Football pet hates

[Monkey Alan]

I don't like how football talk has turned into amateur accounting. Every thread on here is about balance sheets.

 

I kind of miss picking up The Chron and going, "Hoo, fatha, did ya knaa we've signed some bloke caalled Clarence wi' lang hair?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2024 by Monkey Alan

[Chicken Dancer]

Seemingly born from Ronaldo, the urge for everyone to call a player by their initial and number, ala CR7.

 

Seem Everton on Twitter the day - 'JB32 is back in the building'. Eurgh.

[matta]

Players getting away with diving and faking shit. On camera. With VAR.

 

God damn, also hate the current implementation of VAR. I would rather have shitty refrees than this.

[LordJake]

Modern shinpads, might as well stick a beer mat down your socks

[GideonShandy]

Any (well, almost any) use of the word "suffer" by managers, players or pundits.

[Monkey Alan]

2 hours ago, GideonShandy said:

Any (well, almost any) use of the word "suffer" by managers, players or pundits.

 

I wonder what other verbs we could use?

[Cronky]

Modern commentators. Their primary function was, and still should be, to tell you which player has the ball. The modern commentator feels that player recognition is far too mundane a job, and instead wants to dazzle you with a series of stats and details from past matches which are distracting and largely irrelevant. Stop it guys.

[midds]

Fouls in the middle third of the pitch going completely unpunished. It's like some managers have found a glitch in refs where they know that they can destroy attack after attack after attack with a little niggly foul and get away with it until about the 80th minute. The 14th time it happens the card comes out but they've killed every attack  until that point. It's genuinely frustrating as fuck and I'm fully aware we do it plenty too, it's a football thing

[Guest]

That shit banging they do against advertising hoardings or fuck knows what. They do it a Chelsea and the mackems started doing it. Usually, it's when they score, but at Fulham today they were just doing it randomly.

 

[Dancing Brave]

The leg bagging on the pitch when someone goes down and is obviously not hurt is my pet hate. 

[TheBrownBottle]

On 22/08/2024 at 03:11, Cronky said:

Modern commentators. Their primary function was, and still should be, to tell you which player has the ball. The modern commentator feels that player recognition is far too mundane a job, and instead wants to dazzle you with a series of stats and details from past matches which are distracting and largely irrelevant. Stop it guys.

For me, if they're going to be Motsonian, they should stick to when the ball is out of play - injuries etc.  Otherwise, they should be doing exactly what their primary function is - tell me who is on the ball.  Also, the 'colour commentators' should also stick to keeping their gobs shut other than stops in play.

 

While I'm at it - the TV cameras showing the bench / some cunt in the crowd / zooming in on something / showing a replay when the game is being played.  One camera lads, point the fucker at the pitch and pan it to follow the ball.  That's all we need.  You can show me what Eddie Howe looks like some other time.

[Astroblack]

‘Dibu’ Martinez

’Chicharito’ Hernandez

’Cuti’ Romero

 

Anything like this. Hate it. 

[Lordshola]

2 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

For me, if they're going to be Motsonian, they should stick to when the ball is out of play - injuries etc.  Otherwise, they should be doing exactly what their primary function is - tell me who is on the ball.  Also, the 'colour commentators' should also stick to keeping their gobs shut other than stops in play.

 

While I'm at it - the TV cameras showing the bench / some cunt in the crowd / zooming in on something / showing a replay when the game is being played.  One camera lads, point the fucker at the pitch and pan it to follow the ball.  That's all we need.  You can show me what Eddie Howe looks like some other time.

[Astroblack]

11 minutes ago, Lordshola said:

Main commentator draws the picture describing the action, ‘colour commentator’ colours it in with their ex playing days insight and experience. Co comms like Jerry Lawler or Tazz. Not a race thing. 

[TheBrownBottle]

22 minutes ago, Lordshola said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_commentator

[80]

Believe the polite term is now commentators of colour.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, 80 said:

Believe the polite term is now commentators of colour.

Political correctness gone mad

[Dr.Spaceman]

Colour commentators can't even comment on lasses tits these days

[Checko]

Personally I like Ally McCoist as comentator of colour, not because he has any particularly great tactical insight, but because he seems to actually enjoy watching football and looks to say something positive about the game.

 

Nothing sucks the enjoyment out of a game more than having a Danny Murphy or Lee Dixon type constantly moaning about everything while you watch.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2024 by Checko
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[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

It’s like being in the east stand. 

[Guest]

The Bournemouth camera view

[Kilcline]

Is it now a thing that before Liverpool games on Scouse Sports we get the lineups out of the usual sequence so we can listen to them cunts sing their song uninterrupted?

 

Less pet hate and more total hatred admittedly.

 

Fucking scouse cunts.

 

 

[LFEE]

3 hours ago, Pancrate1892 said:

The Bournemouth camera view

Ipswich’s even worse if you’ve not seen it yet.

[midds]

1 hour ago, Kilcline said:

Is it now a thing that before Liverpool games on Scouse Sports we get the lineups out of the usual sequence so we can listen to them cunts sing their song uninterrupted?

 

Less pet hate and more total hatred admittedly.

 

Fucking scouse cunts.

 

 

Always mute Liverpool home games until about 2 mins in. It's unbearable and I actually think the weekly rimming they receive is getting deeper and deeper 

[madras]

5 minutes ago, midds said:

Always mute Liverpool home games until about 2 mins in. It's unbearable and I actually think the weekly rimming they receive is getting deeper and deeper 

Ive taken to putting some tunes on when watching non Newcastle games and not bothering at all with the pre/half time/post blather