Things about football that you're indifferent to!

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Lovelocum

Lovelocum

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Following on from the previous threads what about football do you neither love nor hate? Perhaps you've never given much thought to the tika pie, did the change in programme size not even make you raise an eyebrow?

For me its the electric bar coded tickets, I'm neither in a fit of rage nor getting people to film me using them. What I'm trying to say is I don't really care.
 
Punditry. Really don't give a ****. Garth Crooks made some predictions did he? Well so did I, give me money.
 
Joe said:
Punditry. Really don't give a ****. Garth Crooks made some predictions did he? Well so did I, give me money.
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With all due respect Joe, he is an ex-professional footballer, who was a pretty good striker in his day. At 23, you are an ex-teenager, studying for a career. probably not in football. Guess he might have a slight edge on the validity of his opinions about the sport.

But, indeed punditry is overrated, I'd say. Brian Clough used to say of pundits shut up and let us watch more football instead. Until they invited him to speak, and he found it irresistible. Punditry is the proverbial genie out of the bottle. You can't take it away now that it has been there all these years [way before football was invented in 1992].
 
TheSecondStain said:
With all due respect Joe, he is an ex-professional footballer, who was a pretty good striker in his day. At 23, you are an ex-teenager, studying for a career. probably not in football. Guess he might have a slight edge on the validity of his opinions about the sport.

But, indeed punditry is overrated, I'd say. Brian Clough used to say of pundits shut up and let us watch more football instead. Until they invited him to speak, and he found it irresistible. Punditry is the proverbial genie out of the bottle. You can't take it away now that it has been there all these years [way before football was invented in 1992].
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That reasoning would hold up if he was actually noticeably good at it.
 
TheSecondStain said:
But going by your reasoning it wouldn't matter if he was. Actually, he doesn't wind me up as he does some other people, and I find him reasonably OK, so in my opinion, it still holds up.
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It's filler. Predictions are meaningless; anyone can tell you who is favourite for a game, which players are in good form, which teams are struggling for goals, etc. There's nothing to it at all. If a so-called expert could be regularly better than the average person at predicting results, then that would at least give a little validity to the practice. And bookies would hate him.
 
Computer games. When I was young I was really excited when a new Pro Evo came out. Then I thought Fifa was the ****. Now I play them occasionally but it's always the same.
 
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