What Concerns You About Football?

Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
VAR

State Ownership of Football Clubs

Lack of Diversity in coaching and backroom posts

Ticket prices & away game ticket distributions

The over priced and poor quality of food and drink available in concourses and outside football grounds

Short notice of changing game KO's and the implications fans have with expensive travel arrangements

Premiership Parachute Payments & a level playing field.

increased number of substitutes benefitting the bigger and richer clubs
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What Johnny said 👍👍👍👍👍
Especially VAR. It can **** right off!
 
1, Money is the be all and end all in football. Player wages are insane and makes them out of touch with reality.

2, Not allowed to have a beer while watching the game but you can sit in a box and get smashed and it’s actually encouraged.

3, Segregation in grounds is pathetic especially at Boro it’s not 1985 anymore.
4, Prices for tickets are way too high.

5, Clubs should have fans on the board to discuss issues and find solutions.

6, FIFA is a disgusting corrupt organisation that needs a major shakeup .
 
The toilet paper in modern stadia. Ayaaaaz! 😖

Alan Shearer’s charisma Black Hole still somehow making it onto MOTD regularly.

The Adidas Predator boot - it’s going to revolutionise the game and lead to many more banana kicks…. But it is cheating?
 
1. Stop the clock when a player rolls around on the floor, and when substitutes are made. Ref should just make a time out sign and an independent person stops the clock. Have a count down timer in the ground for all to see. Just like rugby league.

2. Stop the harassment of the ref. There was an experiment a while ago to stop this, what happened?

3. More toilet cubicles so the men don't have to queue at half time for a line. (My mate Ginger Harry asked me to put forward that suggestion)
 
PGMOL - I despise diving, feigning injury, timewasting, backchat and general sh1thousery. The laws are perfectly adequate for dealing with such behaviour, but referees associations, under pressure from vested interests, won't allow refs to implement them. I want to see a (hopefully brief) period of red card carnage and operant conditioning until conduct improves.
 
VAR - I now barely pay attention to the premier league, VAR was the last straw. If it came into the championship I think that would be me done with professional football.

Corruption being rife throughout the game, starting with FIFA.

Dodgy, immoral and unfit ownership of football clubs.

Diving/play acting/time wasting all spoil the enjoyment and when it’s not reflected in added on time it’s frustrating.
 
The total monopoly of the big 5/6 clubs in England, resulting in a near closed shop for all competitions.

Diving, cheating, time wasting. Should have an official in the stands whose only job is to stop and start the clock, as in Rugby Union.
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
State Ownership of Football Clubs
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relfyoftheboro said:
Entire Countries owning football clubs
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i would echo these but also expand to "Multi-Club Ownership". this will be far and away the biggest issue in football in the coming years when owners have multiple clubs. and it isn't just "owners", some of these owners are countries/states.

i also have concerns about American specific ownership in the English leagues and the monopoly on voting that they may have in the coming years
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
VAR

State Ownership of Football Clubs

Lack of Diversity in coaching and backroom posts

Ticket prices & away game ticket distributions

The over priced and poor quality of food and drink available in concourses and outside football grounds

Short notice of changing game KO's and the implications fans have with expensive travel arrangements

Premiership Parachute Payments & a level playing field.

increased number of substitutes benefitting the bigger and richer clubs
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Spot on. Football is now simply a business and the fans are a necessary inconvenience. Necessary because those who choose to pay Rupert Murdoch to watch the game prefer to see real supporters and genuine crowd noise, as we saw during Covid.
It all started to go wrong when we let fans sit down.
 
Introduce a wage cap which drives the ever spiralling costs in football. This will help stop the disparity between the Prem and the rest of football and help keep ticket costs down.
 
Many thanks for all the feedback -
Taking all these responses alongside all the replies from other Boro fans from across the forum of supporters -
I have put forward three broad topics -
Pricing in football including away prices.
Constant fixture changes for tv at short notice (how this is hitting hard in cost of living crisis and train strikes etc).
Behaviour of some fans at away games etc.

There were so many great points raised but I was only allotted three replies and I really expect other clubs will raise similar concerns to the many listed here.
 
Humpty said:
Quite simply the lack of real competition.
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You were born over a century too late - you could have gone down the Paradise Ground and followed the Nops, Middlesbrough Ironopolis. They were competition in their day. And it was a pretty intense and unfriendly rivalry by all accounts.
 
bad money/unethical owners buying football clubs and their supporters not caring
corporatization, globalization and branding before community
homophobia and racism
ticket prices
players rolling around on the deck
media obsession with Man U and top 6 in general.. as if no other teams matter
Champions league/achieving top 4, as if nothing else matters
Anything to do with Man U (apart from Carrick)
Anything to do with Beckham and C. Ronaldo
 
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