Things That Annoy About Modern Football

Things That Annoy About Modern Football

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London424

12,829 posts

177 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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digikal said:
Nom de ploom said:
I have to say this transfer window is getting very annoying...

I wonder what the ratio of (and I'll use english as I am english) players compared to overseas players have joined prem clubs....

its a difficult subject with no easy solution but this transfer window imho has done nothing to give me any increased hope for our national team...

Citeh for example, MB goes, ok we lose one foreigner, and he's looking at replacing with David Villa...

English players are becoming a premiership minority...
When players like Tom Huddlestone go for £5million, Ashley Young for £17million and Andy Carroll for £35million........
I think Hudd at £5 mil is pretty good value.

norfolkscooby

3,175 posts

157 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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London424 said:
digikal said:
Nom de ploom said:
I have to say this transfer window is getting very annoying...

I wonder what the ratio of (and I'll use english as I am english) players compared to overseas players have joined prem clubs....

its a difficult subject with no easy solution but this transfer window imho has done nothing to give me any increased hope for our national team...

Citeh for example, MB goes, ok we lose one foreigner, and he's looking at replacing with David Villa...

English players are becoming a premiership minority...
When players like Tom Huddlestone go for £5million, Ashley Young for £17million and Andy Carroll for £35million........
I think Hudd at £5 mil is pretty good value.
English players are hideously overpriced, especially if your enquiring on behalf of Mr B Rodgers of Liverpool

VXRuss

1,547 posts

192 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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Not read all the replies but the thing that gets me is players having to go off if slightly injured, just let them get up and resume the game, wtf is that all about!

ascayman

12,778 posts

218 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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London424 said:
I think Hudd at £5 mil is pretty good value.
He is, David bentley (£16.5m) Darren Bent (£23m) on the other hand.....


maisoumenos

22 posts

138 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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ascayman said:
London424 said:
I think Hudd at £5 mil is pretty good value.
He is, David bentley (£16.5m) Darren Bent (£23m) on the other hand.....

£6m for Kieron Dyer in 1999 and a further £6m in 2007 to West Ham where he was on 83k a week including 424k a season for image rights and a 100k loyalty fee; that guy had some agent. No wonder he featured in Englands worst 11 side.

ascayman

12,778 posts

218 months

Wednesday 30th January 2013
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maisoumenos said:
£6m for Kieron Dyer in 1999 and a further £6m in 2007 to West Ham where he was on 83k a week including 424k a season for image rights and a 100k loyalty fee; that guy had some agent. No wonder he featured in Englands worst 11 side.
hehe

Dyer was an exceptional case wasnt he smile

MonkeyBusiness

3,958 posts

189 months

Thursday 31st January 2013
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Samba on his £100,000 wages

Hackney

6,871 posts

210 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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VXRuss said:
Not read all the replies but the thing that gets me is players having to go off if slightly injured, just let them get up and resume the game, wtf is that all about!
This. Centre forward is fouled, and has to go off - after treatment, not for - yet the player who fouled him, even if booked, can take his place for the resultant free kick. Meanwhile the wronged player has to stand on e touch line, his team a man down.

Totally unfair and misguided attempt to speed up the game.

timmo

1,786 posts

236 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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Alan Smith commentating on Spurs Games - drives me mad

StevoCally

190 posts

185 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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TV Rights - don't have Sky or EPSN so never get to watch live matches (bar FA Cup and some European ones) unless I go to mates or a pub

The massive inflation of wages at the highest levels, appreciate it's a global market and players will go where they are best paid hence the difficulty in implementing any kind of salary cap system (unless there is a global agreement on % of club income which accountants can fiddle).

Also I cannot understand how a 17 or 18 year old youth team player on a few hundred quid a week can play well for half a season and be given a multi-year £30,000 to 70,000 per week contract?

Lastly is the ever increasing gap between the Premier League and the Championship.

maisoumenos

22 posts

138 months

Friday 8th February 2013
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Man Utd players withdrawing from internationals and then returning for the next Man Utd game so their players don’t get injured on duty or affect Fergie’s team selection. No wonder he gets agitated by players ‘injuries’ being disclosed.
Cup finals – tickets being given to the Uefa or Fifa family and not fans. 2013 Champions League Final is an example with 20,000 tickets awarded to sponsors and partners.

BlackST

9,080 posts

167 months

Friday 8th February 2013
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Players shielding the ball to go out for a goal kick 20ft away from the line.

markcurtains

301 posts

219 months

Thursday 14th February 2013
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The way in which promising players are plucked from the teams that found them, before their time then spend the next few season languishing on the bench of the not always grat team they've ended up at before being shipped out on loan to a rival's team of the one they came from in the first place. Hasn't happened to my team as we haven't porduced anyone anywhere near good enough for that to happen to for years, but it happens a lot. Zaha being probably the latest.

Nemo Sum

163 posts

138 months

Thursday 14th February 2013
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markcurtains said:
The way in which promising players are plucked from the teams that found them, before their time then spend the next few season languishing on the bench of the not always grat team they've ended up at before being shipped out on loan to a rival's team of the one they came from in the first place. Hasn't happened to my team as we haven't porduced anyone anywhere near good enough for that to happen to for years, but it happens a lot. Zaha being probably the latest.
Agree with you but Zaha is bad example seeing as how he was loaned straight back to his old club.

digikal

2,202 posts

151 months

Thursday 14th February 2013
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People who have their cameras out at the game taking pictures all game and even worse the utter dicks who film the whole game.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,640 posts

152 months

Saturday 16th February 2013
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Following on from my previous rant about "the ball picked up speed in flight", a commentators favourite despite the laws of physics, we now have, after Ronaldo's goal against Man U, his ability to "hang in the air".

Look, he jumps up higher than most, so is in the air longer. As he reaches his max height, he tucks his legs up under his body, giving the illusion of staying up longer. But he does not hang in the air. He's a good player, but he can't fly, or hover. He goes up, and comes down. He isn't able to hang about whilst he is up there.

Cupramax

10,487 posts

254 months

Saturday 16th February 2013
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timmo said:
Alan Smith commentating on Spurs Games - drives me mad
Or perhaps Jamie Redknapp and Glen Hoddle punditing an Arsenal game, that's not going to be too unbiased is it... curse

digikal

2,202 posts

151 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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This sums it up again, jailed for having a smoke bomb

http://ultras-chelsea.yolasite.com/ultras-blog.php

TwigtheWonderkid

43,640 posts

152 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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Commentators at Stamford Bridge who say "here we are in South West London." Hanging's too good for them.

Just because a location has an SW postcode, it doesn't make it south London. Loads of SW postcodes are north of the river. Like Buckingham Palace, SW1. It's not rocket surgery.

Stamford Bridge is in West London. get it right you muppets.

m3sye

26,231 posts

203 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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Suarez's passion to win

No players should have it ....