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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If footie is on the telly the telly goes off or switched to another channel.
It is no longer sport but finance, over rated and with over paid performers.
If it is their place of work they should be like the rest, if your injured get a sick note or get back to the office, real people are not wrapped in cotton wool. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If footie is on the telly the telly goes off or switched to another channel.
It is no longer sport but finance, over rated and with over paid performers.
If it is their place of work they should be like the rest, if your injured get a sick note or get back to the office, real people are not wrapped in cotton wool."
Hear hear  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Much rather watch the washing machine for 90 mins. The Olympic Games last year showed everyone there was more to sport than freaking football.
Or yawnball as its known in our house. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to watch loads of football. Lately it's just become a bit of a circus. Who said this, who said that, managers throwing teddies, players spitting dummies. Nowadays I may dip in n out of a game that intrigues me, unless its my team in which case I'll watch all of it.
I'm much more likely to be watching motor sports now. MotoGP, speedway, WSB, BSB or WRC. Something with thrills n spills. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If footie is on the telly the telly goes off or switched to another channel.
It is no longer sport but finance, over rated and with over paid performers.
If it is their place of work they should be like the rest, if your injured get a sick note or get back to the office, real people are not wrapped in cotton wool."
What does your husband think? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Here's a question for all of you.
Do you really like watching, reading and hearing about footie?
Girls too I guess but I find it so freakin boring I wish it would disappear altogether..."
You find it so boring that you had to start a thread about it drawing yet more attention to the game.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i like watching it now and again when i know it will be a good match. i enjoy going to watch it enjoyed going to the man u game other night. and of course the best game of footie i watch is my kids games. then i love hearing about it and watching it.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If footie is on the telly the telly goes off or switched to another channel.
It is no longer sport but finance, over rated and with over paid performers.
If it is their place of work they should be like the rest, if your injured get a sick note or get back to the office, real people are not wrapped in cotton wool.
Don't get me started on their wages!  "
Would you turn down £30k a week if someone was prepared to pay you that much? No, didn't think so. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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exactly bet noone would turn that sort of money down.
i do agree they get paid too much money for kicking a ball around while nurses,doctors,firemen are saving lives for next to nothing. but i cant see it changing any time soon. xx |
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By *ayseanMan
over a year ago
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I love most sports including football,yes its not a perfect,like anything in life but millions,no make that billions enjoy watching,playing and reading about it every day all over the world,as for footballers being overated did anyone see barcelona last week against ac milan? That was sporting perfection,with technique perfected through years of practice! |
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By *e nicerWoman
over a year ago
Costa del Medway |
only watch the big matches on telly if at all and sometimes it a job to stay awake as it seems to hypnotise me.
Do like going to a match though, love the atmosphere and like park footie watching on occasion.
Defo overhyped and overpaid at the top. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Football was the first thing I fell in love with that will never change its a beautiful game."
makes life worth living dont it? Non world cup close season is horrible! This is the best time of the year, loads of footy on tv with euro stuff and fa cup. Im one happy scamp! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not a fan of the "sport" at top level, bit of interest in lower levels (used to drink with one of York Cities pro-am lads) but still not that interested.
Being honest last match I was at the tickets were free and I ended up watching the crowd.
Damn thing gets shown too much in my opinion. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to eat , breath and shit football. My whole live evolved around the game. Ju couldn't make any arrangements without first consulting the fixture list. Even our wedding was planned around football. But after a massive row with the office staff at my club last season I have nothing more to do with it. I'll sit and watch a game on the TV with my son but I know when he leaves home in September I won't even do that.
I don't miss it at all, however I do miss the pre match drinks.
And Ju thinks I'm a much nicer person now I'm not all wrapped up in football. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Football is not our national sport by sheer coincidence. It was originally just a working class sport,now watched by all classes.
No other sport comes remotely close to it in the UK. Given the choice of watching 90 minutes of footie or having sex ? Would have to say footie as i would be well bored for 85 minutes
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Football is shite. Not much fun from where I'm sitting. Now put the TT, MotoGP or any Bike related races on and I'm all eyes  "
Couldn't have said it better |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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used to enjoy playing football at school ... then watching Stockport and England live till early 90's. Combination of things killed it for me ... Hillsborough, aggressive policing, overly expensive crap food (in particular at Wembley), poor treatment by clubs, police and media all compounded by arrival of my son ... don't even bother to check the results these days and thankfully none of my three boys has the slightest interest in the game.
Don't miss football but the buzz of the day was something worth experiencing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"exactly bet noone would turn that sort of money down.
i do agree they get paid too much money for kicking a ball around while nurses,doctors,firemen are saving lives for next to nothing. but i cant see it changing any time soon. xx"
nobody forced them to choose those jobs and nobody force footballer to become footballers |
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Football is a beautiful source of much debate, discussion and socialisation that brings togethet people of all class and standing. As a supporter of a low level team it usually goes with the assumption i don't know anything about it. It is intriguing and dramatic and i can safely say i would be a sadder person without it.
To the OP; i prefer watching on the TV; particularly highlights (including Bundesliga!!) and video gaming it. The Mrs, however, doesn't care for it at all. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Neither of us like football, don't really see the point of the game! Overpaid men paid to fall over a tiny blade of grass??? Nah!!
Now rugby is a different story !  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Here's a question for all of you.
Do you really like watching, reading and hearing about footie?
Girls too I guess but I find it so freakin boring I wish it would disappear altogether..."
don't read about it
don't watch it
don't listen to anybody talking about it
how easy is that? |
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"Here's a question for all of you.
Do you really like watching, reading and hearing about footie?
Girls too I guess but I find it so freakin boring I wish it would disappear altogether...
don't read about it
don't watch it
don't listen to anybody talking about it
how easy is that?"
What?.....and give them nothing to moan about?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Do you know what, I'm not even going to participate in these anti-football threads anymore. If you don't like football, fine, but please stop bitching about it and go and watch the sport you DO like - if you like any sport, and leave those of us who love the game to chat about it without someone interjecting with a load of crap about overpaid primadonnas bore bore bore.
You do your thing, and leave us to do ours. How about that for democracy? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you know what, I'm not even going to participate in these anti-football threads anymore. If you don't like football, fine, but please stop bitching about it and go and watch the sport you DO like - if you like any sport, and leave those of us who love the game to chat about it without someone interjecting with a load of crap about overpaid primadonnas bore bore bore.
You do your thing, and leave us to do ours. How about that for democracy? "
or just turn it into a football thread.
Frank Lampard..200 goals for a midfielder. that's some going.Legend |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do you know what, I'm not even going to participate in these anti-football threads anymore. If you don't like football, fine, but please stop bitching about it and go and watch the sport you DO like - if you like any sport, and leave those of us who love the game to chat about it without someone interjecting with a load of crap about overpaid primadonnas bore bore bore.
You do your thing, and leave us to do ours. How about that for democracy?
or just turn it into a football thread.
Frank Lampard..200 goals for a midfielder. that's some going.Legend"
Not legend enough for him to keep his job at Chelski apparently. We'll take him. Definitely. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The only people that don't like football are the ones that aren't any good at it........ Controversial  "
Or they're probably all Graham Norton fans who cry at the opening of a supermarket. Big babies. |
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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago
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"Neither of us like football, don't really see the point of the game! Overpaid men paid to fall over a tiny blade of grass??? Nah!!
Now rugby is a different story ! "
Am with you there xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now rugby is a different story !
Supposedly 'brighter' sportsmen who think it's fair game to stamp on an opponent's head and rip his ear orf? huh?"
invented by someone who was playing football but was shit at it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Now rugby is a different story !
Supposedly 'brighter' sportsmen who think it's fair game to stamp on an opponent's head and rip his ear orf? huh?
invented by someone who was playing football but was shit at it"
Agreed. He was that stupid he even had to make the ball a different shape so he knew which bloody game he was playing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"overpaid idiots "
Frank Lampard has about 11 a levels including latin and scored more than 150 on the IQ scale, putting him in the most intelligent 0.1 per cent of the population.
Idiot? Hardly |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
Elland |
As a coach of a U13s team i love it always have i was taken to 3 games in 3 weeks by my dad n uncles when i was 6
Leeds v Stoke
Halifax V Darlington
Morton V Clyde
I love the game i go to live games with my boys i watch asmuch is i can.. women come n go your Team is in your Soul till the day you die.. |
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The way I see it is....if you reach the top of your profession....any profession...you deserve to earn wages that reflect that fact.
Premier League football is a multi Billion pound business, the players are in many cases the most valuable assets of those businesses (clubs) and their wages are in line with that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"overpaid idiots
Frank Lampard has about 11 a levels including latin and scored more than 150 on the IQ scale, putting him in the most intelligent 0.1 per cent of the population.
Idiot? Hardly"
nah that just makes him an intelligent idiot... |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
Elland |
Its not player X to say ok im worth £60'000'000 it is the club he is at n the club/clubs that want him to play for them..
Just because player X is a great footballer the newspappers watch his every move his life is under the microscope 24/7/365.. if player X gets d*unk chats up a woman gets flashed speeding drops a mars bar rapper etc etc etc he is put under the cosh because "he is a roll model" thats bollox.. he is a hunan being who is talented.. with the world watchin him. They dont all deserve the shit they get |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you know what, I'm not even going to participate in these anti-football threads anymore. If you don't like football, fine, but please stop bitching about it and go and watch the sport you DO like - if you like any sport, and leave those of us who love the game to chat about it without someone interjecting with a load of crap about overpaid primadonnas bore bore bore.
You do your thing, and leave us to do ours. How about that for democracy? "
Wishy, I think its safe to say you have PLENTY of opportunity to find positive threads and debates on football. The reason this kind of thread is fuelled in the main is that those against probably feel that football is probably disproportionately represented.
You can't quell (sp?) opinion by throwing your arms up. Join the debate and speak about why we're wrong. We're all here just chatting aren't we?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Football is a beautiful source of much debate, discussion and socialisation that brings togethet people of all class and standing."
hhm. So do lots of things; Music, art, literature? Football doesn't have the monopoly on that, whilst I'm sure it does tick those boxes for some people.  |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
harrow |
I love football.......I am a Mufc season ticket holder and travel to manchester every other weekend.
I support England home and away as well. There is nothing that beats buzz of match day and I am normally buzzing a few days before the match
It does effect my swinging lifestyle a bit....... |
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Personally i find the game to be dull.
However, it's not the game itself that turns me off but the tribalism, bigotry and out-and-out hatred from fans that makes me dislike the whole circus*.
Whilst football fans are penned in, segregated and generally treated like potentially violent cattle because of the history surrounding the game, rugby fans are treated like adults who can mingle and drink whilst watching the game.
The whole experience is much better from my personal point of view.
*And the over-saturation of the media as well.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate it totally. Not the actual game but the hype.
Every goal has to be viewed dozens of times from every angle and discussed ad nauseam like it's an Apollo launch. Why if a match lasts 90 minutes does television coverage go on for hours with a build-up and a dissection afterwards?
"Well you see the way Bolombino there hooked the grooves in the side of the ball with the special tread pattern on his boots and using the angle of the grass in accordance with the spin of the earth deflected it off the raindrops just enough for the warm air rising to angle it past the goalie who was wrong-footed because he's a Sagittarius." I'll support my local or national team in a big match but don't see the need to go into absolute hysterics about it.
No offence intended, football fans... just replying to the thread with a personal opinion. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like many things...but then I dont make them central to my life.. sport, music,television appear to make up most of peoples daily lives..I do prefer being more creative in projecting myself rather than absorbing mainstream entertainments.
in fact any form of fanaticness about one thing annoys me...good for those who like it..but its just not me |
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By *un_JuiceCouple
over a year ago
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Preferred the terraces when it was affordable, Not so keen it being over 150 quid for a hour & half 'entertainment' for families.
If you don't like football threads, avoid.
Why don't you like it though, must be queer |
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"Do you know what, I'm not even going to participate in these anti-football threads anymore. If you don't like football, fine, but please stop bitching about it and go and watch the sport you DO like - if you like any sport, and leave those of us who love the game to chat about it without someone interjecting with a load of crap about overpaid primadonnas bore bore bore.
You do your thing, and leave us to do ours. How about that for democracy? "
Thankyou, you made me laugh so much I almost filled my pants |
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