Washie
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So do opposition fans. Why turn up if you don't support the team?
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[Football] Players who try to get the crowd going
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Thats an easy narrative but that's not really what happens and certainly not what drives me mad. I've seen it a lot in the past where lionhearted players, near the end of the game encourage a 12th man to get them over the line and it makes sense in that context.
But more often than not it happens about 6 minutes in. Certainly in the palace game about 4 or 5 of them were at it and it was CLEARLY a distraction to them. They all came out, no intensity, no concentration, playing shit, bickering with each other amd twatting about and instead of getting their heads in the game it caught on amongst them to start flapping their arms every time the ball went out for a throw in. It was beyond infuriating, because it just added to how disorientated and distracted they were. It also looked really weird and juvenile. Like kids who'd got distracted by a bouncy balloon rather than the killer dog that was about to pounce.
Pedro is the worst and you can set your clock by him having a terrible game if he starts hands on hipsing, whingeing and flapping his hands about in the 10th minute.
Oh god I'm angry all over again.
But more often than not it happens about 6 minutes in. Certainly in the palace game about 4 or 5 of them were at it and it was CLEARLY a distraction to them. They all came out, no intensity, no concentration, playing shit, bickering with each other amd twatting about and instead of getting their heads in the game it caught on amongst them to start flapping their arms every time the ball went out for a throw in. It was beyond infuriating, because it just added to how disorientated and distracted they were. It also looked really weird and juvenile. Like kids who'd got distracted by a bouncy balloon rather than the killer dog that was about to pounce.
Pedro is the worst and you can set your clock by him having a terrible game if he starts hands on hipsing, whingeing and flapping his hands about in the 10th minute.
Oh god I'm angry all over again.
It was a thread posted after being beaten at home by Palace - this is just an early reprise of that.
Joao Pedro geeing up the supporters after he'd just had a few brain farts does rub people up the wrong way, I can well underststand it!
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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I really hate it especially if we are playing shit. They should be concentrating on their game not the crowd noise. If we are winning do they do it, no? So up your game and maybe others will, I won't up it as I'm already up for it, which is why I hate it. I'm sure they are not aiming it at me though! 
I wonder if Johnny Cantor was reading this thread before the match as coincidentally quite early during his first half commentary he raised this very same issue when one of our players did it (not sure which one).
He said that he wasn't a fan of it either.
He said that he wasn't a fan of it either.
Algernon
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When I'm at work I know that I don't work well until I've stood up, turned to face my colleagues, put on an angry face, waved my arms around and shouted "COME ONNNNNN" at them.
They love me doing that. Why wouldn't they.
They love me doing that. Why wouldn't they.
Theyve just brought it up again at start of the second half. Now Warren saying he's not a fan. I think Pedro was who they were saying was guilty this time
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Enciso ramps up the crowd.
Pervis takes ages faffing about the corner then hits it straight down the keeper’s throat.
It’s not our fault you did that.
Pervis takes ages faffing about the corner then hits it straight down the keeper’s throat.
It’s not our fault you did that.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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In next weeks episode of things that bother Brighton fans, Elton John’s Sacrifice gets played fifty minutes before kick off and Jan Paul Van Hecke scatches his balls during the 14th minute of a match despite having no obvious signs of an itch
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The other thing that annoys me is that stupid thing players do when they score.
Man of Harveys
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This bolox needs to STOP
Tom Hark Preston Park
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The cupped ear thing?
Needs it's own thread (or 2)
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I’ll let you know when we score.
You really knew it had gone too far when Kudus at West Ham had a steward primed to hand him a special African stool to sit on with his mate.
Oh for the days when players just looked genuinely excited, stuck their arm in the air, then trotted back to the halfway line for kick off.
Coordinated celebrations used to be a rarity, quick and a genuine laugh. Now they’re just annoying.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I can’t remember that long ago