FA learn lesson from Olympics? ...

[Running Man]

Its totally different though for footballers and the olympians, the olympians weren't booed by their own fans for not winning, and many players are booed even after they have gave their all. Football fans just expect more results more often. Their are plenty of footballers who will go out on the pitch and after 90 minutes be absolutely fucked, but if they have been beat no one gives a fuck they are shite. Just look at bardo and catts no one can fault their attitude and commitment, yet everyone hammers them.

No one hammers and gb athlete who came last in a race for eg.

[Charlestonian]

Originally Posted by Running Man

Its totally different though for footballers and the olympians, the olympians weren't booed by their own fans for not winning, and many players are booed even after they have gave their all. Football fans just expect more results more often. Their are plenty of footballers who will go out on the pitch and after 90 minutes be absolutely fucked, but if they have been beat no one gives a fuck they are shite. Just look at bardo and catts no one can fault their attitude and commitment, yet everyone hammers them.

No one hammers and gb athlete who came last in a race for eg.

Must also be said the Olympic crowds have been a better class of a human than the teenage 'I've watched green street I think I'm hard as fuck' idiots you tend to get the match these days.

[sonson]

Originally Posted by Running Man

Its totally different though for footballers and the olympians, the olympians weren't booed by their own fans for not winning, and many players are booed even after they have gave their all. Football fans just expect more results more often. Their are plenty of footballers who will go out on the pitch and after 90 minutes be absolutely fucked, but if they have been beat no one gives a fuck they are shite. Just look at bardo and catts no one can fault their attitude and commitment, yet everyone hammers them.

No one hammers and gb athlete who came last in a race for eg.

Probably because they don't get paid a fortune for doing so. You reckon football players would put in as much effort if they were paid a sane amount? Look at the end of last season. "Nothing" for the lads to play for except pride, they were shit for 12 games in a row.

And damn right fans who pay mimum 30 quid for two hours get radfe at players who get paid considerably more than I do in a year within a week. They have one of the easiest lives on the planet, and even then they whinge. Majority of them are utterly contemptable.

[The Archer]

The only way it will change is if people stop going to the matches or cancel their subcriptions to Sky so the money dries up.

After some of the performances at the Olympics and the sacrifices these sportspeople make I agree that it is depressing thinking about the hype surrounding the Premier League.

[ivanthereasonable]

FIFA.In it to line their pockets.
UEFA.run by a man who seems to hate the English.
FA. run by a bunch of incompetant twats.

so no,they will have learned nothing.

[CalAl]

The brutish cowardly fouling going on in the Community Shield game on and off the ball stands out sharply after watching a dozen Olympic football games in a row, men and women. After a dozen Premier games in a row I will be back to thinking it is just part of the game.

[Marco20]

Just as many bell ends in athletics, you just don't see them on the telly CID there are less of them/ less interest in them.....

Joey Barton for example, if he was a runner he would be running in front of hundreds of people in national events, not playing in front of millions in global audiences..... His prickishness therefore would go totally un noticed.

[riffraff]

Originally Posted by alanturing

Aye, it's not the FA but the Premier League who are to blame.

The FA run the reffing and hand out the bans/suspensions.

Their problem is the constant promoting of "mice" as refs instead of men. They then refuse to back the "mice" who have to take the shit handed out to them by the Terrys & Cashleys as happened today at one point. Friend shoudve red carded the pair of em as soon as they started in on him.

Originally Posted by Howard the Duck

Unfortunately money changes everything. If all the other athletes were on the same money as footballers then I don't think they'd remain the bastions of virtue they're perceived to be for very long either. In fact, I think you may see a few examples of those who've done so well at the Olympics struggle with their new found celebrity and exposure and disappear up their own arses.

Good point.

I remember the days when my marra slaughtered footballers in comparison with Rugby Union players. I pointed out that football had been the source of income for its pros for over 100 years and wait to see what the rugger buggers are up to after 100yrs of professionalism. Within the blink of an eye their swapping the ball to suit their own purposes and smuggling blood capsules on the pitch!

Nowadays its the Athlete stick thats used to beat the pro footballer as the "honest" Rugby player train has long left the station.

[martyftm]

One lesson is that we CAN produce sportsmen/women capable of being the best. Perhaps instead of encouraging as many overseas players to join our top league, one day we might encourage and develop our own.

[Neil Martin]

Originally Posted by Doberman

will anything change? Plenty of comments on here (and other places) about coming to realise the difference in attitudes between footballers and other athletes.

Nothing will change. Most people on here realise now as much of the country does that our Olympic athletes are head and shoulders above the overpaid, cheating lazy fucking wankers who play "fubble"...but come next week it will all be forgotten as they all jump back on the gravy train.

Sad but unfortunately true.

Originally Posted by Marco20

Just as many bell ends in athletics, you just don't see them on the telly CID there are less of them/ less interest in them.....

Joey Barton for example, if he was a runner he would be running in front of hundreds of people in national events, not playing in front of millions in global audiences..... His prickishness therefore would go totally un noticed.

Go on then...can we have a few instances? Or are you just talking through your arse?

Originally Posted by ivanthereasonable

FIFA.In it to line their pockets.
UEFA.run by a man who seems to hate the English.
FA. run by a bunch of incompetant twats.

so no,they will have learned nothing.

Correct. Well done that man. They are incapable of doing anything positive if it doesn't include lining their pockets! despicable twats.