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Guest JonnyRogers

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

I hate that, and half the time it's replays of celebrations or players/managers' faces.  f*** that s***, I want to see the game!

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Guest firetotheworks

Have to be honest, I love the second reaction of the crowd when they watch the replay of a particularly amazing goal.

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Guest firetotheworks

Have to be honest, I love the second reaction of the crowd when they watch the replay of a particularly amazing goal.

Not when I'm paying a small fortune to watch the game. If I wanted to see artistic shots of people gasping, I'd stick Youporn on for free.

 

 

You're not missing anything when they're showing goal replays like.

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Have to be honest, I love the second reaction of the crowd when they watch the replay of a particularly amazing goal.

Not when I'm paying a small fortune to watch the game. If I wanted to see artistic shots of people gasping, I'd stick Youporn on for free.

 

 

You're not missing anything when they're showing goal replays like.

 

Usually not. But when they're showing a slow mo replay of players celebrating and you can hear the croud reacting to something, my piss does boil a bit.

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Commentators/pundits saying a player has “Raw Pace”.  It an over-used term and i’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean now that they all seem to be flinging it about in every game.

 

That they have speed but don't know how to use it effectively yet?

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In my experience “Raw pace/power/athleticism” tends to be applied mostly to black or African players. Similar to basketball commentators over here use terms like “Scrappy,hustler, surprisingly athletic” to describe the whiteys.

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This again. :lol:

 

I'll ask the same question I ask every time. Who are the white players who should also be included in that description but aren't?

 

I was going to bring it up the other day but thought better of it. In Iniesta's book a few of his friends describe him as a beast, which was one of the words that's apparently consigned to a single race according to the N-O theory.

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Off the top of my head, Jesus Navas is a white player who I'd say had/has raw pace. Plenty of results for that term associated with him on Google.

 

Dennis Rommedahl.

 

Jesper Grønkjær

Vegard Heggem

Bale, Giggs, Bellamy, Gillespie, Vardy (N/A if you apply the "do not use the pace effectively" criteria)

 

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Commentators/pundits saying a player has “Raw Pace”.  It an over-used term and i’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean now that they all seem to be flinging it about in every game.

 

That they have speed but don't know how to use it effectively yet?

 

Pretty sure that was the original meaning but it gets used all the time now about any player that gets to the ball before another player. 

 

“Shows some raw pace”

 

“Raw pace got him there”

 

It shouldn’t irritate me but it does  :lol:

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