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Things we hate about modern football

Not sure if it's been mentioned but players that now have their first name/nicknames on the back of their shirt! I can only accept it if you have a long name (E.g. most Brazilians) but why the f**k has Virgil Van Dijk been allowed to change his to Virgil this season? What's that about!?
 
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dingdongo said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned but players that now have their first name/nicknames on the back of their shirt! I can only accept it if you have a long name (E.g. most Brazilians) but why the f**k has Virgil Van Dijk been allowed to change his to Virgil this season? What's that about!?
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This irritates me far too much too! The final nail in the coffin will be when someone wants to be identified by a symbol!
 
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It doesn’t bother me, the only real world impact I can see is that fewer letters make kids replica kits cheaper.
 
dingdongo said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned but players that now have their first name/nicknames on the back of their shirt! I can only accept it if you have a long name (E.g. most Brazilians) but why the f**k has Virgil Van Dijk been allowed to change his to Virgil this season? What's that about!?
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Apparently it's been specially approved as an homage to his dead father

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Traore changing to 'Adama' bugs me too. Oh well, Guess there are bigger things to worry about in the world hey!
 
dingdongo said:
Traore changing to 'Adama' bugs me too. Oh well, Guess there are bigger things to worry about in the world hey!
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Tbf it differentiates him from the other traores. Name on the back is so you, the ref and the commentators can tell who they are more easily.
 
Lilbaz said:
Tbf it differentiates him from the other traores. Name on the back is so you, the ref and the commentators can tell who they are more easily.
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No I get it, But no commentator is calling him Adama are they? Just feels like they have caved in to players wanting to change it. Even if Wolves/Barca had 2 x Traore's on the pitch they should go with A.Traore and B.Traore etc. like they used to do.
 
dingdongo said:
No I get it, But no commentator is calling him Adama are they? Just feels like they have caved in to players wanting to change it. Even if Wolves/Barca had 2 x Traore's on the pitch they should go with A.Traore and B.Traore etc. like they used to do.
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what have we lost by letting them choose?
 
Lilbaz said:
Tbf it differentiates him from the other traores. Name on the back is so you, the ref and the commentators can tell who they are more easily.
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Surely the number on the back of the shirt achieves that ...

Names whether they are first names, surnames or nicknames are unnecessary
 
dingdongo said:
The knowledge of everyone's first name/surnames! If everyone did it and there was a load of Steve's, John's or Michael's then it would be weird right?

*I didn't say it was a rational argument lol
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If I was a top footballer with a very boring English first name, I'd insist on having it on my shirt. Like Pat or Bob or something. That would teach em.
 
dingdongo said:
The knowledge of everyone's first name/surnames! If everyone did it and there was a load of Steve's, John's or Michael's then it would be weird right?

*I didn't say it was a rational argument lol
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there are loads of jones and smiths, nobody complained about that
 
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