Popular Post Striggy Posted January 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 I'm getting on a bit now and although I probably look at my long experience of watching football through tinted specs and a failing memory (many things were actually rubbish back in the day) lots of little things really annoy me about the game today. I'm not going to moan about the big things, high ticket prices and obscene footballer salaries, its the little more trivial things. I will start with a few of mine, some of which have already been mentioned and discussed in other threads but thought we could round 'em all up here. Subs not been ready prepared to come on, in the old days, whip your tracksuit top off and your ready to go Long sleeve under garments under short sleeved tops Coloured football boots Not wearing your first strip away when no colour clash They are not really important in the great scheme of things, just don't like 'em. What are yours? 23 "nobody told me there would be days like these!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alanharper Posted January 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 Wednesday being rubbish. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Football today 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls-swfc Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 FFP,..... FFS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post S36 OWL Posted January 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 Squad numbers More than three subs Players wearing gloves Diving VAR Stupid kick off times Players wearing alice bands Stupid coloured boots Assistant refs - they are LINESMEN FFS 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshy Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1) Losing the throw and kicking towards kop in 2nd half. I've never ever understood why we've not had supporters at that end of the ground when you have an away following of 300. 2) Money paid to footballers. 3) SKY TV (football not on at 3pm on a Saturday.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Coloured football slippers are detestable and plasticy. Much preferred the Adidas 2000, Puma Kings (love a long tongue), Timpson Shooting Stars (red or blue stripe), Ours (French brand) really soft leather, but we must never forget the old Adidas Intersago (built for soft pudding pitches) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, S36 OWL said: Squad numbers More than three subs Players wearing gloves Diving VAR Stupid kick off times Players wearing alice bands Stupid coloured boots Assistant refs - they are LINESMEN FFS All the above...great list S36. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpowl Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 How a keeper only needs to be in his box to win every free kick when every player has the right to go for it the amount of players that can’t pick out a simple pass especially on set pieces when there’s a chance to put a set piece in the box but the player goes for a short sideways pass or or backwards EFL being wanna be police and over ruling the game how Titus bramble made a living out of the game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Badge kissing, does me nuts in 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 minute ago, sherlyegg said: Badge kissing, does me nuts in Misread that...thought it said badger kissing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChinaOwl Posted January 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 Not just football but sport in general really. How sport is becoming a slave to big media companies and money, changing long held traditions such as FA Cup Final Day and Saturday afternoon fixtures to suit the scheduling needs of broadcasters and foreign transmission. The whole ethos of money first, and feck the supporters' needs. Like being scheduled to play an FA Cup tie at 6:30 pm on a Sunday evening because of the TV revenue. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Managers saying we will learn lessons from this but never do.... (Not just football) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendo Nagasaki Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, S36 OWL said: Squad numbers More than three subs Players wearing gloves Diving VAR Stupid kick off times Players wearing alice bands Stupid coloured boots Assistant refs - they are LINESMEN FFS Great list. just need to add SAG for me bud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 minute ago, sternlad said: Misread that...thought it said badger kissing Its beavers you kiss me owd.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nethertonowl Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Fourth officials The loss of the obstruction rule, so defenders can let a ball run out of play. Bookings when a player gets his foot stood on. Fake lines ups and handshakes before every game ( finals only). Keepers being allowed to take goal kicks from any side of pitch. Goal music ! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Just now, sherlyegg said: Its beavers you kiss me owd.. Correct my friend nothing like beaver and nut kissing, preferably simultaneously ooer missus! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatevertrevor Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Some things I don't like are - Most pundits and how they buy into every football cliché going. And how they usually don't like rules being interpreted strictly. And how the use the same phrases over and over as though that's the only word you can use. Why is every lowball offer 'derisory' for example? They'd never use that word in any other context. Loads like that. Like if something is 'technically' offside, but in the past wouldn't have been given, the consensus in football is 'it wasn't really offside, anyone that knows the game knows that'. Its the flipping rules ffs. You can't have 'a little bit offside, so that's ok. but a lot offside, that's a no'. Or 'yes the keeper came off his line for the penalty, but only a bit, so it shouldn't have been retaken'. Well if you allow 'a little bit' then what counts as a little? Then is a little bit over that little bit then ok? I wish pundits would think things through a bit and basically not be as thick. Most managers for similar reasons to above. Again with pundits and managers, but also a lot of fans - The fact that analysis of nearly every game is 90% about what the referee did. FFS grow up. Mistakes happen. Sometimes calls are open to interpretation. Should be used to it by now. I'd much rather proper discussions of tactics, formations etc. It is pretty childish. I still like the game of football itself, but for me, everything around it, puts me right off. I sometimes feel like I like the sport of football but hate the 'football world'. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Keepers allowed to take a goal kick from either side. Always used nowadays as a time wasting ploy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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