Quality of football seems to be regressing and the level of shit housery is unreal. It’s crept in the last couple of years but has literally gone through the roof this season.
Fake injuries when conceding goals to kill momentum, fake injuries when winning. Percentage play then break it up, slow it down and frustrate by any means possible.
Everyone is at it, including us (we’ve basically signed Hylton for shithousery alone), but Blackpool today were by far the worst ever example I’ve seen. Their fans wont care as they got the 3 points and we would be the same in reverse.
But it is absolutely killing football as a spectacle. No one is ever going to grow crowds if that’s the offering. It’s at a level they are not seeing in the Prem and Champ so not getting the wider awareness.
Can assure you this isn’t sour grapes because we’ve lost. I’ve not enjoyed games we’ve won and leapt into the dark arts.
How can it be driven back out again?
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We just have to by some miracle fluke promotion to a higher level of shithousery.
What we saw today though, and this season, is a new way to counter time wasting. I've genuinely got no idea how to deal with it either... The obvious answer is to make players stay off the pitch for longer than 30secs, but then you'll get the honest teams suffering, when the clubs under Steve Evans etc. kick lumps out of them... How is that fair, when you're getting genuine injuries.
Neutral physios who travel with the referees maybe? - But how do you tell someone that they dont actually have cramp, or their ankle is too painful for them to walk, and so weed out those faking it to delay time, and those who are actually injured?
Every time a player got touched they went down. The players took every opportunity to slow the game down. Every time either team got into a decent position the ball went backwards. They seemed intent on not losing the ball instead of trying to score. And then they lost the ball anyway, because they're shit League 1 footballers.
It was turgid dog muck and I pity the poor people that paid to go and watch it. It ended 0-0 and the commentator was on the verge of slashing his own wrists to relieve the boredom.
Football is "packaged" as entertainment. It's supposed to be entertaining and that's the reason they justify the high price of admission - because it's supposed to be on a par with going to the cinema, or to watch a gig or a show. But the "product" is getting worse.
Personally I think it's because the players are fitter these days, so much so that it makes the pitch smaller and the play more condensed. It's (theoretically) easier to more defensive and close down the space and the gaps.
Here's a radical idea. Make it a 10-a-side game. Create that extra space and allow the game to breath.
...and that also means you would need to include added time on to the added time if they continue the bullshit.
their #7 went down 3 times in quick succession but each time it stopped the game. Then kept up, ran into position with a smile and repeated it. Such blatant cheating.
theor physio must be one of the fittest members of their staff seeing as they all appear to be made of tracing paper
The thought of losing a crucial player like Albie Morgan for 10, 15 minutes or more might deter the likes of Bruce instructing his team to cheat.
Utter embarrassment. Bruce had absolutely given them full direction to do this for the entirety of the second half. You are reliant on the referee to see through it in the context of the match, but he was a complete buffoon.
Unless referees have the intelligence to see through it, it will keep happening. No chance with the one we had today.
But the reason why we lost today was not because of "shithousery" or the referee but because Blackpool scored more goals than us.
Look at our record this season. Score first & we win. Conceed first and we don't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a coach with a EUFA pro badge to work this one out.
I'll let you all ponder the answer.
Is "the answer" something about scoring more goals than the opposition?
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