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Thruthfully ... this wonderful Brighton team are the only thing keeping me interested
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So, just how rubbish is modern football?
- Thread starter 1066familyman
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When the smell of St Bruno rubbed pipe tobacco at night games disappeared I'm afraid the writing was on the wall.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
I have never smoked ANYTHING ever but that smell at The Goldstone of sweet pipe smoke will stay with me forever. Moving on, watching the likes of Pogba tonight having cost £87 zillion and getting £400 billion p/w.......makes you wonder.
daveinprague
New member
Part of me wants Premier league money but Championship seems more exciting to me. The desire seems greater
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,638
What else you gonna do on a Saturday?
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albionfan37
Well-known member
Nothing wrong with the football just all the poncy crap that comes with it
Eddiespearritt
Well-known member
With reference only to the "product" on the pitch these days there's a lot I don't care for - but I still go anyway.
- eleven men behind the ball "pressing" and hoping for a counter attack - so boring watching Barcelona in La Liga every week having to break down a team not interested in attacking
- every tackle is a foul - and every strong tackle is a yellow card - no room for robustness any more
- obvious time wasting from the first minute by teams desperate for a point
- the ridiculous slow walk off for substituted players whose team are happy with the match situation
- celebrity referees
and
- paying a "booking fee" for a ticket when you're buying it at the entrance gate to the stadium (yes BHAFC that's you)
- short trains from a small station when you're trying to get a capacity crowd home (mostly on dark wintry evenings thanks to Sky Sports) and you rely on tolerance
- eleven men behind the ball "pressing" and hoping for a counter attack - so boring watching Barcelona in La Liga every week having to break down a team not interested in attacking
- every tackle is a foul - and every strong tackle is a yellow card - no room for robustness any more
- obvious time wasting from the first minute by teams desperate for a point
- the ridiculous slow walk off for substituted players whose team are happy with the match situation
- celebrity referees
and
- paying a "booking fee" for a ticket when you're buying it at the entrance gate to the stadium (yes BHAFC that's you)
- short trains from a small station when you're trying to get a capacity crowd home (mostly on dark wintry evenings thanks to Sky Sports) and you rely on tolerance
I think it's more subtle than that. I go to watch Barrow now and then with my brother-in-law - the other week his son was going to come along (16 year old Man Utd fan), but in the end he didn't, because Man Utd were on TV at the same time. So Barrow lost one fan for that game, and for future games, and probably means that he'll never get hooked on his local team - who will always be his 'second' team, to be watched only when he hasn't got Man U on telly.
And I must say I would be the same if Brighton are on a live stream, however dodgy - I'm more likely to want to watch this than pop off to Barrow or Lancaster for a lower league game. So the lower clubs will lose business in the long run.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Things haven't been the same since they changed the back-pass rule and goalkeepers stopped wearing cloth caps like Jack Charlton does.
luppers
New member
Compared to what? The pies at the Amex? The Singles Chart? Cricket? Hang gliding?
If you mean (only) football - when did 'Modern' begin? And in what country? Or what region of the world? Do you mean top-tier professional football, lower-tier, amateur?
Pointless question
Reasonable question, your answer is pointless!
I think there is a fair bit of BS nostalgia that goes on in regard to terraces, I remember not being able to see, a giant standing in front of you at 2.58pm, being cold, wind blowing across the terrace and some awful football. I would not trade for my padded front row WSU seat in the warm and dry AT ALL.
Megazone
On his last warning
Football went downhill when Dele Ali and Harry Kane did their goal celebration together. That was the mark of the modern era.
Never understood the complaints about the income of footballers. They're paid what the market dictates is their worth. Same as the top few thousand Actors, Lawyers, Doctors, or the upper echelon of those in business. These young men are superb at what they do and that excellence is represented in their wage. It also helps that their career is an oddity in it's brevity.
Is £20k a week a lot for a teenager to earn? Absolutely, but there are plenty of other professions where the practitioners earn far more, for far longer, in return for far less excellence.
I honestly think the worst thing about modern football is the modern League football fan. Entitled ********s who turn up expecting to be entertained, who don't bother their arse to sing or encourage their team, who bugger off 10 minutes early, or if their team is losing. "Fans" who wear the club colours and buy the hats but aren't supporters by any measure.
Bellends on the whole.
Is £20k a week a lot for a teenager to earn? Absolutely, but there are plenty of other professions where the practitioners earn far more, for far longer, in return for far less excellence.
I honestly think the worst thing about modern football is the modern League football fan. Entitled ********s who turn up expecting to be entertained, who don't bother their arse to sing or encourage their team, who bugger off 10 minutes early, or if their team is losing. "Fans" who wear the club colours and buy the hats but aren't supporters by any measure.
Bellends on the whole.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
That's not a 'modern football' phenomena though. It used to happen at the Goldstone as well.
Nixonator
Well-known member
Uh oh
Nixonator
Well-known member
Not sure he could relate, since he's a toon fan.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,686
92 was when football was invented, last week Sky reported that Lukaku claimed the record as Everton's highest ever league goal scorer.
pearl
Well-known member
?I'm a Newcastle fan, it never used to happen at SJP when I was a lad. Gallowgate, the Corner, the Leazes were all packed with "proper" fans and loud as you like. The East Stand and the Milburn were always quieter, but the ends more than made up for it. Now, whenever I get a chance to go back up there and catch a game the atmosphere is pretty poor on the whole. Pockets of young lads trying to get Soccer AM-type chants going, some hardy souls still singing the classics, but great swathes of day-trippers and tourists, arms folded mouth buttoned. Stag-dos and birthday parties in fancy dress, or just miserable old coots whose advice to the players oscillates between "GiveItToHimManYaShite" and "DivintGiveItToHimManHesShite".
Lower league and Away days are the only enjoyable atmospheres these days.