Can't stand it. But then I can't stand watching most sports.
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Anyone else really really really not appreciate football?
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I like it. Watch and play it. Well, attempt to play it. But accept that some don't like it. Different strokes for different folks. I think single speeds and 29ers are a bag'o'****, but plenty on here like them...
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I like watching football! I like watching most sports though (except Golf!)
My theory is blokes get into it so they have something to talk about down the pub. Have you noticed how those who follow it seem to know EVERY PLAYER from EVERY TEAM?? and how many goals they've scored and transfer movements over the past 10 years. It's bonkers.
...just like people who can name every model that 'X' mountain bike maker has produced - we're all sad in our own little ways!
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Glad my 2 lads don't partake. Rugby in this household. My youngest when age 7 did, briefly, join a local team and I took him to a tournament, it was the most dreadful experience of my entire life, childbirth pain was preferable. The majority of coaches and many of the parents were so aggressive and almost threatening the young lads in the teams. I withdrew my son from football after that, he was quite happy. It taught me plenty about a part of society I didn't want to belong. Primadonnas, the lot of them.
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coogan, you forgot road bikes!
Even though you own a fully panniered, muidguarded commuter OMG111WTF
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if a player earns £50,000 per week, or around £2.5m a year, at the moment his take-home pay is a shade under £30,000 per week, When the 50p tax rate came in, he will be around £4,000 per week worse off playing in England than in Spain, where there are no planned tax rises. these poor lads are putting there heart and sole into raising the profile of our country,there law abiding citizens. that thrive on family values work hard for a living. and don't go round rubbing it in peoples faces, they never seem above the law, and always show respect for there fellow man/woman. are you sure theres nothing to like about football.
but on a serious note as far as the government /tax man is concerned last years tax bill from 08/09 was around £117,000,000 million, factor into that all the members of the public paying at the gates and sky tv paid nearly £1.7billion for the tv rights for 5 yrs. the b.b.c paid over £120,000,000 just to show highlights the wage bill is expected to go past the £2billion mark, you then start to realise why football is everywhere,there is so much money in it/and so much has been invested,that its here to stay weather you and i like it or not.
its all about the green always has always will....
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over hyped, media and advertising controlled, fixed theater for the ITV watching, Icland "a tonne of sausage roles for £1" buying, muppets. A so called sport.
the whole thing is over rated, loved by people who have nothing else to look forward to. Take away the offside rule and put a wage cap sysem in place. lets have basketball scores....
Its a waste of time. A replacement for religion for people who have, nothing else to believe in other than a team miles way, while they moan about not getting a job cause of immigration and how england has gone to the dogs....
stereotype... yep got it in one... to the people who play it, 5-a-side and the like... good on em' at least they are enjoying themseles.
I blame ITV. they just keep pedaling that cr@p
twunts.
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cynic-al - Member
coogan, you forgot road bikes!Even though you own a fully panniered, muidguarded commuter OMG111WTF
That bike is teh awesum.
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It's utterly boring to watch imo. And seeing people shouting at a screen in a pub is weird.
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...just like people who can name every model that 'X' mountain bike maker has produced - we're all sad in our own little ways!
No it's not, we don't just hang around talking endlessly about the minutiae of it, we get out there and actually do the sport we love.Oh hang on a minute, I've made a very big assumption there haven't I?
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how would I know what your eyes look like I would need to be in front of you to have some idea of that.
Surely most people on here irde at least sometimes ....surelyPosted 2 years ago # -
I like football and mountain bikes. I dont care about the money the players make, they are the best at the worlds most poplular sport. Just like the best businessmen get rewarded so are they. I certainly wouldnt say no to their earnings. The pseudo-intellectual claptrap that a lot of people talk about "football losing it´s roots" and "football not being interesting due to the money in the game" is just jealousy I think.
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And seeing people shouting at a screen in a pub is weird.
Hmm
Emotionally repressed? Otherwise 100% heterosexual "you looking at me funny?" manly men who never cry or indeed have feelings, have a kiss and a cuddle and a bit of a cry all the time at a football game it seems.
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Releasing built up stress, between work, daily car commute and the boozer there's no chance for letting off some steam through exercise. (I know I get a bit nowty if I've not been riding) So for your stereotypical brit you've only really got road rage, closing time punch up or shouting at the telly.Posted 2 years ago # -
I love football. Get over it.
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Errr...... No not really, I don't let any thoughts like that cross my mind because I might think about footbal maybe 5 or 6 times a year when I can't avoid it. I'm not jealous of them 'cause they've not got anything I could be jealous about.
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I like watching football yet still manage to be a reasonably rounded human being.
Oh the horror!
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I have to say, in a way, I like football. it's a great game to play and can be brilliant to watch.
BUT
What I don't like it the average lifestyle and person that goes with it - Voilent, blinkered, dumb, beer swilling, sexist, racist, chavs with severe attitude problems in general.
I've tried it, decided it wasn't for me, and ducked out.
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What I don't like it the average lifestyle and person that goes with it - Voilent, blinkered, dumb, beer swilling, sexist, racist, chavs with severe attitude problems in general.
...was the bit i meant to post as well. Broad strokes, but seen some nasty stuff go down that i never witnessed following Tigers.
...well apart from on the field obviously
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its a just bit poo really
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yet still manage to be a reasonably rounded human being
spherical in fact :o)
I rate footy as way more interesting than curling, but you'd still have to pay me a lot of money to watch it.
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I like the reaction from people when you tell them that you don't like football. It's like you've told them you enjoy midget goat pron or eating your own faeces.
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It's like you've told them you enjoy midget goat pron or eating your own faeces.
to be fair they do sound like more fun
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played football for about 12 years until i ruptured my cruciate ligament about 2 years ago! watched every game that was on telly i knew all the stats then i got a mtb, well this is when it all changed Im now not as my dad used to say a "glory hunter" all I want to do is ride my bike,and if I watch anything now I prefer rugby! forgot all about football and it doesnt intrest me anymore,
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Peter Poddy + 1.
I like football, great to play and entertaining to watch. I went to Exeter City v Leeds a couple of weeks ago. A couple of lads with northern accents were strolling up the street, suddenly some guy comes running at them, punches one of them in the head then shouts for his mates to get the northern wa**ers. If the police hadn't turned up sharpish they would have probably got a right beating. Too many neanderthals.Posted 2 years ago # -
World Cup is OK
Prefer playing Sensible Soccer on the PC or SNES
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redthunder:
Prefer playing Sensible Soccer on the PC or SNES
How is the nineties?
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Too many neanderthals.
I believe the Neanderthals were very placid which is why wel killed them all
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CaptainFlashheart - Member
I'd happily see soccer banned
See what you've done I have to agree with the blue blood man now...Posted 2 years ago # -
LOL @ SFB, I'm still quite new on here and hadn't been pulled up yet, I had guessed it would be him or TJ first to spot any mistake I may make!
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What a dull place
the worldSTW would be if we all liked the same things.In many instances its nothing more than inverse snobbery. I can't wait for the World Cup - it's gonna be brilliant!
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@Jamie
Still the best football game out there
Better than Fifa x and PES y.
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22 overpaid men kicking a bag of wind about, living here in the usa everybody presumes that i like or care about soccer, as it so named over here,they just dont get the fact i no interest in watching sport of anysort on tv or talking about it
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Oi, leave roadbikes out of this cynical-Al.
Footy is ok, I would go to a match or start chanting like a chav blue army etc.
MOT'd or the cup games I might have in the background while doing some work.
Not everyone likes riding bikes either so all nobody gets bored.
Thank god not everyone likes riding.
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Can't stand football but am also one of those types for whom sitting watching sports equals to just a great amount of torture.
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