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

[Coldeanseagull]

Alice bands and scrunchy things. It's alright in the WSL but if you have dangly bits, you're just asking to be taken out at the knees.
Which leads on to the choices of others, get up, you're not hurt, you pansy! Be ready to come on or you won't be coming on

 

[Best Foot Forward]

Socks only going half way up the shins. You look stupid.....stop it!

 

[marlowe]

One thing that often concerns (annoys) me is over demonstrative goal celebrations by team mates which risk causing injury to the goal scorer. There are two in particular which cause me particular concern.

The first is the one where nearly the whole team bundle on top of the scorer so he is buried under a mound of team mates comprising of their collective body weights. The potential injury risks are crushing, broken bones or even suffocation.

The second is less obvious but may have been picked up on by those who have ever suffered with a bad back. It is when a team mate suddenly jumps on the scorer's back and uses the scorer's shoulders to lever himself up until his arms are in a straight down position with his full body weight on the scorer's shoulders. The scorer is never given prior warning that this is going to happen as he is usually ambushed from behind so is not given the opportunity to brace his knees or his back before being mounted. I've always been concerned that this puts considerable risk of the scorer doing his back in as he is taken totally by surprise and not physically prepared or braced to bear the full weight of his team mate. Shane Duffy is the worst offender in our team of this particular celebration. I think it is an accident waiting to happen.

A bit similar to this

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

That knee-slide thing following a goal can't be very good for the knees.

 

[pearl]

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

Are you saying [MENTION=205]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] doesn't have dreadlocks??

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Are you saying [MENTION=205]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] doesn't have dreadlocks??

Me, doing my CouchTo5K run this morning

 

[OzMike]

Anyone running back to the centre circle, having scored, with the ball up their shirt and sucking their thumbs whilst looking at their pregnant mistress needs to take a long, hard look at themselves.

The sucking thumb celebration full stop, been done to death.

 

[strings]

Cutting socks at the ankle and using their own socks... are nike/adidas/umbro really that bad at making socks?

In fact, they all seem to use the same brand of socks, with spots on the back of the ankle. Are these socks really that good that they render all other socks useless?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Cutting socks at the ankle and using their own socks... are nike/adidas/umbro really that bad at making socks?

In fact, they all seem to use the same brand of socks, with spots on the back of the ankle. Are these socks really that good that they render all other socks useless?

That annoys you? I haven't noticed one player with socks like that let alone get annoyed by it.

 

[strings]

That annoys you? I haven't noticed one player with socks like that let alone get annoyed by it.

I think it is something so minor that once I noticed it, I couldn't un-notice it. Now I notice it every time, which annoys me.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

That annoys you? I haven't noticed one player with socks like that let alone get annoyed by it.

I'm annoyed that I haven't noticed one player with socks like that

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I'm annoyed that I haven't noticed one player with socks like that

You just know we're going to watching out for it now.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Goalkeepers who hold on to the ball after the opposition score. A fight for the ball ensues.

Its SO odd. The ref has stopped the clock, you are achieving nothing other than winding up the team who want to score against you even more.