Now I'm not a football fan so maybe I just don't get it but I find the whole football transfer thing horrendous. It dominates any sport reporting and the amounts of money splashed about it truly astonishing. I read that whilst Spurs have got their £85,000,000 for Gareth Bale (who'll be on £300,000 A WEEK!!) they've spent £105,000,000 on new players themselves! It's all in such bad taste! Spain is up sh1t creek at the moment and yet a country in the depths of recession can have a 'business' that spends that amount of money whilst relying on peoples disposable income?! Surely the whole thing has got out of hand?!
Quite right, I find it all so utterly sickening and pointless. I used to enjoy M.O.D the FA Cup etc etc but the magic went out of the game a long time ago. It's just the same regurgitated cliche riddled nonsense that it was last year and the year before that ad infinitum .... For what it costs to go and see a (4th division) team for 90 minutes I can go and watch a whole weekends (bsb) bike racing. Pah, football, utter bollocks.
global price capping. then players go for the love. im not a huge football fan even though I used to play often
£300'000 a week Where the fuck do they get these figures from. In fact where do they get the cash from? £300'000 P/A would be more realistic
6 yr contract. Its obscene. Altho tbf its worse in the states for their sports, except I dont think hey do transfers, just pay the players that much more. But they use caps in many sports there now, based on team wage bills. also reported on the news the team whonfiishes bottom of the league will this year earn more (because of tv money) than the winners last year. Now I know why my Sky subs keep rocketing..
All down to the media - if they didn't have such a narrow focus on football, there wouldn't be the huge sums of money floating about to pay clubs and therefore players. My heart drops when any quiz section says "Sport", 'cos it's just going to be questions on football. I hoped that after the Olympics the medi1a's attention would stay somewhat broader, but I was wrong.
Support a championship team and keep it real. Premier league is nuts. I support Queen of the South. Awae the Doonhamers!! We're shite but at least it's real.
Well, at least you can afford to go to a match. I'd guess our whole club could be bought 10 times over with Bale money. And still have change for a fish supper for the entire Dumfries population.
Been saying it for years. Bunch of overpaid nancy boys feigning injury at any given chance which is basically cheating, all followed around by their celebrity wannabe WAG's (or is that slags?)... They also drive ugly cars. Why the press/news programmes give this sport so much coverage is what grinds my gears... I don't mind the sport at a national level, but cannot abide some of the disgusting spitting and bad behaviour from the players...
Its a tribal thing. It's much more to do with a sense of belonging to something and a definition of personal identity than it is to do with the game itself. I see that my team have so far failed to score in three matches, or 270 minutes. How totally tedious. The transfer fees are stupid, but then some of the clubs are big businesses with followers all around the globe in the most unlikely places (not ex-pats, then). They either balance their budgets, and it makes some sort of sense, or they are bankrolled by people who have so much money (Abramovich, Arabs) that they just don't care. I don't get worked up about it, but I am finding football increasingly boring. Seeing the Chelsea World All Stars versus the Bayern Munich World All Stars - do we really care? I find it hard to identify with any of the teams as they don't represent my nationality, let alone my locality. But for many people, it's important. If you have an existentialist outlook on life, nothing is really important, so the pointlessness of football is just a mirror of the pointlessness of existence.
I was really hoping Spurs would spunk £100m on players then Real Madrid would tell them they'd decided Bale was only worth £50m and they wouldn't pay any more than that. I doubt if they had £100m lying around in loose change so they'd have been looking at a World of pain and no new stadium.
I'm a Palace fan nuff said We are always broke . Trying to get a match ticket now unless you have a season ticket is a joke
That't the irony. Not only do you have to pay £££££, but they won't even let you do it half the time. It must have been the late 70s, possibly early 80s, I happened to be mooching around London (I'd gone up just for an afternoon's and evening's stroll around with no fixed plans) and I found myself outside Stanford Bridge (wasn't expecting that as I didn't know where it was), just as they were about to play Tottenham. I'd never seen a football match live before, so I coughed up not much money and went in. I had a ticket for the stand, but had to get there via the terraces. It was too late though, they were rammed and I couldn't get through to my seat, so watched the match from the terrace anyway. Imagine just rocking up to a prem game now a couple of minutes before kick-off. And a London derby? Right.
No .. It's pees me off supported Palace since I was tiny . Used to go with my Dad. Try and go to games near here. Now premier league can't get a ticket only if you become members or have season ticket ! Ave season ticket for most clubs in premier and Champ div is over a grand!!! My son is an Arsenal supporter and junior member For me to take him I now have to Join and become an arsenal member !!! I don't even support Arsenal !!!!
I tried to gel with football in my formative years, but could never get on with it, so now just don't care about it at all. My Dad is much more a cricket/rugby fan, so we used to go to cricket a lot, which is probably why I like it. Its ironic thou as Dad has absolutely zero interest in motorsport, but Ive loved that from a very young age Whilst on the subject, what annoys me is when a football story makes it into the news headlines. By all means be the top 'sports' story, but save the space in the main bulletin for real f-ing news :smile:
Sports news should be separate from main news . Unless its Rooney's grab a granny and eat a pot noodle stories as we could all do with a laugh at the spud faced twat.
I still like watching football but I have an intense disliking for the egotistical twats that play it at the highest level. It's reached a point where I only watch a live game once or twice a season and prefer to go to watch rugby where even if opposing players have a little bit of handbags they still shake hands at the end of the game and there's no visible hatred between them.
