Footballers are right tarts!!

[Evil.soup]

Christmas being Christmas I am doing the family visiting thing and I am forced to watch football. I dont mind football as a game and the local small town games are pretty good with little tarting around but i have been watching Cardiff v Sunderlad for 40 mis and it is starting to drive me mad!! Footballers act like such tarts as soon as they are inside the box, falling over, screaming in pain, dancing around like its strictly time!

Why can they not simply stay on their feet, play the game and stop acting up trying to get some kind of advantage.

It isnt the west end gents, man up or give up the game!! You dont get this crap in rugby!!!!!

RANT OVER AND THANKFULLY THE FIRST HALF!!!!!

[eltax91]

Wrong section. This thread can did quietly in sports soon

You are right though, you don't get it in rugby. The privileged posh boys get to batter each other like a bunch of thugs with zero skill or finesse and its part of the game....

[fatboy b]

Yep. Can't stand the game myself. Also the people who support football assume that everyone else also likes football. I've had many a conversation about "seeing the match last night". They look at me like I'm an alien when I mention there's people with lives as well.

[eltax91]

fatboy b said:

Yep. Can't stand the game myself. Also the people who support football assume that everyone else also likes football. I've had many a conversation about "seeing the match last night". They look at me like I'm an alien when I mention there's people with lives as well.

Its the national fking game ffs. Lots of people love it, that's why its a million times more popular than most other sports. Of course people will ask you if you saw a game. How do they know you are a boring bd?

Edited by eltax91 on Saturday 28th December 18:31

[sparks_E39]

fatboy b said:

Yep. Can't stand the game myself. Also the people who support football assume that everyone else also likes football. I've had many a conversation about "seeing the match last night". They look at me like I'm an alien when I mention there's people with lives as well.

I've had where people think I'm an odd one for not following football. I reckon I could name 4 or 5 current premiership players.

[bomb]

It may be the national game but it doesn't mean we all have to like it.

Maybe the 'boring ones' are those who only focus on football.

[scotty_d]

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

Ernest Hemingway

[Evil.soup]

eltax91 said:

fatboy b said:

Yep. Can't stand the game myself. Also the people who support football assume that everyone else also likes football. I've had many a conversation about "seeing the match last night". They look at me like I'm an alien when I mention there's people with lives as well.

Its the national fking game ffs. Lots of people love it, that's why its a million times more popular than most other sports. Of course people will ask you if you saw a game. How do they know you are a boring bd?

Edited by eltax91 on Saturday 28th December 18:31

Can you explain why its the national game? Was it voted in or something because i didnt get my voting slip for that one? The game itself is fine, its just the way it is played today. Its played by tarts pretending to be hurt to try to win rather than simply getting by with skill to win the game. It also has a yob following that helps to spoil things, something else you dont get in rugby.

While you have got me started, football is only about who has the deepest pockets. How many Liverpool players are actually from Liverpool, in fact, how many are from the UK?? The teams are full of it and represent nothing more than a name and certainly not a city!!

[Evil.soup]

eltax91 said:

fatboy b said:

Yep. Can't stand the game myself. Also the people who support football assume that everyone else also likes football. I've had many a conversation about "seeing the match last night". They look at me like I'm an alien when I mention there's people with lives as well.

Its the national fking game ffs. Lots of people love it, that's why its a million times more popular than most other sports. Of course people will ask you if you saw a game. How do they know you are a boring bd?

Edited by eltax91 on Saturday 28th December 18:31

Can you explain why its the national game? Was it voted in or something because i didnt get my voting slip for that one? The game itself is fine, its just the way it is played today. Its played by tarts pretending to be hurt to try to win rather than simply getting by with skill to win the game. It also has a yob following that helps to spoil things, something else you dont get in rugby.

While you have got me started, football is only about who has the deepest pockets. How many Liverpool players are actually from Liverpool, in fact, how many are from the UK?? The teams are full of it and represent nothing more than a name and certainly not a city!!

[F1GTRUeno]

The influx of foreign players in the mid-late 90's brought with it their style of play and the fact that they're used to referees giving them some protection and often giving them rewards for tricking the defenders into fouling them.

Our referees and players have merely adapted to that and now it's all about getting an advantage.

If the referees stopped giving every little foul and stopped falling for diving then it would stop.

[xRIEx]

eltax91 said:

Its the national fking game ffs.

It's fking dull.

[Amirhussain]

xRIEx said:

eltax91 said:

Its the national fking game ffs.

It's fking dull.

In your opinion....

[goldblum]

eltax91 said:

Its the national fking game ffs. Lots of people love it, that's why its a million times more popular than most other sports. Of course people will ask you if you saw a game. How do they know you are a boring bd?

The most popular participation sports in the UK last year were swimming and athletics. Just because lots of young men watch football on the TV and discuss it with a pint in their hand does not mean it's the national game.

[jcremonini]

Evil.soup said:

While you have got me started, football is only about who has the deepest pockets. How many Liverpool players are actually from Liverpool, in fact, how many are from the UK?? The teams are full of it and represent nothing more than a name and certainly not a city!!

Name me a major sport where the deepest pockets does not matter ? Rugby it does, Cricket is typically the domain of public schools. F1 is a prime example. The fact is all sports are the same, except maybe darts and snooker but they are hardly mainstream.

Then look at it from purely business terms. The players are the tools to success. You want to build the best cars you buy the best machinery. You want the best software house you usually have to outcompete the competition to get the best programmers. How many Microsoft programmers come from Seattle compared to everywhere else in the world? How many Nissan workers work in Japan ?

The clubs are just named after the place they originate from and there is no onus on that club ( or business) to only employ local people.

The simple fact is that if you want the best you pay for the best and that means you look globally.

This 'deepest pockets' argument is all rather moot.

[crostonian]

money money money. End of argument unless you don't believe in the rules of economics.

[bad company]

xRIEx said:

It's fking dull.

So watch homosexual handball sometimes referred to as rugby.

[xRIEx]

bad company said:

xRIEx said:

It's fking dull.

So watch homosexual handball sometimes referred to as rugby.

Why?

[jcremonini]

xRIEx said:

bad company said:

xRIEx said:

It's fking dull.

So watch homosexual handball sometimes referred to as rugby.

Why?

I think the point is that while you may think it is dull their are millions of people who don't share your opinion.

I happen to find rugby pretty dull, in comparison, but that is an opinion - it does not make me right.

[stuartmmcfc]

However, you are

[Booey]

scotty_d said:

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

Ernest Hemingway

When you watch bullfighting you are not watching a sport. You are watching a man in a funny outfit dance as he and his gang torture an innocent animal. Still, at least those in the ring are only going to go down if they really are hurt.