What do you hate about football?

I'll start....

International flipping breaks!

I don't know why they don't play qualifiers in the summer before the tournament, makes far more sense to me, that we don't have to go through this torture!

Your turn....

 

I hate the fact that referees can't be questioned about their controversial decision in a post-match interview. They appear to be untouchable

 

The Champions League. Because they are not champions of their respesctive countries and so it has devalued the prestige of the league championship in many countries. It has also helped to devalue domestic cup competition. We had 3 good European competitions before - EC. only for champions, the Cup winners cup, and the EUFA Cup (which has now, sadly, been relegated to the losers cup). It has cast once great clubs like Celtic, Ajax, Feyenoord, Benfica, Anderlecht etc. into the wilderness and created a boring competition dominated by those 4 leagues which can attract investment.
Hate number 2 - Johnny come lately teams such as Chelsea, Man. City and Paris St. Germaine - who would all be middling teams without the mega bucks which they have.
Hate number 3 - Fixture changes to accomodate TV. Football belongs at 3pm. on a Saturday.
Hate number 4 - Premiership clubs which field reserve teams in the FA Cup.
Hate number 5 - FIFA Corruption and holding World Cups in places which have no footballing tradition eg. The Emirates.

 

Can't disagree with any of that!

 

Me too!

 

And that only just adds to the lack of responsibility on anyone's part to accept blame for something.

Be it a player/manager or official - they just blame each other for the failings be it on or off the pitch.

 

1 hating another club's fans...all clubs have good and bad ones
2 faking injuries
3 endless square passes in your own half
4 orange football boots
5 people leaving 10/15 minutes before the end
6 last minute goals that ruin my predictions
7 pretty much all TV football pundits

....save me a place on the Muppets balcony!

 

Agree with all of those - particularly number 6. How often do we lose 'perfect scores' as a result of late, late goals

 

Players who give the impression that they are angry with life and do not know how to smile.

 

I could submit a dissertation.....

 

Players who continually say "Y'know" and/or "Obviously" during interviews...

 

That I am an addict: I cannot walk away from it for all it's dirty money, shallow morals, egotistical personalities, violence at every level from abusive parents at youth level through to on pitch thuggery and organised gangs off it, elitism in favour of the big clubs and generally the treatment of attending fans primarily by the t.v. companies..... for a start!

 

Well said sir.

Although, given the Success revelation today, I'd suggest 'shallow' is the wrong descriptor for morals...

 

Theo re number 5 - I was at Northampton yesterday and their fans started leaving when Bristol Rovers went 3 up, which was after 61 minutes!

 

There's enough that is good in football on the whole (particularly at grass roots level ) for me to suggest that the morals are shallow. The trough is deep and far too full holes for my liking.

 

From a personal point of view I detest my emotional investment. It brings out the worst in me. I do embarrass myself

 

i totally can relate!

 

Diving.

 

But you must agree that Mexicans do it well...

 

I hate being subject to legal action for watching illegal streams when it is impossible for me to watch a legal one as the copyright holders don't show the game. For some reason they think that I only want to watch Man U or Chelsea.