Things that annoy you about football

- club shop / tickets office being closed after the match
- match day announcers who's balls haven't dropped (I'm not talking about takeover day there)
- match day announcers who can't use a mike properly (v Fleetwood)
- the fact you DON'T VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE PLAYER, you vote for your MAN OF THE MATCH
- The fact that the Barnsley FC app is called something different every week and only the app sore is mentioned
- The app itself that isn't intuitive and I still don't know if its Iphone only, if I have the wrong app, if I need to pay for Ifollow to vote or what
- The introductory statement about racist abuse appears not to sound grammatically correct (I might be wrong on that one)
- The fact that the club don't seem to do anything to encourage people from Wakefield, castleford and Pontefract to Oakwell (Note, I'm not becoming nudger and suggesting we become The Yorkshire Tykes)
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- "Stewards" who think they are "it" because they have an big yellow jacket, or their boss in an orange one. Southend, I'm looking at you.

 

• Fans who consistantly spell the names of their manager/players on social media.
• Diving/play acting
• Sky/BT Sports changing kick off times all the time
• Idiot fans hurling obscene abuse at players on social media just cos they lost.
  
• Agents
• Crap Refs and even worse pundits

god there is so much more to add too but those are the main ones.

 

Begging for money for clubs when they go to the **** (as we've had done for us, and Rotherham and Crystal Palace),when the money collected wouldn't even pay a player for a week.

 

- Dream Team not being repeated on Sky
- Soccer AM going ****
- Soccer Saturday not available on catchup (I know I'm sad, but I'd like to see how it unfolded had I not been at the match)
- Evening/easter/Christmas games not being on Quest / C5 / BBC or whoever owns the rights
- Hiding the highlights programme on Quest in the first place.

And to re-iterate Nathan's point
- Idiot fans hurling obscene abuse at players on social media just cos they lost.

 

The lack of days off.

 

And it means the opposition tends to throw more men forward, meaning you can break quickly on them and outnumber them.

 

The soccer Saturday studio. The pundits are all like chicks in a nest going feed me, feed me. I hate it when they out shout each other for sake of winning a corner.

 

Marking your man doesn't stop him running and jumping. You hope your defender beats the opposition player to the ball, but it's packing the area that stops him running and jumping, getting bodies in the way of where he starts and where he's running to.
They practice corner drills with fewer players in the box and more goals are scored.

 

Good point if you put less men forward you'd have more space.

 

- That contact immediately means foul... Especially when it gives a penalty. You can get a slight touch, not enough to knock over a toddler, but because there was contact and the player has gone down it's a foul...

- That 4 places are given for a champions league place. Teams now see 4th place as success, when in the past the champions get the champions league place and 2nd place had to qualify... That would mean that teams have to challenge more for it.

- Parachute payments.

 

Referees letting deliberate/professional fouls go unpunished.

 

Just a few gripes then, Tony? Have you considered another pastime

 

They are. I think the Dutch league winners automatically qualify as well. I think Ajax had to go through qualifiers as PSV won last season

 

Agree. Pinnock probably did his biggest sprint of the match in that moment. Imagine if he’d pulled his hamstring or like you say gone flying into a tackle, daft situation

 

One thing that annoys me is defenders constantly going to referees making diving gestures whenever the forwards gone over yet whenever they’re under pressure & feel the slightest touch or sometimes there’s no touch at all they flop to the floor & get a free kick 99% of the time. I love it on the very rare occasions when a ref just waves play on

 

Many have already been mentioned. I would go for......

Our home games never kicking off at 3 o clock. Saturday it was nearer five past.

Stock in the club shop running out so quickly. Replica and training kit didn't last long at all this year.

Stock not being on sale at the best possible time. The new kits and training gear should be out in the next fortnight so people can buy it for father's day and have a longer warm period to wear it before it gets cold again, which makes buying it more likely.

Rubbish players sticking to their contract thinking of money instead of game time (Jack Rodwell with Sunderland for example) but if a player is good they don't want to stick to their contract, they want to force a move.

Chants in the stands that are religious.

Time wasting. Saturday was annoying with Blackpool getting away with it all game and Davies being spoken to straight away.

Sold out away followings when there are thousands of empty seats elsewhere in a ground. We could have sold more for many games when this has happened such as Scunny, Posh and Bristol Rovers.

 

I do not normally leave early but when the Northern Rail strike was on I had to leave early to get a train to Sheffield and onwards back to Didcot. I missed Walsall's equaliser and Keiffer's winner against Southend. I am really pleased that the dispute has been settled.

 

Players “playing the man” with no chance of getting the ball - should be an immediate booking (but they’d rather book someone for taking his shirt off!)

10 yards that are paced out & are clearly 9 paces (& small ones)

If the throw in is taken further forward, it’s a foul throw- they’d stop doing it!

Wrestling players in the penalty area at corners - Kieffer & Ethan get it all the time! It’s a foul!

Blackpooil keeper time wasting- nowt said! Davies? Spoken to immediately (1 of the matches he got booked!) there are times when I get amused - players rolling around, then (when losing) suddenly acting like the worlds best ball boys for us

 

Usually followed by “he was entitled to go down”.