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Saw the game today and I made quite a poignant comment regarding the sport of football.
It’s the only sport which allows cheating and ill mannered behaviour. I made a statement to a friend at the Soccerdome that I could list more than one dive etc per weekend and report back on the Monday. I managed this weekly with no problem.
This game is seriously wrong and having taken the step back 4-5 years ago allows me to see this in a clear light, not a dimmed view with an allegiance which dilutes judgement.
EdinburghLatic wrote:
Bottom line with the premiership is that it is a commercial entity, they need to sell the product, whilst very rarely worrying about ethics or fair play. Wigan are a blot on the landscape that has been taken by Blackpool, Sjoke etc over recent years. But Like Hull when we go down we will be forgotten about.RetiredFan wrote:
What an excellent first paragraph, in a nutshell.I’m delighted to say Wigan still has many “pure” fans who can see the wood through the tree’s, just look at the rest! One of Edinburgh’s reasons above stopped me going after the first season in the Premiership and I’ve never, ever looked back.
What I have found are more complaints and “missing souls”, all stemming from my reasoning for giving up on football. The problem is people keep going in a sort of blind faith like their clubs care for them for going, which is quite the opposite.
The Premiership is a freak show where referee’s are involved. How many of us heard of a Chief Exec 10 years ago? When there’s so much money around big stadiums get built to maximise profits, football has become this and I liken it to American Football, just not a bigger scale. All the stadia look the same and have no shred of character about them, the DW is one of the worst “Modern” stadiums I have entered along with Stoke (albeit slightly older).
Football was for the working man to go at the weekend and “hope” for a victory, entertain themselves where possible in a content lifestyle. Nowadays people are baying for blood to get a result and quite happily see their own players dive to get that result.
This for me is out and out cheating, corruption whatever you may call it. Everyone’s involved in the bigger picture so I had my own private disagreement with the game and how its ran and stopped going.
Never looked back since. I could never stop caring for Wigan Athletic and especially those fans who I regard as “real supporters” who know what they’re talking about. It has it;s fair share of blinded idiots also who generally are noticable by their appearance of the last few seasons of top flight success.
So if we go down will you start going on a gain ?[/quote]
No.
EdinburghLatic wrote:
Bottom line with the premiership is that it is a commercial entity, they need to sell the product, whilst very rarely worrying about ethics or fair play. Wigan are a blot on the landscape that has been taken by Blackpool, Sjoke etc over recent years. But Like Hull when we go down we will be forgotten about.RetiredFan wrote:
What an excellent first paragraph, in a nutshell.I’m delighted to say Wigan still has many “pure” fans who can see the wood through the tree’s, just look at the rest! One of Edinburgh’s reasons above stopped me going after the first season in the Premiership and I’ve never, ever looked back.
What I have found are more complaints and “missing souls”, all stemming from my reasoning for giving up on football. The problem is people keep going in a sort of blind faith like their clubs care for them for going, which is quite the opposite.
The Premiership is a freak show where referee’s are involved. How many of us heard of a Chief Exec 10 years ago? When there’s so much money around big stadiums get built to maximise profits, football has become this and I liken it to American Football, just not a bigger scale. All the stadia look the same and have no shred of character about them, the DW is one of the worst “Modern” stadiums I have entered along with Stoke (albeit slightly older).
Football was for the working man to go at the weekend and “hope” for a victory, entertain themselves where possible in a content lifestyle. Nowadays people are baying for blood to get a result and quite happily see their own players dive to get that result.
This for me is out and out cheating, corruption whatever you may call it. Everyone’s involved in the bigger picture so I had my own private disagreement with the game and how its ran and stopped going.
Never looked back since. I could never stop caring for Wigan Athletic and especially those fans who I regard as “real supporters” who know what they’re talking about. It has it;s fair share of blinded idiots also who generally are noticable by their appearance of the last few seasons of top flight success.
Bottom line with the premiership is that it is a commercial entity, they need to sell the product, whilst very rarely worrying about ethics or fair play. Wigan are a blot on the landscape that has been taken by Blackpool, Sjoke etc over recent years. But Like Hull when we go down we will be forgotten about.What an excellent first paragraph, in a nutshell.
Big con. Start an argument about any old c-rap and then get some mug to call in on a premium rate line and keep them hanging on for 20 plus minutes.As I said above! :D
An incredibly poor radio station which provokes listener calls by pitting each other off to create an argument about crap to entice people to phone.
Its the only station also that fans still “normal” in the grand scheme of things never take part in it probably because of the top 4 bumming they do.
Gordon Bennett! Talk about getting carried away by the media tossing off when they change their minds on a weekly basis as to who wins the league or goes down, at Xmas!
There’s 13 games left, ample time to get some good points. If there’s 5 games to go it would be more realistic to forecast.
As I already pointed out above regarding the ability of cerain players to manipulate games…
You know where your going when players like Fabregas manipulate the game by hitting the floor more times than soft Mick.
Nobody seemed to know who was marking who, Caldwell’s awful and NZog again looking for the money shot by taking on men we know he won’t beat or ever does regularly.