General Football 23/24

[Shaggy]

Not sure there was much 'each other' about it

[BobTheCharmer]

That tackle on Cantona FFS.

Hands up, I loved football when it was like this. Hard as ****. Credit to Cantona, he didn't roll around, he didn't go off pretending he was dead, he stays on and scores a great goal.

Football was so much better in the past. Last 15 years have been **** and now we have VAR which effectively has killed the game.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Just saw this - what the **** sport was Vinnie Jones playing and how did he not get sent off every game........ I don’t remember it being this bad when I watched it years ago

https://twitter.com/ballsdotie/statu...12665449115653

and the mad thing is that was tame compared to what happened on the pitch in the 1980s. Can remember Souness doing things on a pitch that ten years later were showing up as fatality moves in Mortal Kombat.


No doubt each decade back just gets rougher and rougher by the standards of the decade that came after it.

[Fosterbloke]

Hands up, I loved football when it was like this. Hard as ****. Credit to Cantona, he didn't roll around, he didn't go off pretending he was dead, he stays on and scores a great goal.

Football was so much better in the past. Last 15 years have been **** and now we have VAR which effectively has killed the game.

Funny how players weren't destroyed by every touch, the latest trend of going down when you get a touch on the shoulders or body needs to stop, refs need to walk up to the player and tell them to stop being pussy.

It's amazing they don't all suffer season ending injuries from celebrating a goal.

[spud_gun]

It's not the players it's the coaching.

Players are coached to go down at the slightest touch.

[Fosterbloke]

It's not the players it's the coaching.

Players are coached to go down at the slightest touch.

In fact its the referees allowing them as fouls.

[Irishnev]

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[Slinky Skills]

and the mad thing is that was tame compared to what happened on the pitch in the 1980s. Can remember Souness doing things on a pitch that ten years later were showing up as fatality moves in Mortal Kombat.





No doubt each decade back just gets rougher and rougher by the standards of the decade that came after it.

Fatality moves in mortal kombat ha ha!

[Shaggy]

Absolutely shocking

[ame]https://twitter.com/fishplums/status/1364125080423456770[/ame]

[Roboklopp]

https://twitter.com/english_as/statu...00356544876544

****ing hell.

Absolutely shocking

https://twitter.com/fishplums/status...25080423456770

Yeah, absolutely sick. Defo no corruption involved to host it in the middle of the desert with no football history and no stadiums.

[Buzzo]

Hands up, I loved football when it was like this. Hard as ****. Credit to Cantona, he didn't roll around, he didn't go off pretending he was dead, he stays on and scores a great goal.

Football was so much better in the past. Last 15 years have been **** and now we have VAR which effectively has killed the game.

I was very close to name checking you!

A happy medium between the full frontal assault and the pens given for slow motion minor infringements would be good for me.

Totally agree on the getting up and getting on with it though. 90% of times when a player stays down they could easily just get up and get on with it.

[Buzzo]

Absolutely shocking

https://twitter.com/fishplums/status...25080423456770

That World Cup should be boycotted by the viewing public.

Will never happen, but it absolutely should.

[ChesterDave]

From a personal level I think I could easily avoid it but it will never happen on a remotely close to meaningful level and stadiums will be full.

[frank the tank]

That World Cup should be boycotted by the viewing public.

Will never happen, but it absolutely should.

Don't think i will bother with it. The corruption is unreal. Remember when they got awarded it, it was going to be air-conditioned stadiums, and the sadiums were going to be dismantled and given to poor countries. Dodgy as f##k alright.

[Exiled_red]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56167027