What do you love/hate about football

Randomfriend

Hello there internet, as the title suggests, I just wanted to get peoples opinions on why you watch football, why you support who you do. What you love, what you hate about it. I'm in my final year in LSAD in Limerick, yes art college! I'm looking to base all my final year work around introducing football (as well as sport but mostly footie) as a valid subject matter for fine art (at the moment it (sport in general) is very much on the periphery).

So please if your bored take some time to contribute, rant if you like, the more opinions I get the better whether positive or negative, and if you have questions for me I'll be glad to try and answer. I'd really appreciate any comment that any of you are willing to put forward thou!

Augmerson

Gary Neville.

Augmerson

Augmerson wrote: »

Gary Neville.

You love him and hate him?

Corvo

Football, compared to other sports, contains some of the thickest, most uneducated (as far as knowledge of the game goes) and moronic fans that exist.

I say that as a football fan myself.

Bertser

It's the sport with the most room for creativity in my opinion, also produces the most memorable moments.

GavRedKing

Griffin1988 wrote: »

Football, compared to other sports, contains some of the thickest, most uneducated (as far as knowledge of the game goes) and moronic fans that exist.

I say that as a football fan myself.

Thats only if the fans opinion goes against you are your club though.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I love the way just one goal, one strike of a ball, can turn agony into ecstacy. I love the elation that that one goal can produce. I love the way it can give you such extreme emotions, the high being Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002 and the low being Terry Henry's handball against us in 2009.

I hate the way it looks so shít after watching Hurling.

mirwillbeback

I hate that people in dead end jobs, marriages and who are miserable in life in general get the opportunity to share their anger at how insignificant they are by chanting horrible things against people they've never met for 90mins and who just happen to be successful sportsmen living the life the untalented or lazy fan can only dream of.

I hate that players can be rewarded for underachievment, and that my club Aston Villa can have spent over 700m on wages since they last won a trophy.

I love the drama of World Cups, or last season's Premier League, and the fact that the impossible can become possible in any situation.

G.K.

It is so simple yet so complex.

CSF

Come on lads, let's get the flirting around foreplay out of the way and just get straight into where this thread was inevitably going anyway....

Love: Real supporters

Hate: Barstoolers

Ronan|Raven

Hate - Twitter...

Ferris_Bueller

I was coaching a team of kids around 10~11, finished up the session with a blitz/tournament with 4 teams of 5, 2 matches running side by side. As I announce 30 seconds remaining two of the teams are currently joint top of the league with both matches currently level. I begin the countdown, 10, 9, 8 etc. As I approach one second remaining I turn around, this kid smacks a shot into the bottom corner to win his team the tournament, he turned around and took off screaming as if he had won the world cup final with his team mates chasing after him in delight. A small 5 a side blitz, that is of absolutely no importance, yet it brings this much happiness to a child.

That is why I love football.

Soby

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Hate - Twitter...

Dont think you understood the Question :P

Lawrence1895

I like supporters, who stand behind their team, even in bad times
I also like the Bar in Tolka
And I like creative choreographies

I don't like supporters, who choose their team, because of success
I also don't like horrendous prices for away supporters (like HSV)
And I don't like bans on pyrotechnique...it can be done in a safe way

Jimmy Iovine

I just love kicking a ball around the place.

I miss the old days when we went out onto the street and played a match that last for 4 hours and went on so long that we forgot who had won. Now all we do is go down to the pub and drink or sit in on the laptop managing an imaginary team. Now I kind of have to wait until I go to training until I can play. A 22 year old looks a little odd just kicking a ball off a wall.

I know I sound like Johnny Giles but there is no comparison at all between being out on the street in summer or in the middle of winter and sitting inside playing an Xbox or PS3.

One Christmas we played every day out on the street. The grass was too long and too wet so we decided to risk our lives by playing on the iced over road. They were some of our best matches. No way would I suggest it to anyone else to do. One slip and we could have cracked our skulls off the ground or done our knees. As long as our team won though we wouldn't have minded :pac:.

kitakyushu

Love : Tactics and strategies.

Hate : Supporters (tho hate is prob too strong a word) .

Lawrence1895

kitakyushu wrote: »

Love : Tactics and strategies.

Hate : Supporters (tho hate is prob too strong a word) .

It's just a bit of a stereotype, but never mind

Cruel Sun

Love moments like this

Lawrence1895

Cruel Sun wrote: »

Love moments like this

One day, not too far away, these moments will come back...I hope

Where To

I love football.

I hate football.

Diabhal Beag

It's the only sport that really is universally popular. Speaking to people from all over the world about football is easily the best ice-breaker there is. One of the first conversations I had in French was about Lorient and, at the time their promotion to Ligue 1. To me that's the best thing about it.

The worst thing is how childish people can act over it.

Vurnon San Benito

Lars1916 wrote: »

One day, not too far away, these moments will come back...I hope

LOL :pac:

Lawrence1895

Doocey wrote: »

LOL :pac:

Why? Have you never got any dreams and hopes?

Mint Sauce

RTE commentators interviewing the Manager mid match!!

:mad:

Wouldn't try that with Fergie.

Cruel Sun

Lars1916 wrote: »

Why? Have you never got any dreams and hopes?

Probably not, sure he's a Newcastle fan. :pac:

Jimmy Iovine

irish-stew wrote: »

RTE commentators interviewing the Manager mid match!!

:mad:

Wouldn't try that with Fergie.

He was interviewed at half time on ITV the other night I think. Completely ridiculous. All he did was list off a few clichés about keeping it tight and scoring more, like every other manager around would do in his position.

Lawrence1895

Cruel Sun wrote: »

Probably not, sure he's a Newcastle fan. :pac:

I won't mention Andy Carroll then

Mint Sauce

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

He was interviewed at half time on ITV the other night I think. Completely ridiculous. All he did was list off a few clichés about keeping it tight and scoring more, like every other manager around would do in his position.

Oh I've seen that, but I mean from the dugout.

:eek:

Jimmy Iovine

irish-stew wrote: »

Oh I've seen that, but I mean from the dugout.

:eek:

Ahhh. Like proper mid match then. Foolish in the extreme.

Richard Hillman

Love: Entertaining players

Hate: Pundits, the football media in general, football fans, managers who blame everything bar themselves and football governance.

counterlock

I hate people who say it was better in the past. The levels of competition now is higher than it has ever been, IMHO the reason it was better to watch was the gap in skill between individual players was much higher. Was it more entertaining - absolutely; better - no.

That and Sky

murpho999

Love: Goals, skills, winning,teamwork, injury time drama, passion, Dunphy, Giles & Co,funny chants and how the world cup/Euros can affect a nation like no other sport.

Hate: diving, faking injury, losing,booing (especially national anthems), English tabloid media, Alan Shearer as a pundit, Gary Lineker as a presenter and Jamie Redknapp's testicles in his tight suits.

Randomfriend

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Ahhh. Like proper mid match then. Foolish in the extreme.

I'm awaiting the day something controversial happens mid interview or a goal is scored should make for good tv.

Father Damo

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

It's the only sport that really is universally popular. Speaking to people from all over the world about football is easily the best ice-breaker there is. One of the first conversations I had in French was about Lorient and, at the time their promotion to Ligue 1. To me that's the best thing about it.

The worst thing is how childish people can act over it.

It is funny but I have met at least four Italian lads in my time with zero interest in it (having said that, two of them were former fans who became disillusioned with the hooliganism and match fixing in Italian football). Italian women are also generally just into it for the tournaments/ big games much like the average Irish girl. The whole thing bout it being a religion in Italy is a bit over stated IMHO.

missingtime

Love - seeing an excellent passage of play resulting in a goal.
Seeing and hearing supporters reactions when there is a goal mouth scramble but eventually a goal.
Hearing a good story about a footballer doing something nice for someone

Hate - the impatience of media and fans over players and managers.
How rivalry blinds fans to the possibility of a different view on things.

Iang87

Love - how your emotions change so much in 2 quick hours, moments that make you just say wow (both good and bad).

biggest hate - when a footballers life is judged completely by how he acts on the field. Perfect example is Drogba