FIFA 08 Cover Stars - Who The F*****G Hell Are You?!

Who the f**king hell is this writer?

He, like me, is someone who has travelled home and away on Wednesday nights to see his team - in his case Huddersfield Town - play football. He's a writer who contributes to the sound and the atmosphere that armchairs pay for and then moan about.

He is a writer.

He's our Micta.

Who are you?

You sir, are an idiot.

Who wrote this s**t?

Man this must have been the biggest sh*t filled article. I stopped reading it after the first 3 lines. Who ever wrote this should go drown.....

OK, at first I thought it was quite funny how there has been so many people with a twig up their arse about an article that says something of an opinion of football on a gaming website. Blimey. Someone said Ronaldo was the best player in the world. Who cares? Someone called Liverpool crap. Cry me a river. If you want to go to a website for football news, go to the BBC Sports site or something.

You know, I'm starting to actually think that it's just one or two individuals constantly posting the same comments making it look like loads of people.

Either way, complaining about the article in this context is lame. Konami Code reveals: the real story was about FIFA announcing their new cover star players.

American Football sucks, the stupidest sport ever. It should be banished cause people are getting stupid just by watching it.

It's REALLY stupid to call a "American football" the game, where you are not playing with your foot. And say It is better than REAL football.

Anonymous posts suck. worst. thing. ever. I feel like I get stupider just reading them. Why exactly were these implemented or felt to be necessary? Been holding back on this thought since their introduction. If this was a trial, I'd consider it failed, most of the anonymous posts are crap, and the few that aren't should have been encouraged to register. Not even implemented well...on the OP they have screen names, but when you reply it says anonymous, kinda hard for someone to know whos being replied to sans context.

Where was American football even referenced? Or could you just not resist the temptation to spew forth random crap?

The bring their share of dross, it's undeniable. But they have also resulted in some pretty good posts, take the GAME/GameStation thread, for instance.

Not everyone who reads the site is prepared to invest the time and effort (and percieved risk of spam) that registering involves. Often those people have interesting opinions, and we want to hear them.

True, it lets people with no opinions worth reading espouse said lack of opinions. But where there's an up, there's usually a down. On balance, we don't think we're flooded with crap yet.

The unusually disappointing responses to this story come because Micta wandered (purposefully) onto a subject about which it is impossible to express any opinion in the UK, without seriously upsetting some neanderthal f**ktard.

amend often to occasionally and I'll reply resignedly with "If you say so..."

...their conduct recalls to mind one thing American Football lacks in comparison to Footy...

And several things that both have in respect to cricket or chess.

It is indeed a f**king pisser when the anonymous voice themselves, they so rarely agree with one's outlook. It makes one feel so compromised in one's security.

I think I shall lie down with some milky tea and my comfort monologue.

Yeah, about that...your idea then?

Schmidt! Three days have passed and no comment on the glory of Gas from last weekend. Where are yer!?

Totally, completely and utterly (well, if you disregard the fact that it had been talked about while I was still sunning myself on Sydney's Clovelly Beach).

I still think it's a good idea. Okay, so we get dreck but we also get some decent new contributions to many threads (Pat Brown, the U.S. profiler, for example). Forums are supposed to be locations for debate. Debate includes differing opinions and also, sadly, noise generated by the less articulate in the world.

That said, the inarticulate can also cut through pomposity and 'holy writ'. It's up to the rest of us to deal with the noise.

And let's face it, we've seen badly formed, almost incoherent posts from fully (un)paid-up members as well in the past.