Your football pet hates

[Decky]

Games in hand. I hate seeing the league table when teams have played less than other teams.

[Frazzle]

You must hate the Women's Premier League.  I always laugh when I see it on SSN and some teams have played 11 games and other only 3.    But I guess they can't play in the rain?

 

Edit- Here we go:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/women/table/default.stm

 

 

[Decky]

I just went and got it too, its unbelievable

[Interpolic]

Time wasting and when commentators claim that time wasting is "part of the game" and "you can't blame them for it".  It's cheating.  I've no issue with players taking the ball to the corner flag as it is within the laws of the game, but taking forever to take a throw-in or free kick is blatant cheating.  Also each late substitution is supposed to add another 30 seconds to the time played, but this never ends up being the case.  Paul Jewel's teams were the kings of this rubbish.

[nobby_solano]

the away goals rule

 

inconsistent refereeing

 

teams that play in red and white stripes

 

penalty shoot outs involving england/nufc

 

the 'deluded geordie' stereotype

 

 

[matta]

players grabbing the ball when the go down

[Guest Stephen927]

The imaginary card.

[Ashley17]

Not mine but my Dad always goes mental when a player is standing to take a throw in then decides to give it to someone else, makes me laugh anyway

[Guest GAMMELL]

Transfer windows and the epic wankfest surrounding it thanks to SSN

Andy Grey

Jon Champion

Scouse k*nts

Grand slam sunday  

glory hunting bastart supoorters

deckyno 9

[Guest Roger Kint]

Pretty much everything in the first 7 posts are huge pet hates for me. Ashley17 your dad isnt alone, it really fucking grates on me when Guthrie(every bloody time) does it.

 

ITV Champions League games where its just a Man Utd wankathon and the whole media obsession with Liverpool and Benitez get on my tits too.

[Optimistic Nut]

Goalkeepers not being sent-off for handball when denying a goal from a backpass.

[Yorkie]

Short corners. Invariably, especially at our level, they pass it short and then that guy just crosses it anyway - only he's getting closed down and doesn't get enough accuracy on it. Fucking pointless.

[MKSC]

Defenders 'seeing the ball out'. Yeah, if you are by the goal line then fine, but don't start dancing around the ball 20 yards back stopping your opponent having a fair crack at the ball. It's obstruction and should be punished every time. You couldn't do it any other time but if your 'seeing it out' it's fine. On that note I also hate when referees don't give decisions in/around the box when it would blatantly be a free-kick if it was on the half way line. If it's a foul, it's a foul no matter where it takes place.

[Yorkie]

The typical Manu supporter.

[Frazzle]

Pretty much everything in the first 7 posts are huge pet hates for me. Ashley17 your dad isnt alone, it really f***ing grates on me when Guthrie(every bloody time) does it.

 

ITV Champions League games where its just a Man Utd wankathon and the whole media obsession with Liverpool and Benitez get on my tits too.

 

I hate the English bias as well.  Before the CL final the media were constantly talking up Man U saying Barcelona had no chance and we obviously know what happened...

 

Then afterwards the excuses came out and everyone was saying 'well what if Man U had scored in the first ten minutes they dominated?' as if they'd be saying that if it was the other way around.  

[Ash]

Nicky Butt.

[Decky]

deckyno 9

 

I was genuinely shocked to see that in there

[Interpolic]

Fans of top 4 clubs having more right to an opinion than fans of all the others.

[MW]

Player laying off a free kick, giving the oppo time to close the ball down, always pisses me off it hardly makes any difference as well

[Northerngimp]

MOTD commentry

 

 

[Darth Crooks]

Spurs

[Guest Chubby Jason]

Redknapp, Phil Brown, Mark Hughes, Fat Sam, Robbie Keane, Carragher, Fergie, Christiano Ronaldo. Also the way players are allowed to tell referees to "fuck off" and it's just accepted and laughed off. No wonder the standard of refereeing is so low topday. The pool of potential ref's to choose from must be limited, who on earth would want to go into a career when you get a bunch of arseholes with a mental age of 7 (being generous) swearing in your face and telling you you're "shit"? Then you get to watch them do it again on a Satuday night on MotD with your wife and kids.

 

Shameful.

[MW]

Redknapp, Phil Brown, Mark Hughes, Fat Sam, Robbie Keane, Carragher, Fergie, Christiano Ronaldo. Also the way players are allowed to tell referees to "fuck off" and it's just accepted and laughed off. No wonder the standard of refereeing is so low topday. The pool of potential ref's to choose from must be limited, who on earth would want to go into a career when you get a bunch of arseholes with a mental age of 7 (being generous) swearing in your face and telling you you're "shit"? Then you get to watch them do it again on a Satuday night on MotD with your wife and kids.

 

Shameful.

 

To be fair, sometimes when I'm playing you can't help but get angry sometimes and just say something you don't necessarily mean but just comes out. I don't say 'fuck off' or 'your shit', just off the top of my head stuff like "are you fucking kidding?"

[Frazzle]

Rugby players seem to be able to hold their tongue so it can't be anything to do with passion.

[Darth Crooks]

Redknapp, Phil Brown, Mark Hughes, Fat Sam, Robbie Keane, Carragher, Fergie, Christiano Ronaldo. Also the way players are allowed to tell referees to "f*** off" and it's just accepted and laughed off. No wonder the standard of refereeing is so low topday. The pool of potential ref's to choose from must be limited, who on earth would want to go into a career when you get a bunch of arseholes with a mental age of 7 (being generous) swearing in your face and telling you you're "s***"? Then you get to watch them do it again on a Satuday night on MotD with your wife and kids.

 

Shameful.

 

To be fair, sometimes when I'm playing you can't help but get angry sometimes and just say something you don't necessarily mean but just comes out. I don't say 'f*** off' or 'your s***', just off the top of my head stuff like "are you f***ing kidding?"

 

Of course theres levels of it that require common sense to judge but the post made before is spot on, albeit a bit venomous. Other sports such as the rugby codes have rules where only the captain can speak to the ref about an issue and it works fine. Lot more respectful. The regular scenes you get of players crowding the referees screaming blue murder is an absolute disgrace imo. You fo get some shit decisions mind...