Player and managers talking with their hand covering their mouth, it’s not espionage, it’s a game of football

MLS are playing the 10s after the board goes up to get off the pitch or the sub has to wait an extra minute then wait for the next stoppage to get on. Good rule.

Ditto, any player getting treatment must leave the pitch for minimum 2 minutes unless the injuring challenge resulted in a yellow. Cuts out the 'cramp' scheidt. (The team has the option to make a sub instead of waiting the 2 minutes)

The phrase ‘quarter back’.

When players "cadge" about 15 yards whilst taking a throw in and the ref just lets them carry on. Another one is when player use the last millimeter of the triangle at a corner to take a corner, how much advantage are they trying to gain ?

Pundits.

Most of them just repeat what other pundits have previously said despite it being a load of b*llocks, or just come out with sensationalist bullsh*t. There's very few good ones that have any genuine tactical insight for the viewer.

4 minutes of time is added on. 2 free kicks are awarded which take about 40 seconds each to take. A corner which takes about 20 seconds. A couple of subs for 30 seconds. Whistle blows at 93:58.

Stoppages of 5 mins or so because the refs wireless router on his arm has stopped working and some geek has to come running and sort him out

One of the biggest ones for me is that when a player knows he got the last touch of the ball and then still shouts and screams claiming if should be their throw in, corner ect.

Then when they are actually right they start crying like babies as the ref got it wrong.

Maybe if you didn't claim for every single stoppage the officials might belive u.

‘here comes the draught excluder’

I've never ever heard this?

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 9 seconds ago
‘here comes the draught excluder’

I've never ever heard this?
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Really? It’s in EVERY game

Guardiola’s non stop spitting

Surprised someone hasn’t mentioned it to him, he’s was being interviewed before by a female reporter and was actually rolling one round on the end of his tongue, disgusting

Yeah they say it all the time and have a little chuckle. I’m on board with that too, although I’ve seen you use the phrase quarter back which quite frankly, should be illegal.

Defenders celebrating blocking a cross cos it just hit them (Arsenal)

comment by Glen Bulb (U1449)
posted 4 minutes ago
Guardiola’s non stop spitting

Surprised someone hasn’t mentioned it to him, he’s was being interviewed before by a female reporter and was actually rolling one round on the end of his tongue, disgusting
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MAybe it was a mouth watering game?

comment by (K̇ash) - Welcome to Mo Trafford - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (U1108)
posted 58 seconds ago
Defenders celebrating blocking a cross cos it just hit them (Arsenal)
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Disasi took this to a different level, sure I saw him do a lap of honour once

Players yelping when they get tackled like they've just had their fingers slammed in a door (often followed by a miraculous recovery).

The general lack of shame from some/most footballers, behaving like utter wimps in front of millions of viewers.

In other sports if you acted like that your team mates would ridicule you, but they're all at it. Bunch of phannies!

The phrase 'A rare error/mistake by VVD' being trotted out by the commentator seemingly almost every game.

The amount of money in footy
Clubs having too much power
Rampant overhype on the likes of sky (almost never lives up to it)
The absolute piisss taking rip off costs of attending or viewing a pl game

comment by Robb Raygun (U22716)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 9 seconds ago
‘here comes the draught excluder’

I've never ever heard this?
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Really? It’s in EVERY game
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I just think it stupid they actually have someone lying down. How many FKs have been scored under the wall. It happens but none spring to mind, so rare it is.

"He got a touch on the ball so can't be foul/red card"

Slow motion VAR replays when football is not played in slow motion (unless watching England)

People not understanding the curvature of the ball, meaning it can overhang the line without touching it and still be on the line (England even thought they'd won a world cup because of their ignorance).

One thing that doesn’t annoy me though is the fact that England won a World Cup nearly 60 yrs ago and it’s STILL winding up generations of sweatys all these years later

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 21 minutes ago
One of the biggest ones for me is that when a player knows he got the last touch of the ball and then still shouts and screams claiming if should be their throw in, corner ect.

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This. Absolutely this. Just fᴜck off, you cᴜnt. And don't you dare complain next time an opponent wins a penalty with a dive.




Also, ex-footballers who've never been in the position of a goallkeeper, and pass their "'keeper should've done better" sentence upon watching the super-slow motion replay.

Also that Sky and the Daily Mail and others later did analysis on the England 1966 goal and faked computer graphics showing that it went in.

Some actual analysis showing it was at least 3 inches from being a goal:

https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~ian/wc66.html

Watch the side on clip as well. Pretty conclusive.

Here is a link to Sky lying:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/10119554/geoff-hursts-crucial-second-goal-in-the-world-cup-final-of-1966-should-not-have-been-awarded


It would be like Maradona being adamant that he did not handball it against England all his life. At least he admitted it.

Time for England to admit that it shouldn't have stood. We can all see the evidence.

Bit of a tangent. But anyway.

comment by Fabián Caballero (U1734)
posted 1 minute ago
Also that Sky and the Daily Mail and others later did analysis on the England 1966 goal and faked computer graphics showing that it went in.

Some actual analysis showing it was at least 3 inches from being a goal:

https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~ian/wc66.html

Watch the side on clip as well. Pretty conclusive.

Here is a link to Sky lying:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/10119554/geoff-hursts-crucial-second-goal-in-the-world-cup-final-of-1966-should-not-have-been-awarded


It would be like Maradona being adamant that he did not handball it against England all his life. At least he admitted it.

Time for England to admit that it shouldn't have stood. We can all see the evidence.

Bit of a tangent. But anyway.
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Not really. It's about things that annoy you in football. And this one clearly does.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 21 minutes ago
One of the biggest ones for me is that when a player knows he got the last touch of the ball and then still shouts and screams claiming if should be their throw in, corner ect.

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This. Absolutely this. Just fᴜck off, you cᴜnt. And don't you dare complain next time an opponent wins a penalty with a dive.




Also, ex-footballers who've never been in the position of a goallkeeper, and pass their "'keeper should've done better" sentence upon watching the super-slow motion replay.

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Had this in a work match against another company where the boy headed it out and said he didn't touch it cos the ref was miles away so couldn't tell but I was next to him and could clearly he headed it. Made me want to tear his whole life apart. It's a cuunting friendly match between a bunch of amateurs. We don't have linesmen so we need to help out the ref with honesty. Wanted to take him down with some references to Hiitler and such and how this guy is one of the worst human beings ever to walk the earth but I get in trouble so I just called him a cheat.