Lower league tropes

[Agombar stool]

When Sky Sports place fourth division journeymen on a pedestal because they can score a good free kick now and again.

'If Messi scored the free kick that Anton Rodgers scored against Bradford they would be showing clips of it for weeks on end.'

No, they really wouldn't people, calm down a bit huh!

 

[joethegill]

'If Messi scored the free kick that Anton Rodgers scored against Bradford they would be showing clips of it for weeks on end.'

No, they really wouldn't people, calm down a bit huh!

On that point, how many goals actually get repeated for weeks on end/raved about for weeks? Not that many.

 

[Agombar stool]

On that point, how many goals actually get repeated for weeks on end/raved about for weeks? Not that many.

Maybe Maradona's 2 in 86? Even those ludicrous goals by Giroud and Mikatharian were forgotten about after a few days at the most.

 

[Third Team Lucky]

If it's Trevor Kettle it's usually fair, to be fair.

Or Darren Dreadful......
Or Gavin Ward.....
Or Lee Collins.....
Or Ten Boner.....
Or Lee Probert.....

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[Indian Dan]

Maybe Maradona's 2 in 86? Even those ludicrous goals by Giroud and Mikatharian were forgotten about after a few days at the most.

How about that Dean Windass goal - JJH loves that one!

 

[joethegill]

Maybe Maradona's 2 in 86? Even those ludicrous goals by Giroud and Mikatharian were forgotten about after a few days at the most.

Casemiro scored a goal on tuesday considerably better than any in League One this season, it was repeated a couple of times in the next 24 hours but after that nothing!

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Whenever Wayne Rooney scores cos the media are so far up his rotten arse.

That said, I think there's a split. Sportswriters and Sky Sports pundits tend to be up his arse, tabloid gossip merchants absolutely despise him, there's just no middle ground.

 

[UTS]

How clubs get branded for eternity..

"Doing a Stockport"

"Doing a Blackpool"

"Doing a Bournemouth"

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

When you watch Channel 5 and George Riley asks the lower league pundit "Should *insert club here* sack their manager?" and the reply is almost always "I know *insert name here* he's a great bloke and yes they've lost 9 in a row but they need to give the man more time".

 

[EricSabin]

Or how every pundit on Channel 5 seems to have seen every game played that weekend

Iwelumo: "Billy Sharp was everywhere in the first half and deserved his goal"

"Bolton were full value for their win"

"Yeah the boy from Blackpool was terrific today"

"Cuthbert was a rock for Luton, won every header"


HOW DID YOU SEE ALL OF THIS

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

The filtering down of Sky Sports style 'pundit talk' and in depth analysis of a performance to lower league fans. It makes for the worst radio of all time when Radio Stoke dedicate 5 minutes to 'fans in the stand' talking about whether we should play 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-1-3-2 or 4-1-1-2-2. It's all clueless bullshit.

Oh this one million times over.

 

[PuB]

Being perennially talked about being a big physical side (because you had a big physical side a decade ago) but now have a team of midgets

 

[Muzzle]

An ex manager who hasn't been at the club for over 10 years still gets talked about or to when sky decide to show you on TV..........it was years ago, get over yourselves

 

[Camborne Gills]

Look how far x team have come since they were in L1, having scraped past a plucky underdog in a play off final that never gets referred to, ever.

 

[LS Bantam]

When you make the odd appearance on Sky and the commentator makes out you're world class in a particular area, 'They're such a great threat from out wide' and you think, 'Christ mate, we can't cross for sh*t'

 

[iWomble]

the amount of lower league fans that blame referees for their team's ineptitude seems to be pretty high.

It's a little-known fact that theories of quantum mechanics and relativity are based on football referees, since they're simultaneously biased against both teams and the more convinced one side is that a decision is wrong, the more the other side is convinced it's right.

 

[Museshrimper]

Don't forget those fans after a 7 match winless run who want their managers sacked. Southend fans wanting Phil Brown out was absolutely hilarious now look at them.

I agree with you, but a bad example in fairness to those who wanted Brown gone. We had a run of 27 games from January 2016 to end of September where we won 4 times. At that stage we were also getting beat 2+ in all our away games.

 

[Ciderhead]

When two localish sides meet that aren't main rivals:
"It's their cup final! We don't even care about them really tbh"

"If we can't win this today then we're doomed" - A team sat 18th in January

 

[bantamigo]

When you sign someone from he Belgian 4th division with a foreign name and cream yourself about how class he's going to be and he leaves after 6 months with 2 sub appearances under his belt.

 

[Ciderhead]

Or how every pundit on Channel 5 seems to have seen every game played that weekend

Iwelumo: "Billy Sharp was everywhere in the first half and deserved his goal"

"Bolton were full value for their win"

"Yeah the boy from Blackpool was terrific today"

"Cuthbert was a rock for Luton, won every header"


HOW DID YOU SEE ALL OF THIS

Definitely scope for a sub-section for Idiotic Pundits

Mills and Dublin on Final Score today, after Middlesbrough's winner vs Oxford: "They just got a bit carried away thinking they could go on and get the victory. Sometimes you've got to know when to just step back and take a point, take a replay"

5 minutes later, Millwall score their winner vs Leicester, and without a shred of self-awareness: "What's great about them is they didn't just sit back and settle for a replay, they really went for it, and they've got their rewards"

Eejits.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I agree with you, but a bad example in fairness to those who wanted Brown gone. We had a run of 27 games from January 2016 to end of September where we won 4 times. At that stage we were also getting beat 2+ in all our away games.

Still better form than Steve Davis' for us that is, and some of our idiotic fans wanted him to stay!

 

[Jockney]

Definitely scope for a sub-section for Idiotic Pundits

Mills and Dublin on Final Score today, after Middlesbrough's winner vs Oxford: "They just got a bit carried away thinking they could go on and get the victory. Sometimes you've got to know when to just step back and take a point, take a replay"

5 minutes later, Millwall score their winner vs Leicester, and without a shred of self-awareness: "What's great about them is they didn't just sit back and settle for a replay, they really went for it, and they've got their rewards"

Eejits.

With ten men too!

 

[4froale]

When your team signs a shedload of youngsters from various well known teams around the world and you think your going to win the league, the fa cup, wimbledon, the grand national and the superbowl.

No names. Port Vale.

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

But we DO have the best keeper in the league?!...

We don't...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Then there are the fans that follow their club so closely that they think they won L2 last year when they actually finished 3rd.

Or those who thought they were way better than every other team in that division, finishing second and 13 points behind the team that took six points off them...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

'We outnumbered the home support'

We made more noise than the home support, when it happens at nearly every home ground library anyway...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Ex player: he always scores against us...

 

[IanPVFC]

When your team signs a shedload of youngsters from various well known teams around the world and you think your going to win the league, the fa cup, wimbledon, the grand national and the superbowl.

No names. Port Vale.

We've still got to play Wimbledon so don't write us off yet!!

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

When your team signs a shedload of youngsters from various well known teams around the world and you think your going to win the league, the fa cup, wimbledon, the grand national and the superbowl.

No names. Port Vale.

One Vale fan seemed in total opposition to this transfer policy and phoned up Radio Stoke complaining about the number of "Johnny Foreigners" (his words) that have ruined the heart and soul of the club.

Does fit in the "Oh he played for Monaco/Sporting Lisbon though he must be good" compared to the "Hyde United? He must be shite" bracket of lower league fans though.

 

[Jockney]

How often do those sort of signing work out? Only Swansea off the top of my head, though we spent five years outside of this division during that time so I am willing to be corrected...