Tippy tappy football is ruining the game
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I’ve been annoyed at the obsession that comes with slow tippy, tappy, sideways & backwards football, but today seems to be breaking all records. At the half way point in the following matches these are the main stats:
Liverpool : 60% possession 2 shots on target (both goals)
Chelsea: 75% possession 0 shots on target
Man City: 76% possession 1 shot on target
Celtic: 86% possession 0 shots on target
How can this be fun for anyone to watch? I’m flicking between some of the matches and they are absolutely dreadful. The teams would rather pass the ball back to their keeper than even attempt to score a goal.
Liverpool : 60% possession 2 shots on target (both goals)
Chelsea: 75% possession 0 shots on target
Man City: 76% possession 1 shot on target
Celtic: 86% possession 0 shots on target
How can this be fun for anyone to watch? I’m flicking between some of the matches and they are absolutely dreadful. The teams would rather pass the ball back to their keeper than even attempt to score a goal.
unident said:
I’ve been annoyed at the obsession that comes with slow tippy, tappy, sideways & backwards football, but today seems to be breaking all records. At the half way point in the following matches these are the main stats:
Liverpool : 60% possession 2 shots on target (both goals)
Chelsea: 75% possession 0 shots on target
Man City: 76% possession 1 shot on target
Celtic: 86% possession 0 shots on target
How can this be fun for anyone to watch? I’m flicking between some of the matches and they are absolutely dreadful. The teams would rather pass the ball back to their keeper than even attempt to score a goal.
Maybe the teams that they're playing have some culpability in this. Liverpool : 60% possession 2 shots on target (both goals)
Chelsea: 75% possession 0 shots on target
Man City: 76% possession 1 shot on target
Celtic: 86% possession 0 shots on target
How can this be fun for anyone to watch? I’m flicking between some of the matches and they are absolutely dreadful. The teams would rather pass the ball back to their keeper than even attempt to score a goal.
Content to stick 11 players behind the ball and hope to nick a breakaway rather than get rolled over against the big teams does not often make an exciting game.
Maybe, but with that much possession, you’d expect a decent team to be able to at least muster a couple of shots on target. It’s up to the “bigger” teams to take the game to the opposition.
Just to add Brighton have equalised and from 30% possession have managed 6 on target attempts which is double what Liverpool have managed from 70% possession.
Just to add Brighton have equalised and from 30% possession have managed 6 on target attempts which is double what Liverpool have managed from 70% possession.
Edited by unident on Saturday 30th October 16:34
unident said:
Maybe, but with that much possession, you’d expect a decent team to be able to at least muster a couple of shots on target. It’s up to the “bigger” teams to take the game to the opposition.
Just to add Brighton have equalised and from 30% possession have managed 6 on target attempts which is double what Liverpool have managed from 70% possession.
Chelsea now 3-0 upJust to add Brighton have equalised and from 30% possession have managed 6 on target attempts which is double what Liverpool have managed from 70% possession.
Edited by unident on Saturday 30th October 16:34
Monkeylegend said:
You can add poor sportsmanship, blatant cheating, contesting every decision, too much money, too many prima donnas, ridiculous celebrations for every goal, stupid hair styles, too many tattoos, lack of intelligence, racist fans, too expensive.....
but I don't want to go on too much.
100% this. It’s been destroyed. Nothing remotely enjoyable about any of it anymore. but I don't want to go on too much.
Se7enheaven said:
Monkeylegend said:
You can add poor sportsmanship, blatant cheating, contesting every decision, too much money, too many prima donnas, ridiculous celebrations for every goal, stupid hair styles, too many tattoos, lack of intelligence, racist fans, too expensive.....
but I don't want to go on too much.
100% this. It’s been destroyed. Nothing remotely enjoyable about any of it anymore. but I don't want to go on too much.
All of the stuff that’s being raised may well have a point, although some of it is a stretch. However to put the stats up at full time
Liverpool 59% possession 3 shots on target
Chelsea 80% possession 6 shots on target
Man City 68% possession 3 shots on target
Celtic 85% possession 2 shots on target
Of all of the above only Chelsea really upped their game and they won comfortably by actually trying to score. Liverpool conceded two after halftime, City had a couple of tame efforts and Celtic only had a missed penalty on target to show for all their possession.
I know it’s a small sample of a few games over one weekend, but someone in football must have the ability to work out how to win games like these.
I enjoy it when the teams that do t have much of the ball do a smash and grab and it sticks it to the boring tippy / tappy rubbish. I include my team losing when they’re playing crap football like this too.
Liverpool 59% possession 3 shots on target
Chelsea 80% possession 6 shots on target
Man City 68% possession 3 shots on target
Celtic 85% possession 2 shots on target
Of all of the above only Chelsea really upped their game and they won comfortably by actually trying to score. Liverpool conceded two after halftime, City had a couple of tame efforts and Celtic only had a missed penalty on target to show for all their possession.
I know it’s a small sample of a few games over one weekend, but someone in football must have the ability to work out how to win games like these.
I enjoy it when the teams that do t have much of the ball do a smash and grab and it sticks it to the boring tippy / tappy rubbish. I include my team losing when they’re playing crap football like this too.
smn159 said:
Also allowing murderous regimes to buy clubs. I wonder what a prospective owner would have to do to fail a 'fit and proper person' test
For balance this is the regime the U.K. sell arms to. Not sure we can ask sport to have a higher moral compass than an elected government. unident said:
Dingu said:
It’s gotta be better than what your lot are playing at Old Trafford. At least it gets results across a season.
My team are s
t. They play this atrocious football without having any hint of ability to do so. I hate watching this glacial placed tippy tappy crap. Dingu said:
Well, why not watch one of the other games available then? Burnley Brentford had 20 attempts and wouldn’t have you seething with jealousy.
I’m not sure what your problem is, but there’s no jealousy. I’m pointing out the style of football that seems to be more and more prevalent in football and my opinion of how dull it is. I was flicking between games as I stated above and these matches were the ones that should have been quite good to watch.
Anyway to more properly answer the notion that tippy tappy football is destroying the game is so absurd it’s contemptible. Some of the greatest teams in footballs history have used this style of football to enormous success. It is important to remember it is primarily a sport and not an entertainment show, if you want the reverse try WWE.
What is destroying the game is things like the previous poster alluded too. Also people like the Glaziers, FSG, Ambramovic, Agnelli etc who see it as a pure business. The super rich clubs are destroying the sport which was seen most keenly with the Super League crap and is seen in the champions league which now heavily favours a few countries instead of smaller leagues clubs having a chance.
What is destroying the game is things like the previous poster alluded too. Also people like the Glaziers, FSG, Ambramovic, Agnelli etc who see it as a pure business. The super rich clubs are destroying the sport which was seen most keenly with the Super League crap and is seen in the champions league which now heavily favours a few countries instead of smaller leagues clubs having a chance.
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