Ideas for making football more exciting like it used to be

Cheaper tickets, safe standing, no VAR, alcohol allowed in stands, neutral areas/stands for tourists. Bingo.
 
Bozo said:
Cheaper tickets, safe standing, no VAR, alcohol allowed in stands, neutral areas/stands for tourists. Bingo.
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Neutral areas at Wembley have always been an atmosphere killer. Half of them don't come back after half time. I liked the idea of safe standing, but when I took my lad to a game and soon realised that he couldn't see a thing, so he had to stand on a seat with me holding onto him for the entire game which was pretty shite all round.

One suggestion would be to do away with the loud music and stadium announcers, all they do it stifle the crowd, and some people wait for their song cues before they will join in. The Atmosphere was much better when it was left up to the fans. Don't need some bloke on a microphone shouting "Oh Kevin De Bruyne.."

It all feels very manufactured and not very authentic.
 
Fuck me, this thread is one massive FOC circle jerk. Full of posts wanting time to be turned back.
"Exciting like it used to be"? Excuse me, what, pardon?
Football is more exciting than its ever been. I was there when it was a bunch of boozed up weezers.
I've waited all my life to have City in the position we are currently in, I ain't changing shit.
Well, maybe get free kicks around the box taken quicker. It's a fuckin joke how long it all takes for, more often than not, a ball to be kicked into row X.
 
burning blue soul said:
Well, maybe get free kicks around the box taken quicker. It's a fuckin joke how long it all takes for, more often than not, a ball to be kicked into row X.
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It's pissed me off for years how teams have two players fannyng about debating who is going to take a free kick in an attacking / dangerous posistion. With us it's often KDB and Foden. Obviously only one player can take the kick,the other should take up posistion in the box or edge of the box ready to score, or it's a waste of a man..bearing in mind the back 5 and the 2 on the ball can't score it only leaves 4 who can,surely better for it to be 5?
 
dennishasdoneit said:
It's pissed me off for years how teams have two players fannyng about debating who is going to take a free kick in an attacking / dangerous posistion. With us it's often KDB and Foden. Obviously only one player can take the kick,the other should take up posistion in the box or edge of the box ready to score, or it's a waste of a man..bearing in mind the back 5 and the 2 on the ball can't score it only leaves 4 who can,surely better for it to be 5?
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It's done with two players, one left footed, one right so the defence don't know for sure if it's going to be an inswinger or an outswinger.
 
Gazza said:
It's done with two players, one left footed, one right so the defence don't know for sure if it's going to be an inswinger or an outswinger.
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Yeah I get that. But we don't score from them anyway so its irrelevant as far as we are concerned. ; )
 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
I remember back in world cup 94 in the USA there was a serious suggestion that for soccer in the US they could make the goals significantly bigger. Like 4 or 5ft wider and taller. The idea being you would get maybe double the amount of goals and nil nil would be very rare.

Always thought that would be interesting.
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Speaking as a Yank, no thank you.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Never understood the lying on the ground bit. In all my 61 years I've only seen a goal scored from kicking the ball under the wall twice!
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Back in my university days our manager came up with the idea of the players putting their hands to the side, each hand covering the guy next to you's nuts. You had to rely on the teammates' integrity to not move. No jumping, had one shot in 4 years get through our wall.
 
deegee33 said:
Back in my university days our manager came up with the idea of the players putting their hands to the side, each hand covering the guy next to you's nuts. You had to rely on the teammates' integrity to not move. No jumping, had one shot in 4 years get through our wall.
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My friend Everard likes this
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Never understood the lying on the ground bit. In all my 61 years I've only seen a goal scored from kicking the ball under the wall twice!
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Me neither, someone lay on the ground not facing play means there’s another man unmarked you haven’t got your eyes on who’s got 2 seconds head start to react to what happens next in play.
 
Longdarnit Blue said:
Only 3 players allowed in a defensive wall and none of that lying on the ground behind the wall.

Get rid of the sweeper keeper(sorry Pep) - GK must remain in the 18 yard box. This would finally put an end to that high line shite and create far more space in midfield for the more creative teams.

Finally - make the goals bigger! A keeper over 6 ft used to be an exception - now they’re all giants! When football authorities first put crossbars on the posts in the 1870’s the goalies would have needed a ladder to reach it.
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Yep,make the goals 60 feet wide and 12 feet high but have three goalies,one to deal with crosses,one to deal with shots and one to deal with headers,but they can't assume each other's duties.
 
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