FA Crap
Was it the awful playing surface at our shiny new national stadium, with the grass cut several millimetres too long for a football pitch and which after 45 minutes had started to look like a very expensive cow-field? Was it all a tactical master-stroke by 'The Special One', aiming to quench the fire and pace of the oppostion? Or was it just two groups of 11 men tired, jaded and not really that bothered after 60+ matches each in a season?
Whatever the reason, Saturday's FA Cup Final was one of the worst games of football in recent memory, particularly the first 45 minutes which was genuinely surreal, with both sides just knocking the ball about in a fashion usually reserved for the last game of a group stage in a tournament where both teams just need a draw to go through.
Now, I'm sure if we had won my attitude may be somewhat different, but as it stands I cannot come to any other conclusion. It was a dire affair... slow, tepid, dispassionate, with poor passing, no flair. no ambition and no displays of skill or pace on display. These are the two best teams in the country and two of the best in Europe, yet we saw very little worth watching in two hours, save for Chelsea's one coherent move which led to the one and only goal of the game after 116 minutes of diabolical drudgery.
My love for football remains undying, but with games like this, it makes you question why you invest so much time, effort and raw emotion into this sport that can let you down and hurt you so often.
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Whatever the reason, Saturday's FA Cup Final was one of the worst games of football in recent memory, particularly the first 45 minutes which was genuinely surreal, with both sides just knocking the ball about in a fashion usually reserved for the last game of a group stage in a tournament where both teams just need a draw to go through.
Now, I'm sure if we had won my attitude may be somewhat different, but as it stands I cannot come to any other conclusion. It was a dire affair... slow, tepid, dispassionate, with poor passing, no flair. no ambition and no displays of skill or pace on display. These are the two best teams in the country and two of the best in Europe, yet we saw very little worth watching in two hours, save for Chelsea's one coherent move which led to the one and only goal of the game after 116 minutes of diabolical drudgery.
My love for football remains undying, but with games like this, it makes you question why you invest so much time, effort and raw emotion into this sport that can let you down and hurt you so often.
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1 Comments:
The problem you're facing when watching teams like Man Utd and Chelsea is the lack of motivation to prove yourself. When you know you're one of the best teams in the league/country/Europe/World (delete as you seem appropriate), you can't go any further.
You need to reserve your Wembley watching times for next weekend for all the promotion clashes, specifically Derby County vs West Bromwich Albion. Now you're an honorary Derby supporter, you should be putting all your passion and devotion towards a team that has shown immense amounts of courage and determination, worthy of Premiership fixtures. On the other hand, you could stick with me and support Derby! ;)
UP THE RAMS!
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