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4 evil things in football.

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1. The fact that the rich clubs stay at the top of the league and the poor clubs stay at the bottom. Apart from the odd exception, it's just a case of spending your way to victory, and it feels quite pointless at times. I could imagine feeling a little bit underwhelmed being a Man City fan, for example. It would be nice to see your team succeed, but when it's just endless millions pumped into buying prima donna superstars, whats the point?

2. Wayne Rooney and players of his ilk who think they are bigger than any club they will ever play for and in doing so, disrespect the fans who pay their ludicrous wages.

3. Pundits who don't bother to do the most basic of research but take their mega-salaries for sitting on a sofa spurning endless clichés. Whilst I'm on the point of Pundits, i'll include Alan Shearer under this point, who is the most pointless moribund bore ever to grace my TV screen.

4. Corrupt agents, the likes of Jorge Mendes et al, who carve everything up to suit their own profit driven agendas and give nothing of any worth to the game.
 
1) The champions league (everything about it - most of the teams in it not being champions, the teams in it building bigger squads sucking up all the players who would previously been the best players in the mid table teams, the way its self perpetuating, the same teams being in it every year)
2) Seeding (euphamism for fixing) (Tory nonsense)
3) Teams with money buying all the other teams best young players then just sticking them on the bench
4) Any sort of "contact" being used as an excuse to go down.
 

Big team bias from referees

Sky dictating fixture changes

Manchester United

Fan's never seeing the long term picture for their club and demanding instant success. Also having no loyalty to player's and managers that have brought a lot of success to their club. Blame culture!
 
Entitlement and impatience would be the big ones for me.
Also the amount of money in football is to be frank absurd
 
Overpaid pundits saying "he'll be disappointed with that"

The Obstruction Rule alteration allowing defenders to block via arse/arms etc the attacker yards from the goal line to shepherd the ball out of play

Players feeling the cold and wearing gloves.....with short sleeved shirts ?????

Referees not taking charge of when players go down...and not stopping play so the onus seems to be on the opposition to kick the ball out.

Players who pretend re the above to break up opponents play.
 
Sky TV
The biased towards their chosen few media
Man United
The RS

Get rid of all of them and football and the world would be a better place.
 
1. He's got a right to go down.
2. Professional footballers who still shank balls high over the bar. Are they never taught to keep their knee over the ball?
3. Music when teams score.
4. 3rd place CL teams joining the EL.
 

1. People paying attention to pundits
2. Pundits
3. Puns
4. Gambling adverts on the shirts/hoardings/Ray Winstone's face
 
GrandOldTeam said:
1. Retrospective disciplinary action, and it's lack of consistency/bias.
2. Scapegoat/blame culture. An example. After every goal, commentators will instantly look for the 'at fault', rather than praise the goal. Over analysis. "If he was stood here, he wouldn't have scored..."
3. BBC Live Text Match Updates. "Sports Day" or whatever they call it.
4. 'Soccer Saturday' / 'Soccer AM' and the type of "pundit" it attracts - BANTZ/KAMMY all that crap.

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