Footballers are pricks


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Freddie the Greek said:
Any fan of club Football who does this is a bit odd.

Imo of course

I'm sure everyone will change their mind when the season starts, myself included, but it'd be nice to think that a few influential people in the game are thinking along the same lines.
 
The lack of passion and effort and pride has never been more obvious when compared with truly outstanding athletes truly giving their all for their nations.

What a bunch of overpaid, overrated egotisitical fuckwits.

Son, I think you are writing what a lot of people are thinking, when you think all the hard training these folk do. I know of one young women who has suffered a couple of injuries in the past 12 months which meant she did not make Team GB, when she was nailed on to do so. The hours of hard training and sacrifices she and her family have made. Compared to footballers when they pull on an England/GB vest they could often do not care a fig as they want the money from their club to keep coming in they rarely try very hard. for instance Bale jumped ship to go with spuds instead of Team GB.
 
it's just football. Andy Murray and Roger Federer have thrown themselves into the Olympics; the way Murray celebrated when winning his semi was something else
 
Ad never even heard of half the players picked and they missed a trick not pickin Beckham imo. It's not an olympic sport like.

Definitely. Much rather see Ennis doing her stuff than watch Olympic Footy (This may apply to Premiership/FA Cup/Champions League/World Cup anarl ;))
 
I'm sure everyone will change their mind when the season starts, myself included, but it'd be nice to think that a few influential people in the game are thinking along the same lines.

Unfortunately, its not going to happen. Needs a boycott from fans or serious demonstrations before anything will get done. Needs to come from the top though, and while the muppets in control at FIFA and the FA are coining it in,it will never change!
 
Unfortunately, its not going to happen. Needs a boycott from fans or serious demonstrations before anything will get done. Needs to come from the top though, and while the muppets in control at FIFA and the FA are coining it in,it will never change!

I just wish the cricket wasn't on Sky so I could cancel the bugger.
 
Mind, there's a massive difference in the fans too. A lot of people go to games to spend 90 minutes facing the away fans, hurling abuse. When some fans applauded a great sporting act from a rival player (Henry), there was a week long inquest about it on here.

Sick of football in general.

exactly. massive amount of spoilt brats in the support these days. mind part of problem with some of our support is the amount of shite served up cynicism has become ingrained in some that they don't expect to ever really achieve anything.

but what has to change is the rewarding of players for achieving so little.

look at say Grant Leadbitter. Seems a good lad but what has he achieved? got a contract nowhere near winning anything yet will have earnt virtually enough already to retire for life if he wants to. Is that right? No.
 
exactly. massive amount of spoilt brats in the support these days. mind part of problem with some of our support is the amount of shite served up cynicism has become ingrained in some that they don't expect to ever really achieve anything.

but what has to change is the rewarding of players for achieving so little.

look at say Grant Leadbitter. Seems a good lad but what has he achieved? got a contract nowhere near winning anything yet will have earnt virtually enough already to retire for life if he wants to. Is that right? No.

Not sure why you are havin a go at grant like. Good, honest, hard-workin pro playin just below the peak level of his profession. :confused:
 
Agreed.

Compare them to the bloke who had to be helped out of his boat after winning silver in the rowing; he was dead on his feet. Could barely even speak and when he did he just said how he'd let everyone down, was heartbreaking.

Compare and contrast, a football player wouldve lit a cigar with a fifty while trying to bang some daft tart.
 
Yeah and when they attend the bread and butter competitions that makes up 99% of their competing history they give it all? Are you really that naive?
They all die to get into the competing circuits that offer money, The Diamond league are a prime example having compititors "missing" turning up for their country or just give a token performance to enhance their chances of a big payday in the league.

The only "true" olympic spirit I find is in really obscure competions I´m afraid.

The way the elite coaching is set up now in rowing, cycling etc, if they don't give their all in training (never mind 2 bit comps) they don't get in the team.

Turn it round the other way. How many footballers gave their all in the last World Cup or Euros. which is the pinnicale of their sport. I don't remember Rooney, Terry, Lampard, Gerrard etc crawling off the pitch at the end, the only image I have of them is moaning about everything, and blaming everything but their own performance.
 
I think we can all emphasise with the sentiment, but do you not think it comes down to individual perspective a bit? We've been a bit crap and treading water for a few years so football seems dull and full of overpaid wankers. Wages or cheating didn't enter my head though when Ji rounded Hart, and I doubt Man City fans - or any team 'on the up' - really care, they'll have the bug like we did with Keane, Reid and to a least extent O'Neill.

Cricket and rugby were supposedly gentlemans games with respect and pride til they got pissed on pedalos and chucked dwarves and you could probably show the 73 final or Roy Keane vs Juventus to a neutral and see a similar reaction. If the Olympics is the catalyst for change then brilliant, but it seems a bit reactionary to me
 
Agreed.

Compare them to the bloke who had to be helped out of his boat after winning silver in the rowing; he was dead on his feet. Could barely even speak and when he did he just said how he'd let everyone down, was heartbreaking.

Good post mate, Cant imagine the training / lifestyle sacrifices that those lads and lasses have gone through then look at arseholes refusing to warm up or happy to play in the reserves to see out a megabucks contract.
 
Mind, there's a massive difference in the fans too. A lot of people go to games to spend 90 minutes facing the away fans, hurling abuse. When some fans applauded a great sporting act from a rival player (Henry), there was a week long inquest about it on here.

Sick of football in general.

You're right mate,

IMO the public created the monster, Sky just facilitated it.
 
Its how we turn out at international level that pisses me off the most.

We've never looked like achieving anything since '66.

The rowers and the cyclists perform consistantly well and always show commitment and passion when competing for their country. They're also governed by highly organised and win orientated bodies.

Almost all the British competitors have upped their game.

What did the team do representing our national sport? We went out on penalties - again! - to South Korea.

Sad thing is I dont see it changing.
 
Not sure why you are havin a go at grant like. Good, honest, hard-workin pro playin just below the peak level of his profession. :confused:

i'm not having a go at him. good luck to the lad for all i care but an example of a player not even half way through his career that looks to have already reached its "peak".

plenty others could be named in very similar vein - Meyler, Campbell, Waghorn etc
 
Its how we turn out at international level that pisses me off the most.

We've never looked like achieving anything since '66.

The rowers and the cyclists perform consistantly well and always show commitment and passion when competing for their country. They're also governed by highly organised and win orientated bodies.

Almost all the British competitors have upped their game.

What did the team do representing our national sport? We went out on penalties - again! - to South Korea.

Sad thing is I dont see it changing.

I wouldnt worry about the Olympic Football team mate; no way were they the best the UK had to offer.

And its not a "proper" Olympic sport, along with many others.

And our WC team in '70 was actually a stronger team than in '66 and we looked a good bet in '90 ;), but I take your general point.
 
I think we can all emphasise with the sentiment, but do you not think it comes down to individual perspective a bit? We've been a bit crap and treading water for a few years so football seems dull and full of overpaid wankers. Wages or cheating didn't enter my head though when Ji rounded Hart, and I doubt Man City fans - or any team 'on the up' - really care, they'll have the bug like we did with Keane, Reid and to a least extent O'Neill.

Cricket and rugby were supposedly gentlemans games with respect and pride til they got pissed on pedalos and chucked dwarves and you could probably show the 73 final or Roy Keane vs Juventus to a neutral and see a similar reaction. If the Olympics is the catalyst for change then brilliant, but it seems a bit reactionary to me

This is the best post on this thread.

A thread posted on 'pure FOOTBALL' slating the game. It would interesting to see how interested the bandwagon era are at a nothing athletics meeting in 18 months time.

They won't be at that athletics meeting though, they'll be at the match moaning that we haven't broken the bank for a striker and paid him what he wants after we've lost to Stoke 2-1 at their place.

If you don't like it, don't go. Simple.

If I had the talent and could be a footballer I'd be taking it in while I could. That goes for everyone who goes to work too, everyone wants to earn the most they can.

People get a bee in the bonnet about footballers earning so much, but they're at the top of the tree whether you like it or not. They don't owe anybody anything in afraid. This is capitalism, everyone loves it when they're at the top of the tree but they don't when they're near the bottom.

I also doubt Ennis and Farah are slumming it in a council house. They also chose to compete and dedicate their lives to the sports they compete in, they weren't forced. They want to do it.

Let's not get all romantic because GB have done particularly well this time around, and lose sight of the facts.
 
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