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The first question every single one of these cnts should be asked is... what you doing for pre-season?
These poor, overworked Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal players are all in America up to and including the Saturday before the Friday of the first match of the season, playing each other in fcking NFL and baseball stadiums.
When you're doing stuff like that, you forgo any right at all to talk about too many games or player burn out.
Also worth saying that all these global tours deprive the clubs lower down of another earner. Idiot scum like us used to be able to count on a friendly against a Spurs-type side in the last Saturday before the season which would get 10,000 or so in at £10-20 a throw, now they're too busy fcking about selling shirts to the Japanese. For clubs lower down - Grimsby, Scunny types - that final friendly of the summer (I saw Keegan bring Newcastle, Joe Royle bring Man City to Glanford Park) was worth six figures to them.
Yes we kept an eye on RealTimeTrains and saw the 1743 had been held by police, sitting in the curry house all smug we were, until the Stone Islanders booted off.
Only ever had two spots. Used to stand right at the back in the corner between P and Q blocks with dad, then moved to the front of F in SARS for 99/00, been in that seat ever since.
It's another one of those 'football's not for us any more' moments. Because of course you and I would far rather watch Mac v Cardiff, or Maidstone, and find Man Utd v Fulham utterly tedious. But it's not for us any more is it? ITV sell advertising against the games, and know full well what audience they'll get for both. It's for the Mark Goldbridge generation, who consume football entirely through screens.
While the World Cup, Euros, World Club Cup and Champions League all rapidly expand into stodgy, bloated tournaments, played increasingly in the US and Middle East.
We all know what's going on here, who's driving it, and why. Completely unequal, uncompetitive competitive games between the haves and have nots, with rotating pitchside advertising telling you about the real quiz - Liverpool v Man Utd, Philadelphia, July 27.
League Cup will be ditched next, or become like the EFL Trophy where idiot scum like us are privileged to draw "Chelsea U21s" to "create more first team opportunities" for the thousands of teenagers they've hoovered up from clubs that would have given them actual first team opportunities.
Sick sport really, I have very little love for it any more outside of QPR.
Even as a general spectacle I find the Premier League largely unwatchable because of the omnipresent involvement of the VAR. I'll get into a game, a goal will be scored, 'fck me we've got a big 20 minutes coming up here' I'll think to myself getting ready to settle in, five minutes later some cnt with a laptop has discovered that somebody had an arse cheek an inch offside in 'the first phase' during which they brushed a defender who may subsequently have been impeded from getting to the guy who actually scored in 'the second phase' and therefore we can't have a goal for that. It's usually at that point I put The Hairy Bikers Mediterranean Tour on again.
I used to rabidly consume everything, every minute, every game, every channel. There were two Champions League quarter finals last night and I had 20 minutes of Man City on while I ate my dinner, then curled up with a book instead.
I watch every bit of Championship, but even that's basically so I can cover it properly for LFW. Those games often completely ruined by the refereeing, the gamesmanship, and the parachute payments. Leeds Blackburn Saturday, Blackburn goalkeeper standing with the ball in his hands for 30 seconds, a referee who sent Jimmy Dunne off for re-entering the field without permission and then scuffing up a penalty spot unwilling to do anything because "referees feel the punishment of an indirect free kick in the box is not proportionate to the offence, and is hard to set up and police anyway".
I reckon I genuinely watch more Australian rugby league than British football outside the Championship now, and as soon as that inevitably goes down the ten-match ban for an accidental clash of heads route the British game has taken that'll be me done with that as well.
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