Being played for the points. But what is the point? What is the point of a football match? For the participants to entertain themselves?
We did it many times when we were kids in the park, but a professional football match? What is the point of a professional football match? To entertain spectators. The ESSENTIAL point, I mean. It’s to entertain fans. Yes, the points are secondary. What do points make? Shysters. Like the Glazers.
There is no atmosphere. It’s not a friendly, but its not really competitive either. Because a player wants to, or should want to show off his skills. But there are no people to show off to. Show off, not the right way of saying it – PLAY FOR. They are not playing for Manchester United fans. They are playing for points for Manchester Utd Plc. (I am using Man Utd as a famous club, but the actual news was two teams having to play in Germany with no spectators).
Anyway, truth is I hate what has happened to football. I know many Cunters dislike Lineker, not only because of his obscene salary, but his views on Brexit. I dislike him because he represents (his whole manner) the smoothness of modern Corporate football. He is at home in advertising, as we know (Walker’s crisps), he’s up on the boardroom aspect of the thing, I believe on the business side. I suspect his dislike of Brexit was a lot to with his internationalist, corporative vision for football. Free movement of players and all that.
Remember ‘Corporate Rock’ cunters? Who were they? ‘Boston’ was one. ‘Foreigner’….bland, made for radio music. For easy consumption. Corporate football is the same. It sounds good, it looks good, but it is football made for CONSUMPTION. Not really to be watched or appreciated (how can women really appreciate football?) but just consumed.
What do I mean? It has become a virtue-signaller’s dream. Really, it is the ‘family’ at the match that are PLAYING. Playing at being excited, playing at being forlorn when they lose. It’s just a game now (in the sense of pretend)
This is a rambling rant. To keep their fucking money-making leagues going, they should just toss a coin.
Nominated by Miles Plastic
‘they should just toss a coin’
Because that’s the only thing is really about now- COIN.
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Let the fuckers finish the season, and make every gave free to air TV, if the rest of us have to sit at home we may as well have something to watch instead of cunts doing keep fit videos.
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If they play matches with no fans in attendance for public health and safety reasons, then presumably all the players would have to keep at least 6 feet part from each other as per social distancing guidelines. Think about how funny that would look. It wouldn’t make much difference for Spurs since none of their players can get within 6 feet of the opposition anyway. Haha.
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I’ll bet the Chinese Super League doesn’t seem quite so super now.
To all the mercenary cunts who went there for the money, how’s that working out for you now? Bat soup anyone?
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No more Chinese Super League anymore IY – the dirty little f*ckers have eaten all the players raw!
“Cough” “Cough” “Wassa wrong Chen?”
“I got football fru”
“I told you not eat that Ferraini – he rook too gleasy!”
Football used to be the spectator sport of the blue collar workers, it was cheap to watch because the clubs knew if they charged too much people would not go through the turnstiles – now actual spectators are completely unnecessary as far as the top clubs are concerned – and we now get football on subscription to the living room and actual supporters are froth who are ordered to sit in their seats, be silent and only allowed to stand if the team look like scoring.
F*cking try that one with me Mr football steward – I envisage a “free kick” they would never forget! 😀
Good nom Miles – modern corporate football is a joke, but I for one ain’t laughing.
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Too right, Vern. Stewards can be a humourless bunch of cunts.
Was at a Luton Town game moons ago with a mate of mine (Luton fan). As per we were in the mouthy section. One guy yelled out a regular chant: What do you think of shit? (section replies) Watford. What do you think of Watford? (section replies) Shit!
Steward Nazi comes over and says to cut it out or he’ll be escorted out. So he comes up with this variation: What do you think of toilet? (section replies) Watford. What do you think of Watford? (section replies) Toilet!
Two steward Nazis come over, grab this guy and take him away. Well, that incensed the whole section and a ruck ensued all because the stewards were acting the hard man. Cunts.
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They could stage the title-decider on my front lawn and I still wouldn’t bother walking to the window to watch….I might bother enough to open the front door and tell them them to “Fuck Off” before setting the hounds on them however.
PS…Can’t really see the problem with no crowd…it hasn’t stopped the wimmin’s game and we all know how popular that is according to the BBC.
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That last paragraph made me fall about laughing DF!
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PS….Did I catch a whiff of the dreaded Mr. Cunt-Engine earlier?….I feel his malevolent presence… Prepare yourselves for a tsunami of Porn and revolting sexual suggestions.
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Our esteemed colleague has indeed returned Sir Fiddler!
Still have the amusing vision in my head of some tattooed tw*t making like Usain Bolt away from Fiddler Towers covered in dog bites with a cartridge full of shot in his arse!
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I’ve just replied to him on the Greta Thunderbuns nom. He appears to be in extremely fine fettle.
Though uncharacteristically no revolting sexual suggestions.
Maybe he’s a reformed character? A new man? Caught religion or summat? Time will tell…
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Good evening Gents, I’ve rather enjoyed my leave of absence (it is good for one’s soul) but am back with even more anti-wimmin, anti-enricher and anti-trānsbumder spite than ever.
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Fucking hell Thomas, am I safe as a moggie? I can confirm I am none of those specified.
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Wayne Rooney is a fucking caaant, and I hope he chokes on his foreskin.
Twat.
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Although in his defence Rooney donated his back hair to stuff mattresses for chiridee!
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Cunts playing football in front of no cunts whatsoever?
That’s the Wimminz World Cup innit?
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In a similar vein to Miles’ nom….a potential outcome of the Virus is that the professional rugby players down here may need to revert to semi-professional, supplementing their wages with other paid work, as the RFU is in danger of collapsing.
How I laughed when I heard it phrased on the news item as “players will need to take a real job”. Sums it up quite nicely really; they’re paid to play a fucking game, which under any scrutiny, does not constitute a real job.
Fuck them and all professional game players, they’ve lived in a rarefied bubble for long enough, so they can suck it up like the rest of us.
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Big respect for rugby players – a relative of mine is PA to the owner of Leeds Rhinos – a very rich club which pays good wages, but they are nothing compared to what the hairdressers favourites get in foozeball.
Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs, rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen.
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Yes Kiwicunt bring back Amateurism. When a game, any game was played for the ‘fun’ of it, the enjoyment. What a stroke of luck this virus is. Gone for this year is the sound of the over-straining ‘grunting’ at Wimbledon, .the super serious faces, the posing of spectators. Gone for this year is the sight of the mechanics in the Pit as though rushing to some medical emergency (how fit) to change a fucking tyre. Gone for this year are the Olympics where we will be spared the endless corporate advertising. Let’s get back to playing, doing sport for fun.
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I’ll happily second that Miles, good call.
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Fucking women’s grunting eh? they’re cheats too some of them are bringing racquets with them.
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The modern day top tier footballer is so financially insulated from reality, they really have nothing more than contempt for the paying public. Understandable on some levels, but nonetheless pretty disgusting. I say let the cunts play with no fans and see how they like it. Perhaps it would make them appreciate what fans bring to the game.
Many things will change as a result of China Virus and football will be no exception. Here’s my top dozen things I’d change if I was in a position to do so. What would you change?
1. No shirt sponsorship. Just the club shirt in the club colours with the club crest and a small manufacturer logo if absolutely necessary.
2. No moving graphics on the advertising hoardings. They’re really distracting and annoying for TV viewers.
3. Transfer windows scrapped.
4. Player wages cap based on gate receipts and other revenue streams.
5. Player contracts to include termination clauses for being crap.
6. Refereeing teams consisting of 4 linesmen (2 per touchline, corner flag to half way line) and 2 refs (1 for each half of the pitch).
7. Ref audio to explain decisions to fans like they have in gay rugby.
8. Post match video analysis of cheating incidents (diving, feigning injury, etc.) leading to points deductions for repeat offenders/clubs.
9. Extra points awarded for scoring more than a set number of goals or achieving a certain goal difference within a game.
10. Deliberate time wasting over a certain number of minutes results in an automatic penalty to the opposition.
11. A ‘no commentary – crowd noise only’ audio option for televised games.
12. Go back to a simple offside rule. If you’re in an offside position and interfering with play, you’re offside. If you’re in an offside position and not interfering with play, you’re not offside.
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An excellent summary IY. Disgusted today when Liverpool joined other clubs today in furloughing some non playing staff. Premier league football will have a job recovering from this. As for rugby, it’s finished!
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I know, Bert. It seems incredible given the amount of money in the game and these huge corporations – my lot included – are doing this AND asking for government cash too.
I’m sure many non-playing staff work at THEIR football club because they love the club and are fans themselves. To be treated like this must really sting.
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6-11 a bit daft but the rest are valid points.
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Why Flexi? Here’s my rationale:
6. Refereeing teams consisting of 4 linesmen (2 per touchline, corner flag to half way line) and 2 refs (1 for each half of the pitch).
With a linesman on the near side and far side of the pitch patrolling the same half, offsides/fouls/throw-ins/etc. would be easier to call. When there’s an incident near the touchline and the linesman from the far side of the pitch has to make a decision, that’s where mistakes are going to be made. But that same incident right in front of the linesman on the near side has a better chance of seeing the incident and flagging (or not).
Having 2 refs (and no VAR) would mean there are 2 officials looking at the same incident. It’s bound to improve accuracy of decision making.
7. Ref audio to explain decisions to fans like they have in gay rugby.
Fans go mental when they don’t or cannot understand why a decision has been made. If the ref spoke up, then it would clear it up immediately. Seems to work fine for gay rugby.
8. Post match video analysis of cheating incidents (diving, feigning injury, etc.) leading to points deductions for repeat offenders/clubs.
Panels of ex-footballers and officials to look again at incidents. One of the things which is killing the game is diving and feigning injury trying to get freekicks, penalties and opposition players booked. If the serial offenders knew what they do would be scrutinised leading to a points deduction for serial blatant cheating (which is what it is), it might clean up the game.
9. Extra points awarded for scoring more than a set number of goals or achieving a certain goal difference within a game.
This would help to increase the fun, entertainment and score lines by giving a huge incentive for attacking play. Imagine a final day win would not save your club from relegation because they’d be level on points with the club above them, but have an inferior goal difference. But if they scored say 6 goals, they’d get an extra point and survive the drop. Imagine the extra drama. It would be great!
10. Deliberate time wasting over a certain number of minutes results in an automatic penalty to the opposition.
Another thing which ruins the game is the blatant running down the clock. The consequence now is a talking to by the ref or maybe a yellow card. Big deal. If teams knew they’d concede a penalty for doing this, they’d be more inclined to play competitively for the whole 90 minutes.
11. A ‘no commentary – crowd noise only’ audio option for televised games.
I am sick and tired of being forced to listen to the absolute drivel dished out by wanker commentators. We have one on NBC Sports called Arlo White. He is an uber cunt. His commentary sounds like he has a list of irrelevant facts that he has to get through during the 90 minutes. Imagine that cunt John Motson but 1000x worse. I’d enjoy a game on TV so much more if I could watch it, have crowd noise but no cunt spoiling it with their drivel. What’s not to like about that?
Just some thoughts.
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Just seems over policed to me, i find the premier league too stop start as it is tbh. If you watch a game from the lower divisions the refs are much more lenient, sort of get up and get fucking on with it attitude, which i prefer, let the game flow. With more refs and linesmen they will be blowing up every 2 minutes with a foul no other fuckers even seen, a la rugby!! 1 ref, 2 linesmen,if it aint broke don’t fix it. My own humble opinion of course.
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Fair play to Wayne Rooney for getting involved in the home schooling thing.
His kids reckon he’s learnt shit loads….
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Quality JRC! 😄
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Miles – the theme of your postings today seems to be an objection to crossing borders, anti capitalism and globalism.
What would you have advised the Oirish to do during the testing time of the potato famine? Just imagine if Irish players like that cunt James McClean had been denied the opportunity to cross the Irish Sea to ply his trade and push his anti- British stance on the nasty British, in order to avoid wearing a poppy. Just saying!
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Watch your step!
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Evening MNC – all good with you Sir?
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Good cheers mate.
Bit of gardening , dogwalking, sunday roast.
Nice day.
And got Raspberry ripple ice cream for pudding later!😉
Speaking to my biggest client a storage facility earlier an might have a way to go back to work if Matt Hancock shuts the fuck up and doesnt spoil it.
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Glad to hear it, hope that works out for you 👍
I got dropped an absolute lifeline by selling some crazy expensive furniture completely unexpectedly – I live to fight another day! (Lucky really as it turns out the UC site crashed and didn’t store any details of my application!)
And my bike is getting some serious use, being imprisoned sends me a little mad – gotta be out and about in the fresh air!
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Same mate. The daughter working from home hasnt been further than the back garden in 3weeks!
Doesnt seem to bother her?
I struggle to stay indoors longer than 2hrs.
Like yourself it drives me crackers .
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We have an outside bog 3 feet from the back door. Going there is my exercise.
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Mine the pitch,spice it up a bit.
The puffy cunts.
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Heehee, you never fail to make me smile Terry!😁
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Fuck football, not interested, football clubs weathered world wars because it wasn’t the multi billion shit show it’s become. If these clubs can’t survive missing 7 or 8 games their business model is at fault. Running a corporate operation requires corporate disaster planning. A pandemic has been predicted for 20 years I can remember, the FA, the Premier league and the players association never thought it was worth planning for? Their own fault.
Football needs to learn to survive on a slimmed down income. Stop bleating, abandon he season and prepare the players to live on a pittance such as 50k a week.
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I have never understood how somebody running the country can earn less, in a year, than some foreign cunt kicking a fucking ball about can earn in a week. Just for the record, I hate sport, duh.
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I see a massive change in attitudes to footballers and generally the super wealthy in general after this pile of cunt has shifted.
Due to the difference in wages between top footballer’s and ground staff and most fans footballer’s for a long time now are called out for their wages but I don’t begrudge them their pay as it’s the industry that they happen to be players in that is awash with money.
Compared to top Americunt sports stars Premier League players wages are fuck all… however in these times when their clubs are asking for Government help and laying off staff etc all it would take is ONE cunt to step forward and say he is will to play for a measly £30,000 a week and they would all have to…nah not one of the cunts is willing to not be a cunt.
As long as Liverpool win their next two games (likely to be played behind closed doors) we are Champions…after that I think these greedy cunts will feel the backlash from real fans and most games will be full of Taiwanese ‘Me fan for long time’ cunts.
I heard the other day they may finish the league in China!
Go fuck yourselves.
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If they abandon the season, when the dust has settled there’s a plane load of scousers Wuhan bound, to search for a bloke who had bat for lunch….
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Dunno abaaaaaht you lot but I really wanna know what that ‘Expert’ female pundit thinks abaaaaaht it all. Can’t remember her name though.
Piss off.
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Just refer to her as ‘that fit bird.’ Pretty accurate for most of them. Talking of which that one who Final Score have on their EFL coverage some weeks is a very nice bit of totty.
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Null and void Scouse cunts, null and void.
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Den do dat den.
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Can’t watch this without cracking up :
https://youtu.be/SRLFMWNpUDU
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I remember when those Polish football fans went on the rampage.
Police said nearly two hundred cars were washed, waxed and hoovered….
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I used to go when there were proper spectators, real supporters as opposed to half/half scarf cunts, chinki day trippers, selfie stick wankers, cunts like Goldbridge and Tufty, millennial fuckwits, and other nu-footie cunts.
FA Cup Semi 85. What a night that was….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qD2qwTLZaA
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I have heard on Good authority that united teamed up with city that night and gave the scousers a royal pasting on the streets of Moss side
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Mind you I did enjoy rewatching the Uruguayans dishing it out to the Danes the other day. A proper bunch of cunts 1 to 11.
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Wayne Rooney must be close to getting onto the wall of cunts?
He’s been in a bubble since he was 16. Thick twat should get back in his tire swing and shut the fuck up.
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Really? seriously?
The world in economic meltdown, the Chinese ready to pounce, Plod filming innocent walkers with their toys, smokers dropping over left and right…
Who gives a cold dead rats ass about fucking football?
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Being a Villa fan I hope the season is fucked off, best chance we have of staying up. No relegation, let yam yam Smethwick and the Leeds fuckers come up, both on minus 10 points and start a new season. Bollocks to playing behind closed doors.
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