Poll: Footballers: Fit athlete's or big girls blouses?

choose..

  • Fit Athlete's

    Votes: 43 50.0%

  • Big bunch of girls blouses

    Votes: 43 50.0%
  • Total voters
    86
No there big girl blouses, with the only interest in the money.

Rugby players, Ice hockey players put these so called "fit athletes" to shame.

I tend to follow Ice hockey more, Game on the Saturday night, and a game on the Sunday night.
 
Without a doubt they are very fit guys. Whilst I am not a fan of football I do not think for one second these guys would be hitting the deck in the way they do if it were not simply to try and win an advantage over the ref/opposing team. It is an element of the game I loathe, but the players do it because it can get game winning results. It is why I believe they should be using TV camera technology to assist in ref decisions, and any player found taking a dive should be given an automatic red card. But thats just me.

Footballers are strong and agile guys, with a level of dexterity most of us can only dream of. I do not agree with the wages they receive personally, but if someone was offering me that kind of cash to do my job I don't think I would say no. Would any of you?
 
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When you here about people running back to back marathons for charity and armature footballers playing on appalling pitches 3 times a week, then these pro players really need to get a grip on reality.
 
Previous gym I was a member of was used by a Scottish Premiership football team who are currently top 5 in the league. "Fit" and "athlete" are not words I would use to describe 85% of the players I ever seen in there working out. Unfit, chubby, lazy and arrogant are all words I would use to describe them..... At the time I was genuinely shocked at how unfit and lazy these guys were considering they are being paid to be full time professional athletes. There was 4 players from the lot that I would see consistently push themselves and they were definitely very fit and athletic, but the rest of them were wasting space in the gym.
 
Rybo89 said:
The guys are fit , extremely fit. A prem side team will train 7 days a week, every week. As well as have up to 2 match days a week.
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No they aren't and no they don't. Fitness of footballers cardiovascular wise is shocking. They get away with it because it is a team based skill sport. Put them up against any amateur endurance athlete they'd get their arses kicked.
 
A professional athlete being tired and a normal person in the street being tired are 2 entirely different things. If a pro is even 1% off their game because they aren't quite perfect, its easily noticeable against a fellow pro who is at 100%. A random guy off the street you wouldn't have a clue. There are however unfit footballers, as they are often there for other things, like outright ability. And you can't compare fitness of athletes from different sports, since they are all different disciplines.
 
Both... but not all.

To play at the highest level you have to be an extreme athlete, but there will be some who don't have the same level of commitment and professionalism when it comes to looking after their body as say someone like Giggs or Ronaldo.

50% big girls blouses! But sadly I think its the nature of the sport.
 
Need an option for both.

However i've picked fit athletes, as they are physically fit no doubt about it (compared to an average human being). However I don't believe they are as fit as some people like to make out, running 12-13K in 90 minutes isn't overly taxing, you have lads doing that on a Sunday morning half cooked from the night before.
 
I'm quite fortunate that I can answer this from a professional point of view. My cousin is a premiership footballer and my dad played rugby professionally. There have been many discussions held between the two in regards to fitness and my cousin concedes that he couldn't do the things my dad did even 25 years ago.
My dad basically did all the training a footballer does now but with added time in the gym, and outside of it, to build strength and bulk.
 
As a general rule top tier footballers are incredibly fit, perhaps not in the same way a top marathon runner would be, but there are lots of differences. Different sports have different physical demands.
 
Edinho said:
No they aren't and no they don't. Fitness of footballers cardiovascular wise is shocking. They get away with it because it is a team based skill sport. Put them up against any amateur endurance athlete they'd get their arses kicked.
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Uh actually you're wrong, well both right and wrong. Put them in a running race then yeah, no **** they'd lose; but put a runner through all the agility aspects and other explosive sprints and they'd be better off without a doubt.

For comparison, because of your retarded logic:

I have a friend who it (funnily enough) runs in the family that him and his brothers are great long distance runners (1 currently on a full scholarship at Boston University in America...); he can literally go for a 20k run on a daily basis.

Now, I used to be a lifeguard - previous swimming experience helped but isn't relevent to this example - and got him a job at the leisure centre I worked at (after he'd completed the course, of course) but when doing the training he thought about quitting (it's a 1 week intensive course) because he couldn't bare with the swimming fitness - he was getting cramp in his legs from an 8 length warmup and then 2x 1 length sprints, all with rests in between.

If you can't see why your logic is retarded then... Well, I can't understand things for you, but to make it easier - whatever an athlete is training specifically for they will be good at (arguably :p), both for performing the task as well as their overall fitness toward the professionalism.

I'm guessing we'll see a thread come up soon saying "should footballers donate all their wages to charity" or "our soldiers deserve footballers wages!!11!!21!" in which case I'll provide a fair input because that level of stupidity of people who spout that nonsense grinds my gears.

Dis86 said:
I'm quite fortunate that I can answer this from a professional point of view. My cousin is a premiership footballer and my dad played rugby professionally. There have been many discussions held between the two in regards to fitness and my cousin concedes that he couldn't do the things my dad did even 25 years ago.
My dad basically did all the training a footballer does now but with added time in the gym, and outside of it, to build strength and bulk.
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That's awesome. I'm more of a football fan myself, but loved playing rugby until I had a nasty injury nearly tearing my cruciate in my right knee which put me off mentally playing - still played for my school though. Love both the sports, but as I say more toward football, but even I am not biased nor blind to say there are far too many nancy footballers in the profession, regardless of whether or not they're trying to gain an advantage - of which is punishable as a yellow (& 2nd) card offence. It's actually embarrassing, especially when you see the pundits slate foreigners for diving, but practically commend the big ginger oaf that is Wayne Wooney when he dives - same for Ashley Young, simply because they're English.

The referees in rugby, as well as the manner of the players, is so much better that I can't see why the FA don't take a lot of notes and start implementing some of the things they do in rugby like mic the ref so we can hear what he's saying when giving decisions; only the captain can speak to the ref; video ref. Back to fitness though and yes, there's no doubt in my mind that rugby players are even fitter - thing that astounds me the most is how some of the big chaps like 20st and whatnot can do 100m sprint faster than most footballers, let alone some actual olympic sprinters, THAT is insane!
 
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