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27 September 2005 By Gaz Pearson Will all those who are saying “football is boring”, “football isn’t what it was”, “negative tactics are ruining the game”, all kindly FUCK OFF! I for one am sick to death of the media and fair-weather fans having the nerve to call football boring. Over the last few weeks the media appears to have a nose bleed that won’t stop gushing. All that’s coming from them is that football is boring, football isn’t what it was, blah blah fucking blah. Sorry but I don’t read those articles any more. I for one am sick to the back teeth of some of the London-based media slating football and even having the cheek to cite Northern football teams as the reason behind the bore. I am not a fan of the 4-5-1 formation; I am not a fan of any formation. For heaven’s sake I am a FOOTBALL FAN! The only person who should be concerned with the tactics and formation are the players and more importantly the manager. They get paid for that! What the hell can I or anyone else do about it? I am entitled to my opinion and that’s it. In my opinion if a manager wants to play 4-5-1 let him if it’s for the good of the team. José Mourinho has even been slated! I mean come on, what the fuck? Who in the hell can say Chelsea aren’t on another planet at the minute? Boring? Damn! Any other team in the country would want Mourinho and his style of play for their team. We ourselves have not been the most entertaining side to watch recently, and that’s an understatement I know but that’s football, it’s what it has always been and what it will always be. If football manager’s weren’t tactically astute then we would have matches with scores of 5-5, 6-6, 7-7 and if Sven is reading this then no mate, that’s not an idea for a formation either! So why is football being called boring? There appears to be a few reasons. Firstly, cricket. England won the Ashes for the first time in years. Congratulations to the team and congratulations to the fans. However, will all those who call themselves football fans and then say football is boring and cite the England Cricket team as real heroes and entertainers kindly fuck off! That goes for the media as well. Cricket is the flavour of the month for now, the back and front page headliner. If the England football team won the World Cup then the cricket wouldn’t even make the classified ads! And that’s where the bigger problem lies and why people are saying football is boring, the England football team. Two awful games against Denmark and Northern Ireland have left most people down in the doldrums and rightly so. However, the team’s style of play wasn’t negative, not in the way the media are trying to say Chelsea and Bolton Wanderers are. No the style was clueless by a clueless manager who hasn’t got the balls to make a decision on the players he should pick! That rant over, the key issue here is that when the England National team is doing badly then this trickles and filters down into the English leagues. A new England boss and a new mentality will come. Sven has gone stale and so has the National team. Players don’t need to play well; they know they will be picked just on name alone. Perhaps a reason as to players not performing to their full potential? Another reason for the tirade of ‘Boring’ cat-calls is down to us, the fans or rather those amongst us who call themselves fans and yet call the very game that we all hold dear to our hearts. When football fans launch attacks on football, calling the football ‘boring’ that’s tantamount to heresy in my book. When journalists and the media call football boring then that’s just clueless arseholes writing useless columns to sell newspapers and create chippy paper. Football news is fast becoming as laughable and desperate as a showbiz column. However, I, by writing this article will no doubt come in for criticism rightly or wrongly. It won’t matter. There is a bigger issue here. Football fans, Newcastle fans or any other fans, we must be a united front on this issue. English Football boring? No way. The Championship is a brilliant league (wouldn’t want to be there like) but in all seriousness you look at the Championship and there are so many teams that can beat each other. The lower leagues often serve up some real gritty performances. I mean just look at Grimsby and Doncaster in the League Cup! Boring? I think not. Now the Premiership – there is a problem. Chairmen and media alike will tell you that attendances are falling! SO FUCKING WHAT! If fair-weather fans cannot make the matches then so be it, let them go away and go back to watching their cricket or whatever. If football clubs are dropping the prices of tickets to combat this then it’s all good. Yet that won’t bring the fans back. You either love your team through thick or thin, entertaining or boring and you reap the rewards either way – win or lose - just because you’re a fan. Football on TV! Too much? Yeah right! Not enough you mean. Sorry but if there was choice between more repeats, four days of cricket, bullshit soaps and even the pathetic Match of the Day or more live football matches then I know what I would want. I cannot believe that people are even considering reducing football on TV! Yeah that’s a good idea isn’t it – in the boardroom – “Hey Dick lets take football off TV, there is too much, it’s not entertaining no more and people aren’t going to the matches, if we take it off TV then they will go…”, “ Yeah you’re right Fanny, lets get more repeats and cricket on, that’s soooo much better isn’t it!” Fuck off and leave the TV schedule alone unless you want to put more football on it. The bottom line is football isn’t boring – far from it. It’s changed, granted from the gung-ho 100mph style of yesteryear. That’s a good thing. It’s become a game of skill, tactical know-how and craft. Maybe the real reason is that media and some sections of fans cannot understand the football… its too complex for them? Sounds silly I know but how else do you explain people calling football boring. That’s more ludicrous! If English football is boring then what the hell is cricket, golf, motor racing or tennis? It’s time for the press lads and ladies to get some new material and refrain from criticising football. It’s time for some football fans to get some loyalty to the game back. © Gaz Pearson
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