Today's hat is white with a pink button on the top: completely pointless. A button requires a button hole. This hat doesn't have one, although I guess you could put it through a button hole on another item of clothing but that would be, well, pointless.
I'm also not sure there is a club that would wish to be associated with white tops and pink buttons, but I suspect there's one out there somewhere.
Anyway, my mind started to wander, as it does, and I started to think about the word 'pointless'.
Not only does this describe a team when it loses a match (or in Pompey's case at the start of last season quite a few matches!) it can also be used to describe the many things that have crept into the modern day game. You know what I mean. The sort of thing football fans everywhere will exclaim 'what is the point of that?!'
So, here is my list of 'pointless' things in the modern game. Notice what I did there? The inverted commas? Well, there will always be someone who will argue that all of the things I've listed below have a point of some sort...and that's what makes football such a great game! There's always more than one point-of-view. And at the end of this list if you read all the way through it you'll be able ask 'well, what was the point of that then?!' Enjoy...
Coloured football boots
Snoods, gloves and tights (take your pick)
The pre-match huddle (or cuddle)
The coloured Premier League football i.e. the yellow one, easier to see than the white one apparently
Applying to host the World Cup Finals (especially pointless if you're part of an England bid)
Making tactical substitutions in the 90th minute, the clock stops and the ref adds on 30 seconds...
The Robbie Fowler plaster
Bemoaning the lack of video technology in football, if it's that important to managers in the Premier League - urge the powers that be to introduce it!
Justifying why a handball wasn't a handball by saying it was 'ball-to-hand' not 'hand-to-ball' (we all do this!)...the key is in the word 'hand'
Vick smothered on the shirt, it just looks messy
Groundsmen (and women) who cut the pitch in a lovely circular pattern
Fans leaving the game 10 minutes before the end to 'avoid the traffic'
Paying 30 pounds plus for a seat that you only use at half-time to have a rest from standing
Moving on to a 'bigger club' and spending the season warming the bench (even worse if there are complaints or questions like 'why isn't the gaffer playing me?')
The third strip, the biggest marketing, money-making scam ever invented
Players celebrating by kissing the badge in front of the fans, when we all know that if a better contract offer comes in from another club the player will be offski
Playing one-up front at home
Getting a tattoo on your arms that supposedly stops where the t-shirt comes down to (but we fans know you've got one because we can see it)
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