Play but why watch? (Football in General)

Member Name: jessyclown

Product:	Football in General
Date:	24/10/01 (100 review reads)
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Advantages: Keeps you fit , keeps kids off the street , social events

Disadvantages: noise, bad language, violence

I am probably going upset a lot of people with this opinion but this is my opinion and I know that it is not the same as many other people. I have formed my opinion on football over many years and I am quite convinced that I am right, well I feel this way about football?

Football is game where 22 people run up and down a field kicking a ball and trying to get into a net. Actually it is not always 22 as sometimes more people will play and other times less.

THE AMATEUR GAME

I think that football is a great game for children to play. I love to walk past a school field and see children chasing a ball and having fun. When the children join a team it is good to see them learning to work together, acquiring skills and getting exercise. Football is a great game for schools.

When people leave school there is no reason to stop playing the game it is a great way to socialise and get exercise at the same time. It is good to see students, young adults and even older adults having a game of football. I would even go to watch a team play if I knew the people playing. Football is a good game for amateurs.

THE PROFESSIONAL GAME

Professional football is where I have a problem. I can not see the appeal in watching 22 overpaid professional footballers running around after a ball. I know that these young men, usually, are skilled players. I can admire the fact that they can kick a ball in a straight line and get it to the spot it is wanted. I know the professionals play the game well.

Footballers are paid far too much not all of them I know but some are paid more in a week than I am likely to earn in a lifetime! When people are paid so much you should expect a certain amount of professionalism in their behaviour but when you see these people on the pitch they regularly argue with the referee. If there is an opportunity to treat the opposite team badly and get away with it they will. The behaviour on the pitc
h is not what I would expect from a school team!

Supporters, people who for some strange reason want to watch the match, often act like warring tribes. The songs sung by supporters and the words shouted out from the terraces I would not want to be repeated in my hearing. The way supporters treat some of the footballers and the referee is sometimes quite abusive.

It is a shame that football has been associated with too much hooliganism and I know that this is not from the real supporters but the thugs who go to cause trouble but the two things are closely associated in many peoples mind.

The worst thing about the game of football in my opinion is the noise of a match. The sound of crowds shouting, cheering and singing combines together to make a cacophony of sound which is quite abhorrent to my ears. There are many times when I have to leave the presence of my husband watching football because I can not stand the noise. I am aware of other sports, which sound equally noisy, but I hear less of them!

If you like football, go out and kick a ball around with a few mates. Have some fun then relax but do not expect me to like the game any more.

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