Football pet hates

[Guest]

  On 23/09/2013 at 12:11, Disco said:

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The Other Games thread and the like...every week.

 

'Oh, look at team X winning a game after playing in Europe'.

'So jealous of the way team Y play'

Etc

 

We get it, Pardew's s**** and talks s**** too.

 

Enjoy other games for what they are.

 

Aye that's the point I was raising. I watch other games to try and forget us these days, but every time someone plays it always comes back to Pardew (tactics), Ashley (signings). Keep it to those threads if at all since we hear it constantly.

[Heron]

  On 23/09/2013 at 13:42, Peppe said:

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People referring to the team Sevilla as 'Seville'.

 

What about people calling Internazionale "Inter Milan" or people calling Sporting Club de Portugal, "Sporting Lisbon"?

 

Don't get me started. People calling Milan "AC". It's like saying "FC". Wtf? "Football Club should be doing this." What? Any particular football club? Would you care to specify? My gears have been grinding for a long time on this one, Sporting Club de Portugal being another fave. And indeed Internazionale. Dammit, I think I need a holiday.

 

In Sweden the pundits often call the Champions League just "Champions" (because Zlatan said that once and they want to live in his rectum). Makes me wanna jump out the window ffs. That's like calling the Premier League just "Premier". Premier what? Premier c***s. FFS

 

Isn't Seville just an English way of saying Sevilla though, similar to us calling Milan "Milan" and not "Milano" or "Italy", "Italia"?

 

Admittedly, I never even knew that, that was their name, I thought it was Sporting Lisbon or Sporting Lisboa or however they normally put it, for the same reason as above.

 

As for Internazionale, it does seem a bit crazy.

[Dr Colossus]

AC Milan are called Milan due to being started by an Englishman (or something) whereas Inter are Internazionale Milano, so calling them Milan isn't necessarily just the English translation, it's the correct way.

[Cajun]

I think adults who just get into football try too hard to get with the banter and it doesn't work because they have no knowledge to back anything up.

 

Good lad I used to work with done this, got a proper bromance with another lad and started supporting who he supported. As said he was a nice enough bloke but his football patter was horrific.

 

If I worked with someone like this Leeds gadgey I would just make stuff up to make him look stupid. I have worked with a couple of 'lifelong' fans of clubs who knew absolutely fuck all about their clubs as well. They would ask me if so and so still played for them I know we are all a bit obsessive on here but it is pretty bad when you don't know if a senior player is still at your club.

[newsted]

A lass at work was spot on with her NUFC patter when she first started and I was well impressed, she knew the players and the tactics, the problems and the background, she was 10/10 and I thought we'd got a good un. The following week she'd forgotten it all and didn't have a clue. She gets extra points for revising as far as I'm concerned, I'd never swot up on golf or fucking cricket to impress anyone. She wangled me a freebie for a match as well, come to think of it. She's still a 9

[Hanshithispantz]

It's obviously not a Pat Hate like, the opposite in fact, but since we're on the subject it's fucking great having a couple of non-NUFC mates who genuinely love football and know their stuff. Especially lower league. It just opens up a whole new conversation, it's class.

 

Try having a talk with a Man U fan (and I'm obviously stereotyping a bit here) and the chances are it'll be fucking shit, even if they aren't being a dick head.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

The best football conversations I've ever had are with a Stockport fan and a Swindon fan. You've got to really like football to continue supporting Stockport County. Fair play to the lad.

[Yorkie]

  On 23/09/2013 at 18:36, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

The best football conversations I've ever had are with a Stockport fan and a Swindon fan. You've got to really like football to continue supporting Stockport County. Fair play to the lad.

 

Yeah, I've had some of the best football chats with lads who support lower-league teams. They can be just as up themselves in their misery though. "Puh, you shouldn't complain being a Newcastle fan, you've got it lucky cos wahh wahh wahh." Er, no, it's all relative, isn't it - we have different things to be pissed off about.

[Guest firetotheworks]

I work with a Man United fan that knows his stuff outside of Man United. He's still from Killy though, so in footballing terms he's scum.

[basjen]

  On 23/09/2013 at 18:43, Kid Icarus said:

I work with a Man United fan that knows his stuff outside of Man United. He's still from Killy though, so in footballing terms he's scum.

 

I asked a ManU-fan last week which of their players he thought surpassed Ben Arfa, not as a footballer on the whole, but the way he brings excitement and hope for that something special every time he has the ball. He thought that was an easy one and right of the bat went; "Kagawa, RVP, Rooney, Nani, Young, Valencia, Chicharito." You can say that discussion became pretty heated, fucking bellend

[Ronaldo]

Why even ask a fucking Man U fan that, man? You may as well seek out catholic priests to survey about consentual sex with adults.

[joeyt]

  On 23/09/2013 at 14:00, Optimistic Nut said:

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The Other Games thread and the like...every week.

 

'Oh, look at team X winning a game after playing in Europe'.

'So jealous of the way team Y play'

Etc

 

We get it, Pardew's s**** and talks s**** too.

 

Enjoy other games for what they are.

 

Aye that's the point I was raising. I watch other games to try and forget us these days, but every time someone plays it always comes back to Pardew (tactics), Ashley (signings). Keep it to those threads if at all since we hear it constantly.

 

Find it very tedious

[Deuce]

  On 23/09/2013 at 22:37, Ronaldo said:

Why even ask a fucking Man U fan that, man? You may as well seek out catholic priests to survey about consentual sex with adults.

 

Nice caveat.

[Superior Acuña]

  On 23/09/2013 at 13:41, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said:

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The answer to that is to ask them to show you to point them to someone that they know that thinks those things. Obviously they'll have some weak link to knowing someone that says those things. People like that are generally easy to beat, but they'll hate you for it, which means they won't talk to you again, or just say things solely to wind you up. In the end you've won. We know that no one thinks those things, it's just about knowing how to trip them up on their thoroughly s*** argument.

 

 

Yeah true, I usually go with the "that's only what sky sports news etc portrays us as" but it's probably more useful to question exactly where they have heard that from and like you say give an example of a supporter they know that has those opinions.

 

Tbh peoples ill informed, want football opinions are massively up there in pet hates for me.

 

Always got the "hahahahah fat crying geordies when you got relegated" remarks.  Asked them to show me one from TV footage.  They couldn't, other than this one well-used image because very few actually did cry.

 

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45819000/jpg/_45819047_newcastledown512.jpg

 

Aye, had this a fair bit. Didn't see anyone crying that day, I thought we were great, extremely defiant. What the fuck was that twat in the picture thinking.

[Heron]

  On 23/09/2013 at 18:07, newsted said:

A lass at work was spot on with her NUFC patter when she first started and I was well impressed, she knew the players and the tactics, the problems and the background, she was 10/10 and I thought we'd got a good un. The following week she'd forgotten it all and didn't have a clue. She gets extra points for revising as far as I'm concerned, I'd never swot up on golf or f***ing cricket to impress anyone. She wangled me a freebie for a match as well, come to think of it. She's still a 9

 

 

:lol:

[Chapo]

Former players on SSN brought on to talk about their former clubs. Particularly Chelsea, City and to a lesser extent Man Utd players. They'll have Jason Cundy or some obscure Man City player from the late 90's on asking them about the run up to title or the upcoming Champions  league game and "what will be in players heads?"

How the fuck would they know???!! They played for these clubs when they were shit and now the way they go on you'd  think their clubs where challenging at the top during their playin tenure!

[Belfast Mags]

  On 24/09/2013 at 20:31, CFlan1984 said:

Former players on SSN brought on to talk about their former clubs. Particularly Chelsea, City and to a lesser extent Man Utd players. They'll have Jason Cundy or some obscure Man City player from the late 90's on asking them about the run up to title or the upcoming Champions  league game and "what will be in players heads?"

How the fuck would they know???!! They played for these clubs when they were shit and now the way they go on you'd  think their clubs where challenging at the top during their playin tenure!

 

true

 

[leffe186]

  On 24/09/2013 at 20:31, CFlan1984 said:

Former players on SSN brought on to talk about their former clubs. Particularly Chelsea, City and to a lesser extent Man Utd players. They'll have Jason Cundy or some obscure Man City player from the late 90's on asking them about the run up to title or the upcoming Champions  league game and "what will be in players heads?"

How the f*** would they know???!! They played for these clubs when they were s*** and now the way they go on you'd  think their clubs where challenging at the top during their playin tenure!

 

Absolutely. Although they do provide a service by reminding everyone that they actually were shit not that long ago.

[Lotus]

Ray Wilkins. Can't stand listening to Ray Wilkins.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Alan Green.

[BrettNUFC]

Alan Smith (The commentator one) - (although the other one is a kernt too)

[Neil]

Blatant time-wasting.

 

Bit of an obvious one but I'm sure it's happening more and more. Get up you cheating cunt, you're not hurt in any way.

 

Also, linked to this, someone on one team losing the ball and it going out for a throw in, then immediately collects the ball, walks with it for a few seconds, then throws it either really high in the air, or slowly drops it in an inconvenient position for the other team. All, obviously, with the aim to make sure the other team gains no advantage. For blatant cases like that I'd just start giving yellow cards out, it'll decrease it massively. Grinds my gears. They've lost any advantage by giving up the throw-in to the opponent.

 

[Neil]

Another one:

 

Teams putting the ball out when an opposition player is down on the ground "injured". Play to the whistle ffs. If it's a serious injury it'll soon become apparent then stick the ball out.

 

Otherwise, it's up the ref to stop the game.

[Disco]

  On 25/09/2013 at 22:58, Neil said:

Another one:

 

Teams putting the ball out when an opposition player is down on the ground "injured". Play to the whistle ffs. If it's a serious injury it'll soon become apparent then stick the ball out.

 

Otherwise, it's up the ref to stop the game.

 

Better than teams putting the ball out deliberately so they can make a sub and expect it back. Happened a few times in the last few months.

[Belfast Mags]

  On 25/09/2013 at 10:46, Lotus said:

Ray Wilkins. Can't stand listening to Ray Wilkins.

 

Real monotonous bastard Wilkins