The shitness of modern football

[Harry Squatter]

I know most of us laugh at Everton but one thing they do well is involvement in the local community and encourage younger fans to come and watch them. I've tried to get stuff off Liverpool for charity events and although they did eventually give me a signed shirt to auction I had to jump through hoops and meet about four different people before they reluctantly gave me anything. Contrast that to Everton who sent one to me within a matter of days and even organised events for us to bring our kids to.

 

Most o the Evertonians I know take their kids to the match whereas most of the lads I know who support Liverpool don't. The club would rather have Thomas Cook tourists than a younger generation of Liverpool fans passionate about their team.

[Tony Moanero]

Have always felt like this about going the match to be honest, along with night clubs and open air concerts, it's the least respected you'll ever be as a paying customer.

Have you never enjoyed attending football matches?

 

I used to live for going the game when I was in my teens/early twenties. I couldn't have cared less about shit facilities or the stewards being cuntish and stuff.

[Tony Moanero]

I know most of us laugh at Everton but one thing they do well is involvement in the local community and encourage younger fans to come and watch them. I've tried to get stuff off Liverpool for charity events and although they did eventually give me a signed shirt to auction I had to jump through hoops and meet about four different people before they reluctantly gave me anything. Contrast that to Everton who sent one to me within a matter of days and even organised events for us to bring our kids to.

 

Most o the Evertonians I know take their kids to the match whereas most of the lads I know who support Liverpool don't. The club would rather have Thomas Cook tourists than a younger generation of Liverpool fans passionate about their team.

Spot on.

[Section_31]

Have you never enjoyed attending football matches?

 

I used to live for going the game when I was in my teens/early twenties. I couldn't have cared less about shit facilities or the stewards being cuntish and stuff.

Yeah, I enjoy when I go, but never felt the desire to go religiously. I imagine in the 80s the facilities and the way you were treated was shit but it was cheap and working class, now the facilities and treatment is still shit but it's expensive and middle class.

[Pureblood]

£59 is astonishing for a game of football. My Reading '92 ticket cost less.

[Harry Squatter]

Final tickets have been a fucking rip off for years because they know fans are desperate to go. I paid £85 in 2001 for my FA Cup Final ticket. I was one of the first in the queue having got there very early yet all the £29, £59 and £72 ones had all been mysteriously sold.

[Kant]

£59 is astonishing for a game of football. My Reading '92 ticket cost less.

Good vintage, that.

I was there. Cobain in the wheelchair?

[BCM]

 

Modern football -  Where a bloody accountant gets front centre stage whilst Legends are put in the background.

 

Plenty of other things wrong in this pic, but il leave it at that.

[sir roger]

I think we need Doctor Zaf to check Brendan's blood pressure, a bit worrying when he is ruddier than Rowdy Yeats.

[Pureblood]

Good vintage, that.

I was there. Cobain in the wheelchair?

*high five*

[Tony Moanero]

I wasn't there.

[Jairzinho]

Me neither. Although in my defence I was only six. Looking at the line up from 92 and comparing it to this year's, I've heard of far more bands at the former.

[Coro]

 

Modern football -  Where a bloody accountant gets front centre stage whilst Legends are put in the background.

 

Plenty of other things wrong in this pic, but il leave it at that.

 

Look at the fucking state of that.

 

Oooooh but FSG, oooh my life is meaningless, I just need to belong, I'll eat all the shit they'll sell me. You know who you are , YOU CUNTS. Lap that up whilst I play golf off your heads.

[Paulie Dangerously]

The fact that this new stand will bring lots of revenue from corporate sponsors instead of lots of fans who've been on the waiting list for years.

[Dr Nowt]

I sometimes feel my interest in football is in it's death throes, but it does have that endless capacity to keep you at the table playing one last chip, just in case.

 

I barely watch anything other than our games now domestically, it's purely a club thing for me, which it doesn't appear I'll ever shake.  Most of the rest of it leaves me cold, whereas during teens and twenties I just devoured the lot.

[eeyore]

Supporting modern liverpool is like buying wrap after wrap of shit beak in your local, spending hundreds of pounds hoping the next one will be good.

 

But it never is, and just left with a shit aids hangover that you never properly recover from.

 

But you do it again next weekend.

[stringvest]

Getting very tedious nowadays.  Not much enjoyment in it.  

[scudger99]

Good vintage, that.

I was there. Cobain in the wheelchair?

Bastard.  I downloaded that Nirvana set very recently from a torrent site.  It looks like they rocked the place.  What was it like from an in the crowd perspective ?

[BCM]

I sometimes feel my interest in football is in it's death throes, but it does have that endless capacity to keep you at the table playing one last chip, just in case.

 

I barely watch anything other than our games now domestically, it's purely a club thing for me, which it doesn't appear I'll ever shake.  Most of the rest of it leaves me cold, whereas during teens and twenties I just devoured the lot.

 

Thats about my feelings at the moment. Disillusioned with the way football at the top is run.

I enjoyed watching that cup tie last night more than ive enjoyed any of our games this season

[Kant]

Bastard.  I downloaded that Nirvana set very recently from a torrent site.  It looks like they rocked the place.  What was it like from an in the crowd perspective ?

Yeah, they pretty much destroyed it.

I was quite far back, and they didn't have the screens that they use now, so the view wasn't all that great but...yeah. The place was packed out, I'd guess all the other tents were pretty much empty. A band at their peak.

I don't know what I'd have to do to get that kind of buzz nowadays *sob*

[scudger99]

I was lined up to see them when they came to the UK, but unfortunately Cobain had a small meeting with a shotgun and the rest is history.  I fucking loved that band too.

And I know what you mean about trying to find that buzz.  I found it last season, but that was the joyride.  This season is the resultant head on smash up.

[Kant]

Ok, I'm boasting a bit now but here goes...

I'd seen them at Reading '91 and thought they were ok but not really paid attention. (I had them down as a poor man's Mudhoney...how wrong was I?)

When they toured the UK after Nevermind I saw them at Birmingam Hummingbird. They played what I thought was a pretty standard-length set, it all went off, then they smashed up their kit and left. No encore. Brilliant gig, I had a great time down the front, etc. etc. Loved it. On the way out I overheard someone complaining that they hadn't played for long. Checked my watch and it had only been 45 mins. I genuinely had no idea.

Ah, memories.

[JohnnyH]

Football threads that end up talking about music. That's the shitness of modern football right there.

[Redder Lurtz]

Football threads that end up talking about music. That's the shitness of modern football right there.

 

GF of the FF. I'm outraged.

[Tony Moanero]

Getting very tedious nowadays.  Not much enjoyment in it.

 

It's gets even worse once you stop attending games.