Another is a more timely annoyance, when an international tournament is taking place, everyone suddenly turns into a patriotic football fan. I’ve nothing against being proud of where you come from, it’s just in my experience, these football patriots also seem to fit in to section 1 of your post.

Actually, my first point can also be mixed with my second. When I say to people I couldn’t care less if England get knocked out of the cup I get the same reaction (point 1) generally from “The Patriots” (point 2).

And yeah, there seems to be a massive following of idiots to football, skin heads who never shut the fuck up about who scored what in last weeks match and how they smashed in some guy down the pub for wearing the wrong colored shirt. I swear some of these people have the IQ of a lamp post.

What I, personally, can’t get my head around is the fact that it is the most popular sport in the world, despite all it’s gigantic gaping flaws.

This is my personal opinion on it.

And No. I don’t get life. I defy anyone who says they do.

It has taken Leeds United’s demise to League 1 [3rd tier of the English game's leagues] to actually start noticing that players are still loyal at all.
For those not familiar Beckford is a striker(One meant to score) whom has been offered big contracts by other clubs to just up and move out the area he grew up in to play for a club that he does not know, nor probably cares about. He has stayed where he is, and has rejected every offer made to him because it’s a passion for him, and a joy to play and entertain with his skills, at Leeds. That is loyalty.

Now i take you to someone everyone probably recognises; David Beckham.
What a cock. Never in my life have i seen so much time and effort put into one of the most disloyal people ever to live in my time. His gratitude towards his clubs/managers/fans is totally dominated by money. He has moved clubs again and again each time the other one offers a little more than the last.
So in short, the higher up the ladder the more money talks and everyone worships.
Noone moves to the US to play in their 5th most popular sport, unless you’re David and you get offered £250,000,000 to do it!

The whole “I don’t get it” arguement doesn’t go down well for me as a reason for disliking it either. It’s a sport, it has general rules about scoring, and points are awarded in a table depending on result. In basic, it’s men kicking a ball around with 10 others on their team, but the whole aspect of the enjoyment derives from the competative attitudes of the players.
Like anything else, one has to win, one lose, and occasionally both tie but they both want to win. Yet that same aspect is in a game of chess, or scrabble, and even Cricket as mentioned. So what makes football something you “don’t get”, because as far as i can see, it’s just like every other competative instance throughout life such as a job interview. Do you not “get” life either or is it simply this one method of portraying the competative streak in people you dislike so much?

I’d rather listen to paint dry.

totally agree with all of this!

I hate it when people try to talk to me about football, even after I express my strong dislike for it. I just don’t get it either!

I am pretty sure, though, that your complaints are more than valid for someone who actually likes the game. I very much like your paintball gun idea. If they brought that in I might start watching, but it still wouldn’t be for the football.

Too many players are pansies.. falling over like they have just been shot… they are paid to much and do little work for the money. If I was paid 20k a week to play football I would bust a lung week in and week out. Most football players go into the dressing room after the game looking like they have just had a little jog. I would need help getting off the pitch as I would have worked so hard.

Players aside you have the game itself. It is either amazing entertaining. e.g. FA Cup where most games are end to end stuff. Or you have a really dull game where there are 5 shots at either end and a 0-0 draw.

Most of these dull games are either the managers or players fault. If a manager is going to put 10 men behind the ball from the first minute… it will be crap. You then have players who often play ‘anti-football’ where they foul a player just to take away a teams advantage. Both of these practices should be taken out.

You then have fans who put up with this crap. Manchester United took what? 50 minutes to muster a shot at goal at the weekend. If I was at that game I would of been booing them and shouting the team into action. Instead people actually pay £50+ to patiently watch their team do nothing for half a game. I don’t get it. Fans should have paintball guns and at the end of each game be given a chance to shoot players and managers who under perform. They wouldn’t under perform twice, 20 thousand body shots would put an end to that.

Finally you have referee’s. Recently, in the 2nd tier of English football, a player scored and none of the officials saw it. 22 players sore it, everyone on the bench saw it. 20 thousand fans saw it. The officials didn’t. NO GOAL… wtf? Fifa’s refusal to bring in video replays really ruins the game.

So yeah, if you take away the pansies, managers who put 10 men behind the ball and have officials who would allow the best team to win it would be a better game.