Jump to content

Football pet hates


Guest JonnyRogers

Recommended Posts

“You have to play the top teams at some point so might as well play them now”.

 

Bollocks. :lol:

 

Give me Japan and Mexico and let’s worry about Spain in the Semis rather than Colombia and Brazil. Similar to Italia 90 really. If we’d faced West Germany in the Second Round rather than Belgium because of our group standing, history would probably have been so much more different.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Transfer window related terminology pet hates of mine.

 

transfer kitty :anguish:

preparing [a] bid

closing in

starlet

When papers say "club x looking at club y star" when that "star" is a player that barely gets a game for club y.

monitoring

 

There'll be more but can't brainstorm every one atm.

 

 

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

‘It was a pen but we deserved to lose’.

 

Sorry like but nah.

 

Of all the events that happened on the pitch over the course of the match no matter how shit we were, or how good they were, we earned the right to a penalty to make it 2-2 with what would have been the last kick of the game. Contentious decisions fair enough, but that tonight is just wrong.

Link to post
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Probably one for the complete opposite kind of thread but not sure it exists... Unless he’s talking about NUFC I generally find Simon Jordan a breath of fresh air when talking about the running of football and the general football culture.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest neesy111

Probably one for the complete opposite kind of thread but not sure it exists... Unless he’s talking about NUFC I generally find Simon Jordan a breath of fresh air when talking about the running of football and the general football culture.

 

I agree with him regarding agents.  Stops there mind.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Probably one for the complete opposite kind of thread but not sure it exists... Unless he’s talking about NUFC I generally find Simon Jordan a breath of fresh air when talking about the running of football and the general football culture.

 

I agree with him regarding agents.  Stops there mind.

 

He was brilliant this morning talking about the PFA and general greed in the game.

Link to post
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

My current pet hate has been absolutely ruining games over the last couple of years and is now ubiquitous.

 

I've always hated diving, including exaggerating contact and would love to see referees dishing out more bookings for non-fouls where players throw themselves on the floor and feign injury.  However, there has been zero effort made to cut cheating out and I'm now resigned to the fact it's tragically here to stay.

 

My specific pet hate which has really taken off is the common tactic where a player who has the ball realises he's going nowhere. They then shield the ball and as soon as the defender tries to tackle, the attacking player throws themselves forward to the floor throwing both legs out. Rolling around in agony holding the lower back is optional.

 

Referees seem to fall for it 100% of the time, meaning it has become a staple part of the game.

 

Tackling is now no longer part of the game, which saddens me.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Sky Sports showing replays of an incident when the game is in play, sometimes you can hear the crowd roar or groan or whatever, something is happening but they are too busy showing a replay, then quickly cut back to the game, but have missed it.

 

And showing someone 'important' sitting in the crowd when the ball is in play.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...