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Top 5 Matchday Annoyances

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What?! Another moan-based thread from my good self i hear you scream in desperation. Well yes and we feel all the better for getting things out in the open don't we? :nod:

Pretty self explanatory, what things annoy you on a matchday? List up to 5 if you'd be so kind.

1. Parking - depending on where you go it can be a pain in the arse.
2. Farting - having to inhale another persons gut gas in the close confines of a football stadium is childish and offensive.
3. People who turn up at five past three when everyone has sat down and wants to get down the aisle you're sitting on.
4. Lack of space in the ground, i like my space whether i'm sat or stood. I've been to big games involving big teams which were sell outs and you have to spend 90 minutes sat next to someone ( usually the size of a bus ) cramped up and claustrophobic. That's one of the best things about supporting Torquay generally is that at most places there i always plenty of space ( unless we get chucked in to a cramped stand and they underestimate how many we'll bring as happens regularly ).
5. Swearing all the time. I swear now and again when i get peed off, who doesn't but i remember going my first experiences going to the footy with my old man who used to take me to Hillsborough with him regularly when i was young. In those days there were no family stands anf the like and it was so uncomfortable as a child having to sit through 90 minutes of incessant foul language. To be fair to Torquay, the use of bad language is quite tepid and generally at an acceptable level. It's just when you get someone doing it all game. Gets on my t*ts. I'm hoping to take my little un soon enough and i don't wish for her to get the impression that footy fans are aggressive and it put her off going.

There are the other usual things like ticket prices, rip off food etc but if you have anything different i'd be interested to know. Cheers all. :scarf:
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Post by ferrarilover »

AustrianGullAndy is my top annoyance, every time I see him at a match, we lose.

That said, I agree with the farting thing, utterly hideous.

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Hey, i'm not going tomorrow to give you lot a fighting chance of witnessing a half decent game culminating in a win so leave off Matt! :red:

;-)

Someone let one rip in his face tomorrow please. :-D
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The walk up Westhill Road (but that might just be my body going into shock at actually having to do some exercise)

People looking up the scores of other games during the match. Half time I can understand, but why pay £17 to watch Torquay then spend the time prodding away at your phone? Bizarre.

This might just be me, but I like to find the day's scores out when I watch MOTD and the FLS (unless I've been to a match, obviously...). So it always irritates me when someone gives a result away beforehand - I have an uncanny knack of turning the TV on just as they're doing the results, so I end up with a Likely Ladsesque news blackout on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Yeah, probably just me then...
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1. The obvious one, the price. Fookin rediculous at every level, but the top two flights are taking the Michael! :@
2. All seater stadia. Didn't make a great deal of difference at Hillsboro last night (Dirty L**ds Cnuts). :@ :@
3. Smoking. Some (but not all) clubs have smoking areas. Thats ok (I dont partake of the filthy habit) but the areas are largely ignored and filthy smokers tend to think its their right to inflict their dirty,disgusting stinking habit on me. Hey, guess what? You cant, I have the right to clean-ish air! Fook off and die on your own! :@ :@ :@
4. 70s Hoolies wannabees. Chavvy spotty kids gobbing off when really they sh1t themselves unless they have about a 6-1 advantage. :@ :@ :@ :@
5.Singers. YES SINGERS! If you want to sing thats ok, no prob, but I prefer to watch, anylise, scrutinise, swear, grumble, rant, moan, cry, shout. I do not sing, never have AND DO NOT EXPECT TO BE VILIFIED BECAUSE I DON'T!. :@ :@ :@ :@ :@
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Post by AustrianAndyGull »

Agree with the phone thing Emet. Some people have their entire lives run by their moby and it's extremely embarrassing to hav let themselves get like that. I was at Macc a few seasons back sat in the seats and it was half time. There was a dad with his son sat with him in the rows in front, lad must have only been about 12 but as soon as the half time whistle blew they both got their phones out and started fiddling and not communicating at all. I actually looked at the bloke with some contempt and wanted to shout at him,'TALK TO YOUR CHILD YOU ABSOLUTE RETARD! COMMUNICATE WITH HIM AND HAVE A DISCUSSION, HAVE A LAUGH ABOUT THE MATCH YOU SAD EXCUSE FOR A FATHER AND MAN!!!'. No wonder kids are brain dead nowadays.
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Post by EmetEdadsBeard »

What phone thing? :-/
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Sorry Emet, it was the post before by Heavenandhele about phones.
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Violence of any kind at matches or before and after. why anyone can't go to any sort of acitvity and have the self control to make sure they behave I cannot for the life of me fathom out.
If Matt and I can get on together with out fighting over our differences then why can't others. including the moron who bricked Yeovils coach.
If they have to stoop to those levels then they really do have more issues than Austrian Andy Gull. I know cos he said it himself lol.
Idiots who get drunk at matches and make our lives a misery.
Football clubs arranging matches when I can't go but desperatly want to. Ie this weekend. I know we lost but that's not the point. I still wanted to go. The football league will have to come to me to find out when I am not available in future.
Crap overpriced food. Nuff sed.
Crap atmosphere. if there is one thing that spoils a match for me is being the only fans who wants to sing or stuck with idiots who think that it's wrong to support your team by singing. I was told once that "We don't sing at Plainmoor" Well I got news for you mateys. We do so get used to it. And the more the merrier. There's no one who wants to sing more than me even if it's the song. One of me singing, There's only one of me singing". The only song I cannot sing is
"I'm not singing any more"! Stands to reason dunnit.
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the 5 matchday annoyances as experienced out in the colonies
1. No longer able to get Radio Devon on the internet radio
2. BBC Livetext
3. BBC Livetext
4. BBC Livetext
5. Waiting 18 hrs to see the highlights on gullplayer
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Fans of obscure northern clubs slagging off the away facilities in the bench! ;-)

That and Billy Bodin on the teamsheet. :lol:



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Logging on to our favourite footy forum and finding adverts trying to convert us all to that awfull american game. I can't even bring myself to call it Football. And to add to that they have the nerve to call it the world series. For Goodness sake. it's only played in the US you bunch of sycophantic Apple polishing. Ass licking. Bootlicking. Brown nosing. Morons. Get real. There is more to the world than the USA. there are 4 other continents as well you know.
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Glostergull wrote:Logging on to our favourite footy forum and finding adverts trying to convert us all to that awfull american game. I can't even bring myself to call it Football. And to add to that they have the nerve to call it the world series. For Goodness sake. it's only played in the US you bunch of sycophantic Apple polishing. Ass licking. Bootlicking. Brown nosing. Morons. Get real. There is more to the world than the USA. there are 4 other continents as well you know.
Sorry Louis. Not your fault I know. Just a rant that's all.

Not to the Americans there's not
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I somehow got a feeling that, that was what my point was. Doh!

Now be a good Gulls fan and go to bed. :slap:
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Glostergull wrote:Logging on to our favourite footy forum and finding adverts trying to convert us all to that awfull american game. I can't even bring myself to call it Football. And to add to that they have the nerve to call it the world series. For Goodness sake. it's only played in the US you bunch of sycophantic Apple polishing. Ass licking. Bootlicking. Brown nosing. Morons. Get real. There is more to the world than the USA. there are 4 other continents as well you know.
Sorry Louis. Not your fault I know. Just a rant that's all.
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