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  • Allen Dewire
    • Apr 2018
    • 4741
    • Allen
    • Bamberg

    #16
    Really great conversation here and a fantastic read. I too watch the EM as there is nothing but drivel on the telly anyway. Who cares who can dance or if you want to be the voice of the shower stall or another murder that's solved in one hour -commercials of course..........

    Paul, would you happen to have CR7s address??? I have been trying to send him a case full of tissues for years. He would go through a box in each match he plays in.......

    As far as fouling is concerned and the fake falls to the ground, if I recall correctly, a few WM's ago one team from the south made a trip to Hollywood to learn how it's done correctly and get away with it. I think Ron's last dio was set there too............

    Lastly, in our league here, a trainer now costs more than a really good player for a team. WHAT??????????? Football has gone to hell in a handbasket I'm afraid.....

    Prost
    Allen
    Life's to short to be a sheep...

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    • stillp
      SMF Supporters
      • Nov 2016
      • 8223
      • Pete
      • Rugby

      #17
      Those lists of essential "skills" for footballers have left out the ability to remember the choreography!

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      • wotan
        • May 2018
        • 1175

        #18
        My My...What a gang of old grouches...!

        "Back in my day...........up hill both ways...etc etc"

        I'm not a big fan of soccer either but for those who are.... Have fun.

        Bigotry is never very flattering

        John

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        • Jim R
          SMF Supporters
          • Apr 2018
          • 16027
          • Jim
          • Shropshire

          #19
          Hi Dave
          Perhaps the real "hard men" in sport are professional cyclists. Tour de France - 3 weeks of racing, close to 200km each stage, an average speed of close to 41kph, steep uphills for miles and descents taken at over 120kph and broadcast to 190 countries. Yes I know that the riders are well paid and that over the years doping has been a problem but even so one week from today I'll be truly entertained for 21 days :smiling:
          Jim

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          • AlanG
            • Dec 2008
            • 6296

            #20
            But could they do it without being shielded by the 'pack' by taking the drag effect off them?

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            • Jim R
              SMF Supporters
              • Apr 2018
              • 16027
              • Jim
              • Shropshire

              #21
              Hi Alan
              No, they need the team. The stars are only stars because of the domestiques giving their all for the team leader.

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              • Nicko
                SMF Supporters
                • Apr 2019
                • 1553
                • Nick
                • East Anglia

                #22
                Don't worry guys I've bought in a special supply of extra slow drying paint we can all watch when the Euro games are on.... :smiling2:

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                • Dave Ward
                  • Apr 2018
                  • 10549

                  #23
                  If you can stomach this it would be funny, until you realise these guys earn more in 5 minutes than you do in a year, and are held up as 'sportsmen'
                  Dave

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                  • BattleshipBob
                    SMF Supporters
                    • Apr 2018
                    • 6857
                    • Bob
                    • Cardiff

                    #24
                    To be fair i love footy and for my sins ( lots ) have supported Cardiff City for all my life and always will.

                    But the acting should be punished, even if its after the game. The quicker football follows rugby by introducing the 10 min sin bin the better. What makes me laugh is people rightly complain when a boss of a big company gets a big wage packet but say bugger all when a football player gets £300,000 a week, waiting for a big club to go bang, it will happen soon.

                    Forgot come on Wales, sorry !!

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                    • BarryW
                      SMF Supporters
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 6053

                      #25
                      You can add me to the list of football haters for all the reasons stated. To be honest I am not really a fan of any sport and I too have not watched a football match since 1966 when I was too young to know better. Friday evening my missus watched the game in one room while I was on Netflix in the lounge before popping into the garage for an hour at the bench.

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                      • Tim Marlow
                        SMF Supporters
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 19026
                        • Tim
                        • Somerset UK

                        #26
                        Never mind girls, your soap operas will be back on soon…..until then, I’ll enjoy the football.

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                        • The Smythe Meister
                          • Jan 2019
                          • 6248

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Bobthestug
                          To be fair i love footy and for my sins ( lots ) have supported Cardiff City for all my life and always will.

                          But the acting should be punished, even if its after the game. The quicker football follows rugby by introducing the 10 min sin bin the better. What makes me laugh is people rightly complain when a boss of a big company gets a big wage packet but say bugger all when a football player gets £300,000 a week, waiting for a big club to go bang, it will happen soon.

                          Forgot come on Wales, sorry !!
                          OMIGOD!!...."C`mon WALES"?!!:dizzy: ......And to think i used to like you Bob!!
                          Although you did redeem yourself with the latter comment mate!!:thumb2::tears-of-joy:
                          Andy

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                          • Gern
                            • May 2009
                            • 9273

                            #28
                            I knew I'd opened a can of worms, but it's nice to see so many excited people :smiling3: .

                            Tim: I meant no disrespect to Erikson. I fully sympathise with any sportsperson that suffers any kind of real injury. It's all the fakery I can't stand. And yes, it happens in rugby too.

                            Jim: Am I right in thinking that the Tour de France winner gets all the fortune and glory, while his team mates who create the victory for him are promptly forgotten by everyone except diehard fans?

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                            • Gern
                              • May 2009
                              • 9273

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Bobthestug
                              The quicker football follows rugby by introducing the 10 min sin bin the better.
                              Be nice if they had to pay a fine as well. Loss of earnings might start persuading them to play fairly.

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                              • Guest

                                #30
                                I don’t particularly care for football, or pretty much any sport (though I kind of like cycling, partly because the countryside and spectators are often interesting to see ) but guys … you do realise that you’re griping about the kind of things pretty much everyone would do when in the same position, right?

                                The main one seems to be high salary top footballers get, for supposedly doing very little. Blame the salary on the clubs and the media: if they weren’t asking, respectively willing to pay, so much for broadcast rights, the players wouldn’t be getting that much money either. Or to turn this around: the players simply want a share of all the cash they see the clubs make, because the club wouldn’t be making it without the players. This is no different from factory workers demanding higher wages when the company is doing well.

                                The players’ haircuts and other flamboyancy is simply a result of having a lot of money and being of the current extravert generation. Pretty much everyone ever in history who had a lot of money, went about showing it off to others. High-level footballers, being the kind of people who are used to (and enjoy) being in the spotlight, just tend to do this in more obvious ways than, say, a nerdy IT billionaire or a fantasy writer who might spend it on sportscars, an aircraft museum, a gigantic yacht, or, oh, I don’t know, a football club.

                                Oh yeah, and all the “football is dull” memes are (almost certainly) American, who (not to put too fine a point on it) don’t understand the sport. The first part of this video explains the reasons pretty well:

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