nah lol
Is it time to boycott football?
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Serf "Guv"
Guv "what!"
Serf "He's gone boss"
Guv "Whatdya mean he's gone"
Serf "He's not coming back, and he was so awful he's poisoned it"
Guv "God damnit!"
When I can be bothered to update it I may post in the wellbeing thread. Please don't hold me to it.
Cake
Player Valuation: £15m
The football is boring the vast majority of the time and the game/system is corrupt but it's the goal celebrations and players interactions with the customers (and themselves) that keeps me watching. 'Praying' and mumbling to themself while pretending to hold an invisible book of some sort, shoving the ball up your shirt and sucking your thumb, pretending you meant it (or not) when face-planting off a knee slide after hitting a dry bit, asking or needing to be helped up off the floor by a colleague or opposing player after you have thrown yourself down there, excitedly wafting your arms up and down to get the customers going and ask them for help like you're trying to get rid of a fart, to name but a few.
The only player to recently fail the sport and its customers was Hakimi at AFCON. He placed ALL of the ball inside the quadrant when taking a corner and he did it more than once! Doesn't he know you're supposed to try and nearly break the rules now by having as little of the ball hanging over the quadrant line as possible? He must know it also puts his team at a massive disadvantage by him not doing this? I think he was the captain too (?) making his irresponsible behaviour even more about him.
The only player to recently fail the sport and its customers was Hakimi at AFCON. He placed ALL of the ball inside the quadrant when taking a corner and he did it more than once! Doesn't he know you're supposed to try and nearly break the rules now by having as little of the ball hanging over the quadrant line as possible? He must know it also puts his team at a massive disadvantage by him not doing this? I think he was the captain too (?) making his irresponsible behaviour even more about him.
As a product I don't really disagree. It has led to much greater parity and prevents the sort of absurdities seen in the Prem, or indeed Major League Baseball, which also lacks a salary cap structure.
However, as a good militant leftist, I can't get behind a system with no guaranteed contracts where the amount of money that goes to the labour force is strictly limited while the owners and valuations of their businesses continually rise. The NFL's oligarchic situation is almost the opposite of what we see in the Prem. The owners (largely) work together rather than against each other. This has been great for the product, but not nearly as good for the labour force that actually does the work you want to see.
Rarely do bad teams get good from one draft, American football should be about the collective rather than the individual (the cult of the QB bothers me, even if it's backed by numbers). NBA is where it's at if you want that kind of swing from a lottery.
I do admit a negative bias against the NFL that makes me more critical of it though. Mostly just eye rolling over the "warrior" language and intense machismo surrounding the whole thing.
I agree completely about less is more. There is way too much coverage, sports, games, etc. these days generally and it takes the magic from it all. The NFL definitely benefits from every game mattering, that has always been a strength of American football generally, as it's also true in the college game, or any league...just can't play many more games without killing people.
Just the world cup
I never knew if my dad supported any team. He grew up in north London where Spurs and Arsenal were both a bus ride away but, the fact that I chose 1st Division Champions, Everton, and a brother chose Burnley, when they sandwiched runners-up Spurs, suggests he wasn't particularly arsed one way or the other.
I'm the same though, an Everton fan rather than a football fan.
Duncan’s Pigeon Loft
Player Valuation: £8m
Football today and for roughly the last ten years is absolutely garbage and boring. And it’s nothing to do with Everton been largely garbage in that time - I loved it in the 90s early 00s and we was arguably worse then. Everton just about keep me interested.
Duncan’s Pigeon Loft
Player Valuation: £8m
Whatever this version of “football” is, it’s not what we had and is to put it midly, a load of.
That was my opinion before VAR, which had somehow been implemented abysmally and made things 100 times worse.
Then the moving of nearly all our kickoffs and hardly having any Saturday games has been a proper grind this season.
Im possibly missing Goodison also, even though I love the new place, the tradition and new matchday routines has definitely had an impact on my enjoyment and love of the game.
Any boycott to drive change or make a difference would have to be properly organised and involve numerous clubs outside the scab6, not just us. which will never happen so no point.
Besides all that, I still love Everton, going the game with my kids and catching up with toffees and good mates, so I’ll prob never stop until I kark it or it’s physically too much for me.
UTFT!
I’m the same re. BM . It’s a brilliant stadium and what the club needs but I’m struggling to fall in love with it. Difficult to put my finger on but it just doesn’t feel
Like the same club - there’s something missing . Could change in time and hopefully it will.
The seating sections will take time to settle. It hasn't been handled well. Goodison has it's quirks, the collective shifting around a pillar when the ball hits a certain area, the closeness to the pitch, how the main stand looms with the middle tier immediately on top of the players, the old battered gates, the church, the HT procession for a slash in a victorian era trough, milling through the terraced streets around, avoiding the horse signatures, battling for a spot on the dodgy bus back to town, the buzz in the crowd building going in, last second arrivals because of last second tickets, bumping into old friends and acquaintances. Goodison is special because she is older than us all, and she's been the cradle for the club that has been the anchor in the community and generations of lives and games and stories. There was something primal (?) about being there watching like millions of others had before and taking the game in. That shared spec, those older experiences that bled through the foundations.
BMD can't compete because she is to new, to sterile, to perfect. There is no character flaw, (well, besides the poke-in-the-eye away section setup), Goodison had evolved, and she showed it, BMD is bespoke and can't hide it.
It's making me sad to think about what we've lost, maybe sea levels will rise a meter and we'll have to move back...
That bit made me laugh
Macker07
Player Valuation: £750k
I stopped when Rafael was made our manager. I come in here to keep up with the toffees. The game is bent, the football is terrible.
Macker07
Player Valuation: £750k
I meant Rafael obviously.
Macker07
Player Valuation: £750k
It did it again