4 evil things in football.

[Chang Elephant]

Chubby women
Mark Clattenburg
Ian Rush
Leon Osman

 

[bignev23]

Ticket prices - Main gripe about modern football.
Players wages
Transfer fees
Sky tv

 

[radiostar]

Sky
Ticket prices
Wages
Disconnection from players and fans. (See #3)

 

[sd_1992]

Liverpool FC
Liverpool FC
Liverpool FC
Liverpool FC

 

[blue61]

1. Retrospective disciplinary action, and it's lack of consistency/bias.
2. Scapegoat/blame culture. An example. After every goal, commentators will instantly look for the 'at fault', rather than praise the goal. Over analysis. "If he was stood here, he wouldn't have scored..."
3. BBC Live Text Match Updates. "Sports Day" or whatever they call it.
4. 'Soccer Saturday' / 'Soccer AM' and the type of "pundit" it attracts - BANTZ/KAMMY all that crap.

You go.

Number 2 was created by Bob 'eh it's a simple game' Paisley, never praised the opposition. The failure to recognise 'shielding the ball out of play while the opposing player is the only one trying to play the ball' as obstruction makes my blood boil.

 

[ijjysmith]

Adam Johnson

 

[Boss_Blue]

Adam Johnson

Has he been caught four times mate?

 

[Lionel Naismith]

Sky
Diving
Suarez
Garbutts left peg

 

[ijjysmith]

Has he been caught four times mate?

Soon

 

[Minimeister]

Cheating
Time wasting
Incompetent referees
Money

 

[chrissyjack]

Liverpool FC
Anfield
Kopites
John Aldridge

 

[Caolam]

Players going down too easily/pundits saying they are entitled to go down
Defenders holding forwards at corners etc
Replica kits on fat people
Celebrity fans who have never been at a match

 

[The Size Of A Cow]

'There was contact'. It's a contact sport - do one.

The rancid standard of officiating. Quite the coincidence how the referees get discussed more and more, but the consistency and general performance steadily decreases. Lack of accountability is massive here imo.

Steven Gerrard - has single handedly done more to promote diving, cheating and players refereeing games than any other player since Sky invented football. And that's before even touching on shytehouse tackles and his extra-curricular activities.

The skewed money culture of the game. Far more should be done by the clubs (and FA/Premier league) benefitting from the TV money in particular to improve grass roots facilities.

 

[kithnou]

1.Y
2.N
3.W
4.A

 

[ijjysmith]

LOL @ me being not that arsed about players diving.

I wonder how most would react if Ross Barkley dives in the Europa League final in the 92nd minute to win us a pen that Baines scored to win us the match.