Manchester City.
Weird feelings of football
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Nah. The club sure but the team/players are at worst boring, and even that is mostly because they win most of their games easily and I don't really care if they do or not anyway.
I used to hate that Arsenal side with a passion. I'd actively support anyone they were playing against. Only time I'm remotely invested in City is when I want them to stop Liverpool winning the league, and that's just purely because Liverpool fans would be much more annoying than City fans on account of the fact they actually have any.
The last genuinely evil teams were Chelsea/Liverpool during their pro racially abusing opponents phases.
Nah. I disagree. I genuinely hate City because they’re a force for evil. They represent sportswashing. They have an unfortunately sizeable support amongst the youth, and are our City rivals.
Yes but that is the club. Not the players/team.
Nearly every player in that Arsenal team was a despicable cheating git. What have City got? A goalkeeper with an irritatingly stupid tattoo, a midfielder who moans about part of his job as a footballer being to play football a lot. That's about it. Nowhere near enough to invest me into actively wanting them to lose.
Also the ownership thing has killed the rivalry a bit for me. Its just made them too artificial. They win the treble and it gets them a half hearted pat on the back from a few pundits.
Every (male) footballer seems to have a girlfriend, fiancée, or wife.
When a player has a serious injury I expect them to look all unkempt and dishelved, they look amazing. But they're injured and shouldn't be able to get off the couch right?
Maybe you have just outgrown the tribalism that enabled you to vilify players of other clubs. Not to say there haven't truly been huge scumbags, but probably your threshold for that label were lower in the past.
I get where you're coming from though it probably isn't hard to see why. They are young men in great shape and usually on good salaries (until you get down to semi-pro level). Moreover, they'll have access to parties where meeting women is a piece of piss.
The percentage of gay, bi and other sexualities is probably more than a few per cent but coming out still isn't something male players will do. I think many non-hetero players will often leave the game at youth level due to there not really being a place for them to feel comfortable in the men's game.
I think its just more common place now. Back then Arsenal stood out because every one of their players would dive, sometimes ridiculously. Or do stuff like get "injured" on the touchline then conveniently roll back onto the pitch. Winger would bang on about conspiracies against them.
Now, this is just standard behaviour from almost every player at every team. The threshold for being a stabdout scumbag has gone up considerably. It's somewhere around racially abusing opponents/biting people now.
Also United are shite so City are really a non factor for me. I just don't see them as a real rival anymore. Liverpool still irritate me whenever they do well but City it's a bit like trying to be annoyed at your kid beating you at bowling when you're crap at it and they were allowed to put the barriers up for their turn
The team that "wins the transfer window" (i.e. West Ham this year) is always shit when the actual season starts.
"The VAR official today is Stuart Attwell".
I know what you mean but I'd consider the Liverpool side that had Van Dijk, Robertson and Henderson truly annoying. Just a neauseating air of self entitlement.
Dwight McNeil scores every week for Everton and yet still only gets 6 goals a season.
In every single round, Brentford are always involved in both the most entertaining high-score fixture as well as the most boring 0-0 draw.
7-1 happens a lot. 8-1 has never happened
Apart from the time we beat Nottingham Forest away by that score…checks notes 19 days before I was born.
Adama Traore has been heralded as a threat for 8 years while never scoring nor assisting in that time.
It's always on the first few gameweeks of the season too.
Emphasis on bicep bulge
Boro 8-1 City
Wow, they must've had a great manager if they beat City by that margin - maybe we should hire him!
I appreciate the joke, but the bar is so low that even Southgate would be an upgrade on what we have
This is the weird feelings of football thread not the facts that don't sound true but actually are thread.
Andres Iniesta actually retired 5 years ago but nobody knew about it until now
Nani actually retired couple years ago but nobody knows about it
Nani actually retired couple years ago but nobody knows about it
We have officially signed that Chido Obi-Martin kid about 4 times over.
Chris Kavanagh is named on the referee team for every PL game.
Paul Pogba still exists as a footballer.
There's a lot of truth in these. He has 13 top flight league goals in his career. He turns 30 in just over a year.
Adama Traore is the player people thought Bolt could be.
If the man could pass and finish though...
If the man could pass and finish though...
Darren Cann has been the linesman for every PL game since 2007.
Came here to post exactly the same comment about Iniesta.
Every season since SAF retired we've had our "worst start to a season in 50+ years"
And next season will probably be even worse than this one.
I know this isnt a weird feeling, more a pet peeve. But if I have to see one more video of Ronaldo scoring that free against Arsenal in 2009 with Tyldesleys commentary edited to say "too far for Ronaldo to think about it" I'll scream. He said "not too" but the CR7 sycophants edited it and lastly, obviously Ronaldo was gonna shoot from there, when has he not gone for goal when he takes a free?
Edit: Also, I've tried to find a video that hasn't had the original commentary edited and it's like hens teeth. Really trying to keep that myth going
Edit: Also, I've tried to find a video that hasn't had the original commentary edited and it's like hens teeth. Really trying to keep that myth going
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This 100%.
Just makes me dread next season as you always know it can (and probably will) somehow get even worse.
I'd rather hire City's manager from that day
These days strikers put in better crosses than wingers.