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Eastside surge 1:40 Sun Dec 20
Modern football

Just watched highlights of Newcastle v Fulham and the Newcastle penalty which was shocking, two things Jamie redknapp says which really riled me .
" he's been really clever there" no he's just cheating
" he's got every right to go over there " again no he's cheating again! Modern football at it's appalling worst
Rant over

boleyn8420 10:02 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

I can still remember specific instances from so many games, home and away, in the very late 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and very early 2000s. From about 2007 on it all seems much of a muchness apart from a few games with Payet and Arnie. It looks like glorified chess mostly fucking sideways or in some instances for us hoofed. Dont get me wrong we had dreadful defeats and some awful performances but you went to games in expectation and a degree of excitement, now its all a bit who cares meh.

Shame really but i can still remember those days and nighrs at Upton Park thank god

Sven Roeder 7:48 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

honesty = admission of losing control & unprofessional behaviour

Congratulations
You appear to be the perfect candidate to join Mike Dean, Lee Mason etc as a Premier league referee

twoleftfeet 7:43 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

Who is a racist ref? No place for those in society.

twoleftfeet 7:43 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

I confessed to it in my report, I thought honesty paid 😄😄

Never referee teams from Crawley 👍

El Scorchio 7:31 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

It’s more annoying when the pundits flip flop on whether it’s good or not.

If they are talking about a Man U or a Liverpool it’s ‘savvy’ and ‘part of the game’ and they’ve earned the right to throw themselves to the ground. If it’s AGAINST a Man U or a Liverpool and particularly if the player is a foreigner then it’s ‘cheating’ and ‘underhand’ and there’s no room for it in the English game and bans need to start being handed out.

Fucking two faced cunts.

Faux Bare 2:12 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

The racist ref.

goose 2:01 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

You’re a referee??

That explains a lot.

LeroysBoots 1:45 Thu Dec 24
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How can they prove that ?

Surely 1 person's word against another, I'd challenge that mate

twoleftfeet 1:28 Thu Dec 24
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I have just been notified by my local F.A that I have been banned for 10 games for telling a player to shut the fuck up.

I was the bloody referee! I never got banned for that long during my playing days.

Modern football is shit.

Fortunes Hiding 12:58 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

Against Arsenal and Mancity

Antonio was fouled in box, no penalty!

Not even talked about....

Faux Bare 12:24 Thu Dec 24
Re: Modern football

They’ll get smashed by City in the final anyway.

Sven Roeder 12:23 Thu Dec 24
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Modern football?
Spurs in the League Cup ....
bye for being in Europe
bye when Orient drop out
Stoke in a quarter final
Brentford in a semi final

FUCK OFF

The Mercernary 11:46 Wed Dec 23
Re: Modern football

We're all West Ham aren't we (well mostly...)? So of course football was better in the old days - all of our best players were pre 90s.

We've all also enjoyed a few PL games over the years - Anfield in 2015/16 has to be in our top ten best results surely?

Diving was definitely not as prevalent - you could legitimately hack somebody down without giving away a freekick back then!

Mex Martillo 1:26 Tue Dec 22
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Branded, I think we suffer a lot from that, Haller, Bowen and Fornals for me often try to battle past a defender who fouls them enough to screw up the move and the referee ignores it all because they don’t go down crying like babies.

BRANDED 11:46 Tue Dec 22
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Problem is refs don’t give stuff if players aren’t all gay and effette. If a player is fouled but gets on with it there’s little chance of getting anything. Shit reffing.

goose 11:37 Tue Dec 22
Re: Modern football

Using yr body to protect the ball has always been around.

Chigwell 11:24 Tue Dec 22
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One thing that also seems to be creeping into referees' list of acceptable things to do, is a player in possession of the ball sticking out an arm to prevent an opponent getting close enough to tackle. Like a hand-off in rugby. Where did that come from?

Mex Martillo 10:22 Tue Dec 22
Re: Modern football

In the Fulham game when that player went down and got a penalty against us the pundit said something like,
“He did very well to hold up the ball in a dangerous area of the penalty area, invite the challenge and go down to win a penalty“
Yes, Eastside again, a player congratulated for cheating.

, 9:47 Mon Dec 21
Re: Modern football

Play acting was unseemly and unmanly. Then Kevin Keegan came back from three years at Hamburg completely unable to keep his feet under challenge in the penalty box.

Since then, circa 1980, it has grown gradually so that now it is part and parcel of the game. What teams are faced with now is that if they don’t dive but the opposition do they are taken advantage of.

Hermit Road 7:13 Mon Dec 21
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TheBoleynBoy 6:23 Mon Dec 21

There’s two things I think. The amount of diving and the way it is seen by commentators and fellow professionals. I can’t agree there was as much in the past. It existed, but nowhere near as much as today. The second part is the way it was perceived. In the past it was called cheating and looked down on whenever commented upon. Now, it is seen as a skill, part of the game and a virtue.

I’m not arguing that everything then is better than everything now. It isn’t. Some things are better now like the pitches and the passing and the fitness and speed.

The play-acting though is much worse and the players acting like they have been shot at the merest hint of a touch, is a modern blight on the game.

Iron Duke 7:02 Mon Dec 21
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What a load of bollocks. Football has been shit from at least 2000.

I would have loved to have watched it in the 70's.

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