Disillusioned does not begin to describe how I feel after today; at the moment there are but just a few dying embers left in my heart.
Today is a milestone in my support, it’s the first time ever that I’ve wanted to leave a football match at half-time, I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I’ve even considered the idea of leaving early. It’s the first time ever that I’ve not been interested in the other results, this from someone who likes to keep abreast of all the top flight English Leagues. I’m so disgusted with today that I couldn’t even listen to the results on the radio.
Well what about today?
QPR, if diving, cheating and play-acting is what you’ve sunk to in order to win a match then frankly you’ve reached the bottom of the cesspit of football. I’d be ashamed to be one of your supporters.
The Referee – should we call him that, inept, jobs worth that was suckered into ever trick that QPR could muster. Wasting more time on his own than QPR could’ve dreamt of managing. When will referees realise that they are officiating what is supposed to be entertainment, if they are doing their job properly they should be anonymous, we don’t pay good money to watch them. Dismissals should be the last resort, not the first and not as a result of some playacting and bowing to the pressure of a bunch of players hell bent on ruining the game. If he were a relative or close friend of mine I’d tell him to pack it in.
Leicester City – well do they understand that the game is first and foremost about teamwork, the collective strength that that brings, hopefully sprinkled with a little individual brilliance. That was 11, sorry 10 individuals out there today I could barely see one trace of working together as a team, ok there were one or two example of individual excellence. Should we be surprised with the increasingly bizarre team selections/positions that we see?
I can accept losing, I can accept some periods of poor play but football is taking the piss if it thinks that collective display today had anything remotely to do with football and to then expect people to pay significant sums of money to see it, well unless someone can relight those dying embers for me they will not being seeing much more of my hard earned cash, I’ll gladly give it to someone else or go and watch the kids on the local park