Anyone who doesn't like football?

Anonymous

On the back of another thread, heres another.

Does anyone else on here dislike football as I do?

1. Overpaid
2. Get away with assault on the pitch.
3. Boring to watch.

Sorry to all the football fans out there, if you love football, brilliant.
If you don't let me know and I'll add it to the list.

redddraggon

You mean Soccer?

The only proper football is rugby.......

STEFANOS4784

dmclite wrote:

On the back of another thread, heres another.

Does anyone else on here dislike football as I do?

1. Overpaid
2. Get away with assault on the pitch.
3. Boring to watch.

Sorry to all the football fans out there, if you love football, brilliant.
If you don't let me know and I'll add it to the list.

+1 Football is the most irritating sport out there IMO

Eau Rouge

Far from a "fan" but the "overpaid" jibe is a bit of a pet dislike.

The game generates money, lots of money, from sponsorship, TV rights, fans etc. Whatever the methods and reasons for that, nobody is actually forced to pay, yet they do.

If the sport is going to generate all that income anyway, as it seems it is, it has to be right that a large part of that goes to the people responsible for it, and thats mostly the players.
Even if there was some way to reduce how much players get paid, the money is still going to be there, only now it goes to line the pockets of the chairmen of the clubs, sponsors and TV companies instead. I'd rather it went to the guys doing most to earn it.

APIII

I'm ambivalent when it comes to football, it just doesn't interest me that much. However, I have to agree with the previous post, it's simple economics. The players generate income for the clubs. If the fans stopped paying for the ticket fees and replica kits, and cancelled their sky sports subscriptions, then their salaries would reflect this. You can't blame the players for making the most of a short career.

guilliano

It's not the whole of football that gets overpaid though.... just the very elite. A lot of players in the lower leagues barely scrape a living from the game. Is a player on £15k-£20k a year overpaid? Officially he would be living in poverty going by the way that is judged (below average wage)

fast as fupp

redddraggon wrote:

You mean Soccer?

The only proper football is rugby.......

rugby is just a load of roid heads running into each other for 80mins

then they all have a group w@nk after the game then frighten women in the bar

Frank the tank

I'm a footie fan, I support my local side Hucknall town (just been relegated to the northern premier league) I really enjoy it, but I don't give a t*ss about the overpaid prima donnas of the premier league.

None league football is a world apart from the premiership. I go as much for the banter as I do the footie.

guilliano

A lot of people obviously don't realise that there is football outside of the Premiership Frank

neeb

I'm a certified nerd, always have been, so never caught the football bug and have never managed to be remotely interested in it. Was pretty much anti-sport in general until I discovered cycling (also do other nerdy sports like inline skating / rollerblading). In a way I envy people who are really into football and other really popular sports though, it must be great to have that shared passion with every other person you meet. I've caught a glimpse of that when I've met people from European countries where cycling is really big, e.g. Spain, when there is a major tour on.

brownbosh

Football is a game for verminous lowlife chav fools.

fast as fupp

brownbosh wrote:

Football is a game for verminous lowlife chav fools.

sorry lad-dont get it- what do you mean?

teagar

He's a snob who associates sports with particular classes - football being associated with a class he deems lower than himself and thus is inferior.

Clearly he's a tw*t.

Jez mon

guilliano wrote:

Is a player on £15k-£20k a year overpaid? Officially he would be living in poverty going by the way that is judged (below average wage)

So half (more than half depending on how you calculate the average) of the population live in poverty?

I dislike soccer due to the play acting, and the fact that many matches are stale for quite some time.

fast as fupp

Jez mon wrote:

guilliano wrote:

Is a player on £15k-£20k a year overpaid? Officially he would be living in poverty going by the way that is judged (below average wage)

So half (more than half depending on how you calculate the average) of the population live in poverty?

I dislike soccer due to the play acting, and the fact that many matches are stale for quite some time.

dont watch it then! i dont watch sports i dont like

DomPro

I can't stand football; playing, watching, talking. It bores me!

fast as fupp

DomPro wrote:

I can't stand football; playing, watching, talking. It bores me!

you spelt 'golf' wrong there lad

wiffachip

i hate it, but i've got good reason - a season ticket for the toon since 1973

if you hate it, what you posting about if for ? just ignore it

brownbosh

Teagar, I see you made the most of your schooling. Did I hit a burberry / stone island covered nerve?

T.C.

i have watched football all my life,saw my first chelsea game in 75 hereford away, this season i went to cluj, bordeaux, torino , i also follow wales all over , i have now done 60 consecutive games ( yes i know must be mad) , but , it's not the same game i followed 20 years ago, tv has spoilt it, ticket prices are a joke, no concessions for kids in champls league, £ barca away was £ 68 , the simple answer is don't go , but it's like a drug, the way i look at it i pick were i go and it's a way of seeing the world, i'm not going to azerbaijan june been there twice but going to montengro august, yes they are a bunch of arrogant w**88rs, see ledley king,

grayo59

Raises hand ...

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

GRRRR i hate football, they are a load of cheating chavs and if they didn't do football they would be living off the dole (Steven gerrard for example). I never watch football but have seen it whilst watching telly or if somebody else has been watching it and they always try to cheat at every possible occasion, i know cycling doesn't have a very good reputation for cheating but they try to squeeze everything out of it, the game is all about doing everything to win that includes pretending that they got punched in the face when they get tapped on the neck.

fast as fupp

brownbosh wrote:

Teagar, I see you made the most of your schooling. Did I hit a burberry / stone island covered nerve?

youre coming across as a bit of a t!t

well done!

got any more stereotypes you dont like- perhaps brown people or other forruns?

teagar

brownbosh wrote:

Teagar, I see you made the most of your schooling. Did I hit a burberry / stone island covered nerve?

Not really. I spent most of my school years being beaten up by people wearing burberry, and almost ended up being sent to private school because I spent so much time walking around with black-eyes and cigarette burns on my chest, but I persevered, and stayed.

I just have an objection to twatish snobbery.

doyler78

redddraggon wrote:

You mean Soccer?

The only proper football is rugby.......

Ah rugby - oh yes that'll be the game we are grand slam champions at wouldn't it 8)

But still it's just rugby - football is gaelic. Today every club in Ireland celebrated 125 years of Gaelic Football Here's to another 125.

Soccer is sh1te.

brownbosh

An interesting link Wilier. If you don't like football or chav's you are a nazi eh? For whats its worth i am one of those brown fellas you are referring to. Yet i feel no need to tag a limited intellect such as yours. And Teagar it is clear your retaliation was due to your inferiority/persecution complex. If snob means to ally myself with those on a higher intellectual and moral plain than you two fine examples, then I am guilty!

teagar

brownbosh wrote:

An interesting link Wilier. If you don't like football or chav's you are a nazi eh? For whats its worth i am one of those brown fellas you are referring to. Yet i feel no need to tag a limited intellect such as yours. And Teagar it is clear your retaliation was due to your inferiority/persecution complex. If snob means to ally myself with those on a higher intellectual and moral plain than you two fine examples, then I am guilty!

Given you got me pretty wrong in your previous post, it'll be difficult to try and make up ground by making offensive psuedo-psychological analyses.

Why not try and defend your original statement? Oh wait, you got it totally wrong.

So far, you've done little to convince me that you are in fact on a higher intellectual and moral plain, given that you have made incorrect assumptions and behaved like an arse.

Do you actually have anything to back what you say up? Or are you just trying to stir?

I think I deserve a response to my defense of your accusation: "Teagar, I see you made the most of your schooling. Did I hit a burberry / stone island covered nerve?"

Or can't you think of a good one? :?

Jez mon

fast as fupp wrote:

Jez mon wrote:

guilliano wrote:

Is a player on £15k-£20k a year overpaid? Officially he would be living in poverty going by the way that is judged (below average wage)

So half (more than half depending on how you calculate the average) of the population live in poverty?

I dislike soccer due to the play acting, and the fact that many matches are stale for quite some time.

dont watch it then! i dont watch sports i dont like

I don't in general, other than the odd game which TBH I quite enjoy. However, for the rest of the time, I can't help but feel that ethically, slightly too much money goes to the top players/clubs, despite what simple economics tells us.

I just feel that sometimes it hinders my enjoyment of the sport, it's like in cycling, I enjoy watching, but there's always a niggling feeling that so and so is on drugs!

But to a certain extent, that's the choice you make when you watch any sport at almost any level, someone will always use underhand methods to gain an upper hand! However, this is quickly getting beyond my intellectual realms, better let someone on a higher intellectual and moral plain take over.

Harrid

I've fallen out with football in a big way in recent years. Used to have a season ticket for my local club.

I think its a combination of quite a few things, but one being how relentless it is. So much so I'm bored with it.

The diving, play-acting, money etc. is also irritating, but someone said football isn't just the Premiership...

Well two weeks ago I went back to see my local team for the first time in two years and even though they won with a goal 3 minutes into injury time I came away thinking it was the most frustrating non-enjoyable 2 hours I had ever paid the privilige of subjecting myself to.

So I won't be back.

Anonymous

This subject came up, because where I work a lot of the lads follow London teams, Chelsea, West Ham etc, and they have almost stopped going to games and going local to Southend and Grays because they are saying its a more honest, realistic and exciting game.
I think the game is obsessed and is over reported for example a minor scottish league was on the BBC news on Sun night, but no mention of Mark Cavendish getting the Pink jersey in the Giro. It just seems a lot of aspects of sport seem to be shoved aside for football, I just don't get it.
Also the aggression part is a bewilderment, how many riots have there been at large rugby, tennis or other large sporting events?

Just can't like football, almost every aspect of it.

teagar

dmclite wrote:

This subject came up, because where I work a lot of the lads follow London teams, Chelsea, West Ham etc, and they have almost stopped going to games and going local to Southend and Grays because they are saying its a more honest, realistic and exciting game.
I think the game is obsessed and is over reported for example a minor scottish league was on the BBC news on Sun night, but no mention of Mark Cavendish getting the Pink jersey in the Giro. It just seems a lot of aspects of sport seem to be shoved aside for football, I just don't get it.
Also the aggression part is a bewilderment, how many riots have there been at large rugby, tennis or other large sporting events?

Just can't like football, almost every aspect of it.

The riots arn't ever about the football. The football is just a pretext for the violence that they look for.