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Football is rubbish.
I don't watch much footie, as you know. The odd international, the occasional snippet of Champions' League. Last night there was a half hour desert in the tv schedule, and, too lazy to do anything else, I switched to ITV 2 and watched half an hour of Newcastle against Sporting Lisbon.
And it struck me, as it so often does when England play, how absolutely terrible most of the players are. When they're not cheating like mad, throwing themselves around like they've been stabbed with a serrated hunting knife that was tipped with poison, or stamping on each other's feet and ankles in hopes of terminating careers, when they're not doing all that, they've got absolutely no ability to play.
95% of the players spend the whole time trying to stop the 5% who can play. The vast majority have only theoretical control over the ball; they have no vision, no common sense, no accuracy with shot or pass. They fluff, they swoon, they scuff, they slice, throwing themselves on the floor feigning injury when they lose control of the ball.
I know the UEFA Vase isn't the toppermost of the poppermost, but let's face it, the others aren't much better. I'm no great fan of Alan Green, one of 5Live's main comment potatoes, but he does seem to appreciate, most of the time, how crap everybody is. Which is why he gets overexcited when someone actually scores a goal.
Players with some ability are overpraised, so that you come to expect miracles of them, when actually, they are only all right at what they do, and are surrounded by a sub-species of player, who barely knows which way he's supposed to be facing. Even then, some of the decent players have other flaws. Dennis Bergkamp, for example, is a nasty thug, whose frequent stone-faced stamping mars his game.
One of the things that always annoys me is the way the expert sunmmariser so often seems to be watching a different match. A blatant ankle stamp followed by a yellow card is greeted with, "the referee has over-reacted there. There was nothing wrong with that." It's like they don't know the rules. I hardly watch the game, but even I know that the horizontal tackle from behind that upends the player on the ball is illegal. I can only assume that the old lags in the summarising position are brain damaged from heading the ball.
Anyway, that's it for me. I am not going to waste any more half hours of my life watching this shit.
I don't watch much footie, as you know. The odd international, the occasional snippet of Champions' League. Last night there was a half hour desert in the tv schedule, and, too lazy to do anything else, I switched to ITV 2 and watched half an hour of Newcastle against Sporting Lisbon.
And it struck me, as it so often does when England play, how absolutely terrible most of the players are. When they're not cheating like mad, throwing themselves around like they've been stabbed with a serrated hunting knife that was tipped with poison, or stamping on each other's feet and ankles in hopes of terminating careers, when they're not doing all that, they've got absolutely no ability to play.
95% of the players spend the whole time trying to stop the 5% who can play. The vast majority have only theoretical control over the ball; they have no vision, no common sense, no accuracy with shot or pass. They fluff, they swoon, they scuff, they slice, throwing themselves on the floor feigning injury when they lose control of the ball.
I know the UEFA Vase isn't the toppermost of the poppermost, but let's face it, the others aren't much better. I'm no great fan of Alan Green, one of 5Live's main comment potatoes, but he does seem to appreciate, most of the time, how crap everybody is. Which is why he gets overexcited when someone actually scores a goal.
Players with some ability are overpraised, so that you come to expect miracles of them, when actually, they are only all right at what they do, and are surrounded by a sub-species of player, who barely knows which way he's supposed to be facing. Even then, some of the decent players have other flaws. Dennis Bergkamp, for example, is a nasty thug, whose frequent stone-faced stamping mars his game.
One of the things that always annoys me is the way the expert sunmmariser so often seems to be watching a different match. A blatant ankle stamp followed by a yellow card is greeted with, "the referee has over-reacted there. There was nothing wrong with that." It's like they don't know the rules. I hardly watch the game, but even I know that the horizontal tackle from behind that upends the player on the ball is illegal. I can only assume that the old lags in the summarising position are brain damaged from heading the ball.
Anyway, that's it for me. I am not going to waste any more half hours of my life watching this shit.
posted by Anonymous at
Friday, December 17, 2004
1 Comments:
what do you expect if you watch newcastle?
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roy, at 5:15 am
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