Common Bad On-Field Habits of Professional Footballers That Annoy You

[JeffFromHK]

Do you guys get annoyed by some common habits of players in professional games which you keep wondering "why do they do this?? it makes no sense! and they are paid hundreds of thousands per week for this?"

1. Obsession with knuckleballs when taking freekicks for coolness and social media hype if it scores, even though traditional curlers is obviously a more consistent technique.

2.Obsession with shooting with laces in short range attempts instead of inside of the foot even though the latter is obviously a more consistent technique. Messi basically only shoots inside of his foot even for long range attempts.

3. It is 88th minute of the game, your team is losing 0-1. You got a little smack on your face that obviously does not injure you. You decide to pretend you got seriously injured and roll on the floor for 10 seconds, medics go in, pull you out of the field and treat you for 3 minutes, you are "okay again" and go back into the field, 3 valuable minutes wasted for your opposition.

Anymore?

 

[tentan]

Players who when lose a game sulk off the pitch without shaking the opponents hands and storm down the tunnel crying and making it all about himself.

 

[a_devil_inside]

Not handing the water bottles back.

 

[led_scholes]

Assaulting someone and then act shocked that a foul has been given.

 

[Galactic]

Raising their hands to claim obvious throw ins for the opponents. It’s a “small cheat” but it’s clearly unsportsmanlike to try to con the ref/linesman.

 

[Lay]

I always hate how a defender barges into an attacker in the back for no reason giving away a needless freekick.

 

[tenpoless]

Spitting

 

[Copa Mundial]

Spitting on the pitch, the women don't do it, so why do the blokes?

 

[Dan]

Poor penalty taking techniques, especially the short run up or the slow stuttering run up.

 

[hellhunter]

Raising their hands to claim obvious throw ins for the opponents. It’s a “small cheat” but it’s clearly unsportsmanlike to try to con the ref/linesman.

This is it. Needs to be treated similarly to diving

 

[Freak]

Spitting.

 

[Forevergiggs1]

Talking with their hands covering their mouths. Do they think opposing teams hire lip readers to translate what they're saying? And do we actually give a feck?

 

[Shai-Hulud]

Players who when lose a game sulk off the pitch without shaking the opponents hands and storm down the tunnel crying and making it all about himself.

PR37 did that even when we were winning.

Raising their hands to claim obvious throw ins for the opponents. It’s a “small cheat” but it’s clearly unsportsmanlike to try to con the ref/linesman.

Football is suffused with dishonesty like this. It's a game for scumbags.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

It's the 90th minute, you get a corner, need to score to level the match... The ball falls to a defender and he tries his luck from 30 yards... It blazes over and he looks shocked.

 

[Pickle85]

My fiancée hates it when footballers spit. Just popping this in here on her behalf.

 

[hellhunter]

It's the 90th minute, you get a corner, need to score to level the match... The ball falls to a defender and he tries his luck from 30 yards... It blazes over and he looks shocked.

That gets me every time, as if he expected to hammer it in while he's probably never managed to do it after joining senior football

 

[BerryBerryShrew]

1. I've mentioned it before but "shepherding" the ball out of play by obstructing the opponent and making no effort to bring the ball under control.
2. A winger running over to take a throw in and then invariably dropping the ball to leave it for his full back to take.
3. Making no effort to jump but instead backing into an opponent who is in the air heading the ball (Kane does this constantly)
4. Deliberately standing in front of the ball when a free has been awarded to prevent it from being taken quickly. I get that it's good strategy but refs should start carding for that because it's definitely annoying

 

[Old Ma Crow]

Spitting and clearing their noses. Trying to mess up penalty spots.

 

[VorZakone]

Fouling during your own attacking freekick. Ball gets slinged into the box and what do you do? You make a foul. Waste of a freekick.

 

[Brophs]

Not celebrating team mates’ goals. We’ve obviously had one of the great exponents of this at the club until recently but even the more common one of being pissed off and not celebrating when your team mate goes alone and scores, turning down the chance to pass to you in the process winds me up. It’s a twat’s trick.

 

[Stobzilla]

1. I've mentioned it before but "shepherding" the ball out of play by obstructing the opponent and making no effort to bring the ball under control.
2. A winger running over to take a throw in and then invariably dropping the ball to leave it for his full back to take.
3. Making no effort to jump but instead backing into an opponent who is in the air heading the ball (Kane does this constantly)
4. Deliberately standing in front of the ball when a free has been awarded to prevent it from being taken quickly. I get that it's good strategy but refs should start carding for that because it's definitely annoying

 

[Stobzilla]

I always hate how a defender barges into an attacker in the back for no reason giving away a needless freekick.

Nothing is more guaranteed to boil my piss than this. Just take the fecking corner or throw in that is about to come from having a defender turned going back towards their own goal.

Talking with their hands covering their mouths. Do they think opposing teams hire lip readers to translate what they're saying? And do we actually give a feck?

Caught a pair a twats doing this at 5's the other week, bullied them mercilessly about it. Twats.

 

[BerryBerryShrew]

He was probably celebrating Kane's peno miss yesterday!

 

[Scottynaldinho]

Raising both hands before taking the corner kick. Does it even have a purpose?

 

[GlasgowCeltic]

Raising both hands before taking the corner kick. Does it even have a purpose?

let’s his teammates know this one isn’t beating the first man

 

[Rodgerzzz]

Pointing at other players to go & press when the player doing the pointing is ambling around putting no pressure on the opposition.

Players running in front of the path of their own teammates when dribbling on a counter attack.

Players sprinting to within 2 metres of their teammate pointing at their feet for a pass, get the pass, play it straight back & then feck off in the other direction.

I hate football.

 

[Ronaldo's ego]

Diving like a cnut to con a penalty when already in a great goal-scoring position.

 

[MayosNoun]

People like Kane who now feel any contact in the box and hope slow motion technology makes it look more than it was. So many players abusing this now and referees who have likely never played football buying the foul on a monitor.

 

[MayosNoun]

Also Jack Grealish, clearly a talented footballer but would rather take a foul than attempt to run beyond an opponent.

 

[BorisManUtd]

He was probably celebrating Kane's peno miss yesterday!

Nope, just found another reason to hate him judging by reaction

 

[RedStarUnited]

Raising both hands before taking the corner kick. Does it even have a purpose?

its a signal to what he taker is about to do. 1 arm might mean im going near post, 2 arms im going long/far post.

 

[Chipper]

I always hate how a defender barges into an attacker in the back for no reason giving away a needless freekick.

To be fair, at least a decent proportion of the time that's caused by the attacker suddenly slowing right down/stopping. Defender then puts a hand out instinctively and it looks like he's shoved him and the oppo player makes sure he goes down as soon as he feels contact. Cheap way of buying a free kick.

Players should be more aware of it by now though so it's still infuriating.

 

[arnie_ni]

I always hate how a defender barges into an attacker in the back for no reason giving away a needless freekick.

when the attacker barges into the defender and gives away a fk

 

[Remember the geese]

The exaggerated, primadonna, Jonny Wilkinson style stance that Ronaldo adopts just before he inevitably sends the ball into orbit.

 

[Lay]

The exaggerated, primadonna, Jonny Wilkinson style stance that Ronaldo adopts just before he inevitably sends the ball into orbit.

Nonsense.

He hits the wall.

 

[Remember the geese]

Nonsense.

He hits the wall.

Of course! Silly me

 

[slored1]

Waving their hands after a missed pass by their teammate.

Holding the thumb up when they take a bad touch. (Looking at you, Romelu)

Pointlessly slowing down the attack due to stalling on the ball.

 

[Oranges038]

Shit corners, it's really not that hard to cross a ball under no pressure.

Defenders throwing themselves to the ground looking for frees, but go mad when an attacker does it.

Going down holding their head when they've been beaten in the air because they know the ref will stop the game or give them a free.

 

[kouroux]

I have a real hatred for players who make stupid fouls far away from their goals and there is no counter attacking happening. Just a plain stupid foul in the middle of the park

 

[Eplel]

Something that a lot of defenders do that annoys me to no end - narrowing down their field of view/passing options by turning towards the area they want to pass to.

I'll need to use visuals to explain what I mean.

Exhibit A is the player looking forward. Can see the entire field, and will be able to pass forward, left or right. Can also have good awareness if a winger will try to sneak up behind him in a case of backpassing to the GK

Exhibit B is the player turned to the dugout. He telegraphs to the opposition his intent to pass to the left back or so, and invites them to rush in because the options are limited. In case he needs to backpass, he cannot see if the left winger is sneaking up between him and the GK.

I specifically mention defenders, because naturally that's where they get the ball, and they don't have the agility a midfielder or attacker has to escape from pressure and make more difficult passes.

And of course, the absolute master of this move is Maguire, who almost always hesitates in his first pass, then hesitates some more, then turns towards the left side, inviting opponents to rush onto him, and naturally we're under pressure.