Wembley 1995 I took loads of bog roll and spent two hours on the M4 ripping up copies of the Evening Post for confetti. Looked spectacular when I launched the lot from behind the tunnel as the teams came out
Andy sodding Booth *mumble mumble sob*
Really tacky Premiership gimmicks and other modern football crap
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especially military at football - rage inducing for meAnd then there's all this nonsense before the game:
didn't mind so much when it was just a band in Bearskins marching up and down at Wembley
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weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I like the plinths, they're fun
Yeah they're accidents waiting to happen.
Damn guys, this reads like an online version of that Grumpy Old Men programme or whatever it was called. OK a lot of this stuff is done for profit but "sporting events" like WWE and Darts (yup, bloody darts) are pioneering lots of interactive fan bobbins that people now expect.
Soon each Prem player will have his won music when he scores, team sheets will be read out as nicknames (I give you "The Beast") and there'll be all other sorts of gimmicks. Not saying it's right (though some of this new-fangled shit can be fun) but it's the way things are going.
Having said all of that, anyone with a half-and-half scarf should burn it now.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I came on to say just that. Started with the Iraq war and has continued.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Moving advertising screens. I remember the idea was mooted years ago to allow adverts around the action on TV as way of marketing to the US. I remember everyone thinking how absurd it was.
Anyone remember half and half ski hats in the 80s? Usually half your English team and half Rangers/Celtic though Aberdeen got a look in back then as well. My mate admits to owning a Rovers/Dundee United ski hat
Rovers announced a trial of goal music a few summers ago and were inundated with so many complaints and threats never to darken their turnstiles again they dropped the whole scheme
Advertising hoardings which are actively trying to distract you from the game ffsMoving advertising screens. I remember the idea was mooted years ago to allow adverts around the action on TV as way of marketing to the US. I remember everyone thinking how absurd it was.
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hiraethified
*shudder.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
They were selling them half and half scarves when we knocked Fulham out of the Cup third round in 2008 (the spivs were, not the club). Fulham ffs, I can remember when they were a guaranteed six points a season and a chance to play 'spot the top flight fan slumming it in the Enclosure' at Craven Cottage
chieftain
Mega Gammon
What he said
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I've never quite grasped the point of the half and half scarf. What is it for neutral people or something?
It's for day trippers to commemorate the one time in their life they made it to Anfield/Old Trafford/Stamford Bridge
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This increased military thing seems to have coincided with some kind of mandatory poppy emblem being slapped on shirts throughout the premiership during remembrance season and even escalating to a full on FIFA 'situation' when England played Spain a couple of years ago when England weren't allowed to brandish the thing on the shirt. Load of bollocks.
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
Fucking cheer leaders (apologies if some one else has put this, I haven't read the whole because cheer leaders piss me off so fucking much) in ANY sport.
What's the point?
Do people need to be told when to cheer?
If you don't know then don't turn up!
Plus I find it all a bit purvy to be honest, a group of post-pudescent girls dancing around in front of a ground of, inherently, middle aged men.
What's the point?
Do people need to be told when to cheer?
If you don't know then don't turn up!
Plus I find it all a bit purvy to be honest, a group of post-pudescent girls dancing around in front of a ground of, inherently, middle aged men.
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hiraethified
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Peas & Cues
Alan Shearer running with one arm aloft is one thing, Peter Crouch's "robot" I can tolerate but this lot can do one!
http://www.ftbpro.com/status/nick.s...alace&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=facebook.com
http://www.ftbpro.com/status/nick.s...alace&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=facebook.com
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Stadiums full of old men, kids almost nowhere in sight.
Yep
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Can we add stadium naming rights to the list? Another horrid US import which has crept into the game in recent years.
'The Reebok Stadium,' 'The Emirates,' and most tacky of all perhaps, Brighton & Hove's 'American Express Community Stadium'!
'The Reebok Stadium,' 'The Emirates,' and most tacky of all perhaps, Brighton & Hove's 'American Express Community Stadium'!
At least clubs make a play for families. Families spend money and lots of it. When they become late teenagers the clubs lose interest - what financial contribution can a 16 year old on minimum wage or at college make? Not a lot, so the accountants say 'fuck off then'
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Half empty corporate sponsor seating
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Steven Gerrard is a good example of another pet hate of mine: 'Media Training' - stock answers for everything, all completely PR managed, no potentially revealing insights into anything anymore. Just a generic post match obligation. Waste of airtime.
