Do you play footie on a weekend for some pub or club?

The reason for such a bizarre question is this:

Our building hosts changing and shower facilities for these teams and recently Im at the end of my tether with the mess they leave behind. They must get out of the shower dirtier that when they went in.

Boots being washed in the shower :gag:

Tape (apparantly to hold up your socks :confused: ) being strewn all over the floor and in the shower.

Mud everywhere, and I mean everywhere, from the entrance door to the toilets and the changing areas.

Not forgetting surplus underwear; socks; drinks bottles; empty fag packets!
all left on the floor.

What can I do? Its not fair that some poor sucker has to go in there and clean up after you. Fair enough, we should clean the showers and sweep and mop the floors, but surely to leave things in the state I describe is not fair. :rant:

Note: these teams do not pay us for the privilege the city council pays us a retainer which is a pittance.

Whhhaaaaaaaaaaaa

:cry:

some people are like that though, i always dispose of any rubbish in a bin or take it with me, some people just don't care

I play regular saturday football and unfortunately in sheffield it tends to rain and suprisingly kit and boots tend to get muddy!

that said I always bang my boots and take them off outside the changing rooms, but not every team does this, but at the end of 90 mins i guess they just want to get changed?!

Maybe you should get more than a pittance off the council, because i haven't got a clue what else they spend the money on, it's certainly not flat or well drained pitches.

I play regular saturday football and unfortunately in sheffield it tends to rain and suprisingly kit and boots tend to get muddy!

that said I always bang my boots and take them off outside the changing rooms, but not every team does this, but at the end of 90 mins i guess they just want to get changed?!

Maybe you should get more than a pittance off the council, because i haven't got a clue what else they spend the money on, it's certainly not flat or well drained pitches.

We get a retainer to maintain the facility not clean up after dirty boys :rant:

You'll not get them to change their mind.

I'm involved in local football and put my muddy boots in a bag and hose them down at home. Apart from the hardworking managers/captains/cub secs (not all) many players only want to turn up and play the game. They dont care about anything else.

You have my sympathy and can only suggest you start speaking with club secs

Have played sunday league football for nearly 20 years and the last thing i think about after a game is the state of the changing room/shower floor!
After waking up at 9 am to run around a dirty muddy pitch for 90 mins the only thing on our minds is to get changed as quick as possible and get to the pub.
Suggestions:
Put a bin near the showers
Put signs up asking lads to do what u want them to
Get council to pay u more so u can get a cleaner
GO PRIVATE!!!.....we pay £65 per game for our pitch....AND WE DONT HAVE SHOWERS!!!

agree with the sticking a sign up outside asking boots to be taken off.

Having played for 17 years now i agree that they get in a state but on a wet February morning when you have been sliding around for nearly 90 minutes and throwing yourself in mud (im a keeper) then you tend to get a little mucky.

Stick a bin for tape
Put sign outside saying no boots in changin rooms, if not then def not in showers (this tends to work even though some of the teams i have played against looked as if they could barely speak never mind read)
Turn the showers off and dont provide the facility. A lot of grounds dont have showers and if they are getting abused dont use them!

I know someone who may be interested, whereabouts is the pitch?

I know someone who may be interested, whereabouts is the pitch?

Middlewood Park Football pitch.

btw:
Put a bin near the showers, Put signs up asking lads to do what u want them to do

Done that.

:twisted: turning off the showers/ or better still the heating aswell may be a good idea.

[QUOTE=fox20thc]Middlewood Park Football pitch.
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Ooh, real sympthay, Winn Gardens FC (the B team) :hihi:

This problem also finds itself occurring in under 14 girls football when we had a team come over from the Doncaster area and they finished up by wiping the mud off their boots all over the place in the changing rooms including on the walls.
Our manager and assistant had a word with their management and they were made to clear it all up.

Ooh, real sympthay, Winn Gardens FC (the B team) :hihi:

Not as bad as some of the others! Winjiggi FC know they will suffer, we know where they live :suspect:

And another thing they keep doing is setting off the alarm! I am imposing a £25 fine for the next one who does it. (sick of going up there and being confronted with overweight beer bellied semi-naked ugly blokes) So if you know a team who are playing there this weekend get them told!

Arrghhh! Today at 2.15pm

I am at work, trying to do my job! and I get a phone call. Its the alarm company. Hello you are a keyholder to the building, the alarm is going off and we have notified the police! :o

The blo*dy footballers have locked the ref in the changing rooms and set the alarm, he walks out and activates the thing ! :rant:

Are you all truely stupid?? or do you practise!

when we played down at westfield school few weeks since, they dont actually allow anyone in side wearing studded boots. perhaps you could enfore this

Hi - Just showed your post to my other half...He played regular Sunday and Saturday football and he said that some of his teammates used to clean their boots in the shower and he found it disgusting...he is quite well house trained believe it or not!

Anyway, he has just come back with the suggestion, you should speak to the club secretarys and tell them that you are charging £11.00 for a cleaner - that's £1.00 extra on everybody's subs...At least then the person who is having to deal with it gets a few quid for the hassle. My other half said that noone should argue with that - he wouldn't have begrudged paying for those facilities.

As far as I am concerned, it's disgusting and it just shows how pathetic grown men can be.

Its so disgusting, fox20thc was good enough not to mention the time that all the mud from the boots blocked the drains up :gag: Lets just say, there was more than mud spewed back up >>puke<<

Get that water turned off, I reckon. If they abuse it, then they can't use it...

Update on the football issue. Please pass this onto your friends who may use the facilities in Middlewood Park.

An £80 fine will be invoiced to the secretary of the club responsible for false alarms due to stupidity from now on, and if nobody owns up to it they both get a £40 fine instead. :mad:

Cogratulations to the boys who played last saturday :thumbsup: you know who you are the bill is in the post.