How long did I last?

[Dario Terracotta]

I thought this thread was going to be about premature ejaculation when I saw the title.

No chance of that watching us lot last night was there?

 

[Terrarian]

I was just saying the very same thing yesterday to a pal, the modern game is so sterile and boring, athletes not footballers and some of them are really poor. A lot of them are lucky to be premier league and if a certain few clubs didn't stockpile all the top players, a lot would be championship.

We've seen first hand just how bad some of these athletes are at football, they can't make simple passes, they can't play quick one touch football. Some treat the ball like a hot potato, no composure whatsoever.

I think the main thing for me is, where have all the mavericks gone, tactics stop skillful players being exciting these days.

Then there's the media who fawn over certain teams and like to try and sell players via headlines if a player from the other 14 has a good season.

Yeah modern football is crap like. Very boring in my eyes.

 

[chrismpw]

I thought this was something I wrote myself at first- then I remembered I no longer have a dog and I haven't resolved to try to follow the game again. Other than that, word for word I feel the same.

 

[Joey66]

Have you thought about maybe watching some lower league footy ?

Much more entertaining.

I did in the Water Smith era Unibond league fantastic entertainment plus ale plus food not a rip off - even went to away games Marine had a great side back then only the ground held them back from going higher in the league's

 

[helpimonfire]

When I go to Sweden I try to see games. It is far more entertaining than our league.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one

Love your point about cricket, I absolutely loathe 20 20 and the impact its had on the test game for the negative. You're right people now just want the razzmatazz without substance rather than the nuance of a longer format with its ebbs and flows. The test series with India was lauded as an all time classic when in reality the matches were played on flat pitches and the results were determined not by special bowling but by batsmen giving up their wickets trying crowd pleasing shots. And don't get me started on the dearth of quality spin bowling which is arguably the finest art in cticket

 

[Cameron Manning]

But could Sky accept it was a cracking game of football or was it all about what is wrong with Liverpool rather than Bournemouth can play football and have a very good manager.

Whenever I watch football on TV, any channel, I never have the sound on— not interested in ex footballers talking about what they think and trying to impress with their limited knowledge of the game— I just want to watch the football although having watched the game since I was a kid a very long time ago I am getting more disillusioned about today’s game week by week and slowly watching less and less because of the way the game is played at a win at all costs with cheating and greedy players ruining the game which once was great sporting entertainment.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Whenever I watch football on TV, any channel, I never have the sound on— not interested in ex footballers talking about what they think and trying to impress with their limited knowledge of the game— I just want to watch the football although having watched the game since I was a kid a very long time ago I am getting more disillusioned about today’s game week by week and slowly watching less and less because of the way the game is played at a win at all costs with cheating and greedy players ruining the game which once was great sporting entertainment.

Shilton should have punched him into the next millennium. Ignominy.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Shilton should have punched him into the next millennium. Ignominy.

Var wouldn't overturn it if that was Pickford in goal for us

 

[Rita_Poon]

Var wouldn't overturn it if that was Pickford in goal for us

I was thinking similar. If it's one of ours we give away the FK and get a card, whereas against us, var takes an age and we only get the FK.

var implementation has invited some of the boxing judges rubbish into the game. blood sucking parasites.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

I was thinking similar. If it's one of ours we give away the FK and get a card, whereas against us, var takes an age and we only get the FK.

var implementation has invited some of the boxing judges rubbish into the game. blood sucking parasites.

Great analogy. Most hilarious is they wear full referee kit when in the VAR room trying to give the impression that it's all proper

 

[Rita_Poon]

Great analogy. Most hilarious is they wear full referee kit when in the VAR room trying to give the impression that it's all proper

Wasn't there a rumour that the former saints owner 'Rupert' or whatever his name was, invited himself into the changies for the home games donning full kit for the pre game team talk?

 

[degsy]

Now I would describe myself as a football fan, but if honest I would struggle to say one positive thing about modern football.

Generally speaking I can’t stand Sky Sports. And this is not just football. Why must test cricket be all Bazball and how long since Zak Crawley has hit a 6 rather than just letting, as the recent series against India showed, things develop over 25 days. It’s a 5 day game and played in series for a reason. Youth and attention span?

Anyway moving to football.

I decided to give the start of the season a real go watching. Other teams. Not just the endless joyless torture that has been supporting Everton.

I’m not going down the PSR rabbit hole but the need to have a economics & business degree does take a lot of the fun out of talking football, plus the seemingly arbitrary way the rules are applied to different clubs.

This is about watching and enjoying football

Game 1- FNF @ Mordor-home of the Champions- simple decision. Literally no amount of money would get me to sit through that fawning biased drivel so binned off straight away.

Game 2-Wolves v Citeh- I’m really not a fan of Pepball. I find the whole pass,pass,pass so tedious. Thinking of all the flair players over the years who have genuinely entertained. My attention wandered and I was doing other stuff by half way through the first half.

Game 3- Chelsea v Palace- possibly a mistake this one. Could have watched Forest Brentford. To start we had Micah Richards talking about how exciting this season could be as possibly Citeh, Chelsea and Arsenal could challenge the RS for the title. No mention of any other team. No mention could Forest build on last season. The promoted teams?. Nothing. Onto the game. All seen through the Chelsea lens. I thought Palace looked the better team. Anyway, whoever was on comms with the muppets Sutton, again talked about the 4 teams for the title and of course how we need to see what Man Utd &Tottenham do. Literally the Sky 6. No mention of any other team.
To cap it all, Palace score and VAR seem to invent a rule, in my 40 odd years of playing, watching and being involved with football, I have never seen or heard of the 1 metre rule. After that the ref then starts drawing an additional line at free kicks.

My wife comes in, listening to my chunnering on & says are you still wanting to watch this. No I replied put what you want on I will make a brew.
I sat and watched 2 episodes of The Guilded Age, which was so bad but still better than Sky football. Didn’t even bother with Man Utd v Arsenal as I could see Roy Keane lurking.

To cap it off I saw the team sheet for the Leeds game and took the dogs for a walk as I knew it would be grim.

Didn’t survive week one

Amazed you lasted as long as you did.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Wasn't there a rumour that the former saints owner 'Rupert' or whatever his name was, invited himself into the changies for the home games donning full kit for the pre game team talk?

Rupert Lowe? Not sure but anyone named Rupert has had an abusive childhood so could see it being one of his foibles

 

[degsy]

….the game has certainly changed for the worst but I wonder if we’d all feel a bit different if we were continually around the top of the table and chasing trophies.

It’s no fun supporting Everton but maybe football would be a little more enjoyable if we were very good.

Well if you're going to ruin a good whinge by talking sense I'm out