What's Grinding Your Gears - Football Edition

[dontcallme]

Commentator “He’s been clever there.”

You mean he cheated. He jumped on the floor with minimal/no contact and got a pen.

It might be intelligent but maybe you should be focusing on the cheating aspect more.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Commentator “He’s been clever there.”

You mean he cheated. He jumped on the floor with minimal/no contact and got a pen.

It might be intelligent but maybe you should be focusing on the cheating aspect more.

I hate how cheating has recently been labelled as "sithousery" and "part of the game." Football is a sport, and its the opposite of sporting.

 

[Gb160]

I hate how cheating has recently been labelled as "sithousery" and "part of the game." Football is a sport, and its the opposite of sporting.

I’m with you about cheating, but I think shithousery is a different thing.
It’s more winding the oppo up and provoking a reaction, straddling the line between cheating/not cheating, without actually crossing it.

I quite like shithousery (when it’s our players doing it)
But diving and feigning contact is cheating and it’s shitty.

 

[Japhet]

I hate how cheating has recently been labelled as "sithousery" and "part of the game." Football is a sport, and its the opposite of sporting.

It's been around forever and has become engrained. It seems that attackers can cheat but defenders can't which is a weird double standard. I remember Alex Ferguson describing Micky Thomas as 'a great little diver' and that was probably 40 years ago.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I’m with you about cheating, but I think shithousery is a different thing.
It’s more winding the oppo up and provoking a reaction, straddling the line between cheating/not cheating, without actually crossing it.

I quite like shithousery (when it’s our players doing it)
But diving and feigning contact is cheating and it’s shitty.

Nah, I don't like that either, and I'm never really comfortable with our players doing it either.

Just play the game.

 

[Gb160]

Nah, I don't like that either, and I'm never really comfortable with our players doing it either.

Just play the game.

pussyole.

 

[muppetman]

Pamela is a bit of a legend due to his shit-housing. Maddison moving the ball out of the corner was also a bit of it.

It’s good when it’s cheeky, it’s not good when it gets nasty.

Seen the autocorrect and I’m keeping it!

 

[muppetman]

I’m finding more and more of the site pretty much unusable.

Match day threads - grown men crying and wailing about everything - manager, ref, weather, choice of socks.

Transfer section - small children crying because they can’t have their latest shiny new toy.

Pretty much all of the Spurs content - angry children swearing and blaming Levy for pretty much everything. He’s somehow Schrödinger’s villain - both all powerful, but also totally useless.

There was a very, very brief moment of optimism which lasted right up until we lost a game. It’s all so exhausting and not fun in any way.

Yes, I know I’m not forced to read it, but I like reading about Spurs and seeing others opinions. However, the drowning of everything in vitriol and self pity is spoiling it for me.

 

[dontcallme]

I’m finding more and more of the site pretty much unusable.

Match day threads - grown men crying and wailing about everything - manager, ref, weather, choice of socks.

Transfer section - small children crying because they can’t have their latest shiny new toy.

Pretty much all of the Spurs content - angry children swearing and blaming Levy for pretty much everything. He’s somehow Schrödinger’s villain - both all powerful, but also totally useless.

There was a very, very brief moment of optimism which lasted right up until we lost a game. It’s all so exhausting and not fun in any way.

Yes, I know I’m not forced to read it, but I like reading about Spurs and seeing others opinions. However, the drowning of everything in vitriol and self pity is spoiling it for me.

Best advice is just to post in your own manner and ignore the drivel.

 

[spurmin]

I’m finding more and more of the site pretty much unusable.

Match day threads - grown men crying and wailing about everything - manager, ref, weather, choice of socks.

Transfer section - small children crying because they can’t have their latest shiny new toy.

Pretty much all of the Spurs content - angry children swearing and blaming Levy for pretty much everything. He’s somehow Schrödinger’s villain - both all powerful, but also totally useless.

There was a very, very brief moment of optimism which lasted right up until we lost a game. It’s all so exhausting and not fun in any way.

Yes, I know I’m not forced to read it, but I like reading about Spurs and seeing others opinions. However, the drowning of everything in vitriol and self pity is spoiling it for me.

You are not alone.
And just saying it was a draw.
We lost the penalty shoot out.

 

[spurmin]

Happy Deadline Day.
F.Off SKYSPORTS

 

[Timbo Tottenham]

Happy Deadline Day.
F.Off SKYSPORTS

You didn’t need the first line…

 

[dontcallme]

Just a random thought. Is there any other sport where the team committing the foul benefits?

Yesterday we saw excessive time wasting which the cheating team does because they benefit.

But better examples is teams fouling on purpose to break up play so they can stop a counter or regroup.

It’s so frustrating to watch.

 

[Tucker]

People shortening the word football to ball when describing the sport, and not simply the ball itself.

 

[muppetman]

People shortening the word football to ball when describing the sport, and not simply the ball itself.

Is this a thing? Not come across this myself.

 

[Tucker]

Is this a thing? Not come across this myself.

It’s creeping in amongst the football hipster fraternity. Saw it on tifo the other day, and even a couple of posters on here.

 

[PLTuck]

It’s creeping in amongst the football hipster fraternity. Saw it on tifo the other day, and even a couple of posters on here.

I sometimes long for the days in the local park where 2 working mens clubs teams were kicking the shit out of each other for 90 mins. The football was shit, the ref was crap, but at least there wasnt thousands of people trying to be content creators about it and being 'the apprentice' level wankers with buzzwords and coolspeak

That football hipsterism is even a thing is sad.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I sometimes long for the days in the local park where 2 working mens clubs teams were kicking the shit out of each other for 90 mins. The football was shit, the ref was crap, but at least there wasnt thousands of people trying to be content creators about it and being 'the apprentice' level wankers with buzzwords and coolspeak

That football hipsterism is even a thing is sad.

This is still a thing. Just step down from the Premier League wankfest and proper football is all still there.

 

[PLTuck]

This is still a thing. Just step down from the Premier League wankfest and proper football is all still there.

Gonna go watch Woking at some point this season. My lad does casual work in the burger van and bar so gets a discount.

And their new 3rd kit is niiiiiice.

 

[Tucker]

The quick cut hype videos that Sky put together for half time and full time where they cut from dodgy camera angles at slow speed to proper camera angles at high speed etc.

Who is this for? You can’t see the goals the action or anything really, it’s just a blur of images that tell you fuck all about the game.

I can almost understand it for the beginning of games, as like a hype thing, but even then it’s just visual noise.