Betfair POLL - Your biggest dislikes about football

I can't stand international football

I dislike blatant cheating - referees not enforcing defenders to be 10 yards from the ball at free-kicks.

I think I'm at the stage I dislike things like players getting booked for taking tops off, far too many free kicks ... it's as if tackles are becoming something you can't do

I hate International weeks.  What's the point?  Do it in the summer months only.

At the moment Mike fc uking Dean.

At the moment Mike fc uking Dean.

Yeah, International weeks, agree with that, especially when they are all friendly matches

All seater stadium kills the atmosphere.

i hate the bias in the game, i'd like refs to treat all players equally and not smile nicely as one of their favourites commits yet another fowl

when a ref treats 2 teams the same you often get a better game




cheating,.... id love to see players cited as in rugby, then bans of 4 weeks be common for cheating,
rising to being warned off sine die for repeated offenders

Jan 13, 2013 -- 4:23PM, A.H HUNTER esq. wrote:

All seater stadium kills the atmosphere.

Yeah, I have been to loads of stadiums and it's all the lower league matches with the better atmospheres

Jan 13, 2013 -- 4:21PM, Mr.Angry wrote:

I hate International weeks.

I HATE the prices that some of the clubs charge for you to get in ... far too expensive. Ive seen pies priced at £3 before, soft drinks at the same price !!

The fact that most match results are decided by prancing referee's

San Marino vs Ireland what a riveting encounter ... They should let the same 32 countries  contest the world cup.

Mike Dean !!!

I went to a Scotland v Australia friendly a few months ago, never been so bored in all my life at a game ... what a total waste of time

Diving only punished with a booking.

It should be a red and a free crack in the jaw from the opposing captain.

diving and cheatng

liverpool fc

same thing arnt they

I hate the amount of time that we lose when the ball is out of play. I have seen teams time wasting after 8 minutes. The wall being organised for free kicks is another time killer. There are too many to mention.

This is in effect robbing the fans of the actual entertainment they have payed for. There should now be a stop clock so that these overpaid primadonnas actually work a bit for our hard earned cash.

I hate how unpredictable it is at times. You can get a team odds on @ 1.84 to win yet draw or lose 0-1. Just pathetic

Jan 13, 2013 -- 4:21PM, Mr.Angry wrote:

I hate International weeks.

0-0s should get no points, only score draws. Teams going through the motions and settling for a draw on 70 minutes, pathetic. Andrew Mat would agree too.  Won't happen. That said, inane songs from moronic supporters and obscene chants from so-called grown men.

I love football

Diving, feigning injury, players trying to claim throw ins/corners etc when they know that they touched it last. Just general cheating really.

agree with smiley

fact clubs get into trouble as pissed all money up against a wall on players then ask poor supporters to stick spare money in begging buckets - pompey etc

i dislike red cards and teams not scoring after opponents getting a red card

Jan 13, 2013 -- 4:26PM, Schalke 04 wrote:

I HATE the prices that some of the clubs charge for you to get in ... far too expensive. Ive seen pies priced at £3 before, soft drinks at the same price !!

ditto, it use to be the working class game but now it's a business, supporters are called customers.

dislike clubs being able to buy a player mid season as and when  , all dealings should be made close season imo


oh yeah 0 points for a 0-0 after yesterday 

Players treated like heroes amongst paying supporters that can barely string 2 passes together.

man utd end of

Far far to many Foreigner's,turns me right off.

The FA for starters.

joke organisation.

no club chairmen should be on the board fo the fa etc....talk about conflicts of interest.

imo the game needs a truly independant revamp.

so no "larger than life" figures can even dare try to influence them.

Bad sportsmanship. How can 1 ref watch 22 players who are all willing to and trying to cheat...whether by diving, shirt pulling etc.

the fa
diving
no technology
the latest plans for scottish football
no standing in the top flight

AlexFerguson trying toinfluence officials before matches and SKY pundits thinkinghe's clever

Feigning injury and time wasting is very annoying but off the field I'd say its ignorant know all ex pros spouting off as pundits.

The vast majority are cliche ridden guppys who make snap judgements on a week by week basis depending on the most recent performance.  The contradict themselves from sentence to sentence, offer little insight of tactical knowledge of the game and yet lay into managers and refs as if it was easy.  There a some honourable exceptions of course but in general the rent a quote culture of the modern media means our national game is commented on and analysed poorly compared to sports such as cricket and rugby.  Time for the broadcasters to raise their game.

Totally agree Berto, Stewart Robson being one of the rare exceptions.

Very eloquent Berto. Agree with what you've said totally. Often use the previews (and even reviews) to determine where there may be value once the sheep have been led away by these "experts".

Invisible snipers.

yes the ex-players who make it to a position of regular media employment are all the ones with the least to say but have a chummy way about them.  They are high-level bluffers : and the best can pick up £10k a week year in year out from the BBC.

even for telly their pay is ridiculous - if they were singing and dancing their arses of well maybe - but they're just 'some blokes having a chat' - and they get paid like their Tom Cruise

There are dozens of reasons why I no longer attend football matches but the main one is that I am forced to pay for a seat and then forced to stand if I want to see any of the game. Give people a choice for Gods sake, bring back terracing or force people to sit down. It must be safer for people to stand on a terrace than between rows of seats.

EVERYTHING IT STINKS

when bbc has golf on they often supply a rules expert who can keep the commentators informed of what is happening


last night , on match of the day, 2 highly paid experts told us kompany should not have been sent off, yet they showed replays of him jumping at the ball with both feet off the ground,which, we have previously been told, is a sending off offence


so if little johnny is playing 5 a side tonite and he jumps in 2 footed, as long as one foot is behind the other he will be ok ?


or perhaps these highly paid experts can start sticking to the rules, instead of making
up rules as they go along

The utter childishness of 95% of participants, spectators commentators and club officials.

The pomposity of their prononcements and their ill-informed rants.

The fact that some people still think these imbeciles are role-models.

The belief that 'passion' is an excuse for this childishness and worse, will trump tactical nous, athleticism, skill and reasoned debate.

....for starters.....

refs not watching match of the day and realising how easily fooled they are by drama queens.

tackling,can't do it nomore,the
old way.Ball winning tackles are
getting punished far too often.

All seater stadiums...

Agree with most of the above, especially illiterate ill-informed pundits who only get media jobs because they were "characters" during their playing days (eg, Merson, Savage, Collymore, Redknapp).

Cheating on so many levels make the game virtually unwatchable.

Players who think that doing a couple of hours training before pi$$ing off to a nightclub is sufficient to make them a professional sportsman.  A million miles away from the 24 hour-a-day athletes who get a fraction of the rewards or recognition in their pursuit of sporting excellence (eg, Tony McCoy, Johnny Wilkinson, Paula Radcliffe, Chris Hoy etc).

But the main reason I've only been to one club match in the past seven years (which again reminded me why I stopped going), is the fans.  Drunken, foul-mouthed, agressive neanderthals. Not all admittedly, but probably the majority are deeply unpleasant to have to travel with/sit next to.  Intimidating, menacing and a sense that they would break into violence at minimum provocation.  Fck 'em.

I hate:

Foreign owners who have no real interest in success on the field (I'm looking at you Stan )
Incompetent referees
No goal line technology
Exorbitant ticket prices (again, looking at my own club, although they are hardly alone)
The increased greed of footballers
Jamie redknapp

The lax enforcement of rules that rewards lumpen clods and punishes talent. There's this attitude that strict enforcement kills the game, which is totally backward. Enforce the laws and the players will learn to stop fouling. I'm sick of the phrase, "for me, there was nothing in that" from commentators. I'm fed up with seeing defenders beaten on the edge of the box and then chasing back, reaching out and killing the attackers momentum just enough for the defence to get back. That split second is the difference between being in on goal and the attack petering out. It's a no-brainer, it's illegal to use your arms to disrupt the opponent if you are not level and competing for space on the ball. Punish it, and you will get real football again. Niggly little fouls like that are endemic and they kill the game, yet any ref who applies the law is likely to get death threats.

The introduction of the word "Simulation" by spineless, fawning commentators and pundits to describe diving,  or as it is called in all other forms on earth "Cheating"

Players wages is my biggest dislike, absolutely boils my p1ss to see rank average players stealing a living, getting paid 30/40k a week. When I first started going to games in the 80's you could interact with players, they would live in the same street as you, go in the boozers and you could have a bit of crack on with them, these days footballers are so far out of touch with reality it's scary.
I long for the day when the football bubble bursts and SKY TV pull out and it will one day.

90% of the presenters on Talk****, has there ever been such a collection of imbeciles under one banner ?

Cheating by players and officials who allow it to go on because it has become normal, eg pulling shirts and obstruction with no intention to play the ball.

Add timewasting by using substitues in the last 5 minutes for no other reason but to interrupt play.

Free kicks in atacking areas sometimes takes over a minute to take due to wall not retreating 10 yards etc yet referees never seem to add time on for it.

Totally agree with treetop and fife.  Both relatively trivial but incredibly annoying.

The loans system. What other team sport would tolerate this nonsense ?

"Run that by me again. He plays for you but he's not your player ?"

Another gripe for me is watching grown men falling all over each other kissing and cuddling and dancing in the corner when one of them scores a goal. Let them celebrate by all means but let the opposition kick off straight away and score against only a couple of defenders and all that would soon stop !

teams like Manchester united throwing large fees at the 'smaller' premier league clubs to force a sale and making the premier league weaker as a result.

berbatov, RVP, Ferdinand, rooney, Valencia, smalling, jones, just to name a few in the current squad.

12.45 saturday kick offs and 1:30 sunday kick offs

oh and paul merson,takes "stealing a living" to a new level

i think most of the points have been covered, and i agree with many of them...

i will add,

referees not giving interviews to explain their decisions after matches, the managers have to do it, so why not the refs ???

penalty shootouts...if they must use them to decide games, then surely it should be 11 v 11, rather than just picking 5 each, after all, its a team game isnt it, not a 5 a side game...

the distribution of money in football from sky etc...why should there be such a discrepancy between the premier to league 2...especially when you think that southend and port vale, to name but 2 teams, nearly went out of business for owing such paltry sums around the 200k mark...yes, not even wayne rooneys weekly wage packet...

there are probably many more to add...

anyway, rant over

How easy it now is for sh!tty teams and players to play at Wembley. There should be only 5 ways to play at wembley. 1. Full International 2. FA Cup Final  3. League Cup Final 4. Charity Shield 5 Non League Cup Final.
None of this nonsense of Semi Finals and Play Offs here.

Fat blokes wearing football shirts.

Just wrong really.

Efisio.

Have to say i agree with that.

Wembley should be the Holy grail of football again.

Overs not hitting.

Needing one more goal in a match and because team A are winning they spend the last 5 mins running into the corner when they have ample opportunity to try and score another to make, not only the game safe, but to make my bet a winning one

i agree with most of these.

I hate Managers who can not come out and admit what the rest of the world has seen , a blatant dive for e.g or a bad tackle , I hate commentators like that pair of clowns at the Arsenal game on sunday who even after seeing the defender grab the forward , move his hands down to his middle and rugby tackle him , all in slow motion just so we can see for certain comes out with the classic line ' That's a controversial decision ' why is it? It would have been nice for them to actually explain why it was controversial.

I hate the fact that I can go see Iron Maiden perform for two hours in London with the best seats knowing it's going to be the best concert ever with support band for £50 yet get asked more to go see a random footie game which is just 'another' game on a all year round schedule it seems to be.

I hate the fact that footie is now especially in this country will never see the likes of the 70's league tables where you could have teams like derby coming through and winning the league or Villa who get a great squad and win or best of all Nott's Forest. Those days are long gone now , same clubs every year ( Man city I do appreciate ) but it took a billionaire to come in , the days of a brilliant squad developing and challenging is over.

I hate the fact that teams nowadays ( Villa you are a disgrace ) would sooner rest there players for a Cup semi final just to play them on a Sat league game because Sky have made the money to stay in the Premiership the be all and end all for 80% of the teams competing.

I hate the fact that ( Nasri you are a disgrace ) players can go down ( These are grown men don't forget ) and scream with pain etched onto there faces the like you should never see , the like that men who get limbs blown off in wars would never do , get up 20 secs later as if nothing has happened AND NOBODY BATS AN EYE! Nothing is said , nothing is done , nobody mentions it in interviews , it is never brought up at the interval , the players are never questioned NOTHING! as if it's the most natural thing in the world to do.

I hate the fact that teams nowadays ( Villa you are a disgrace ) would sooner rest there players for a Cup semi final just to play them on a Sat league game because Sky have made the money to stay in the Premiership the be all and end all for 80% of the teams competing.
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That was the best possible side we could put out.

Sorry Villa fan lol my humble apologies then , the statement stands but Villa needs removing from the parentesis

i'm all for players earning millions ,even billions  ..... but you have to remember  if you don't have that system then you need to reduce their pay and also music moguls,film stars,rock singers, directors, blah  blah and at the same time hike up the salaries of toilet attendants ,refuse collectors and road workers .

I dislike money grabbing mercenaries & cheats so my dislike of the premiership probably stands at around 70% at the mo

pumpy , the rules could be changed regarding transfers ...which i think would be beneficial ,it's certainly ridiculous at the moment how billionaires can just buy a club .... a bit like playing monopoly without the dice throwing .#

it does say one thing about how good Fergie is as a manager though

I can't stand the way both linesmen sprint towards the ref at half time to 'protect him'.

when me bets go down.

1. pretending to be fouled
2. pretending to be injured
3. time wasting tactics such as bringing on subs in injury time

all of the above three have for me totally ruined the game of football

overpriced tickets, overpaid players, hooliganism, cheating players, perfectly good goals being disallowed, silly international rules (ie poles playing for germany, brazilains playing for croatia, spaniards trying to get into the england team etc), managers who see everything the other team does wrong but is always looking the other way when one of his team commits a foul, players making **** / sexpests of themselves in nightclubs etc. theres plenty to dislike about football

my biggest dislike is people snubbing their home town team to support man u even though they where born and bred 500 miles away from manchester