[Closed] Right that's it. I'm done with football.

Spurs fan?

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You don't have to watch a premier league team.

I love F1 but I can't/won't pay to go to an F1 race - I do go to lots of club meetings though where the costs are a lot lower and the racing is just as good or better.

Just go and support your local team. I went last week to watch Ramsbottom United get themselves to the dizzy heights of fifth in the Evo Stik Northern League.

The banter from all the old blokes around us was pure comedy gold, and it was 2 quid for pie and peas at half time 😀

OP wouldn't be ranting if Liverpool were anywhere near top.

I watch Western League for 6 quid .I get to see some quite good football and i`m in a crowd of 50 !

And you've only realised this today?

Watch the big boys on TV. Go and see the smaller teams live. Better all round. That and completely ignore the wags.

I gave up football in 2001, it's up there with stopping smoking as a life enhancing moment.

blame murdoch and his cronies ...they're the real pushers!

Sports channel subscription is benefits money, what's your problem?

blame murdoch and his cronies ...they're the real pushers!

The money that's paid to the PL clubs should keep prices down.
Murdoch may be guilty of many things but I reckon the clubs need to take the blame solely for turnstile prices

I'm with the OP.
It's only football and your team losing/England being knocked out of the World Cup isn't the end of the world.
I wonder how many big earning ptofessionals'd be glad to have a normal job that doesn't pay thousands, even if they don't play, like in the days before it became all about money and all corporate?

I still like football, even after today.

I am the same ,people go the game to talk about it on Monday morning !! And too many females at the game talking shite ...very disillusioned with the modern game and have been for a long time ,Anfield now is 45 quid a game not good

whats the problem with people spending their hard earned money.. I dont think that football fans are forced to go to matches. Simple case of supply and demand .. unlike the utility companies 🙂

If murdoch's cronies didnt pump that tv cash into the premier league and gave it to the poor in africa we wouldnt be seeing those bentlys in the car park

Watching football is pretty boring.. How players earn that kind of money is beyond me.
Paying to watch a football match is as mystifying as why people go to church.

Paying to watch a football match is as mystifying as why people go to church.

I pay to go to church.

Sunderland fan??? 😆

The decision to turn your back on football's much easier if you're 10 years old and your dad's trying to get you to go to Tynecastle every week. Sticking with the church metaphor, it's a [i]bit[/i] like that except with cthulhu worshippers' weekly torture and sacrifice sessions.

My coupon came up today so I love football. ask me next Saturday you might get a different answer though

Never got this country's seeming obsession with football, it's not like the national team's ever been any good and at the end of the day it's only a game, so why do so many media sources insist on constantly forcing upon every member of society as if it's something to be worshipped?

I just don't understand. Is it some form of replacement tribalism? Might explain why so many football fans appear to have just fallen out of a cave....

Like here fans are a cross section of society and for every Camus we have a Pinkster

Forgive us as I forgive the MTB community

Dundee United home game £20-£25 ticket
Last time I was at the Nou Camp 11 euro.
Seriousy, how does that work?

People in Spain generally earn 1000-1200 euro a month and the average wage in UK is probably a bit more.

I often have this at work, (prisoner)'which team do you support Mr G?', (me)'None, a can't stand the game, it bores me to tears & I hate whinging overpaid footballers, bunch of nancies', (prisoner) 'so who do you think will win this weekend between A & B?' (me) '**** off, I don't give a toss', (prisoner) 'I know but A have got X back after injury & are probably favourites' (me) gets extendable baton out & pulverises prisoner to death. Well not really but I want to.
One reason my wife loves me is cos I hate football.

What do those who don't like Apple devices or football have in common?

They just luuurrrve telling everyone about it.

[i]They just luuurrrve telling everyone about it.[/i]

It's a forum, this stuff happens from time to time.

The sooner it's stamped out the better.

Jamie, one could equally posit the following;

What do those who like Apple devices or football have in common?

They just luuurrrve telling everyone about it.

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Having spent some time in Scumpton on Solent, I do have a soft spot for the Saints, so assumed this was a thread about their marvellous victory. Hell, I even went out and joined in the party when they beat a team playing in grey some years ago...!

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Fat Matt FTW!

They just luuurrrve telling everyone about it.

No, just don't want to hear about it all the damn time. Football is football, if we're being generous it's sport, it isn't news and it isn't important.

I hate how you're treated as an ignorant out cast if you don't like football...

I don't like it, its boring (IMO), and you can't talk me into liking it! get over it!

I'm also baffled why football players get paid so much.

Players get paid a lot because an awful lot of the world love it and pay to watch it. There really arent that many pro players and they are the ones people want to see, not the owners etc.

I also hate the prevailing opinion on here that if you like football you are some sort of neanderthal.

No, just don't want to hear about it all the damn time. Football is football, if we're being generous it's sport, it isn't news and it isn't important.

You see the big match?

What do those who like Apple devices or football have in common?

They just luuurrrve telling everyone about it.

Go into any Apple thread, there will be [s]mikewsmith[/s] someone saying they don't like Apple. Go into any football thread, of which there only a few, and you'll have the same. Yet in any Android/PC/Rugby thread you never see anything analogous.

Just seems odd.

Mackem - Member

if you like football you are some sort of Neanderthal.

Jamie seems to use photoshop exceptionally well for someone with sore knuckles and types with his hunting club

Hmmmm, pretty obvious troll, or should I say 'trailing leg' a la Gareth Bale.

The premier league (small 'p' and small 'l' intentionally) is a circus. Over-hyped crap in the papers and broadcast media, imbeciles earning millions every year and thinking it gives them the right to be heard, 'professional' sportsmen who act hard but spend their time rolling around like girls trying to get their fellow professionals sent off, silly haircuts, managers defending the indefensible because the players' agents have them over a barrel etc etc.

Thankfully I can look at this with the detachment of a bemused bystander because I don't really give a toss about soccer. Yep, that's right, SOCCER!

The opium of the masses? Yes, probably, but that doesn't make it good!

Each new 'story' is a living insult to the ordinary fan. It was said that the lottery was a tax on stupidity, well I think we can add soccer season tickets to that list.

My preferred sport is cricket. You don't get prima donna flouncers in that game, oh, bugger, hang on a minute..........

Jamie - Freeloader!

You see the big match?

The fing about Arsenal is, they'll always try and walk it in

Yet in any Android/PC/Rugby thread you never see anything analogous.

Rugby is a ****ing stupid sport.

I've just watched the Southampton game on MOTD. You'd be hard pushed to say that wasn't entertaining.

Watched the arsenal game too, and Chelski and City winning. but we all have to make sacrifices.

Fingers crossed West Brom don't put five past us Monday night

Fingers crossed we put 6 past them you mean ....its the LvG way

Watched the arsenal game too

My condolences.

I've just watched the Southampton game on MOTD. You'd be hard pushed to say that wasn't entertaining.

That depends on if you enjoy watching footy or not shirley?

That depends on if you enjoy watching footy or not shirley?

Earlier, I may have agreed with you.

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Don't suppose anyone lives near that nice Mister Branson do they? If so there's a shiny fivepence with your name on it if you'll poop down his chimney. The first saints match I've not streamed in ages, all thanks to virgin slowing to 90s dial-up speeds for most of the day, and this happens.

Goddamn you for denying me stolen football Branson, goddamn you.

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No, just don't want to hear about it all the damn time

it was 2 quid for pie and peas at half time

Blimey! Last time I went to a game a pie was 45p & bovril was 15p!
Trevor Francis was playing for us at St Andrews through