I accepted reality a long, long time ago, but im a football fan, I love football, so I simply have to consume the rubbish thats served up, just like we all do.
Or I can choose to cease being a football fan.
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Or I can choose to cease being a football fan.
Wonder how many free blowies she was giving out if they won
you fear for those who wouldn’t consent, especially with her past
She’s rancid. Bet she stinks of fish.
Saint Domingo
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Real football vs matchfixed tv entertainment.
More people like the latter though so what can you do?
Different era back then, clubs like Steaua, Red Star Belgrade, Dynamo Kiev, Hungarian, Austrian, Swedish clubs etc.... are cannon fodder now, but back then this clubs were powerhouses on their own.
Best Soviet, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak etc.... players didn't leave their countries as teenagers to play for money rich clubs, they played for their own clubs,
There was a rule here in ex-Yugoslavia that players couldn't leave abroad until 30 years old, so all those Modric, Rakitics, Mandzukic, Oblak, Dzeko and other great players from this area (from past generations) would play for our clubs, not in foreign lands, ditto for other countries
So club like Red Star that lose against Tottenham like 7-0 now, 30 years ago was made from Creme de la Creme of Yugoslav football and champion of Europe
Can you choose not to watch it?
Or support it.
You and bushes are acting like your hipsters who shun modern footy.
lollollollol
ForeverBlue92
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The PL/SKY have brainwashed so many footie fans its sad - the opium of the masses.
The likes of Neville and Carragher are the biggest dope pushers going and sadly fans of clubs outside the scab 6 who'll never be allowed to compete or build a dynasty like the likes of LFC/MUFC have done over decades of dominance clap like seals because they sign players coming to the end of their careers like James Rodriguez or Coutinho on 150k contracts and get told on SSN their club has a chance of "breaking" the top 6.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
I don't watch the Premier League.
I will watch Hertha Berlin v. Hamburger SV over two legs from tomorrow. Two big historic clubs, badly managed, with players of a very iffy standard - but in a match that means something and that both clubs can genuinely hope to win. The prize is a place in a Bayern-dominated league that - them excepted - is fantastically competitive (for all but who wins it) and wonderfully fan friendly. Not perfect, but definitely more accessible than the money-obsessed Premier League where fans have been basically reduced to the role of "subscribers."
Other than that, I watch international football - which, while far from perfect, at least has some measure of authenticity about it. Players want to play for their countries - unlike, say, that Danish player who didn't fancy turning out for little Chelsea at the weekend.
Oh, and the Big Match Revisited, if only to see that football was never perfect but at least seemed to provide genuine possibility and hope to fans of clubs of all sizes.
ForeverBlue92
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Thats what I do - I go the Everton home matches and watch the aways on a stream.
Cancelled Sky a few months back I have no interest in seeing Man Citys 2nd string side trounce Newcastle 5-0 3 days after playing a grueling match overseas.
You're being had off mate.
I have been that way for a couple of years, 3pm if we are not on I watch the likes of tranmere, or who i ever think might be a decent game.
Quite like watching forest at the moment.
Enjoy them miles better than the pantomime the prem has become
Had off? By whom?
Drico
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And just to clarify for fear of being misrepresented: I don't watch the Premier League or very much football anymore, to be honest. I used to watch it because clubs represented the area they came from in much the same way national teams did - and so there was a sense that they represented people and it all meant something. I'm all for breaking down borders and love the concept of European competition. Multinational teams makes sense in a globalised world and in the European Union, so this was always going to change. It's the ownership of many of these clubs, the financial commoditisation of the game, and the use of football for sportswashing purposes by human rights abusers and autocrats that turns me off - even though the standard of play is higher than ever. I just can't watch, say, Chelsea without being reminded of Abramovich or PSG without thinking of the bonded slaves who built the World Cup stadia in Qatar. And that will make the World Cup less palatable this time, too. No doubt I'll get over my objections when England are eliminated on penalties...
With the Premier League, I can't be arsed supporting Sky when they have a clear conflict of interest when they "analyse" games from the perspective of "how can we make as much money as possible from this?" That precludes honest analysis as it is always in their interests for certain clubs to be successful - and just like referees this seeps into how they present what has happened on and off the pitch.
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