SEMTEX Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Commentators trying too hard to pronounce foreign names 'authentically', as though they're foreign themselves. You're not. Stop it, dickhead. Merelshhhhhhhhh + ZZAMBAROTTAA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 When brazil play and the commentators insist on using the phrase 'carnival atmosphere' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Players being dicks towards ballboys or staff around the pitch. Was thinking that watching the tennis earlier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Commentators trying too hard to pronounce foreign names 'authentically', as though they're foreign themselves. You're not. Stop it, dickhead. They only do that with the Latin and East European names. They really could try a bit harder with African ones. Makes me cringe the way they say some. One that annoys me an inordinate amount is when they show images of people in the crowd during international tournaments and they are extremely nervous or depressed until they notice they are on television and start jumping and dancing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Speaking of which, that is one of my pet... loves? The way they immediately turn the broadcast to something else as soon as the fan being highlighted notices themselves on the big screen. We must only display these people in their natural habitat! Quick turn away the purity of the moment has been tainted! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 This Africa United thing at this WC. I'm fine with African solidarity, but Nigerians supporting Ghana is a bigger national disgrace than email scams. It is like NUFC throwing themselves behind SAFC in a CL campaign. supporting our biggest rival because our own didn't do the job. Ghana are the team I would least like to win. It is there national pasttime to yab Nigerians. Much like Sunderland, I didn't hear anything from them the first 16 years of my life, but they have been a constant prescence since 2006, multiplying like bacteria. I hope Uruguay score G-h-a-n-a on Friday. 5-0. I've been saying this for weeks, is the whole of Africa really behind Ghana? Seems a bit patronising to me... it would be a bit like all Europeans getting behind Germany, wouldn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Commentators trying too hard to pronounce foreign names 'authentically', as though they're foreign themselves. You're not. Stop it, dickhead. They only do that with the Latin and East European names. They really could try a bit harder with African ones. Makes me cringe the way they say some. One that annoys me an inordinate amount is when they show images of people in the crowd during international tournaments and they are extremely nervous or depressed until they notice they are on television and start jumping and dancing. Yeah noticed that a few times, would love someone on the big screen to say "get that fucking camera out me face" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled in Texas Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Like Heinze? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 When players shake hands with the referee, when they are trying to waste time and are getting substituted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 When players appeal to the ref, when it would be massively advantageous for them to play on. Players quickly hitting the ball off an opposition player deliberately when taking a free kick, to claim that they weren't 10 yards, and get them a yellow card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 When players appeal to the ref, when it would be massively advantageous for them to play on. Players quickly hitting the ball off an opposition player deliberately when taking a free kick, to claim that they weren't 10 yards, and get them a yellow card. Like when Laurent Robert got sent off against Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 When players appeal to the ref, when it would be massively advantageous for them to play on. Players quickly hitting the ball off an opposition player deliberately when taking a free kick, to claim that they weren't 10 yards, and get them a yellow card. Like when Laurent Robert got sent off against Arsenal. That's exactly the example I had in mind, aye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 My dad's biggest football pet hate is quick free kicks. No idea why. He reckons they should all be played to the whistle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 My dad's biggest football pet hate is quick free kicks. No idea why. He reckons they should all be played to the whistle. I can see what he means, keep them all formulaic. But I'd have it the other way, fuck when the ref is ready. If he wants to have a word with a player, do it at a more convenient time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Antigalican Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Stupidly coloured boots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Actually, I tell a lie. My dad's biggest football pet hate is when team play it around their back four. Drives him mental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Actually, I tell a lie. My dad's biggest football pet hate is when team play it around their back four. Drives him mental. Hahaha, he sounds like my dad (all dads). I think mine is still officials getting things so desperately wrong. It's the powerlessness in the face of having your team orchestrate something they have practiced for months, and executed perfectly, only to have it fucked up by the Stevie Wonder Tribute Band. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chris Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 When players dive and do about 10 rolls and grab there leg as if it is going to fall off.And my other is when players get drop"t or dive the get up and start doing all this showing the card stuff to try and get a player book"t Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Antigalican Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Oh and stewards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Stewards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 People wanting to change the rules. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 People peddling this "the Germans are all actually foreign" nonsense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Commentators trying too hard to pronounce foreign names 'authentically', as though they're foreign themselves. You're not. Stop it, dickhead. They only do that with the Latin and East European names. They really could try a bit harder with African ones. Makes me cringe the way they say some. One that annoys me an inordinate amount is when they show images of people in the crowd during international tournaments and they are extremely nervous or depressed until they notice they are on television and start jumping and dancing. Yes, seriously. Yesterday, after Brazil lost they showed two fans, who immediately jumped around and smiled when they were on TV. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 People peddling this "the Germans are all actually foreign" nonsense. They are all foreign. You're right though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I don't like it when they do that, but then if it's people who are already happy, and then notice they're on camera, and the camera immediately cuts. It seems a bit cruel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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