fine, good form of exercise, gets people working as a team (well most the time)

But i cant stand all the hype around it, players wages, media interest in thier private lives, so called 'celebrities', the way its promoted as the only sport there is. Im sure its not the case with all, but most just seem to be dumb Fk's, great role models for kids.
As someone that doesnt follow football, who has worked in factorys for the last 18 years, i get really sick of the 'didnt we play well at the weekend' chat - well no, you sat on your arse watching it, at most you were getting wrecked in a pub, but the most exercise you got was your jaw the next day.

One small place i worked at had an open plan office layout, our accounts bloke who shared similar views towards the game would simmer and mutter as the sales lads chatted shit on how thier teams did the previous night until he'd explode and shout over 'boring boring, football boring' - that just about sums it up for me.

 

[Barneyballbags]

Don't get me wrong, to see some of the skill the players have is brilliant. It's just all the s**t that goes with it, both on and off the pitch, that forms the reason why I dislike it so much.

Luckily the England rugby team always act with dignity and respect :roll:

Yes, and luckily I'm Welsh so I can laugh along with that

There's always an exception... In this case there were about 15 of them.. Pillocks.

 

[Barneyballbags]

Mind you, there was the now infamous incident of a certain Mr Andy Powell 'obtaining' a golf buggy from The Vale Resort (Wales' training camp in the Vale of Glamorgan), and then proceeding along the M4 in a Cardiff-bound direction, because he was hungry. True story.

Here are a couple of blatantly high-tech, no expense spared mock ups of what he MIGHT have looked like..

 

[konatime]

' Oh, and as for the blood capsules? That was an isolated incident. Cheating is present in every single sport on the planet. Unfortunately, with football it's present in virtually every single game in the top flight leagues '.


a reader would have to pre-presume the first time the trick was tried they were caught....for it to remain an isolated incident.

 

[Barneyballbags]

' Oh, and as for the blood capsules? That was an isolated incident. Cheating is present in every single sport on the planet. Unfortunately, with football it's present in virtually every single game in the top flight leagues '.


a reader would have to pre-presume the first time the trick was tried they were caught....for it to remain an isolated incident.

Of course, there is no way to tell whether it was a one-off or not. However, I've watched a LOT of rugby and I can tell you that not a single one of the injuries I've seen either before or after that incident looked like they'd been faked. Not one.

Honestly, the way some lawn fairies roll about has you looking for a sniper on the roof of the stadium. Then lo and behold, the "magic water" comes out (or the player gets awarded a free kick or penalty) and as if by magic they're back up on their feet jogging around.

Google "rugby player dive"

Now Google "football player dive"

.....

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

I went to one once. Haven't been back. I was surrounded by foul mouthed prannets who chanted the same line continuously for at least 40 minutes each half. Some of them forgot the words part way through.

My son seems to like it so I suppose I will take him if he wants to go. I will be advising him not to use them as role models though.

Like someone said, you either get it from a very early age or you don't. I don't.