Guff football is pish

[Pacman1903]

Step away from the shiny things.

Undoubtedly, if you pay folk 200k a week they'll be quite good at football, they'd need to be.

But you need to look at the big picture.

The wedge sloshing about the moneyball league is knocking fu ck out of "the market" (to use a post-Thatcherite term I despise).

Man City are, I'd imagine (I seldom watch them), very good at football.....maybe even quite entertaining to watch.

Ditto a few teams down there.

But the manufactured, plastic, tourist orientated p!sh leaves me cold.

I go on a Bruce Springsteen message board quite often.

There's a Man City fan from St Louis, a Spurs fan from someplace on the Eastern Seaboard, a Chelsea fan from Carolina......etc. etc. etc.

I very much enjoy making reference to the likes of Bobby MacDonald, Paul Futcher, Joe Corrigan, John White, Willie Young, Mike England, Micky Droy, Kerry Dixon and many, many more, just to baffle them.

Fu ck me, the Spurs fan was posting links to articles from Forbes relating to Spurs value viz a viz their new stadium on the various money markets.
Forbes magazine.........the English first division........think about that.

The soul of fitba has gone.

How many joiners from Moss-side or brickies from Bethnal Green can afford to take their bairns to the match of a Saturday, like their Dads and Grandas did?

And the clubs don't give a flying furry one as lang as their subscribers in the Far East are tuning in.

The quality of the 11 v 11 on the pitch is nae what makes Guffball p!sh, I'd imagine the games midweek were quite entertaining......I wouldnae know cos I dinna hae BT Sports and hae nae remote desire to watch.

Growing up in Stoney it used to continually irk me the amount of cheeks fans cutting about, rather than getting behind their local team.

Now, the lads are growing up with Citeh, Man U, Liverpool, Chelski, Spurs shirts.

They can watch "their" team play thirty plus times a season without leaving their living room.

So the attraction of going to the Pitt, fu ck even to the Girodome or the B@stard Garden, is just nae there.

Hopefully, there's a tipping point coming and this whole shebang blows up in their faces (unfettered capitalism usually does).
It's nae happening any time soon, but I just hope it does in my lifetime.

I shall smile if it does.

That is an excellent post Sneck min

Thats what this thread was intended for. The soul has gone in guffball(and european fitba)

[Aldo1983]

Guff football is pish.

[neilthedon]

I can see why you think that.

I dont claim to support the clubs i go to. I support Aberdeen. Nobody else

Plus i go to see the cities, drink their beers and taste their local grub. I was in the Swiss history museum an hour before kick off at Young Boys, i got a taxi straight from Sigmund Freuds house to Rapid Vienna as examples

Im not on a chartered flight fae the Monkey House to Old Trafford or a bus fae Stonehaven to the Emirates

These are holidays for me. People go on a two weeker to the Costa Del Sol or where ever. I do a couple of weekends away and take in fitba when i do it

I`d long ago thought that sort of trip would make a good travelogue telly series. Add in riding to the place on Mondo`s 125 Chinese motorbike, and you get a feel for the Country/people as you stop in odd places along the way.

Then, you meet up with the local tykes and rammy it up with peasant food and drink and yelling your head off at the Footie.
Flares would be obligatory. I always imagined the day and night ending in some obscure Undergrond bar at about 3 in the morning, where you leave your jacket with bike keys and passport behind. And spend the next day in a panic trying to retrace your steps against a Ferry sailing time deadline.

Oh wait a minute, that DID happen .....just not on Mondo`s bike !!

[Aldo1983]

It would be better on a ride on mower.

Incidentally, battery clicking but no power. Tried charging it and the solenoid is fine?

Any ideas?

[Skacel]

Step away from the shiny things.

Undoubtedly, if you pay folk 200k a week they'll be quite good at football, they'd need to be.

But you need to look at the big picture.

The wedge sloshing about the moneyball league is knocking fu ck out of "the market" (to use a post-Thatcherite term I despise).

Man City are, I'd imagine (I seldom watch them), very good at football.....maybe even quite entertaining to watch.

Ditto a few teams down there.

But the manufactured, plastic, tourist orientated p!sh leaves me cold.

I go on a Bruce Springsteen message board quite often.

There's a Man City fan from St Louis, a Spurs fan from someplace on the Eastern Seaboard, a Chelsea fan from Carolina......etc. etc. etc.

I very much enjoy making reference to the likes of Bobby MacDonald, Paul Futcher, Joe Corrigan, John White, Willie Young, Mike England, Micky Droy, Kerry Dixon and many, many more, just to baffle them.

Fu ck me, the Spurs fan was posting links to articles from Forbes relating to Spurs value viz a viz their new stadium on the various money markets.
Forbes magazine.........the English first division........think about that.

The soul of fitba has gone.

How many joiners from Moss-side or brickies from Bethnal Green can afford to take their bairns to the match of a Saturday, like their Dads and Grandas did?

And the clubs don't give a flying furry one as lang as their subscribers in the Far East are tuning in.

The quality of the 11 v 11 on the pitch is nae what makes Guffball p!sh, I'd imagine the games midweek were quite entertaining......I wouldnae know cos I dinna hae BT Sports and hae nae remote desire to watch.

Growing up in Stoney it used to continually irk me the amount of cheeks fans cutting about, rather than getting behind their local team.

Now, the lads are growing up with Citeh, Man U, Liverpool, Chelski, Spurs shirts.

They can watch "their" team play thirty plus times a season without leaving their living room.

So the attraction of going to the Pitt, fu ck even to the Girodome or the B@stard Garden, is just nae there.

Hopefully, there's a tipping point coming and this whole shebang blows up in their faces (unfettered capitalism usually does).
It's nae happening any time soon, but I just hope it does in my lifetime.

I shall smile if it does.

Is it all that different from the NFL though?

And watching Man City is f.ucking boring for the most part. It's almost that they're too good, most matches are like training games.

[Jackjarvis]

I can see why you think that.

I dont claim to support the clubs i go to. I support Aberdeen. Nobody else

Plus i go to see the cities, drink their beers and taste their local grub. I was in the Swiss history museum an hour before kick off at Young Boys, i got a taxi straight from Sigmund Freuds house to Rapid Vienna as examples

Im not on a chartered flight fae the Monkey House to Old Trafford or a bus fae Stonehaven to the Emirates

These are holidays for me. People go on a two weeker to the Costa Del Sol or where ever. I do a couple of weekends away and take in fitba when i do it

My hobby is also collecting fitba grounds. These plastic fans wont be at Shotts Bon Accord v Blantyre Victoria tommorow or were at Rot Weiss Oberhausen v Rot Weiss Essen last Saturday. The surely wont have 100 Scottish grounds under their belt which i will on Monday after Dundee North End v Dundee Violet.

This isnt supposed to come across as defensive. Just more to differentiate

Chill Pac, each to their own, apparently I’m a d@ck for travelling like you do all over Europe, never counted my grounds visited and don’t intend to start......I’m more worried if Gourline has run out of Tuna before I get there later tonight.

I preferred Highbury to the Emirates, still meet my “made up chums” in the same club I’ve been going to for yonks.......Gillespie Road.......equidistant to both old/new grounds.......f uck knows how that came about.

Every weekend I assist with a club and I genuinely miss it when we are not playing, with this, I get scope to cheer on the dandies or the gooners accordingly now and again......

Monkey House na mas, although I would imagine Mike still runs flights.

Bus fae Stoney to the Emirates......I’ll do the jokes.

Back on topic and I do concur there are many tourists that flock to events, I don’t do colours/photos or autographs etc. I do respect though that folk attend a match through working to be able to afford it.......whether that be in Broughty Ferry or Barcelona.

[mondo_notion]

I`d long ago thought that sort of trip would make a good travelogue telly series. Add in riding to the place on Mondo`s 125 Chinese motorbike, and you get a feel for the Country/people as you stop in odd places along the way.

Then, you meet up with the local tykes and rammy it up with peasant food and drink and yelling your head off at the Footie.
Flares would be obligatory. I always imagined the day and night ending in some obscure Undergrond bar at about 3 in the morning, where you leave your jacket with bike keys and passport behind. And spend the next day in a panic trying to retrace your steps against a Ferry sailing time deadline.

Oh wait a minute, that DID happen .....just not on Mondo`s bike !!

I took that bike over to Luxembourg for the Fola Esch game. (on the back of the van, I didn't ride it all the way over) Going back to the campsite I took a wrong turn down a slip road on to the motor way. Pulled over to the hard shoulder as soon as I realised but I was absolutely sh*tting it. Lorries going by letting me know what a tw*t I was to have a moped on the motorway by peeping their horns on the way by.

I found one of those SOS phones and managed to get someone who spoke English and they told me to drive up the shoulder with my hazards on until the next slip road off. Never again!

[Jackjarvis]

That is an excellent post Sneck min

Thats what this thread was intended for. The soul has gone in guffball(and european fitba)

Did you see the Ajax players at the end?......no way is the soul gone out of the game, of course you have mercenaries in any sport......Sanchez/Ozil close to home for myself or Pogba/Beckham etc......further away.......there is a large increase in all levels of folk attending the games down South and unlike some who go on about the NFL on here, they are not changing their name or moving cities.......that is not an argument, just a belt and braces fact.......yes, some clubs have moved/gone bust/changed their name.......not at the high end of things like the NFL.

With this, I like guff football, f uck knows how many games I’ve been to and genuinely don’t care, some folk think it is pish......so be it........4 club’s doing the first ever perhaps knocks that argument down on the park anyway......I would much rather hop on a train to Sunderland/Middlesbrough or wherever on a free Saturday to watch the Arsenal than stay up late to watch NFL stars play in whatever ground is their home this year.

NFL is pish.......only imho and respect to those that can stay up to watch without assistance.

SF

[Aldo1983]

Some have moved.

[Pacman1903]

Wow. You really think the soul is still in Euro fitba

The soul has completely gone and has been for years. Its designed for moneyball big leagues/teams.

Its not designed to incorporate Aberdeen, Mechelen, Slovan Bratislava, Magdeburg, IFK Gothenburg, Dinamo Kiev et al.

Its designed for Man City, Chelsea, Paris St Germain, Juventus , Real Madrid and other rich list teams English, spanish, German, Italian plus PSG are all that matter.

Look at the way teams qualify. Or how leagues are favoured. For example two teams who havent won the league in decades are in the "Champions League" final after being placed straight in the groups. yet teams who won their leagues had three qualifiers to get in and failed

The souls not gone?So how come there have been finals where 30k of a stadium has been divided out between the two teams and the other 30k has been sponsors and corporate arseholes

Euro fitbas as f@cked as guffball