football rant

had my telephone interview on thursday and it seemed to go ok. might hear something back from them this coming week. 

had football last on thursday as well and i did not enjoy it at all. i have had quite a few times recently where i have not like it as much as i used to. anyways, it all ended with me getting frustrated with it all and in the last minute i slid in hard against one of the guys on the other team and commited a hard foul. it was not a nice thing to do but there were mitigating circumstances leading up to it. 

firstly, i play football to play football and not just to run around for an hour on a thursday night. i was already annoyed 2 minutes into the game because we had a guy in goal who did 2 terrible mistakes and let in 2 easy goals. he then had the nerve to then turn to me and tell me i have to run around more. excuse me!. you just fucked up twice and you are giving me advice on how to play the game. 

here is some advice for you. when you are in goal, play the ball out to someone on your own team and not straight to the opposition player who then takes one step and slams the ball straight past you. oh, and then do not do the same thing 60 seconds later with the same result. i suggest you concentrate on your own deficiencies than telling others what they are doing wrong. when you fuck up in goal at any level, just remember it was your fault and keep your mouth shut. dont start instructing your team mates what they should do, see clip below



above is similar to what he did....twice in 2 minutes, and then he got mouthy afterwards. 


secondly, there are 2 guys on the other team who just do niggling kicks at you. its not hard and its not malicous. its just that they are a bit clumsy and dont really know how to play. whenever you are in possesion and shielding the ball from one of them they insist on trying to kick the ball from around you even though you have your body between the ball and unless they have legs that are a foot longer, its impossible to get the ball. they just end up banging into your knees and ankles. see clip below. even these school children dont attempt to kick around the player when he is shielding the ball. kids know that shit, so why dont you fellas, but they insist on trying to kick the ball and only end up kicking your knee or ankle of calf, because the ball is out of reach. 





anyways, after an hour of this shit as well as people running with ball and incapable of passing it, missing easy chances to score goals which makes the clip below look like nothing, i had had enough. 



i have played football all my life. i love playing and i dont care if my team wins or loses. i just dont like spending an hour running around in the cold, passing it to team mates and trying to play properly whilst people who know less about playing the game tell me how to play the game and people with a fraction of the talent and skill kick me every time i get the ball, so i snapped. its happened before as well. about 6 months ago the exact same thing happened. i didnt end up going the following week so it would give me a break from it. 

we had a really good group of friends that played with us when we first started playing about 6 or 7 years ago. since then a few of them have dropped out for one reason or another and to make up the numbers, a few new guys have started playing that clearly have never played the game much before. i used to play every day at school. i played for my school team from the age of 7 all the way through high school till i was 18 and i carried on playing with my friends in the summer when i was university. some of these guys look like they never played at school in the playground let alone for a school team in a proper game and some of them have clearly no idea about how to play the game. they cant shoot, they cant kick with both feet, they cant control the ball and they kick you in the knee and calf when you are shielding the ball and despite the fact they did not get the ball insist on trying again and again to do it, to the point a few minutes later you are so angry that you charge in and do a hard foul against them.