Footballers are pricks


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Just wanted to say I couldn’t agree more with the op, been thinking exactly the same myself over the past few days and it’s good to see so many people agreeing.
The sheer amount of them that just don’t try during a game is disgusting these days. when I finish playing on a Sunday I can barely walk off that pitch and I do it for nowt, but I like to point to our Olympian James Mclean , could be a hero this year if his attitude remains the same I can’t remember the last time I seen a man work so hard and give his all for a team … John Kay , Kevin Ball maybe but neither had his talent.
 
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.

I have to say I agree with the majority on here and wholy agree with your statement of if you dont like it dont go.

My passion over the last few years has dwindled so much that after watching those two rowers say they had failed by finishing second and dying on their arses in tears and being helped from their boat by no other than a true legend Sir Steve Redgrave, I made concious decision that i will no longer be paying to watch a football game again and cancelled my Sky Sports.

At a family function last night i must have spoken to 20-30 people who uttered the very words that the majority are speaking on this thread, could the olympics be the begining of the end for our overpaid egotistical, self centered, inconsiderate footballers who are self imploding and cant even play together without wanting to drag fellow proffesionals names through the dirt.

Rant over, goodbye football im now an armchair supporter my money will be better spent from this day forward.

PS: Thanks to the OP for a great thread.
 
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I have to say I agree with the majority on here and wholy agree with your statement of if you dont like it dont go.

My passion over the last few years has dwindled so much that after watching those two rowers say they had failed by finishing second and dying on their arses in tears and being helped from their boat by no other than a true legend Sir Steve Redgrave, I made concious decision that i will no longer be paying to watch a football game again and cancelled my Sky Sports.

At a family function last night i must have spoken to 20-30 people who uttered the very words that the majority are speaking on this thread, could the olympics be the begining of the end for our overpaid egotistical, self centered, inconsiderate footballers who are self imploding and cant even play together without wanting to drag fellow proffesionals names through the dirt.

Rant over, goodbye football im now an armchair supporter my money will be better spent from this day forward.

PS: Thanks to the OP for a great thread.

You mean that you will not spend anything of course..Because I´m sure that you will not turn up watching any athletics competition eh?
Admit that you are just looking for an excuse to stop going to SoL without being branded a quitter, because you have found a "just reason"
Or (heaven forbid) does it strike you that there are more entertaining teams to watch from your famous armchair mentioned above?
 
You can't compare them as they don't hold up as a comparison.

It's all relative from sport to sport.

It would be interesting to see how these other sportsmen would react if they were followed all day, every day in the build up to the Olympics for four years.

Every race built up, broadcast live, analysed by 5 TV channels, repeated 3 times a week in highlights, every national paper discussing it on the back pages.

Then having you personal and private life analysed during your down time.

Criticised for every mistake, put on a pedestal at any slight success.

Of course you can compare, behaviour is a simple choice and some footballers choose correctly, footballers above all behave like spoilt f***ing children and flaunt there wealth, show petulance on the field of play day in day out....they are adults.
Those footballers that behave with dignity and class show it can be done - but the spoilt petulant me, me, me culture seems fine from the likes of yourself.

The likes of Wiggins, Hoy, Redgrave, farah ( name any of the medalists ) are worth a hundred footballers in terms of class, dignity and commitment.

I will still go and see the lads, support and cheer, get pissed with my mates- but I will never put them on a pedestal with some of the olympians.

But like a footballer would give a fuck, not there agenda;)
 
You mean that you will not spend anything of course..Because I´m sure that you will not turn up watching any athletics competition eh?
Admit that you are just looking for an excuse to stop going to SoL without being branded a quitter, because you have found a "just reason"
Or (heaven forbid) does it strike you that there are more entertaining teams to watch from your famous armchair mentioned above?

To the contrary my dear friend, a quitter I am not just fed up with the so called proffesional footballers attitude, should things change i may contemplate coming back or go watch Hartlepool, you will notice that ive also cancelled my Sky Sports package.

At my age i dont need a reason to quit the SoL indeed Sunderland seem to be one of the better clubs when it comes to management of players; however, what Gyan and Bent did to the club was poor, i doubt i will be watching much football at all and if i do it will be in the comfort of my local Social Club supping decent pints out of a nice clean glass.
 
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.

Totally agree, but you missed out ability.
 
compare the rowers who literally nearly collapsed with exaustion and the footballers who jog off without a care in the world and few false tears...

Olympians really highlight why people despise footballlers
 
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

It's nothing to do with being a Sunderland supporter-it's the recongnition that the modern game is fucked.

Even had Sunderland won the PL it would be true that PL players are grossly overpaid, that they don't train as hard and give their all for their cause, that the majority sound petulant and removed from normal life when away from the pitch, that they will use more or less any form of gamesmanship to win advantages, get players sent off etc, that they frequently don't give their all on the pitch, that a game which was once the working person's sport now costs a fortune for anyone to follow, and that the governing bodies involved are corrput and will not make a stand on anything if it threatens their similalry obscene power base, even if that thing is something like racism.

I've long known these things were endemic in the game, but you get swept up and ignore it, becasue you think that for all it's bad, it must just be a sports thing, that it's modern sports which is sick, and football is just part of that. The last week has shown up that this simply isn't the case, and that for all that money is involved it hasn't consumed everything good about it, unlike football.
 
To the contrary my dear friend, a quitter I am not just fed up with the so called proffesional footballers attitude, should things change i may contemplate coming back or go watch Hartlepool, you will notice that ive also cancelled my Sky Sports package.

At my age i dont need a reason to quit the SoL indeed Sunderland seem to be one of the better clubs when it comes to management of players; however, what Gyan and Bent did to the club was poor, i doubt i will be watching much football at all and if i do it will be in the comfort of my local Social Club supping decent pints out of a nice clean glass.

But these much applauded olympic athletes will not benefit from your patronage in any way I take it?

But let me ask you a single question, if the footballing gods smile on SAFC this season and they reach Wembley to play Chelsea in the FA-Cup final after having trashed the mags 6-0 in the semis and a champions league place is in the bag after a tremendous season...and someone offered you a Wembley ticket.
Would you take it?

Think about it because it´s easy to stay away when your team is doing badly..
 
WASTID said:
interesting thread

footballers in this country now are paid far to much for achieving so little. been like that quite some time and a lot of people have lost the love for football because of it. But quite a number of supporters have been sucked in by the "money" aspect. FA Cup win or PL 13th place..... so many think the 13th is the better option because "there's so much money at stake".

How many posting on this thread have also been crying about the lack of signing so far as well? Seems to be lot of spoilt brats in the supporting side as well who think we should just buy buy buy no matter what the cost.

Accept football for what it is. Don't put the players on a pedestal unless they deliver achievements worth it.

Best reply I've read. Who gives a shit if we finish top 10? As long as I see everyone in the club acting to the best of their abilities I don't care where we finish. If its enough to win something then I'd be very proud indeed.
 
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.

Afew things:

A) You seem to suggest that noone has the right to complain becasue the footballers are taking all the money they can and anyone else would do the same. "Everyone wants to earn the most they can". I honestly don't think this is true. Everyone wants more money obviosuly but I think there are plenty people who would rather things were more balanced in society in terms of wealth, even if that is at the expense of them earning more than others. I know I would.

But then one of my major complaints was that modern football is transparently all about money and greed. I suppose if you are similalry motivated modern football won't bother you.

B) Nobody suggested Ennis and Farah were poor. If you want to look at it in terms of relative poverty the vast maority of people in the UK, even those who are counted as poor, have far more than most people in the world. It's not about money in absolute terms; that's the horrible thing about hyper capitalism, it turns the measure of someone into how much they have and what capital they have behind them. But relative to their achievement, how hard they have trained, and what they have done for their country and how they have made people feel, they are poor. They're saying that Ennis will have sponsorship deals amounting to 1 million. That's as much as Wayne Rooney gets paid in a month. He has never achieved anything as outstanding as a Gold at the olympics in the Heptalthon. Come this time next year he will have earned, from his club alone, let alone sponsorship details, twelve times as much as Ennis, and will not have achieved anything remotley comparable, and not worked as hard for it.

C) You say you don't want to lose sight of the facts. The facts are above. Modern football, Premier League football, has become utterly bastardised and the past week has made it transparently clear that you can have modern sports in a captilaist world without sacrificing integrity and effort and without distorting and rewarding averageness to a grotesque degree. I love football, I play it once a week and am working towards coaching a kid's team. I think it's an incredible game, and that more or less anyone of any shape, weight, size, race etc can play it and find their place. It should be the ultimate inclusive sport. Money has changed that. I'm not posting this becuase I'm feeling sentimental, and the majority I think aren't agreeing with me for the same reason; I'm posting this because I've seen crystal clear in the past week that high level football does not need to be the way it is, and I'm desperate that it dosen't affect the next generation. But I'm also hopeful that those who saw that last night will have noticed the same, and recognise that they can play football, and be good at it, without emulating today's top footballers, and take something from the attitude and application of the likes of Hoy and Ennis instead.

But these much applauded olympic athletes will not benefit from your patronage in any way I take it?

But let me ask you a single question, if the footballing gods smile on SAFC this season and they reach Wembley to play Chelsea in the FA-Cup final after having trashed the mags 6-0 in the semis and a champions league place is in the bag after a tremendous season...and someone offered you a Wembley ticket.
Would you take it?

Think about it because it´s easy to stay away when your team is doing badly..

I don't much about how it's structured but I don't think atheltcis is financially sourced in the same way as football, and as dependnant on crowd revenue as football. It would make sense that it wasn't, given it isn't structured as a spectator sport to the same degree, so abit of a facile argument maybe. But I am actually going to look into going down the Atheltics club and giving them my support after this Olympics, and I'm sure lots of others will do the same.

You don't need to tell any Sunderland supporter about how easy it is to stay away when doing badly. I don't think there is any other club in the country would be as well supported as us had they gone through what we have in the past decade. I have had no real footballing reason to support Sunderland for most of my 26 years, it's not about that for me. Sunderland are doing very well currently by our standards. Of course it must be hard for you to read all this attack on the monetarisation of the game given that it is the sole reason that your club has risen from a similar form of medicority to being one of the best in the world. If you don't defend it, you have no real reason to support City it would seem, your comments on our "doing badly" rather betrays that. A city fan would never have classed a midtable finish as "doing badly" before being bought out by the Sheikh. Like I say, the game has been distorted.
 
To sum it up, if Mo Farah had a footbllers mentallity he would have gone down (on probably all) of the occassions when the Eritreans clipped and pushed him, demanded they be thrown out of the race and something be done to protect him because he's so precious - but over all he would have won nowt!

Obviously he doesn't have a footballers mentallity so he stood up to it, won and has become a national hero with riches to come (hopefully).

Btw, did you see the American was bleeding from the knee when he finished, it's rough in there I tell ya.
 
Best reply I've read. Who gives a shit if we finish top 10? As long as I see everyone in the club acting to the best of their abilities I don't care where we finish. If its enough to win something then I'd be very proud indeed.

Fighting to finish as high as possible every season is what all clubs should do and at same time should be fighting to win the cups and to try compete in Europe.

Long term the prize money counts for nowt. When your dead, being a millionaire counts for nowt, but if you're a winner your name is down in the history books and remembered by many. So many players and supporters these days are oblivious to that.
 
To sum it up, if Mo Farah had a footbllers mentallity he would have gone down (on probably all) of the occassions when the Eritreans clipped and pushed him, demanded they be thrown out of the race and something be done to protect him because he's so precious - but over all he would have won nowt!

Obviously he doesn't have a footballers mentallity so he stood up to it, won and has become a national hero with riches to come (hopefully).

Btw, did you see the American was bleeding from the knee when he finished, it's rough in there I tell ya.

Don't be so simplistic man, it sounds stupid.
There is a fortune riding on every big football game and cheating is usually successful, that's why the players do it. If it wasn't to their advantage to dive all over the place like fannies they wouldn't do it.

Apparently Paul ince wouldn't talk to anyone who was not a footballer

So is he married to a burly centre half or a nippy winger?
 
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