Rodge wrote:woggle wrote:whats bloody wrong with football :evil:
You asked?
Well here is a point made per player on the pitch.
1) The players are spoilt, overpaid, uneducated wimps.
2) Football in this country has a brutish, anti-intellectual culture which is different to football culture in many other countries. Here, it’s not the beautiful game, it's pig ugly.
3) Footballers, their wives and the hooligans who follow them, give Britain a bad name.
4) The constant obsession with the fact that we won in 1966 - that's over 40 years ago for crying out loud!
5) Money is everything. The focus is no longer on the game, but the money that can be made.
6) Nobody plays as part of a team, instead as self centered egoistic individuals wondering how much money they will make from the next transfer.
7) Football is taken far too seriously people get stabbed over football and it causes riots.
8) Somewhat depressing that the nearest we can get to any sense of national identity is the Eng-er-land chanting, car-flag-petrol-wasting.
9) The unpleasant brand of mass hysteria nationalism which erupts during the World cup/European Cup.
10) It takes up far more time in all of the media than is justified.
11) Footballing '
Role Models' dont do enough to help the cause. You only have to look at the media for your evidence of players fighting on the pitch & spitting at each other the list goes on. Don't get me wrong it's not all down to the players the FA and clubs are also to blame, they let players get away with murder!
12) The amount of money being conned out of families with young children due to the ever changing Premiership strips.
13) 90 minutes of hell, which has a relatively high probability of ending in a 0-0 draw!
14) It can be on TV for up to 6 hours live and then an hour later we have an hour of highlights, and then the next morning there is a repeat of the highlights. I'm sure I've seen the highlights of the highlights show!
15) Racism & homophobia is rife on the pitch and in the stands.
16) The jingoistic obssession with the "English" Premiership and such pride in our top 4 teams, when in fact over 50% of the players are foreign. Such irony passes over most fans' heads
17) The amount it effects our economy when England fail to get past the quarter finals.
18) Those disgustingly shiny vinyl shirts and the fat red faced sweaty men who wear them.
19) Big screen TV's in otherwise pleasant pubs
20) The constant fucking drum beating and horn blowing during matches.
21) The constant sexist comments that it's a man's sport and the perpetual jokes about women never understanding the offside rule - it's not difficult. In fact I would guess more women understand it than most of the monkey's who shout at their TV screens every weekend.
22) The only sport I know where faking an injury is deemed acceptable behaviour
[b]I am being tongue in cheek before you get too heated!