Football, what is it with it?

[gerryattrick]

Nothing wrong with football, nothing wrong with people enjoying watching football. It's just that it's become more than just a game to a lot of saddo's.

But there's a lot wrong with old(out of their teens), fat, unfit people tring to dress like footballers when they go to watch a match, or down the shops/pub, or to the beach etc. etc.

I wear bike stuff when I go for a ride, that's its purpose, but wouldn't be seen dead in it in any other context.

 

[Barneyballbags]

Nothing wrong with football, nothing wrong with people enjoying watching football. It's just that it's become more than just a game to a lot of saddo's.

And that's putting it mildly! Nothing wrong with having a bit of passion about the sport that you love, but I draw the line at outright agression!

I went to watch the Wales vs France 6 Nations game (the Grand Slam decider) in Cardiff back in March. There were a quarter of a million people in town on that day.

I reckon I saw about 50 police officers on the streets around the stadium. They were all directing traffic and having their pictures taken with both the Welsh and the French fans.

Says it all really.

 

[cyfa2809]

I think cyclists have the biggest clan (%) of football haters.

 

[juice]

As every little kid in Germany i played football with my friends bitd, too. A week after my best friend had his first training at a club we ran down the field alongside each other without any contact. Suddenly he went down and cried FOUL! I thought to myself if this is what he has learned at his club training then this sport really sucks. I was 7 years old at that time and up to now i never played on single football game again. I went on and became a Basketball player instead. In comparison it took round about 25 years before i saw the first guy in a Basketball game going down and behave like a cheater. He was laught at from his own team and taken out of the game by his coach.

It is a sad fact that the game of football lacks character and fairness. So Allison you are not alone. I don't get it either. :roll:

And for all that so called "fans" that paint their faces in club colours behaving like donkeys i have a little suggestion. Get a life and get your lazy body into sports your own. It's nothing wrong with showing a little love for "your club" if you really have to but drinking beer and yelling at the ref or the fans of your "enemies" is really nothing your kids can look up to.

 

[jonnyboy666]

i've never been interested in football, that said these days i think like some have mentioned before in this thread that it's become a mockery of a sport.

the wages are stupid, which also seem to contribute to teams going out of business.

alot of the players blatantly fake injuries

and when they're off the pitch they seem to act like idiots.

i am sure there are good, decent players who don't act like idiots but the ones that feature on the front pages of the papers for shagging old prostitutes when their wife is home pregnant and then still get a pay rise because they threaten to leave wind me up.

i wish the managers would call their bluff and say "go on then quit!"

and i have just realised that my comment above means i know more about the man because of his off pitch activities reported in the paper than i will ever know about his skill as a player, and that says something doesn't it.

i also agree with the wearing the football shirt as casual wear aswel, match day ok, but everyday and down the pub? grow up!

and another thing, why do fans always say "we", meaning "we won" etc, they weren't playing!

and then the drivel i have to listen to at work because everyone else seems to follow it. i look forward to the tour de france so i can annoy people with a run down the next day, i know they're not interested but i tell them anyway, it's my way of getting them back each year!

 

[tintin40]

behaving like donkeys

Un-kind to donkeys

 

[silverclaws]

I think cyclists have the biggest clan (%) of football haters.

Could that be because most of us are individuals and the sport we do if we feel it necessary to compete is an individual achievement sport, i.e. our machines are made for one.

 

[Neil]

As every little kid in Germany i played football with my friends bitd, too. A week after my best friend had his first training at a club we ran down the field alongside each other without any contact. Suddenly he went down and cried FOUL! I thought to myself if this is what he has learned at his club training then this sport really sucks. I was 7 years old at that time and up to now i never played on single football game again.

S'funny you should say that.

My son used to go to football training sessions (not a team thing, just sessions at a YMCA). One of his friends at school, who's a bit of a prima-donna, is, admittedly, seemingly pretty good at football. Truth be told, he's a bit obsessed by it, and his parents seem equally as obsessed. He's also spoilt rotten, and has been the clever, yet utterly naughty and overindulged child in my son's school class as he's grown up - so often his talent for football has kinda been used to hand-wave away his poor behaviour elsewhere. This kid does practice sessions, and plays for a team. And very early on in their growing up, I could tell, immediately, when the influence of the professional game, and his more serious participation that perhaps most of the other kids, was coming to bear. They were all at a "football" birthday party at a sports centre, and when another child dared simply challenge / tackle his superior talent with no physical contact, other than with the ball, he collapsed in a heap and played foul. When the party organiser (who seemed fairly savvy to this) gave it no time or credence, he sulkily got up and started running around again, with an apparently magical recovery from what was portrayed as an almost limb threatening injury, literally seconds previous.

When that goes on with kids about 5 or 6, and you can see the strings, and see it's just because of what they see going on in the professional game, you know there's something of a problem with dives and playing the injury / foul card.

 

[makster]

They were all at a "football" birthday party at a sports centre, and when another child dared simply challenge / tackle his superior talent with no physical contact, other than with the ball, he collapsed in a heap and played foul. When the party organiser (who seemed fairly savvy to this) gave it no time or credence, he sulkily got up and started running around again, with an apparently magical recovery from what was portrayed as an almost limb threatening injury, literally seconds previous.

Future England captain right there! Get £10 on him now

 

[clockworkgazz]

Nothing wrong with football, nothing wrong with people enjoying watching football. It's just that it's become more than just a game to a lot of saddo's.

And that's putting it mildly! Nothing wrong with having a bit of passion about the sport that you love, but I draw the line at outright agression!

I went to watch the Wales vs France 6 Nations game (the Grand Slam decider) in Cardiff back in March. There were a quarter of a million people in town on that day.

I reckon I saw about 50 police officers on the streets around the stadium. They were all directing traffic and having their pictures taken with both the Welsh and the French fans.

Says it all really.

come on lads and lassies lets get a bit of perspective. I go to football every second week and I have never encountered any kind of trouble- sure enough folk shout and ball and the players can be overly dramatic but as an enternaiment IMHO its unsurpassed, it is not called the beautiful game for nowt. All about opinions and all that but lets not get carried away. Rugby fans are great, football fans are morons is a weak argument- no one fights at lawn bowling compos but that does not make it a great sport.