Things that annoy you in football

h_m_boro

h_m_boro

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Not off the pitch shenanigans, billionaire owners, Sky, FIFA etc but on field stuff.

Trivial as you like.

1. When taking corners, players having the ball overhanging the quadrant by 0.00000000001mm. Then failing to clear the first defender. So what's the point?

2. Tactical head injuries. Seen this creep into all levels of football over the past couple of years. To give their team a breather, player goes down clutching head when contact by opposition player was nowhere near. Ref has to stop play, as good as a timeout.

3. Tactical fouling. Players can't burst forward more than 2 ft, getting away towards goal without the "tactical foul" being administered. Don't think Juninho would have been half as successful in today's game getting tripped/fouled every 5 minutes.

Time for injury timeouts (players leaving field for 5 minutes) and sin bins for tactical fouls.
 
The amount of football actually being played. The average the ball is in play is only around the 55 minute mark. So 35 minutes of a 90 minute game is time wasting, throw ins, corners etc. I think the clock should be stopped every time the ball isn’t in play like the NFL and NBA do.
 
h_m_boro said:
Not off the pitch shenanigans, billionaire owners, Sky, FIFA etc but on field stuff.

Trivial as you like.

1. When taking corners, players having the ball overhanging the quadrant by 0.00000000001mm. Then failing to clear the first defender. So what's the point?

2. Tactical head injuries. Seen this creep into all levels of football over the past couple of years. To give their team a breather, player goes down clutching head when contact by opposition player was nowhere near. Ref has to stop play, as good as a timeout.

3. Tactical fouling. Players can't burst forward more than 2 ft, getting away towards goal without the "tactical foul" being administered. Don't think Juninho would have been half as successful in today's game getting tripped/fouled every 5 minutes.

Time for injury timeouts (players leaving field for 5 minutes) and sin bins for tactical fouls.
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20 yard thrown-in gains ... I honestly think sometimes players can walk half the length of the pitch from where it actually went out of play before throwing the ball back in and it rarely gets pulled.
 
TeaCider said:
Penalties for fouls and handballs that have in no way prevented a genuine chance on goal.

Always hated how teams can basically be gifted a goal because somebody's been tripped or dived whilst they'd never have scored if the incident hadn't occurred.
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The Grealish handball in the Final last week was a good example of that.
 
1. GKs time wasting. They do it 4-5x then get a warning, a further 2-3x and they get a yellow card and they're free to do it as often as they like then, as no ref would dare issue a 2nd yellow card.

2. The 'natural' position nonsense around handball. Grealish penalty in the final prime example, the lad jumped up, he had no intention whatsoever there and it isnt like he stopped a clear goal scoring opportunity, the game played for a minute or so before been stopped. What if in that minute, City scored. It would have been disallowed to go back for a Utd penalty? What if someone got badly injured during play which by rights shouldn't have happened so both a gripe with VAR not stopping play immediately, and also the nonsense rule.

3. Tactical head injuries as in OP. Players know they just have to hold their head and the games stopped. Seen them hold their heads, then get treatment for cramp. Should be a yellow card if that happens, its cheating, they're cheating the referee into stopping the game.

4. Yellows for celebrating a goal, top comes off in stoppage time to celebrate a winner and the ref is there to greet them with a yellow card. Nonsense. Same as if you dive into the first row of fans, give over, you're celebrating and sometimes VAR wipes the goal off but doesn't wipe the yellow off does it? The Utd lot ran to the city fans and celebrated right in front of them for a minute or so, that should be a yellow because 50% of the ground was their fans and they chose to go to the city fans.
 
How multi millionaire players who have been playing football since the age of 6 seem to find it so difficult to hit the target from 18 yards and when a simple pass is chipped to another player rather than just rolling along the grass!!!!
 
1. Spectators holding on to the ball when their team is winning to waste on field time.
2. Assistant Referee’s who don’t flag for fouls right under their noses.
3. Players constantly appealing for decisions even though they know they are cheating.
4. The current handball law
5. Refs booking keepers for time wasting then letting them carry on time wasting and failing to give a second yellow
6. Players going down at the slightest of touches to ‘win’ a free kick (yes Paddy, like you)
 
Managers and players on long contracts who still get rewarded for failure and for some reason clubs keep emoying them.
 
Games rearranged to suit television with no thought to the impact on supporters
Games other than England internationals and cup finals being played at Wembley.
Filthy Saudi money ruining the game
So-called top clubs hoovering up talent that they could not possibly utilise and loaning it out.
The champions league, which should feature only champions from each country.
The devaluing of the FA cup, which is to my mind the greatest and most prestigious club football cup competition in the world
Petty but, having to look below both the women’s and SPL football results to see the championship scores.
The points system for away ticket allocation, I am unfairly penalised for having to work shifts.
Gambling sponsorship, although this is going to be curtailed but gambling to my mind is every bit as harmful as drinking, smoking and drug taking.
 
Players grabbing the ball or standing in the way to stop the opposition taking a quick free kick. Anyone chasing or screaming at the ref to protest a decision, sometimes for ages (even after VAR). Players taking 2 minutes to leave the box when the other team have a penalty. Or kicking up the penalty spot.

Way too much gamesmanship in football. Should be a booking every time. Then a red. Refs need to be way tougher on this.

Once teams start going down to 8 or 9 players every game they’ll learn and it will stop.
 
Faking injury. You'll see a player go down holding his face and rolling around. Then you see the replay and he's been caught in the chest or shoulder.

Then springs up with absolutely no facial injury when nothings given. It's blatant cheating. Trying to get someone sent off or time wasting. It's giving the officials a decision to make for no reason. They should outed on VAR or retrospective action.

Bruno Fernandes is almost unwatchable for this.

Oh and the death of 4-4-2. I do miss the Big lad knocking it down to a small / nippy forward. I blame Wenger and Pep 😂
 
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