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The shitness of modern football


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Matchday team lists on sites like BBC or Sky Sports putting the full name of players from places like Brazil, Portugal and Spain instead of what that player is usually known by. If you hover over the name, a little box pops up with the more familiar player name. If you named Fábio Henrique Tavares, most people won't have a clue who you are referring to, but say Fabinho and they'll probably know you're talking about the bandy-legging midfield dynamo at Liverpool.

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On 24/08/2019 at 03:25, Trumo said:

Matchday team lists on sites like BBC or Sky Sports putting the full name of players from places like Brazil, Portugal and Spain instead of what that player is usually known by. If you hover over the name, a little box pops up with the more familiar player name. If you named Fábio Henrique Tavares, most people won't have a clue who you are referring to, but say Fabinho and they'll probably know you're talking about the bandy-legging midfield dynamo at Liverpool.

The line ups in the Grauniad shit me. They show which substitutes came on and what time but don't give any indication of who came off. 14 a side matches?

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1 minute ago, Tj hooker said:

Hope the judge doubles it to 20 weeks if your that pissed get a cab home it's not like he couldn't afford it 

 

Self entitled twat mate, and Arrogant as the Judge put it. Like you say, hopefully his appeal bites him in the arse along with Mr Big. 

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On 23/08/2019 at 21:25, Trumo said:

Matchday team lists on sites like BBC or Sky Sports putting the full name of players from places like Brazil, Portugal and Spain instead of what that player is usually known by. If you hover over the name, a little box pops up with the more familiar player name. If you named Fábio Henrique Tavares, most people won't have a clue who you are referring to, but say Fabinho and they'll probably know you're talking about the bandy-legging midfield dynamo at Liverpool.

Haha 

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Official club accounts giving out shit online bantz. Whoever drew Barcelona in the group stages putting out that they’ll need to practice their corners, for example.

 

Obviously we’ll chuckle at the memory of what that’s referring to, but I’m noticing it more and more and it stinks of Paddy Power try-hard cuntery.

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7 hours ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Official club accounts giving out shit online bantz. Whoever drew Barcelona in the group stages putting out that they’ll need to practice their corners, for example.

 

Obviously we’ll chuckle at the memory of what that’s referring to, but I’m noticing it more and more and it stinks of Paddy Power try-hard cuntery.

Agreed. Hate all that shite.

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14 hours ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Official club accounts giving out shit online bantz. Whoever drew Barcelona in the group stages putting out that they’ll need to practice their corners, for example.

 

Obviously we’ll chuckle at the memory of what that’s referring to, but I’m noticing it more and more and it stinks of Paddy Power try-hard cuntery.

Corner taken quickly..Origi!!!!

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Fair play to Spurs for this. The prevalence of betting company sponsorships is really depressing and a fundamental element in the shitness of modern football. 

 

They need to have a unified message, though. Harry Kane is part of a campaign in Kenya where there's a massive gambling problem and a huge spike in suicides linked to gambling debts.

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14 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Have been surprised that he has been more even-minded than I expected , very complimentary to us last night , he's only a red Xmas tree away from being dead to GOT.

 

Imagine going for a pint with him, Shearer and Murphy though? 

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Two clear examples yesterday of away teams unnecessarily changing their kit. Watford and Norwich - both play in bright yellow for fucks sake - unless they’re playing each other or Wolves - why do they need to use their all-dark second kit to play Newcastle and West Ham respectively? So fucking cynical and clearly aimed at ‘selling’ yet more shirts. Premier League need to rule on this to prevent it. 

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14 hours ago, Doh'Nuts said:

Fair play to Spurs for this. The prevalence of betting company sponsorships is really depressing and a fundamental element in the shitness of modern football. 

 

They need to have a unified message, though. Harry Kane is part of a campaign in Kenya where there's a massive gambling problem and a huge spike in suicides linked to gambling debts.

 

Just looking at Harry Kane's face is enough to make people contemplate ending it all.

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52 minutes ago, Le Duan said:

Two clear examples yesterday of away teams unnecessarily changing their kit. Watford and Norwich - both play in bright yellow for fucks sake - unless they’re playing each other or Wolves - why do they need to use their all-dark second kit to play Newcastle and West Ham respectively? So fucking cynical and clearly aimed at ‘selling’ yet more shirts. Premier League need to rule on this to prevent it. 

 

In the case of Norwich, I can't see why they even need 3 kits given that their home kit barely clashes with any other team's kit. In the case of Watford, their home kit is a half-and-half (yellow and black) with black shorts, so would clash with Newcastle's black-and-white (mostly black) home kit. Watford away kit for this season is dark navy so would also clash, hence why they had to use their green away kit from last season.

 

But I agree with the crux of your point, of teams using away kits when there is no clash. We've been guilty of it in the past ourselves. I seem to recall us playing at Spurs wearing our black away kit a few years ago. It is nothing but a cynical ploy to sell more kits.

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On 23/08/2019 at 21:25, Trumo said:

Matchday team lists on sites like BBC or Sky Sports putting the full name of players from places like Brazil, Portugal and Spain instead of what that player is usually known by. If you hover over the name, a little box pops up with the more familiar player name. If you named Fábio Henrique Tavares, most people won't have a clue who you are referring to, but say Fabinho and they'll probably know you're talking about the bandy-legging midfield dynamo at Liverpool.

 

The Rome Derby finished 1-1, with Kolarov scoring a penalty for Roma and the equaliser coming from somebody called Romero Ancontel for Lazio. I'd never heard of him, yet when hovering over his name, up pops a caption box denoting him to be our former player Luis Alberto. Why not just put the name down as Luis Alberto since that is what he is known as?

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