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

[Seasider78]

Another vote for the Grealish shin pads plus throwing in gloves with short sleeved shirts and kissing TV cameras during goal celebrations

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Praying as the walk onto the pitch.

No. As an athiest, that doesn't bother me.

Makes them look a bit twattish, but, hey ho.

Kissing the badge, all day long, for me. I had to punctuate that carefully, note.

 

[Invicta]

In conjunction with the sleeves that weird look on Salah's face when his team mates mob him. Difficult to describe but just deeply annoying.

Jack Grealish's haircut and how he wears his socks. It just screams ' clatter me '.

Adam El Abd would have snapped Grealish in two !

 

[Sussexscots]

Blowing the snot from their nose straight onto the pitch. Haven't they heard of handkerchiefs? If a snot sprayed pitch isn't incentive enough for Zaha to stay on his feet, I don't know what is.

Agree. Turns my stomach to see it. Even more than all the spitting.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Hoisting their shorts right up to their groins. What for? To show off their lovely, muscly thighs? Our Glen has been guilty of this in the past. Watching Ronaldo do it makes me want to puke. Don’t try and be like Ronaldo, Glen - you’re better than that.

 

[timbha]

Non black boots
T shirts with messages (sometimes worn for weeks before being appropriate)
Mobbing the goal scorer (esp in non league)
Goalkeepers going up for corners

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Blowing the snot from their nose straight onto the pitch. Haven't they heard of handkerchiefs? If a snot sprayed pitch isn't incentive enough for Zaha to stay on his feet, I don't know what is.

But do their shorts have pockets in which to pop hankies?

 

[SUIYHP]

Jack Grealish's stupid haircut
The 'sucking the thumb' celebration
Bleached hair/Very light highlights (Knockaert, Bissouma and Traore come to mind)
Tiny shin pads (Nearly three years later and I'm STILL angry about it)

 

[beorhthelm]

Taking time to place the ball a billimetre within the quadrant for a corner in order to try and be clever by using the 'whole of the ball over whole of the line' b0ll0x.

Stick it in the quadrant, or even on the line and kick the ####er. A few billimeteres ain't gonna change nowt.

yes, what the fudge advantage do they think they get?

 

[marlowe]

But do their shorts have pockets in which to pop hankies?

Until one of the kit designers has the foresight to incorporate a little handkerchief pocket in the design of the shorts would it be too much to expect for the players to just pop a hanky into the cuff of their sleeve if they know they're going to need it.

If Lineker had done that he would at least have had something to wipe his arse on when he shat himself on the pitch during the 1990 World Cup instead of having to wipe himself on the grass.

 

[maglers]

Throwing the ball down for a free kick with back-spin, but not nearly enough to bring it back to where the kick shoukd actually be taken

 

[essbee1]

When they're being interviewed on tv in that press corner after the match - they're always effing around with one of their ears. Stop it.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

When they're being interviewed on tv in that press corner after the match - they're always effing around with one of their ears. Stop it.

God, yes. Adam Al-Abd used to do that loads. It was SO distracting.

 

[AmexRuislip]

This image says it all.
He's the Phillip Schofield of tv, anything about this bloke just winds me up.
To quote OF&H: He's got a face like Cliff Richard, a face you want to slap..............

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

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

 

[Wellesley]

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

 

[Is it PotG?]

More managers this one; when a top side is playing a much lower one in either stature. league position or both, the press conference is "A tough challenge, not going to be easy".

Rhubarb..."We're going to batter this bunch of no-hopers".

 

[Goldstone1976]

The inability to converse with anything other than inane cliches.

 

[El Presidente]

The inability to converse with anything other than inane cliches.

That’s a top, top observation.

 

[BNthree]

The inability to converse with anything other than inane cliches.

At the end of the day you've hit the nail on the head.