[Football] Trivial things about footballers that really annoy you but shouldn't

[Icy Gull]

The inability to converse with anything other than inane cliches.

Except if they are foreign when they normally speak more articulately than so many British players...especially Scandinavians and the Dutch.

The perma scowl on Solly March’s face

 

[Worried Man Blues]

The whole WAG thing. To borrow a line from Squeeze 'it's funny how their missus always look the bleeding same'.

Call her Natasha but she looks like Elsie (should have been Chelsea)

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

The top players, Ronaldo the worst at this, who spend a great deal of time looking at the big screen in the stadium to check they are on it, so they can get their expression just right for the situation.. they don't appear to realise that everyone else can see them doing it before said expression is adopted.. gits..

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

the apparent refusal of subs to wear half of their playing kit so that it takes them 10 minutes to get ready to come on.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

"he's not that kind of player" - he was when he broke that lads leg..

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

lying on the floor to ensure a Physio is bought on, normally to waste time, and then gesticulating angrily at the referee, imploring him to be let back on.. good example with a PSV player last night.. love it when the referee delays waving them on and watching the player wind themselves up into apparent fury..

 

[GT49er]

Using the word 'Obviously' countless times during post-match interviews.

Using the words 'Football Club' countless times during post-match interviews - we know Arsenal, Liverpool, Fulham, etc. are football clubs, thank you!

 

[timbha]

The whole WAG thing. To borrow a line from Squeeze 'it's funny how their missus always look the bleeding same'.

And everyone is blond
And everyone is beautiful
And when blondes and beautiful become multiples
They become so dull and dutiful

Rotterdam - Beautiful South

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Probably the obvious, but it always flummoxes me when a player goes down like he's just been shelled by a Panzer, rolls around screaming like Satan himself is disembowelling him with a hot poker.... then 2 minutes later he's sprinting along the touchline like nothing ever happened.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Looking off in to the distance constantly while being interviewed....no manners these youngsters.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

1. Gareth Bale's hair

2. Wearing gloves, with short sleeves

3. Players kneeling in the centre circle to pray before a penalty shoot out (yes you, David Luiz & friends). I accept you have your religious beliefs and I fully respect them, but if there is a God, would it not be entirely wrong for him to use his all-seeing powers to decide the outcome of a penalty shoot-out? In what way is it Christian to pray to win said shoot-out (and therefore for somebody else to miss and lose)?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Also, that face Wilfried Zaha does when referees don't give him what he wants (seen about fifteen times per game), the incredulous, pathetic, smiley one.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm sure someone who has played football to a level will be able to tell me why they do this.....but I go MENTAL at the following scenario.

Player X receives a crunching tackle and is on the floor. It's not looking good. The manager waves back one of his subs. "Dave. You're coming on".

Dave TROTS back and sits on the bench.

Then......ah I'm getting angry again.......THEN he spends THREE MINUTES, looking around for shin pads, stripping off, doing up tape, looking for a SHIRT, taking off a T shirt, putting on the shirt, pulling up the socks.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?

Why aren't the players just in their kit under the warmer clothing!? It's MADNESS.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

2. Wearing gloves, with short sleeves

Nope, no problem with that.

I HATE playing in long sleeves.......but I also HATE having Ice cold hands. It's horrible.

Running around keeps you warm so a long sleeved shirt really isn't needed, but no amount of running around saves the FINGERS from the wintery hell of a Sunday league match in January wind and rain.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

The holding the face and falling down when someone dares to NUDGE their head into yours is just the worst isn't it.

Adam El Abd got a few people sent off doing it and I died inside.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

That pre-match huddle. Do it in the dressing room if you must, rather than posturing on the pitch.

 

[Nixonator]

Ronaldo's choreographed build-up pose to taking a freekick which he shouldn't be taking because he's shite at them.

 

[pearl]

parking a leopard on the pitch

 

[AmexRuislip]

Also, that face Wilfried Zaha does when referees don't give him what he wants (seen about fifteen times per game), the incredulous, pathetic, smiley one.

After something like this

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Stupid haircuts. No matter how cutting edge the player might think they look, they invariably look like complete COCKS.

At least, they've got hair to be styled into a haircut.