From Backpage Football... Corners that donât beat the first man Fans that leave before the end of the game When music is played after a goal Diving Feigning and exaggerating injury Kit changes every year The term âfootyâ or âfootieâ Foul throws not being called up on International breaks Yellow cards for over-zealous celebrations Footballersâ wages When the referee measures back the wall but they encroach when his back is turned Half-and-half scarves Fans who blindly defend everything about their club Short corners Adrian Chiles Over complicated free-kicks that hit the wall Groans when the ball is forced back to the goalkeeper Refusal to accept multi-coloured boots Being reminded that Gary Neville is a good pundit the moment he says something reasonable When players surround the referee pleading for a decision Match Of The Dayâs bland and boring analysis Players not celebrating against a club they played for five years ago Long, drawn-out transfer sagas â2-0 is a dangerous leadâ British analystsâ ignorance towards foreign leagues Free-kicks that are played backwards Naming rights for stadiums The Soccer AM generation and its horrible âbanterâ Time-wasting goalkeepers Made-up transfer rumours from tabloids and websites Jon Championâs commentary Gloves with short sleeves Billionaire clubs that buy success World Cup 2022 being in Qatar Sepp Blatter Jamie Redknapp Being reminded from someone other than Jamie Redknapp about his incorrect use of the word âliterallyâ The idea that all Americans are clueless towards soccer Goalkeepers that wear tracksuit bottoms Paul Mersonâs inability to correctly pronounce player names Transfer fee analysis from fans Craig Burley Someone who accuses another of ânot being a real fanâ Over-analysing a game at the expense of enjoying it Journalists that think theyâre more important than they really are Ripping into Stoke because they donât play like Barcelona The Barcelona and Real Madrid circle-jerk Describing a position using words that end in âistaâ, i.e. âRegistaâ, âTriquertistaâ The sponsor on the Ireland shirt David âGood evening ladies and gentlemanâ Pleat Gareth Baleâs heart celebration âBut can he do it on a coldâ¦â Stop. Just stop. People who claim to know all about obscure players when in reality they signed them once in Football Manager John Terry being photoshopped into every single celebration, football or otherwise âYouâre from Ireland so you support Celtic right?â iPads in the crowd âHeâs not that type of playerâ The FA Cup Final kicking off at 5.15pm FIFA rankings Adidas Predators â bring back the tongue! The over protection of goalkeepers Club Wembley, no one likes seeing empty seats at a big game The ambiguity of the offside rule The bastardisation of the term âWorld Classâ Shushing opposition fans after scoring The FAI Badge kissing Fans booing their own team/players/manager Wanting a rival teamâs player to score for fantasy football purposes Fans who spend more time talking about rival clubs Full kit ****ers Paddy Crerand The obsession with statistics Sloop John B Journalists using a tweet as the sole source for a story Inverted wingers The majority of fan generated player nicknames / fans who refer to players on a first-name basis Waving imaginary cards Undisclosed transfer fees Hillsborough/Munich/other disaster chants Racism Players storming down the tunnel after being substituted Your own country failing to qualify for a major tournament âHe was going for the ballâ Ray Wilkins Fouls not given in the box that would be given outside the box Sarcastic use of the term âgood feet for a big manâ Eamon Dunphy telling us about the one La Liga/Bundesliga game heâs seen during every Champions League match The media frenzy and expectation around the England national team Being told that the latest football is âlighter and rounder than everâ Garth Crooksâ Team of the Week Geoff Shreeves-style interviews The push to outlaw tackling once and for all Owners who mismanage clubs to the point of receivership or worse People forming opinions of players based on two minute YouTube videos Fans who get their own names/âwitty slogansâ on the back of jerseys Mark Lawrensonâs predictions Referees not applying the six second rule, it still exists Twitter, yet we just canât turn it off http://backpagefootball.com/100-things-we-hate-about-football/60049/
fans of other clubs slagging off your club when Sky Sports report a rumour about who might be signing (Carlton Cole on Sky Sports website today as one example)
The way that newly promoted clubs are considered absolutely crap and that 'they WILL go down' by the majority of their new league, mainly by armchair fans.
I would have added Adrian Chiles to that list. I realise he is already on there - but he really does deserve two entries.
"People who claim to know all about obscure players when in reality they signed them once in Football Manager" That should be a favourite one on here.
Managers who complain about playing 3 games in a week Saturday - Tues/Weds - Saturday Since when did a week have 8 days ?
Sky putting on L**ds united 10 times a season. "They must be tired, they played in Europe midweek".....stats prove that this has no bearing on a teams performance immediately following a European game. ****fest over teams who were successful 20+ years ago.....Leeds, Forest etc Liverpool still a great team....no they're not. Hooligans/thugs...associated with football. Glory supporters. Overpriced beverages and food. Lack of atmosphere generated by sitting down. Kick off times altered for either the police or Sky.
I'm playing football manager on my iPhone right now. It's great. I haven't looked at all the players we've been linked with though. Maybe later. Roy Keane should have been on that list as he is a right c**t!
People wearing other nation's football shirts, ie Englishmen wearing Argy, Italian, Dutch, Spanish tops. Seems to happen a lot when England get dumped out of a tournament.
Some of those made me laugh simply because I agree with them so much, particularly the one about corners not beating the first man and over-complicated free kicks which hit the wall.
Yep. Some of the obscure ****ing names drives me mad, then they make out they've been watching them every week.
**** policing **** stewarding Rip off admission prices SKY Aggressive and persecutory legislation from showboating politicians trying to impress the ignorant public Creeping politicisation of the liberal left pet passions into the people's game game and its gradual changing of identity.
