Things you don't like about football

I genuinely have no interest in professional football outside of the Ireland team. I think it has become an absolute freakshow. I haven't followed professional football in years.

They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car...

Players diving and play acting especially after meaningless gestures before the game like shaking hands and standing together behind fair play banners.

The crazy money in the game now especially in the Premier League.

I was always a LOI fan but feel even more affinity to it these days when you see the hundreds of millions being spent by one club in a month in the Premier League.

When a team wins a direct free kick and set up a wall in front of the defending team’s wall.

Don’t see the point in that at all

Mr Brick wrote:

horsebox wrote:

The money has completely destroyed football. My interest in the EPL is at an all time low.

Yep.

Yerp. Also with the number of games on TV I’m really not that bothered.

How many games would you actually watch with your full attention?

Unless it’s champions league quarter finals or Ireland playing I spend most of the time with the football on the box but playing around on my phone.

Undisclosed transfer fees.

"We go again" is the worst phrase in football.

Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."

The immaturity of the average football fan who can only speak about the game through the emotional attachment they made to whichever team they decided to support as kid. Makes grown men sound like fourteen year olds. A Man U fan not being able to talk objectively about Liverpool for instance or vice versa. I noticed a couple silly posters trying to talk down Ronaldo signing for Man U in another thread for example. That's just ridiculous.

Immature football fans is my biggest annoyance ahead of:

VAR. What a cock up for the sport.

Badgersboys9 wrote:

We pretty much call all Brazilian and a lot of S.American footballers by their nicknames.

Indeed. Sure next time he wants to talk about Pele for example irelandfan should really be saying Edson Arantes do Nascimento instead if the nickname thing bothers him that much LOL

Edited by Denis Irwin - 31 Aug 2021 at 10:50am

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

irelandfan wrote:

Fans calling sides us you or them like there players themselves.

irelandfan wrote:

Fans calling football players by there nicknames.

Fans using 'We': Why do you have to be a player to say 'We'? Would you talk like that when talking about Ireland?

Fans using nickanmes: I think some players are more so known by their nickname. I don't see an issue with that. Calling a player by another part of their name that they are not universally known as, I wouldn't say is annoying but just very strange. Examples:

Roy Keane = Known as Keano or Roy Keane. Keane is ok but can be confused with Robbie. Calling him simply Roy is a little strange but also acceptable due to the Robbie Keane similarity.

Robbier Keane = Known as Robbie or Robbie Keane. Keane is ok but can be confused with Roy. Calling him anything else like Robert is very strange.

Paul Gascoigne = Known as Gazza. Calling him by his full name of Paul Gascoigne or simply Gascoigne are a little strange. Calling him Paul is super strange.

Wayne Rooney = Known as Rooney or Wayne Rooney. Calling him Wayne is strange. Calling him Wazza if you are not a Utd or England teammate is not only strange but sad

Edited by t_rAndy - 31 Aug 2021 at 10:18am

The game seems to be going towards a few super clubs, owned by states or oligarchs, dominating the game. Only those clubs seem to be able to sign the best, look at Haaland for instance, it was a shock he went to Dortmund, themselves a massive club, yet that will just end up being a finishing shop for him before a move elsewhere. On the flip side, Messi move ass inevitable and depressing.

It's brutal.

At the same time, our own league is doing well it seems, hopefully more people see that 'top level' football is toxic and come to their local loo ground.