Things I hate about modern football

Davepick said:
Not true.
Did you ever see Sir Stan going down like a ninepin and writhing in agony?
Very few, if any at all, did it in those days. If a player went down you could bet it was honest.
Remeber the 1953 FA Cup Final. Bolton had a player injured and he played on, on the wing, for the rest of the game.
No substitutes in those days.
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A long time ago. Since the abolition of the maximum wage most players will have engaged in some degree of cheating and/or gamesmanship.
 
Has to be VAR. If you look in the LoTG there are only a few things it should be referred to for. Yet it’s now being used to control the whole damn game. Very soon, there’ll be no need for Referees or Assistants (no bad thing in some cases I know), just a couple of guys in a van somewhere.

Also, petty Law changes every year. A very simple game is being spoiled by men in suits.
 
Hankey2009 said:
Players gaining an advantage when taking a 10 yard run for a throw in. I actually applauded when husband got done for it in the derby as the ref told him 3 times to stop moving forward. Players moving the ball from where the free kick offence took place, especially offsides….they happen say 5 yards from the corner flag yet the keeper then takes the kick from the edge of his D….any head injury the player must come off the field of play if they go down like a bag of shit …..you can’t have it both ways, be feigning a head injury and then not obeying the rules of the game. Oh if we’ve got goal line tech is there any potential for out of ply tech? Like put the cameras on the corner flags as noted the other day the ball went out 3/4 times and each time the lino couldn’t see it. Would result in them getting less abuse and potentially goals can come of these sets of plays. Players running off from refs when they’re trying to talk to them…..instant yellow imo. Yeah I’d be happy with teams been punished 5/10 yards for any abuse towards officials. Wouldn’t also mind seeing a sinbin included for abuse, we have it in our league and soon gets through when you lose one of your players
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Some good thinking in amidst the rant. Penalise by yardage , sinbins whatever and a lot of the backchat n nonsense would disappear
 
All of the wrestling at corners . Holding , blocking , eyeballing etc. How many teams score from corners anyway ? I know we very rarely do
 
gjr69 said:
A long time ago. Since the abolition of the maximum wage most players will have engaged in some degree of cheating and/or gamesmanship.
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Read Matthews' autobiography. When he started playing for the first team at Stoke (1933?), he describes the gamesmanship he hadn't previously experienced: elbows in the stomach, studs down shins etc. Now it just happens to have multi-camera attention so both parties turn it up to 11.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Read Matthews' autobiography. When he started playing for the first team at Stoke (1933?), he describes the gamesmanship he hadn't previously experienced: elbows in the stomach, studs down shins etc. Now it just happens to have multi-camera attention so both parties turn it up to 11.
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A good friend of my dad's played professional football in the late 60s, 70s and early 80s he told us a few things they did, none of it on the right side of the laws of the game!
The more there is to lose or gain then more often than not the worst elements of human nature will be a part of it.
 
When did a 'set piece' change to 'set play'

The use of 'put your laces through it' . . . when you mean give it a good welly.

As said by Wiz - why is obstruction not given at the dead ball line?

Why do clocks in grounds stop at 90 mins?

Crowds going "shooooooot" when the balls at the edge of the box
 
Haven’t read all the posts so probably sone of these are repeated:
VAR
Fake injuries
Time wasting
Practiced goal celebrations, especially some kind of dance
‘Heart’ goal celebrations
Players having ‘clothing lines’
Players documenting their obscene wealth on social media
24 hours sports Channels making a story where there isn’t one, because they have to provide ‘content’
Steve McManaman on BT Sport
Clubs owned by Yanks
Clubs owned by Nation States with appalling human rights records
Taking the knee and assorted virtue signalling bollox
Pretending the womens game is equal to the mens
Stewards acting hard by making kids sit down
All seater stadium
But most of all, the faff in getting a match ticket. App’s, ticket sites, banding, registering, proving where I live and how many games I’ve attended. Why can’t I just turn up, pay cash at a turnstile and stand up with my pals and watch a game of football.
 
The way money has impacted on the game.

From the days when Stanley Matthews would walk down St Luke’s Road to Bloomfield Road on his way to a match, followed by admiring kids. To League 1 players these days racing up in a top of the range motor and disappearing just as quickly after the final whistle.

When almost every team could aspire to be in Division 1. To now when you know at the start of the season which of the half dozen or so teams will top the PL.

When the FA Cup Final was a big day.

When fans didn’t spend all their time on social media moaning about individual players; the manager; the owner; a particular rule or decision that they didn’t agree with. Instead they would moan about them in the pub. But at least they could be silenced by being reminded it was their round.
 
Qblock said:
Haven’t read all the posts so probably sone of these are repeated:
VAR
Fake injuries
Time wasting
Practiced goal celebrations, especially some kind of dance
‘Heart’ goal celebrations
Players having ‘clothing lines’
Players documenting their obscene wealth on social media
24 hours sports Channels making a story where there isn’t one, because they have to provide ‘content’
Steve McManaman on BT Sport
Clubs owned by Yanks
Clubs owned by Nation States with appalling human rights records
Taking the knee and assorted virtue signalling bollox
Pretending the womens game is equal to the mens
Stewards acting hard by making kids sit down
All seater stadium
But most of all, the faff in getting a match ticket. App’s, ticket sites, banding, registering, proving where I live and how many games I’ve attended. Why can’t I just turn up, pay cash at a turnstile and stand up with my pals and watch a game of football.
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I particularly like your last , ' turn up at the turnstile ' bit. I'd edit to add ,' and watch a game of football for no more than 20quid 😁
 
Dollar Thief said:
I'm a couple of years younger than you and would rather watch football of the 70's and 80's than the current game.
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Every body has their own preferences no right or wrong to it. As much as I like a the outrageous tackles of the past and the old school hatchet men, I do enjoy watching Man City or the great Barcelona team when Messi was in his prime.
Moving down slightly in quality the Blackpool team that recently got promoted from league 1 was head and shoulders above any lower league Blackpool team I had seen previously in terms of fitness and technical and tactical ability.
Depends what you take from watching the game I suppose.
 
Dollar Thief said:
You didn't get teams way ahead of the others like City or Barcelona back in the 70's as the cash then was more evenly spread out.

Regarding fitness, how many seasons do you have to go back for when a Blackpool player played every league game in a season?
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I'm not talking injury prone sort of fitness I'm saying the players now have better fitness in an athletic sense. Unfortunately they do get injured on a more regular basis or maybe they just refuse to play when injured!
 
1) Having three shirts per season that change every single year.

Fun fact I recently learned - Don Revie pioneered the idea of England shirts being available to the public and the use of makers branding. He'd been involved at Leeds who'd been involved with the Admiral brand that then took the role of making England shirts. Till they appointed him, the FA hadn't given any thought to the potential of commercial revenue from such avenues. It's a bit mental when you consider the hoopla around England shirts today, that it's as late as the mid 70s that anyone thought them worth selling...

2) the endlessly depressing cycle of big club wins things - gets loads of cash - stays as a big club and the way the structures of competitions are warped by the desire to get big names teams on TV as much as possible.
 
Dollar Thief said:
Regarding fitness, how many seasons do you have to go back for when a Blackpool player played every league game in a season?
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That's a great question.

I can't remember who it was but someone in the 80s won the league and I think only used 14 players doing so which is mind bending now. They also didn't used to weaken sides for cup games in general then which adds another layer of madness to it when seen in the light of the modern era.

Edit - I looked it up - it was Villa... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nostalgia-how-aston-villa-won-180651
 
gjr69 said:
I'm not talking injury prone sort of fitness I'm saying the players now have better fitness in an athletic sense. Unfortunately they do get injured on a more regular basis or maybe they just refuse to play when injured!
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They probably get injured more because of the demands to be more athletic so to speak. They're expected to be at levels of physical fitness that probably create more muscle strain etc.
 
The demise of short shorts- fair play to Rugby LG teams they kept theirs- goalies who don’t wear caps in bright sun in case it messes up their hairstyle-players who miss a sitter then for some reason GRIN!😀
 
I agree with a lot of this. I’m now worried I’m officially a grumpy old bastard.
 
Dollar Thief said:
I know Peter Clarke managed to complete the last two seasons at Tranmere without missing one game, not bad for someone who is nearly 41.
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I couldn't resist a bit of research...

Tom Aldred and David Perkins managed 45 of 46 games in a couple of the wilderness seasons but Matt Gilks in 2013/14 was the last genuine ever present. As far as outfielders go it's Sean Barker as long ago as 07/08 and in that season Rachubka also managed it.

Barker also played 45 games the year before. (therefore playing 91 of 92 games)

just to call back to Peter Clarke - he was ever present for us in 05/06...
 
mull said:
Well this year in particular .
This head injury thing . A player got gently shouldered out of a challenge last night, goes down writhing in agony , clutching his head . Even the normal replay showed that his head remained completely unscathed atop his cheating shoulders.
The other thing winding me up hugely this season is goalkeepers catching say a gently lobbed cross , then dramatically falling to the turf as though they've pulled off the save of the century whilst looking around the entire stadium for the next 2 minutes .
What sort of namby Pamby , overcoached game are we getting these days ?
I admit to having a slight hankering for a 1970 s well executed sliding tackle that started off some 20 yards away from the actual ball . I know it was eventually banned , but a good sliding tackle was admired, cheered, revered . Players would admit to the fact that they'd been successfully slid and just get on with it...if their legs were still intact. None of this harassing of the ref .
There, I ve said my three pennoth worth Very cathartic a good rant
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Most of it
 
When players enter the field and they sign themselves with the cross, or hop on one leg, or have their arms spread out whilst looking skywards with eyes closed.
What are you doing?🤦🏻‍♂️
FFS you're meant to be playing football!!!
 
Politics creeping in 'harmless' ways. Starts with a poppy on the shirt but before you know it, there's a full repertoire going on. Rainbow laces and corner flags, kneel for BLM, 'We Stand With Ukraine' and a clap on twenty minutes for the queen's favourite corgi.

For once, just once, it'd be great to see a player be themselves. Be frivolous or daft rather than super serious and, as demanded, a perma-perfect diplomat. Possibly the monies involved in the game mean that won't ever happen again.
 
td53 said:
That's a great question.

I can't remember who it was but someone in the 80s won the league and I think only used 14 players doing so which is mind bending now. They also didn't used to weaken sides for cup games in general then which adds another layer of madness to it when seen in the light of the modern era.

Edit - I looked it up - it was Villa... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nostalgia-how-aston-villa-won-180651
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Gary Williams who was a member of the 14 players used became the landlord of The Royal Hotel in Boston Spa and played with me for the sunday pub team occasionally!
 
Paying my money to actually watch 53/54 minutes of “”entertainment”” instead of 90. Grown men frailing injury for FA (but waste time). Modern game dying a death yet fans say little about the actual time that the ball is in play.
I’m continually gobsmacked that fans are just taking a depreciating product.
Travelling away is now a one off,
when it was a given.
 
Lying on the floor behind a wall, what a waste of time that is, has anyone seen a player actually block a free kick yet ?
 
td53 said:
That's a great question.

I can't remember who it was but someone in the 80s won the league and I think only used 14 players doing so which is mind bending now. They also didn't used to weaken sides for cup games in general then which adds another layer of madness to it when seen in the light of the modern era.

Edit - I looked it up - it was Villa... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nostalgia-how-aston-villa-won-180651
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I believe Liverpool did it in 1965/66 season also
 
Pigeon English interviews with foreign coaches, players erm erm. Shut your eyes they all sound the same. Then their likes saying the FA Cup is the best competition in the world because I used to watch it as a kid in darkest Peru 🙄
Double barrelled surnames.
Absence of refs over 5ft 2.
 
Dollar Thief said:
You didn't get teams way ahead of the others like City or Barcelona back in the 70's as the cash then was more evenly spread out.

Regarding fitness, how many seasons do you have to go back for when a Blackpool player played every league game in a season?
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Possibly a G/keeper.
Must look at George Farm, possibly played a full season at some timr.
Outfield players different, must check.
Just browsing through, Jock Wallace (keeper) played every game in the1934/5 season.
 
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