Five things that Irritate me about modern day football....

There's lots of good ones here that irritate me. Undisclosed fee in particular. but this is a real bugbear:
'Over analysis of matches on Match of the Day. Just show the highlights, its not that deep.'

There's more time spent analysing the game than actually watching the highlights. 90% footy highlights, 10% waffle for me please - unless there's some real contentious decisions. Then 80/20 would be fine
I suppose it keeps a few retirees in gainful employment...

The not celebrating when scoring against former clubs is particularly ironic when players rarely stay at clubs long enough to switch off the satnav on the way to the training ground these days (partly, to be fair, because the crazy state of football finances means that clubs like Boro have to rely on loan signings and reinvent the wheel every summer).

At the start of the 1973/74 promotion season the regular starting 11 (Platt, Craggs, Spraggon, Souness, Boam, Maddren, Murdoch, Mills, Hickton, Foggon, Armstrong) had been at the club for a combined 38 years. Saturday's starting 11 at QPR have been at the club for a combined 15 years and 10 months, of which Howson and McNair account for 12 years and the other 9 less than 4 years between them - ie less than 6 months each).

The worst thing about modern football is the ruthless class system that billionaire money has instituted. It always existed in Spain where Royal Madrid backed by the Spanish Crown but now it penetrates every layer of football in one guise or another. From the inevitability that Madrid would get Mbappe & Bellingham, to the three promoted sides probably getting relegated, to even the cups now being routinely divvied up by the Big Six, to our inability to keep hold of Rodgers, to Rotherham virtually throwing in the towel, dreams are just slowly being leached out of the game. What's even the point of getting promoted? To hang around for a year or three if we're lucky, aspire to mid-table. Even in the 90s under Robbo you could still dream, but now? Leicester were the exception that proves the rule.

Fans who like the sound of their own voices to the point they try dominate the conversation.


Fans who like the sight of their own writing and then try to dominate the conversation.

Ebor said:

There's lots of good ones here that irritate me. Undisclosed fee in particular. but this is a real bugbear:
'Over analysis of matches on Match of the Day. Just show the highlights, its not that deep.'

There's more time spent analysing the game than actually watching the highlights. 90% footy highlights, 10% waffle for me please - unless there's some real contentious decisions. Then 80/20 would be fine
I suppose it keeps a few retirees in gainful employment...

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I quite like the analysis. Especially if it involves us.
It is missing from the EFL highlights show which is poorer for that imo.

VAR - I much preferred technology less mistakes.
The billionaire ownership that allows 115 charges to go on an eternal appeal.
Fan banter on social media, Jurgen Klopp gets ruined here click this post to find out more and those unfunny memes that get shared or copied over and over again

Can I add the way players take penalties these days. Stuttering run ups and sprinting on the spot. Just fücking leather it!