Football pet hates

[Astroblack]

Probably been said but pitches with that little slope next to the corner flag. Just looks weird and possibly dangerous. 

[Holmesy]

“Needs to stay concentrated”

cunts! 

[The Prophet]

"We tried"

 

It wasn't funny when it was relevant.

[Lush Vlad]

People suddenly calling certain centre midfielders a 6. Must be a continental thing? As I’ve always known centre mids as 4 and 8 and most people have whenever I have played. 
 

I can’t say I remember people referring to them specifically by numbers and not their position, anyway. I’ve always just gone 4 for DM and 8 for the more attacking or box to box type. But suddenly everyone is just throwing 6 out there without any explanation on what they mean. 

[Guest]

fickle tribalism 

[triggs]

Players apologising for getting sent off/poor performances

[Tsunami]

Referees who add on a minutes additional time at HT when there’s been goals, injuries and now there’s VAR stoppages and then inexplicably add on 5 or more minutes at FT for no apparent reason.

[The Prophet]

The weird cunts calling Staveley "Queen". Cringe.

[Kid Icarus]

I don't even like seeing people call her Mandy There's definitely some proper weird Princess Diana-esque seat sniffing going on with some of our lot, definitely.

[madras]

On 21/01/2022 at 14:01, Tsunami said:

Referees who add on a minutes additional time at HT when there’s been goals, injuries and now there’s VAR stoppages and then inexplicably add on 5 or more minutes at FT for no apparent reason.

I keep saying it. 2×35min halves. Clock stops when the balls dead. In stadium clock so everyone knows how longs left.

 

Players can't time waste, no fergie time and it's not at the refs discretion.

[Superior Acuña]

It is kind of mad all the effort and tech going into VAR and that when the games have totally random lengths and it's barely acknowledged. I'm not too arsed about it though.

 

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Inferior Acuña

[Wullie]

9 hours ago, madras said:

I keep saying it. 2×35min halves. Clock stops when the balls dead. In stadium clock so everyone knows how longs left.

 

Players can't time waste, no fergie time and it's not at the refs discretion.

 

Would make things much worse. The main point of what we call time wasting isn't actually to waste time, it's to kill the game's momentum. Remove the clock and the punishment and that becomes much easier to do. 

[madras]

3 minutes ago, Wullie said:

 

Would make things much worse. The main point of what we call time wasting isn't actually to waste time, it's to kill the game's momentum. Remove the clock and the punishment and that becomes much easier to do. 

How does it become easier to do ? You're not removing the clock, you're making everyone aware of it.

[Wullie]

11 minutes ago, madras said:

How does it become easier to do ? You're not removing the clock, you're making everyone aware of it.

 

You've said "players can't time waste"

 

Of course they can but there's no punishment. We call it 'time wasting', that's not actually the point of the exercise though.

 

If a team is under siege, 1-0 up at the death, facing corner after corner after corner, then a defending player lies on the floor for 5 minutes pretending to be injured - even if the ref adds every second of that time on when the game restarts, the "time wasting" was still worth it because at that point, things have calmed down, the crowd have got bored and the momentum has been taken out of the game. In that situation as a defending player, with no yellow card available to the referee anymore, I'd be making sure every throw in took a full minute to take. Suck all the life out of the game - the actual time itself is nowhere near as important.

[HaydnNUFC]

Unsure why we have two football pet hates threads but for the sake of good order;

 

23 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

When people replace the word spend with 'spunk' when talking about money spent on a player or players. Fucking weird behaviour. 

[Fantail Breeze]

1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Unsure why we have two football pet hates threads but for the sake of good order;

 

 

This sort of shit never happened before Rich started meddling.

[Superior Acuña]

9 minutes ago, Wullie said:

 

You've said "players can't time waste"

 

Of course they can but there's no punishment. We call it 'time wasting', that's not actually the point of the exercise though.

 

If a team is under siege, 1-0 up at the death, facing corner after corner after corner, then a defending player lies on the floor for 5 minutes pretending to be injured - even if the ref adds every second of that time on when the game restarts, the "time wasting" was still worth it because at that point, things have calmed down, the crowd have got bored and the momentum has been taken out of the game. In that situation as a defending player, with no yellow card available to the referee anymore, I'd be making sure every throw in took a full minute to take. Suck all the life out of the game - the actual time itself is nowhere near as important.

 

I think that's part of it, but do think it's also about cutting in-game time to a significant extent. You know the ref's not going to add as much as wasted - you want to push it without doing so much that ref feels obliged to max out the additional time. (not that I'm calling for a new clock/time)

 

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Inferior Acuña

[Budgie Smuggler]

Fans applauding a player off the pitch after receiving a red card.

[madras]

8 hours ago, Wullie said:

 

You've said "players can't time waste"

 

Of course they can but there's no punishment. We call it 'time wasting', that's not actually the point of the exercise though.

 

If a team is under siege, 1-0 up at the death, facing corner after corner after corner, then a defending player lies on the floor for 5 minutes pretending to be injured - even if the ref adds every second of that time on when the game restarts, the "time wasting" was still worth it because at that point, things have calmed down, the crowd have got bored and the momentum has been taken out of the game. In that situation as a defending player, with no yellow card available to the referee anymore, I'd be making sure every throw in took a full minute to take. Suck all the life out of the game - the actual time itself is nowhere near as important.

Fair points. I do think it's important though for everyone to know how much game time is left, for it not to be arbitrary and for actual game time not to be wasted through legitimate things.

[bowlingcrofty]

Having your team time waste when you have a narrow lead is fantastic. Would just be another shit rule change if it ever came in.

[Happinesstan]

1 hour ago, madras said:

Fair points. I do think it's important though for everyone to know how much game time is left, for it not to be arbitrary and for actual game time not to be wasted through legitimate things.

This has never been the case, though.

[Guest]

Mason Greenwood.

[Miercoles]

44 minutes ago, Happinesstan said:

This has never been the case, though.

 

It would be fucking wild if they actually tracked and accurately added stoppage time in games, I don't think anybody is ready for that shit.

 

Tbh I think they should, it's ridiculous that the referee just goes with his vibe on that shit, but it would be a hell of an adjustment period.

[Happinesstan]

1 hour ago, Miercoles said:

 

It would be fucking wild if they actually tracked and accurately added stoppage time in games, I don't think anybody is ready for that shit.

 

Tbh I think they should, it's ridiculous that the referee just goes with his vibe on that shit, but it would be a hell of an adjustment period.

It'll be easily implemented once we're all signed up to the metaverse.

[madras]

1 hour ago, Miercoles said:

 

It would be fucking wild if they actually tracked and accurately added stoppage time in games, I don't think anybody is ready for that shit.

 

Tbh I think they should, it's ridiculous that the referee just goes with his vibe on that shit, but it would be a hell of an adjustment period.

One of the Sundays used to, possibly The Observer. Most games were in the high 50s to low 60 minutes