It's got to be players who you can't remember when they last scored finally scoring and then nodding their head as if to say, 'I told you so'.
Things about football that get you unreasonably annoyed…
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Nik (@Rood), Jamie (@Vault Dweller) and Ed (@That'sHernandez) give their end of season awards out! They celebrate the best players, goals and moments of the season (there were some, honestly) and also give out awards for the worst and most disappointing players/moments of the season.
They then discuss all the latest transfer rumours and get into the potential ins and outs this summer at Old Trafford.
Keepers giving away penalties by diving at the feet of attackers who just knock the ball past them. Idiots.
I don't think it's unreasonable tbh but I actually can't stand that football hasn't progressed to using a stop clock when the ball is dead or out of play (subs, free kicks, corners, goal kicks etc).
Especially when it's right at the edge of the box and there's no/little danger
You are completely right. But it’s also the readers, who buy into this bs. It’s the same with transfer fees. If a club doesn’t make a new record signing every five to ten years, something is wrong with that club.
The same with turnover. Inflation and purchasing power don‘t exist to both the media and the fans.
The blatant cheating, is by far, the worst thing about the game for me. The likes of Garnacho collapsing like a dying swan when the edge of a defender's shadow has crept near one of his pristinely groomed eyebrows.
Half of the modern players fall down if you just walk past the TV during the bloody game!
Half of the modern players fall down if you just walk past the TV during the bloody game!
How money has ruined what i think of as football and as an extension the systematic templates that teams adhere to.
Not only oil clubs, but the way the sport has evolved because there's so much riding on winning in terms of money. Now every team is a "system" team as flair and individual talent is becoming more and more removed from the game in favour of players being trained exactly where to stand and what to do in each situation. The poor implementation of VAR in terms of offsides in centimeters and the insane inconsistencies between games - which var should stamp out, not make worse.
I don't know if it's money related, but the lack of passion shown by players, the fire that the likes of Keane, Beckham, Neville, Robson, Zlatan had has vanished from football for the main part replaced by people getting paid such obscene amounts that they don't seem to care as much as they should, win or lose. I miss seeing players at war with each other, instead hugging on the pitch and all that jazz.
It also annoys me that no one plays 4-4-2 anymore, bloody love that formation. Even Wenger says it's the best!
Not only oil clubs, but the way the sport has evolved because there's so much riding on winning in terms of money. Now every team is a "system" team as flair and individual talent is becoming more and more removed from the game in favour of players being trained exactly where to stand and what to do in each situation. The poor implementation of VAR in terms of offsides in centimeters and the insane inconsistencies between games - which var should stamp out, not make worse.
I don't know if it's money related, but the lack of passion shown by players, the fire that the likes of Keane, Beckham, Neville, Robson, Zlatan had has vanished from football for the main part replaced by people getting paid such obscene amounts that they don't seem to care as much as they should, win or lose. I miss seeing players at war with each other, instead hugging on the pitch and all that jazz.
It also annoys me that no one plays 4-4-2 anymore, bloody love that formation. Even Wenger says it's the best!
Carlisle United fans screaming "Ee-Ay-Ee-Ay-Oh, up the football league we go"...
Can't wait to hear them having to sing "up the national league we go" this season... tarts.
Can't wait to hear them having to sing "up the national league we go" this season... tarts.
I hate when keepers get a fingertip on a shot that would otherwise have been a 10/10 worldie.
Sancho, Garnacho, and Rashford!
There's 2 Solskjaer ones that still annoy me. One against Arsenal (Lehmann save) and one his testimony late on at 0-0
Nope, regularly hear it from away fans visiting Old Trafford. Normally those outside of the top 6 and Newcastle
On that very subject :-
When a player goes down from a very slight contact, and is on the floor in a fetal position and...........flicking his wrist/hand around. No one did this until a year or two ago, now the likes of Saka and a bunch of others do it. Was there a memo? Did the human body evolve within two years to adapt a new way of reacting to pain (or none at all).
More than the collapse itself is the amount of time taken on the floor for absolutely everything. I wouldn't care as much if the dive resulted in a foul, and then the player getting up, but he almost always has to take a minute out of the game from a clip of a toe. It's not even as if there's pain, it's just blatant cheating. No one's hurt from that, not even for a second, let alone for a minute.
Vini Jr trying (and failing) to do rainbow flicks. Just stop.
I think the most demanding job of any parent must have been the mother of Rasmus Hojlund. Imagine having to get those grass stains out of his kit all the time, after every match, practice, kickabout...
Pluralising players names when giving examples, and ending points with “for me”.
Loathe it
Loathe it
Commentators bleating about the minutes being up in added time, so "the five minutes are up" if it's five minutes. The implication being that the ref should be blowing his whistle, but they still don't realise it's a minimum. It could be five and a half minutes added, which is understandable as you're supposed to add on 30s for a substitution so it could easily be five and a half minutes that have been added, for example.
And I'll never, ever like the behind-the-player angle for penalities and shootouts. At no other stage of a match is this considered the best angle, most people agree sideways on is the best angle with which to view football, but that goes out the window at the most dramatic time. What annoys me even more is you don't get the replays in the 'normal' angle either. I feel I'd get a better sense of the penalty from the 'normal' angle, but the replays are often from behind the goal or from behind the player again, just to the side
I get unreasonably annoyed
And I'll never, ever like the behind-the-player angle for penalities and shootouts. At no other stage of a match is this considered the best angle, most people agree sideways on is the best angle with which to view football, but that goes out the window at the most dramatic time. What annoys me even more is you don't get the replays in the 'normal' angle either. I feel I'd get a better sense of the penalty from the 'normal' angle, but the replays are often from behind the goal or from behind the player again, just to the side
I get unreasonably annoyed Surely it has to, at some point. The lack of one has been completely abused. Even if it means adjusting the length of a half to 40minutes or something. The milking of stoppages makes football tough to watch.
People not understanding spanish/portuguese naming conventions and referring to players/managers by the second part of their given name as if it were a surname
The phrase "finishes with aplomb"
80 minutes? The players would be fecked.
The average amount of active minutes per game, right now, is about 55 minutes. 80 active minutes would have players running for 25 more minutes than they do right now. Everyone would be injured.
Based on these statistics, looks like 60 minute games would be the best solution.
Blatant time-wasting, especially with late substitutions as the player being subbed makes their way to the furthest corner of the stadium before trudging off at a speed a freshly salted slug would be embarrassed by. It completely kills the tempo of the game and the ref rarely adds on the same amount of time that's been wasted.
I'd ban substitutions from the 85th minute onwards. Someone gets injured after that? Oh well, bad luck. Would be worth the occasional annoyance in exchange for the massive improvement in quality of the final stages of a match.
I'd ban substitutions from the 85th minute onwards. Someone gets injured after that? Oh well, bad luck. Would be worth the occasional annoyance in exchange for the massive improvement in quality of the final stages of a match.
And I'll never, ever like the behind-the-player angle for penalities and shootouts. At no other stage of a match is this considered the best angle, most people agree sideways on is the best angle with which to view football, but that goes out the window at the most dramatic time. What annoys me even more is you don't get the replays in the 'normal' angle either. I feel I'd get a better sense of the penalty from the 'normal' angle, but the replays are often from behind the goal or from behind the player again, just to the side
I hate this. Not just for penalties, but goals in general. That spider cam angle needs to die in a fire. Also replays of goals where they change the viewing angle during the shot. For example the shot is shown from a normal angle, then suddenly jumps to a behind the goal angle or something. It just doesn't work, it makes the goal look miles less impressive more often that not.
80 minutes? The players would be fecked.
The average amount of active minutes per game, right now, is about 55 minutes. 80 active minutes would have players running for 25 more minutes than they do right now. Everyone would be injured.
Based on these statistics, looks like 60 minute games would be the best solution.
Admittedly I just plucked a number out of the air based on nothing. I didn't realise the extent that stoppages were taking out of the game.
Interesting that it had a very slight uptick during the COVID season which brought it back in line with where it was a decade ago. Also Interesting that the 22/23 season had the most amount of stoppage time in the dataset, and the lowest average of the ball being in play. It does seem to indicate that it's getting worse.
Agree on both counts. Using the spider cam, sometimes the goal and 'keeper look absolutely tiny when a penalty is about to be taken. It's so distorted.
And those angle jumps I agree with. It's often used on highlights packages, and you lose track of the ball and just don't get a proper sense of what transpired.
And those angle jumps I agree with. It's often used on highlights packages, and you lose track of the ball and just don't get a proper sense of what transpired.
To expand on this when a player commits an obvious foul but looks the opposite way just as he’s doing it. Only for the ex footballer commentator who knows better to say he didn’t do it deliberately because he was looking the other way. Especially on deliberate hand balls. It’s mental.
Totally disagree with those above about the penalty cam. Gives a far better view of them, how close to being saved etc
Enjoyed Yildiz goal the other day until the commentators described it as top bins, now I hate everyone involved
80 minutes? The players would be fecked.
The average amount of active minutes per game, right now, is about 55 minutes. 80 active minutes would have players running for 25 more minutes than they do right now. Everyone would be injured.
Based on these statistics, looks like 60 minute games would be the best solution.
It'd have to be 30 minutes if they were to go with a stop-clock.
They'd also probably need to introduce some sort of timer during the stoppages too, otherwise you'd risk teams taking the piss with how long they took to take corners, throw-ins etc. and sort their subs out.
The way PSR has become such a talking point. It would be one thing if it was making a real impact on sporting parity (as we can see with salary caps in North American sports) but that doesn’t appear to be the case. So instead it’s become the journalistic crutch for an array of transfer gurus (ex. Ben Jacobs - who suddenly seems such a fixture in our lives) and YouTube rage merchants (ex. Goldbridge.)
I know you can say that I don’t need to pay attention to those people but then I also get unreasonably annoyed by my own behaviour.
I know you can say that I don’t need to pay attention to those people but then I also get unreasonably annoyed by my own behaviour.
It's by far the most annoying part of the game for me. We've taken a tip toe in the right direction with the 8 second count for a keeper to release the ball or the opposition receive a corner but that has to be the tip of the iceberg surely.
A stop clock would be so much more beneficial even if they made matches 35 mins a half instead, we'd still see so much more football and less theatrics.
I agree, I just hope there's no leniency, and it is a hard 8 seconds across the board. These sorts of rules just seem to be so haphazardly enforced. Like a few years ago, when they said players going off as a sub have to leave by the nearest touchline, yet the amount of times referees force players to do that seems to be much less than half of the time. It seems to be enforced when it's a team that isn't trying to waste time, which is the opposite of what the rule is supposed to do.
The club world cup logo. It's just so, so ugly and boring.
Agree. I'd have it for all free-kicks as well.
Keepers just drop to the floor to delay the start of the 8 second count. Pickford is famous for this
Trying to go out and have a kick around. It’s brutal.
And by it I mean me.
And by it I mean me.
Yeah one keeper somewhere in the world must have half a brain cell to attempt a faint/dummy dive in that scenario.
As a keeper, you have to guesstimate what the attacker is going to do, sometimes you make the wrong decision.
To be fair, if the keeper is having to make that decision, the 10 outfield players have all fecked up