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Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2011, 06:08:56 AM »
I love the Villa, hate football. But i have never been as disinterested with it all as i am at the moment. The way i look at it is if we sign someone and they have a good year then the bastard will be off the following summer. The strong get stronger and everyone else staggers on buying and swapping the players that the top clubs dont want.

Offline pooligan

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2011, 06:45:23 AM »
Deano, you said it all for me!

Offline mattjpa

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2011, 07:23:24 AM »
I need a new forum. Villa talk here I come....

Offline Witton Warrior

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2011, 08:26:01 AM »
Love the Villa
Fell out with football generally about 20 years ago
Was 19 in 1978 so a good time to follow the game

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2011, 08:30:37 AM »
I fucking hate modern football but that's because I knew a time where it wasn't like it is now.

Offline john e

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2011, 08:41:44 AM »
When you say you hate football, do you mean the actual game itself, or just the people and nonsense surrounding it ?

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2011, 08:51:53 AM »
I despise most things to do with it. The players, their salaries and inflated sense of self.

The owners doing the dance of the billionaire.

The fact that money is all that matters.

That nobody gives a shit about international games other than trying to engineer a move to another club.

Sky.

The utter destruction of competition in European tournaments where the latter stages of the not Champions League is the only show in town.

Ticket prices and stupid fucking kick off times.

Multi millionaire journeyman players.

The fact that all the winners of the domestic trophies are pretty much sewn up before a ball has been kicked.

I can carry on if you like. This rant however was brought to you on a Blackberry so my fingers are getting tired.

Online ADVILLAFAN

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2011, 08:54:31 AM »
Cheer up, we're playing Blackburn soon

Offline Fergal

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2011, 08:55:55 AM »
I hate the 'product' that football has become.  I hate the fact that an average player will 'earn' in a week what it takes me years to earn.  I hate the diving, cheating, feigning injury, trying to get fellow professionals sent off, the 'Andy Gray' type hype.  I hate what Sky Sports has created.
I, with my rose tinted glasses, remember players with honest endeavour and a passion for playing football not just for the money.  Remember loyalty?
Above all I hate the fact I can no longer afford to go to the games at Villa Park.  I have been priced out of a place I love.

Offline john e

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2011, 09:15:38 AM »
But the actual game of football whether it's a good prem game Barcalona, Lower league football or a young lads game is still the best game in the world

Offline JD

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2011, 09:23:01 AM »
The big problem is, Villa are family. No matter what they do to you, they're still family. No matter how you pretend you don't care, you know you do.

We'll get it right. We always do.

Agree Mark. No matter how many times you say I've had enough, you still can't give them up.

Offline E I Adio

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2011, 09:31:18 AM »
All of the above resonates, but I think perhaps it's also a generational thing.

I was 19 in the sixties, when we had arguably one of the worst teams of the last 50 years, but even so, the Villa was probably the most important thing in my life. It pretty much stayed that way until the mid eighties, when I just couldn't put up with the dross that was being served up any more, made worse by having seen them hit the heights but a few years earlier. So I walked away and tried to put the Villa out of my life because it just hurt too much to do otherwise.

It's only in the last five years or so that I've got sucked back in when I realised that I never really managed to exclude the Villa from my life, but my enthusiasm is not that of a 19 year old any more. I don't like what's happened to the game any more than anyone else, and having experienced how the game was in my youth makes it even more difficult to accept the modern game, but then, we are The Villa, the greatest football club in the world.


Offline UsualSuspect

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2011, 09:34:04 AM »
Agree with so many points

I feel in love with what I feel was the best attacking Villa side I have ever seen in 1976/77

These days I can't be arsed with stupid kick off times, overpaid mediocre players who don't give a toss, average football, etc etc.

Villa will always be in my blood and I'll pick and choose the games I attend but for me now watching football is slipping down the list of priorities

Offline DB

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2011, 09:39:04 AM »
Someone siad on here a while back that the thing they miss at the start of each season is thinking 'we had a chance'. Not now, you know pretty much nailed on we won't make the top 4, let alone the league. Unless you have a billionaire owner the size of Citeh's or Chelski then the rest of us are just living off scraps. The top players won't come to a club outside the CL and those that are good enough or get attention of the top clubs, soon leave. The goalposts have moved.

This is another reason why I decided against a season ticket - the play for 5th.

Offline bob

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Re: Falling out with Football
« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2011, 09:44:18 AM »
Modern football is rubbish.

 


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