Food trucks were supposed to be the budget option. Now they cost the same as sit-down restaurants. Eating on a sidewalk shouldn’t cost restaurant prices.
How can you watch Jude play and think “yeah, let’s play him as a #10” this guy has been misprofiled so bad.
He’s a box to box midfielder for Christ sake.
FA Cup final 2025.
Manchester City v Chelsea
• Lowest Wembley Attendance ever with 84,163
• Lowest Viewing figures ever with only 5.9 Million views (in 2015 it was 10 Million).
Is it the FA Cup that’s lost its magic or is it these two clubs simply have shit fan bases? Or is it nobody wanted to watch a bore fest between two cheats?
Football is fucked, isn’t it? Dreadful FA Cup final. PL has been the poorest it’s been in years. VAR continues to ruin games and any excitement, as goals are likely to be ruled out. Yet there’s never been more money in the game. Dross. Bring back 4-4-2 and a big bastard upfront.
The FA Cup Final was once an historic cultural event. People still remember Sunderland in 73 or Cov in 87.
Today’s game has the feel of a charity match. Two interchangeable lineups of foreign millionaires bankrolled by foreign billionaires. Empty seats. No identity. Yookay slop.
What a dreadful advert for the FA Cup this final is....and this ref hasn't helped. Stopping the game every opportunity he can for soft fouls. Let the game flow!
What I miss in football:
~ FA Cup Final being a national event
~ Home International Championships
~ FA Cup multiple replays
~ Teams like Forest, Derby, Ipswich & QPR having a chance of winning the title
~ Huge heaving terraces
~ Proper wingers
~ Proper tackles
~ Maverick players
🚨💣 West Ham believe the Premier League is working against them and fear the club is being pushed toward relegation this season.
People inside the club think Tottenham’s bigger commercial and TV value could be influencing decisions in their favor.
West Ham are now considering legal action over refereeing decisions, with several incidents from this season being reviewed internally.
The club is also looking into matches involving rival teams, with growing belief that the mistakes are more than just “human error.”
[@Mercado_Ingles]
🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on FIFA turning the World Cup Final into a Super Bowl circus:
“Football is losing its soul little by little. A World Cup Final is supposed to be the purest form of football, pressure, intensity, emotion, tactics, suffering, history. Not a halftime concert made for social media clips and celebrities in vip seats.
When you play at the highest level, your body is programmed around rhythm. Fifteen minutes. That’s what every footballer in the world has known since childhood. Your muscles stay warm, your concentration stays locked in, your emotions stay alive. Now imagine players sitting there for 25 minutes during the biggest game of their lives because FIFA wants a bigger TV spectacle.
People think footballers are robots. They are not. Momentum is real. If one team is dominating before halftime, that long break can completely kill the intensity of the game. It changes everything tactically and mentally. You cool down physically, you lose adrenaline, and then people expect players to immediately return playing at 100 miles per hour.
And let’s be honest here, this is not about football, it’s about money and entertainment. They want football to become the Super Bowl. More commercials, more performances, more headlines, more celebrities. But football became the biggest sport in the world without all of that. The game itself was enough.
The dangerous part is that if the final quality drops or players get injured because of these changes, fans will attack the players first. They will say certain stars disappeared in the second half or failed under pressure, without understanding the conditions were completely changed for a television show.
For me, the World Cup Final should feel sacred. Ninety minutes of war between the best players on earth. Not a pause long enough for the world to forget the match is even happening.”
@UTDlarry How can you win a header in the box by beating your opponent for height and a penalty given? Struggling to watch games these days with how bad these refs are