How long did I last?

[Marcus Kendall]

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

Eggs and his practicality hey *shrugs*

 

[degsy]

Eggs and his practicality hey *shrugs*

There's always one

 

[windymiller]

I really only watch us and my local non-league team now. I used to watch loads of footie but I'm finding it harder and harder to connect with a bunch a multi-millionaire man babies rolling around on the floor and whining at the referee whilst sports corps, oligarchs and human rights abusers squeeze every last penny out of the supporters. Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the problem.

This will be Moyes in 2 weeks

This is the sort of thing I was talking about.

 

[Norlye]

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

I remember the first season VAR came in watching all these people turn up for what is a office job dressed in tracksuits and thinking how sad.Pretend referees. What I didn't realise was just how destructive these sad wannabes were going to be.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Until fans start boycotting games, nothing will change. Unless a game involves Everton I won't watch it. Champions League and Europa league have never been more boring. People whinge but don't do anything. If fans let's say waited outside ground for 1st 20 minutes and you had empty seats everywhere it would send message to higher ups.

Gets said every year but yet here we are. That's why people in positions of power, privately, look down at the public as ignorant and treat them as such.

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

 

[Rita_Poon]

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

he's that 17th rate butt wipe that got booted out of reform. oh how time isn't cruel enough.

 

[Joey66]

Gets said every year but yet here we are. That's why people in positions of power, privately, look down at the public as ignorant and treat them as such.

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

In the old days- Crowds meant everything for income to any top club - Sadly no more Sky monies have made the players get obscene wages plus the clubs don't give a jot about supporters as they know home season tickets the fans have paid upfront!
In the old days after a crap performance like that the next home game would have been a very low attendance hurting the club pressuring the Manager plus players to improve ASAP as fan could vote with their feet hurting the clubs financially -
Not any more plus it was an average working mans game - not the prawn sarnie brigade as Roy Kean put it many years ago etc
the top league any team from 12 could win the title - The prem it's down to 3-4 teams ....

Only Leicester City broke the mold - & looks where they are now top players snapped up by bigger teams times change fans say don't look backwards - but IMO it's getting boring far too predictable - even VAR is favouring big clubs plus the 5 substitute rule ........plus even PSR is abused by the chosen few teams that just away with it !

 

[davep]

We fans are weird ppl. I've watched old football - classic matches etc. Most of it was sh*t, and the pitches (and tackles) were worse than the crap I play on every week, and there's basically only 1/2 division of organised football you can play below me!

 

[Marcus Kendall]

In the old days- Crowds meant everything for income to any top club - Sadly no more Sky monies have made the players get obscene wages plus the clubs don't give a jot about supporters as they know home season tickets the fans have paid upfront!
In the old days after a crap performance like that the next home game would have been a very low attendance hurting the club pressuring the Manager plus players to improve ASAP as fan could vote with their feet hurting the clubs financially -
Not any more plus it was an average working mans game - not the prawn sarnie brigade as Roy Kean put it many years ago etc
the top league any team from 12 could win the title - The prem it's down to 3-4 teams ....

Only Leicester City broke the mold - & looks where they are now top players snapped up by bigger teams times change fans say don't look backwards - but IMO it's getting boring far too predictable - even VAR is favouring big clubs plus the 5 substitute rule ........plus even PSR is abused by the chosen few teams that just away with it !

Spot on Joey. Its really pointless caring now which is why I'm chilled about it all. And just remember with Saudi Arabia becoming more involved in sports it'll get a tonne worse the greed when you see Saudi teams being invited into the 'champions' league as 'special' guests like Australia in eurovision

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

In the old days- Crowds meant everything for income to any top club - Sadly no more Sky monies have made the players get obscene wages plus the clubs don't give a jot about supporters as they know home season tickets the fans have paid upfront!
In the old days after a crap performance like that the next home game would have been a very low attendance hurting the club pressuring the Manager plus players to improve ASAP as fan could vote with their feet hurting the clubs financially -
Not any more plus it was an average working mans game - not the prawn sarnie brigade as Roy Kean put it many years ago etc
the top league any team from 12 could win the title - The prem it's down to 3-4 teams ....

Only Leicester City broke the mold - & looks where they are now top players snapped up by bigger teams times change fans say don't look backwards - but IMO it's getting boring far too predictable - even VAR is favouring big clubs plus the 5 substitute rule ........plus even PSR is abused by the chosen few teams that just away with it !

I'd like to think change is imminent but this, what is now, glorified gladiator has been hoodwinking the public for thousands of years.

What have the Romans ever done for us, eh?

 

[Joey66]

I'd like to think change is imminent but this, what is now, glorified gladiator has been hoodwinking the public for thousands of years.

What have the Romans ever done for us, eh?

Gave us straight roads

 

[witchdoc187]

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

Pretty much the same. No way I was watching Friday. Watched a bit of wolves in pub while waiting for mates but at outside when they arrived. Chelsea was on whilst I was at the airport but chose to read my book instead. Obviously sat through our full 90.

 

[argietoffee]

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
[/QUOTE]

I wish to God I had the same thought process. Week ruined.

 

[Lob]

I feel your pain. It took me one game to go from this

To this

Second game of the season and i am already thinking CBA. There is nothing even the slightest bit entertaining about us currently.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Gave us straight roads

Hopefully you're being silly, I've seen maps of the London road network.