Players picking up the ball after committing a foul. Should be an automatic booking every time.
Things about football that get you unreasonably annoyed…
- Thread starter sugar_kane
- Start date
The average amount of time a player remains on the floor after an average foul.
It doesn't make sense. Players in the past were hit with harder fouls and got up much quicker, but now even a clip is enough to keep someone down for a whole minute or two.
It's wholesale cheating and everyone is complicit.
It doesn't make sense. Players in the past were hit with harder fouls and got up much quicker, but now even a clip is enough to keep someone down for a whole minute or two.
It's wholesale cheating and everyone is complicit.
Goalkeepers falling over and lying down after catching the ball. This only happens when their team is winning.
A forward pushes a defender in one box, referee blows the whistle immediately, no doubt it's a free-kick. Carbon copy the same push in the other box by a defender on a forward and the referee waves it away as not enough contact. The whole commentator cliche "if it was anywhere else on the pitch it would be a penalty" to cover for referees bottling decisions.
When successful teams play long ball football it's heralded as showing their range, when teams do it against them it's cavemen tactics.
People who get so irate over which pundits are doing the game. If you don’t like them, don’t watch the pre/post match chat. I’ve never understood people who choose to sit and watch people they detest and then feel compelled to moan about them - just switch the channel 
I hate it when defenders do that hand up gesture during play to signal an offside and look to the linesman as they do it, to try and influence them. Always thought that was on par as players doing the card gesture towards the officials when they get fouled.
I see a difference - signaling offside that way may influence / irritate the attacking player a tiny bit which may be enough to make a slight mistake, so I see a valid grey zone to use it. Demanding cards after the game's paused is bs in 98% of the cases unless we're talking gross misjudgment by the ref.
That's a decent point.
You see players all the time trying to 'influence' officials decisions by claiming for offsides, throw ins, corners / goal kicks. And that's deemed perfectly fine and just a normal part of the game.
Yet when players do the same about free kicks, penalties, yellow / red cards it's deemed completely unacceptable, all that's wrong with the moden game, and the kind of things those players should be booked / sent off for instead, etc.
It shouldn't really matter whether some are bigger calls than others - it's whether players should be allowed to appeal their case to the officials in order to influence that decision? If they're not, then it all should be frowned upon and stopped; If it's deemed they are allowed (providing it doesn't cross into diseent), then they should be allowed to do it on those other decisions as well.
What is a USMNT?
When the ref awards a freekick and a player on the offending team stands in front of the ball, and the other team take it and kick the ball into him, and the ref then tells off the team who he awareded the freekick to?
Why is it up to the fouled team to make sure no one is in the way before they take the freekick, rather than the fouling team to get out of the way before the freekick is taken? Just shows the referee has a complete lack of understanding to which team they have just awarded an advantage to
Why is it up to the fouled team to make sure no one is in the way before they take the freekick, rather than the fouling team to get out of the way before the freekick is taken? Just shows the referee has a complete lack of understanding to which team they have just awarded an advantage to
United States Mens National Team.
When a referee stops a corner to remind players not to foul each other. It's ridiculous, either give the foul or don't. They all know the rules.
They don't do this for throws or goal kicks. Just a waste of time and like a poster said earlier, they just carry on doing the same thing anyway.
They don't do this for throws or goal kicks. Just a waste of time and like a poster said earlier, they just carry on doing the same thing anyway.
Nothing cringier than footballers acting like they’ve been hit with a mortar round just because they get clipped by a stud. Yes it hurts. No you aren’t dying.
Why the clock doesn't stop for the following:
1. Injuries
2. Var checks
3. Goal celebrations
4. Substitutions
Stop the clock for these, blow the whistle on 90 minutes, and there would be no need for 8 minutes of added time plus whatever else time the referee has decided to pick out of his arse.
1. Injuries
2. Var checks
3. Goal celebrations
4. Substitutions
Stop the clock for these, blow the whistle on 90 minutes, and there would be no need for 8 minutes of added time plus whatever else time the referee has decided to pick out of his arse.
Going down like a sack of spuds after a foul clutching their face when it's clear their head/face wasn't even close to being caught is cringier IMO
It’s all the same. Only sport there is where every foul might make a first time watcher think the player has suffered a season ending injury.
There’s a word for it all but I don’t feel like being banned so I won’t say it.
there are so many to list
I'll start with players gaining 10-15 yards on a throw in and it never being addressed by the officials
I'll start with players gaining 10-15 yards on a throw in and it never being addressed by the officials
Just to make me even more unlikeable for you, I do this
100% agree. Though the total length of a game might need to be closer to 50-60 minutes so that we don't end up with a bunch of overworked players/injuries (or we also have larger squads, or gradually increasing game length over time, etc. which each have associated problems).
Image Source
When players take 60 seconds to take a free kick
Just to make me even more unlikeable for you, I do this
(For the record I found your incessant defense of our previous manager unlikeable, but I’ve never thought you personally were. All in the past now anyways)
But if you only stopped the clock for those four specific types of stoppages , you'd still keep the clock ticking for other dead ball situations, eg throw-ins, corner, goal kicks, non-VAR free kicks, which as they are so common, probably account for a big chunk of the 'not in play' statistic in that chart.100% agree. Though the total length of a game might need to be closer to 50-60 minutes so that we don't end up with a bunch of overworked players/injuries (or we also have larger squads, or gradually increasing game length over time, etc. which each have associated problems).
Image Source
It is strange that football has chosen to always be an inexact science with regards to how long matches take. If the clock actually stopped you’d literally never have a complaint about added time, but instead it’s all guesswork that ultimately gets raged at when it’s 6 added minutes that turns into 10 because a team keeps winning corners.
Oh I’ll add another:
Teams scoring off corners/set pieces by essentially mugging the keeper. The amount of times you’ll see the keeper barged into or completely shielded from being able to claim a shit cross and the ref almost never rules in his favor is annoying.
Teams scoring off corners/set pieces by essentially mugging the keeper. The amount of times you’ll see the keeper barged into or completely shielded from being able to claim a shit cross and the ref almost never rules in his favor is annoying.
True - I overlooked that. I'd argue that the best implementation of this type of "clock stoppage" would be for the clock to stop whenever the ball isn't actively in play.
And it goes into row Z after all the dicking around picking the ball up and placing it, lining up, staring out the opposition etc.
Keepers are overprotected, touch them and it's a free kick, barging is an obvious foul but shielding him from coming for the ball isn't, a defender/attacker doesn't get a free run at heading the ball so why should a keeper have free rein to catch it?
Agreed. I wouldn't mind accurate timekeeping with whatever they're supposed to be adding on time for anyway. You might be able to keep it to 90 minutes. I think they actually dropped goal celebrations from it recently as something they add time on for, at least in the Premier League. Not sure about worldwide.
Just pick your criteria and run with it. Time wasting needs to be another.
Minor related side issue, it would be better for those into stats as well. As far as I'm aware all the stats sites credit a player with a 1 minute appearance if they are subbed in on 89+ minutes whether they play 3 minutes of added time or 10. If the clock was stopped, the clock would show 87 minutes instead of 90 at exactly the same point in proceedings in games with 3 minutes of added time. It would show 80 instead of 90 at the same point in games with 10 minutes of added time and everyone's stats would be more accurate.
Last edited:
Seen players get booked for that every now and then for kicking the free kick against the opponent. It makes no sense.
Defenders diving at slight contact and getting foul for it every time.
Good lad. Gona wind you up about Amorim next.
(For the record I found your incessant defense of our previous manager unlikeable, but I’ve never thought you personally were. All in the past now anyways)
Can’t wait until he signs 5 shit players for like 400m combined and then you cite an Athletic article saying “actually INEOS liked those players more” in 2026
I kind of get it, what with women's football being bigger in the USA for a long time. Don't know if currently still is.
Perhaps they just felt a need to distinguish between the 2 although it should be obvious what someone is talking about from context much of the time, and I suppose USM/USW would have been adequate without the 'NT' part.
In the eyes of the referee it’s the same as waving a card, ie trying to get another player booked (because he’s not really gonna blast the ball that way if he was genuinely taking the free kick) and therefore falls under unsportsmanlike conduct.
It would be funny if they waved play on and said you've taken the free kick.
Absolute minefield now with stricter delaying the game intepretations for the defending team.
I've seen times where the TV station /media was unsure and have talked about someone lining up for the kick off in a place they wouldn't have expected them to. Think it just depends if someone decides to tell them independently or after being asked pre-match. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't.
I don't think there's any obligation to reveal who will play where or what the formation will be. When Brighton played City recently the BBC website had Rico Lewis at right back, Gvardiol at left back, Kyle Walker at centre back. Reality was Walker right back, Lewis left back, Gvardiol in the middle. Sky (or was it on TNT?) got it right.
Back to the number order lineups on Twitter thing, they're read out out in the stadium that way too often. Not a fan of it like the other people who posted. The club Twitter account / stadium announcer doesn't have to know the actual shape but 95% or more of the time would be right if they guessed as well. Could forgive them getting it wrong on occasion for making it easier to follow the rest of the time.
Mind you, if we're going to start playing wing backs are they defenders or defensive midfielders? Does your right wing back get named after the goalie or after the 3 central defenders if reading out teams in formation order?
Last edited:
It's because for some reason football refs are picked from a pool of half brained wimps imo.
How you get booked for kicking the ball at someone obstructing you taking a free kick I don't know. It's the offending team's obligation not to obstruct the freekick even if it means they have to sprint back 10 yards to get far enough away in time.
In other sports where the officials actually earn and command respect this is what would and does happen
Thanks! Guessed to be fair but asked to confirm and there was probably a slight element of willful obtuseness (not directed at you, but the acronym itself).
How unbelievably shit Ireland are despite the sport's popularity.