What's Grinding Your Gears - Football Edition

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Defending players who run into the back of the player (who is going nowhere with the ball), pushing him over and then being shocked when they concede a free kick.

Sissoko was probably the most guilty culprit, but it happens all of the fucking time and I just don't understand how players haven't learned to stop pushing players in the back. Really winds me up.

Unpopular opinion time.

This is something Hojbjerg does quite frequently & looks totally bemused every bloody time.

 

[Spurslove]

Really, something needs to be done to stop the blatant time-wasting tactics by whichever team is ahead in the last few minutes of the match. Guaranteed, a member of the team in front is going to go down complaining of cramp in the 85th-89th minute and then the manager of the team in front is going to introduce any number of subs in injury time, one by one and usually, a player on the other side of the pitch has to come off and usually walks off slowly...

It must infuriate the fans who pay a lot of good money to watch a match, particularly those fans of the teams behind with a few minutes to go.

I don't know what could be done to stop this form of cheating. Maybe stop teams making substitutions after 90 minutes...?

Maybe get players off the pitch for 'treatment' as soon as they go down with cramp, but let play continue while they're off? Yeah, I think that would put a stop to it.

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[Trix]

Players pointing to the ball after clearly scything through an opponent to get to the ball.

And this is just as bad as diving for a freekick/pen imo. Both are effectively the same thing trying to con the referee into giving the decision incorrectly their way.

 

[Partizan]

Also players taking fucking forever to take a throw in when they're nowhere near the attacking third of the pitch. Just pick the damn ball up and get it back into play quickly before your teammates are all marked.

One related thing is the throw in taker only looking at targets across the byline, waiting forever for his teammate to find an inch of separation, when there's a cb in the center of the pitch with clear and total freedom to receive the ball under no pressure to do whatever he likes.

 

[Marty]

Defending players who run into the back of the player (who is going nowhere with the ball), pushing him over and then being shocked when they concede a free kick.

Sissoko was probably the most guilty culprit, but it happens all of the fucking time and I just don't understand how players haven't learned to stop pushing players in the back. Really winds me up.

Davinson Sanchez is also really bad for this.

 

[GioW]

Commentators shouting the wrong players name after scoring , realising but saying nothing.

It's actually not a big deal but it's like they're terrified of admitting it

 

[Gassin's finest]

Players pointing to the ball after clearly scything through an opponent to get to the ball.

 

[mr ashley]

The fact that a yellow card will never, ever get reviewed or rescinded

 

[riggi]

Players

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Davinson Sanchez is also really bad for this.

Well yeah but he's seemingly not blessed with intelligence.

I have always seen him as our very own Benjamin Buford Blue, better known as "Bubba", from Forrest Gump.

Bless him.

 

[Spurslove]

Managers who talk bollocks, refuse to answer straight questions with direct answers, and who are obviously evasive in press conferences.

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[Spurslove]

"Apologies for any bad language you may have heard".

****.

Whenever I hear a commentator apologise for any bad language, I feel like asking 'what did he say' hoping the answer would be 'He told him to fuck off. OH SHIT. Sorry..."!

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[TheChosenOne]

I'd like a hawkeye type detector on the sides on the pitch so that when a ball goes out it can identify where the ball exactly exited the playing field, not 10 metres up the line and the team takes another sneaky run up plus switching player for the throw in grabbing another 5/10m

Aim a laser at that exit point and I will be happy.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

I'd like a hawkeye type detector on the sides on the pitch so that when a ball goes out it can identify where the ball exactly exited the playing field, not 10 metres up the line and the team takes another sneaky run up plus switching player for the throw in grabbing another 5/10m

Aim a laser at that exit point and I will be happy.

 

[easley91]

Referee's not giving bookings for fouls that are certain card offences, just because it's early in the game.

Adding to this fouls that would be given outside the box but not in. Shouldn't matter where the offence has taken place.

 

[easley91]

VAR not being able to review goal kicks and corners or throw ins.

Players moving up the pitch when taking a throw in, while the ref only picks up on it a couple times and lets it go the rest of the game.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

VAR not being able to review goal kicks and corners or throw ins.

Players moving up the pitch when taking a throw in, while the ref only picks up on it a couple times and lets it go the rest of the game.

I think we need to be careful with overuse of VAR but I see where you're coming from.

Something I've always been suspicious of is when a 'keeper goes for a long ball (from his hands). So often in almost creating they've travelled outside of the box before actually letting go of the ball.

 

[PLTuck]

Qatar 22.

I wish the big football nations would have the bollocks to boycott it.

 

[Spurslove]

Qatar 22.

I wish the big football nations would have the bollocks to boycott it.

Never mind boycotting it, the whole thing should have been scrapped as soon as it was discovered that Qatar had won the World Cup bid due to a corrupted process orchestrated by Blatter and the other crooks who ran FIFA at the time.

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[Marty]

Qatar 22.

I wish the big football nations would have the bollocks to boycott it.

Never mind boycotting it, the whole thing should have been scrapped as soon as it was discovered that Qatar had won the World Cup bid due to a corrupted process orchestrated by Blatter and the other crooks who ran FIFA at the time.

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FIFA were even handed a get out of jail free card when Qatar went "whoopsie, we can't host a summer tournament as agreed in the contract, we're going to have to move it OK sorry bye". That was their chance to stop the madness by arguing breach of contract, and yet they did nothing.