Football Food For Thought / Tareq Quiroz / 06 February 2009 /

Tareq Quiroz tells us why he's fed up of reading about every last detail of David Beckham's footballing life and of fans that are never content with their team's performances or success.

Some things in life never change and football headlines are a great example. We have week after week of amazing games of football but all I ever seem to see plastered over my newspaper is transfer gossip and David Beckham. I am so overwhelmingly bored with it that I can't even bring myself to read it anymore. How Beckham manages to stay in the limelight is truly amazing and I am hoping he does stay at Milan so we can see if he can still cut it at the top.

But do we have to be subject to every twist and turn until it is resolved? I am afraid that is the case and in the meantime the games themselves often make up the secondary headlines.
It makes me wonder what is more important to some people. I am interested primarily what is happening on the pitch and anything players do in their spare time is of little concern. I am left contemplating whether this constant need to be an actual part of what is happening has lead to some fans becoming spoilt. I have been going to matches for thirty years and there is a definite change in attitude of today's football supporter.

Nothing is good enough. I am left with the question of when is a fan satisfied? I recently attended the Man Utd v Wigan game and as a neutral was bemused by the discontent amongst the United fans. Sure, it wasn't their best performance but at no stage did they ever really look like losing yet fans all around me were bitching non-stop. Players who weren't good enough to pull on the famous shirt, team formation and seemingly the favourite is to criticise a player's work ethic. They had just come off a 3-0 thumping of Chelsea and they were a little flat. Big deal. Many left with three points but in utter dismay.

If you can't be happy when you support the team that are the current League champions, kings of Europe and the world club champions then I don't know if they ever will be. And let's not forget this team is also in the final of the League cup, top of the league and healthily set in all other competitions entered. I appreciate fans like to moan and that is natural but it is definitely getting worse and much less deserved. As a player you just have to accept it and get on with the job in hand. In Man Utd's case this is largely to try and win the Champions League again, a task for which they are currently [6.8] second favourites to achieve.

This frustrating trait is not just confined to the spoilt top teams. This week we have seen Hull City Chairman Paul Duffen come out and defend his manager after Phil Brown came in for criticism from some fans. Hull City are a classic rags to riches team that been brought up through the divisions in quick succession and to be fair it is nothing short of remarkable that they are even in the top flight.

Unfortunately they are victims of their early season success and now they are on a poor run. This is a team full of average players who were hot favourites to go down at the start of the season. With fourteen games to go they are six points clear of the relegation zone and have a great chance to stay up. Tigers fans who are responsible for this abuse need to get a reality check. This should be the most exciting time of your club's existence yet some seem intent on making it miserable. It is maybe those people who will be most interested in backing Hull to go down in the Relegation market at current odds of [3.55].

To show there is no bias, I am also prepared to admit that this disgusting attitude is also prevalent at my own club, Aston Villa. Week after week I have to listen to idiots criticise Martin O'Neill and many of the players throughout. Oh how quickly they forget the misery we have been through in recent years. This is the best team down at Villa Park for many a year and with any luck will break into the Top Four this year. A feat for which they are now as short as [1.8] to achieve in the Top Four Finish market.

So, what is the answer to these fans that are a blight on our great game? I say have a moaners section in each ground. Put them all together and they can complain as much as they like without annoying the fans who go to actually watch the game.

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