Footballers - Spitting on pitch 'is flu risk'

edited October 2009 in Chit chat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8327576.stm

It's about time they put a stop to this. I'm a football fan, but spitting anywhere disgusts me, including on the football pitch - it's completely unnecessary.

And to quote Chelsea coach, Carlo AncelottiL "I know very well what I have to do if I have the flu. It's not a medical prescription. It's my grandmother's prescription - hot milk. Alcohol - red wine. Fantastic."

Lunatic.
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  • edited October 2009
    I dont know, played footy for a fair few years. Its not nice but when youre running about in the cold you obviously have 'something' in your throat, be nice if they did pause play so you could go to the side and get a tissue but sadly they dont !

    Whenever i played sunday league footy it was freezing cold every morning it seemed, then when the weather finally gets warm in May the season finishes !
  • edited October 2009
    We need to revive the usage of these:

    spittoon_fake_b.jpg
  • edited October 2009
    isn't footballers going round snoging page 3 girls a bigger health risk?

    they should bad old people dribbling on the bus.
  • edited October 2009
    It`s as bad as footballers dribbling !
  • edited October 2009
    Dingbat wrote: »
    It`s as bad as footballers dribbling !

    hang on...

    spitting on the pitch, they should stop them dribbling first.

    yep thats the joke were using. the rest can be edited out. :lol:
  • edited October 2009
    psj3809 wrote: »

    Whenever i played sunday league footy it was freezing cold every morning it seemed, then when the weather finally gets warm in May the season finishes !

    I'm in the village team here in the Massif Centrale mountains, playing most Sundays. Many snowy matches. If you spit a bit of it will often blow back into your face and freeze.
  • edited October 2009
    better not breathe on each other either .....

    and the irony is that it's NOT blackburn saying this!!!!!
  • edited October 2009
    One of the side effects of running around a pitch hoofing a ball about, is that some people do generate a lot of the old sputum. It turns my stomach to see players do it but what choice do they have. Quite right, a few buckets round the pitch might be an option, but then thinking about it, you don't see Ice Hockey players gobbing one out one nostril, or cricket players hocking a glob. Quite the most charming thing is to see a middle aged woman doing it on the pavement. Animals!
  • edited October 2009
    Quite the most charming thing is to see a middle aged woman doing it on the pavement. Animals!

    I bet the woman in question would have knackered stretched out lycra leggings on, and flip flops showing her scruffy toes off, a camel toe the size of a beetle bonnet, and a Lambert hanging out of her gob :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2009
    MattLamb wrote: »
    And to quote Chelsea coach, Carlo AncelottiL "I know very well what I have to do if I have the flu. It's not a medical prescription. It's my grandmother's prescription - hot milk. Alcohol - red wine. Fantastic."

    Lunatic.

    I'm not sure that's all that lunatic a solution. A few people I know have been given Tamiflu and without fail, it made them feel terrible - in a different way from, but nearly as bad as, the actual flu. Staying in bed and riding it out, fighting the symptoms rather than the infection, and waiting to get better, might well be your best bet.

    I've spent the last few years working in education, where I got free flu jabs. Bummer of a year to move to the private sector :)
  • edited October 2009
    spit goes on grass, ball collects spit, footballer heads ball into goal, team meates all kiss his head. england chances in the world cup goes up in flames.
  • edited October 2009
    Danforth wrote: »
    I'm not sure that's all that lunatic a solution. A few people I know have been given Tamiflu and without fail, it made them feel terrible - in a different way from, but nearly as bad as, the actual flu. Staying in bed and riding it out, fighting the symptoms rather than the infection, and waiting to get better, might well be your best bet.

    Off of Wiki..
    Common adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with oseltamivir (sold under the trade name Tamiflu) therapy (occurring in over 1% of clinical trial participants) include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headache. Rare ADRs include: hepatitis and elevated liver enzymes, rash, allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, and Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

    Various other ADRs have been reported in postmarketing surveillance including: toxic epidermal necrolysis, cardiac arrhythmia, seizure, confusion, aggravation of diabetes, and haemorrhagic colitis.

    (bold stuff added by me)
  • edited October 2009
    I bet the woman in question would have knackered stretched out lycra leggings on, and flip flops showing her scruffy toes off, a camel toe the size of a beetle bonnet, and a Lambert hanging out of her gob :D

    For the love of Christ, don't bring me into this sordid little fantasy.
  • edited October 2009
    when i was giving out tamiflu, i had to tell people that it might cause vommiting and nausea.

    you can pretty much have an allergic reaction to anything, an allergic reacion to asprin can kill you.

    my fave side effect is the ones given on paracetamols. side effects include - headaches.
  • edited October 2009
    MattLamb wrote: »
    For the love of Christ, don't bring me into this sordid little fantasy.

    Well it sounds kind of goofy if you call it a Butler :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2009
    They'll be banning birds next (flying ones miles !!!) from crapping on the pitch !!!

    Must admit during my younger years playing footy i'm surprised there wasnt warnings about playing on astro turf pitches. Regularly used to have tons of cuts/wounds on my legs/knees from making tackles on astroturf and getting burn marks because of them.

    Think of all the players who do the same and the amount of blood/dried up blood all over the pitch. Someone makes a tackle on astroturf and their wound squelches into someone elses blood on the turf etc.
  • edited October 2009
    What about playing footy at school, you do a sliding tackle the day after Ted the Technician has cut the grass and get 2 inches of shredded Coke can stuck in your leg :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2009
    Watching a bunch of braindead neanderthals spitting on the pitch I find repulsive.

    Footballers are braindead neanderthals lets face it.... They run around a pitch, hugging each other like a bunch of girls every time they score a goal (maybe they should take their handbags), then they fall to the floor everytime these footballer wimps injure themselves (maybe little timmy broke his fingernail and wants his mommy. LOL).

    ... Don't get me started on when their throwing the toys out their pram after getting a rollocking from the ref (ref you should should give em a baby rattle to settle disputes with) :-D

    :-D

    ... Fake football injuries wind me up even more. I seen better acting on an episode of Emmerdale (and that's saying something):-

  • edited October 2009
    Hercules wrote: »
    Watching a bunch of braindead neanderthals spitting on the pitch I find repulsive.

    Footballers are braindead neanderthals lets face it....

    If you like stereotypes you should hear what most people think about us computer geeks ! Trying to justify why its not sad in your 30's to play computer games you did as a kid is quite difficult !

    And you take the mick out of footballers ! Pot kettle black !
  • edited October 2009
    psj3809 wrote: »
    If you like stereotypes you should hear what most people think about us computer geeks ! Trying to justify why its not sad in your 30's to play computer games you did as a kid is quite difficult !

    I'm not at all bothered by what others think of my computing hobby. At least my hobby doesn't mess up the television schedule. :-)
  • edited October 2009
    Hercules wrote: »
    I'm not at all bothered by what others think of my computing hobby. At least my hobby doesn't mess up the television schedule. :-)

    Have you seen whats on TV nowadays ? I'm very very glad when theres football and it messes up the tv schedule ! Gives me something to watch for once
  • edited October 2009
    Well their are a few things worth watching on telly, but when their isn't, I watch a DVD.

    If I had to chose between TV Soaps, football, pop karaoke (a la Simon Carrol's 'Crap Factor') and a pot of paint, then I would choose some paint to paint the wall and watch it dry :-D
  • edited October 2009
    Each to their own, enjoy watching footy (the big games not just nobodies, would be unfair to the missus otherwise) but theres a fair few of us who are fed up with tv on a saturday night with Dr Who ! I'm happy once thats over !

    However some computer bloke who doesnt like sports isnt really a good one to give his view on premiership footballers though. Come on let it go ! It was a long time ago when you were picked on at school for being crap at sports ! And to be fair you made a great goalpost ! ;)
  • edited October 2009
    Ah well, each to their own. This forum would be a boring place if we all had the same opinions on things.
  • edited October 2009
    Imagine it, would be bizarre.

    New thread; Does anyone else here hate Watchdog ?

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes.

    That new Coldplay song is crap isnt it ?

    Yep totally agree

    Yep

    etc

    I must admit sometimes i think 'surely everyone thinks the same' and i'll post something like 'That new Boyzone song is terrible....' but someone will say 'nope i quite like it...'. Amazing the wide range of different tastes we have here, thank god we are the same when it comes to the Speccy !
  • edited October 2009
    Hercules wrote: »
    ...I would choose some paint to paint the wall and watch it dry :-D

    Oooooooo - what colour?
  • edited October 2009
    football is full of big nancy boys and people who watch it can't do proper sport so they live vicariously through someone they have never met. don't mind footie taking up a tv schedual, as people have different interests, but i dislike footie taking over pubs. hanging in a pub full of men, watching some other men in shorts running around isn't my idea of fun. in fact it is very homoerotic. i like to watch a footie fan cry when his team has lost, ha ha you big girl. or a fan being right big headed about his teams win, yeah well done you contributed nothing to that win, good for you.

    i like fitness, like running and riding my bike, but playing sport doesn't appeal, its the whole hanging around with men in locker rooms that doesn't appeal, have been swiming and playing squash with various girls.
  • edited October 2009
    mile wrote: »
    i like fitness, like running and riding my bike, but playing sport doesn't appeal, its the whole hanging around with men in locker rooms that doesn't appeal, have been swiming and playing squash with various girls.

    What about the money and the gang bang rapes and the fighting in public with the public? And crashing cars when drunk and killing whole families? And the dolly bird wives that are usually well out of your league (and that's not saying much)? And then when you are past your prime, going on to commentate on the TV and saying the completely obvious for loads of more dosh? And the advertisment deals? And starring in movies about yourself?
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    What about the money and the gang bang rapes and the fighting in public with the public? And crashing cars when drunk and killing whole families? And the dolly bird wives that are usually well out of your league (and that's not saying much)? And then when you are past your prime, going on to commentate on the TV and saying the completely obvious for loads of more dosh? And the advertisment deals? And starring in movies about yourself?

    that sounds liek the perfect saturday night out!!
  • edited October 2009
    mile wrote: »
    that sounds liek the perfect saturday night out!!

    Yup! I've just bought my season ticket!
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