Modern footy is...

[No.8]

Modern footy is ruined by the TV companies globalising the game and having to suffer some spotty 14 year old Yank talking about ‘first team rosters’.. ‘offensive lines’ … ‘hip checks’ and any other non football term they use.

Games moved to suit the foreign markets is not too far away.

Football was the people’s game but no more.

The money paid for some players is just laughable. Chelsea and United as an example have pished hundreds of millions away on some truly bang average players!

The Champions League has even become tedious with the same 8-10 teams playing each other in the latter stages.

I read a poster above saying he went home away for years but now can take it or leave it. I find myself in a similar position. I’ve seen the club I support win everything they are ever going to win. Seen them in every stadium in the country and many outside the country. Football throughout Europe has become boring and very predictable

But hey as long as we can sell shit loads of merchandise in the Far / Middle East and the States then alls well

 

[urban genie]

Is summed up here, the actual football authority moaning at a KO that is better for those paying to attend the game because it ruins their tv plans





thh EFL board are cunts for even posting this

 

[GaudinoMotors]

........a reflection of the modern World.

Only ourselves to blame.

 

[KentBlue]

The fact that I don't have Sly, or BT or any of the others sums up the way I feel about the game.

When I was a boy, myself and my classmates would eat, sleep and drink football, all day and every day. On non-schooldays we would walk miles and miles just to watch (or take part in) a local kick-about somewhere.
We didn't care about the outside world or anything that was happening in it: if it didn't involve football we weren't interested

Nowadays I sometimes feel I have to justify to myself for not taking any interest.

I thought at first it was my age that was causing this indifference: and friends and family would say the same: but I no longer believe it. My passion for the game that I have lived and loved all these years has become a shadow of the sport it once was. VAR may be one of the causes, incompetent officials might be another, but in my view it started to change when the pisscan turned up at the beginning of the Premier League. When he and his club were doing whatever they liked but suffered no consequences: their cheating, berating of officials, telling the ref when he can blow his whistle for full time. The infamous ginger pig 'tackles' that were laughed at by the media, the total adulation of an average player simply because he plays for that team, and the vindictive and spite-filled venom that the pisscan would come out with whenever we were mentioned.

The game of football that I knew growing up is certainly not the game that it is now.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

…better than it has ever been, with a few caveats.

1) Diving, rolling around, holding your head/face and general shithousery is out of control

2) Lack of respect for the officials

3) FFP

4) Bit too much “showbiz”

5) Ticket prices

That said, the game is faster, more athletic, more technical, played on snooker table like pitches, and more games are available to watch for the person who can’t travel to watch a game or wants to watch other teams play big games.

I am blessed to have lived the golden era of football to this point. From England winning the World Cup to City winning the Club World Cup and all the ups and downs in between.

Being at Wembley for the Gillingham game.
Being at the Etihad for the QPR game.
Being at Wembley for the United FA Cup Semi-Final.
Flying to Madrid (from Chicago) for the day to see City play in the CL SF.
Being in the Platt Lane Stand for more games than I can remember.
Standing, then sitting in the North Stand to see things like the Dave Watson header, The King’s return, Peter Barnes make a mug out of Pat Jennings, and everything in between.
Graduating to Kippax and ending up over the wall when Spurs fans came running down the tunnel.
And now sitting on a cushioned seat in the Etihad watching the best team in the world play in one of the best stadiums in the world.

Yeah, it’s been a lovely long ride, and there’s great memories of “how it was,” but I prefer to think that now, and “how it is” is the best football I have ever witness from mere mortals gracing the shirt.

VAR? Yep, it’s an improvement that needs improvement, but on the whole, it’s making vital decisions better decisions.

TV dictating game times? Yep, annoying, esp for the Away day fans, whom I both admire and envy.

But, seriously, anyone who looks back wishfully at football and doesn’t think the modern game is better, quicker, more technical and played by fitter, stronger, more athletic players is forgetting just how bad it was at times back in the day.

For all its warts in 2024, football, especially for a City fan, has never been better!

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Modern footy is ruined by the TV companies globalising the game and having to suffer some spotty 14 year old Yank talking about ‘first team rosters’.. ‘offensive lines’ … ‘hip checks’ and any other non football term they use.

Games moved to suit the foreign markets is not too far away.

Football was the people’s game but no more.

The money paid for some players is just laughable. Chelsea and United as an example have pished hundreds of millions away on some truly bang average players!

The Champions League has even become tedious with the same 8-10 teams playing each other in the latter stages.

I read a poster above saying he went home away for years but now can take it or leave it. I find myself in a similar position. I’ve seen the club I support win everything they are ever going to win. Seen them in every stadium in the country and many outside the country. Football throughout Europe has become boring and very predictable

But hey as long as we can sell shit loads of merchandise in the Far / Middle East and the States then alls well

Feel very similar myself.
Totally lost interest.
Even to the point I struggle to get up for our matches

 

[GSW Blue]

It’s all bearable whilst we are being successful but I can imagine if we drop back into being a mid to lower PL team for a few years it will see a lot of match going fans chucking it in.

For those that stick it out the advantages will be easier access to away tickets and the (unexpected) wins will feel better.

“We never win at home and we never win away” was not originally ironic.

 

[lazerblue]

Is summed up here, the actual football authority moaning at a KO that is better for those paying to attend the game because it ruins their tv plans





thh EFL board are cunts for even posting this

thats everything that's wrong with football right there, fuckin sky moaning becasuse the kick off time doesn't suit them, fuck the paying fans eh!

 

[lazerblue]

how refreshing was it watching those fa cup games without var being involved, linesmen doing their job, fans able to cheer a goal without worrying it would be chalked off, no stoppages while we waited for endless replays for an offside or a handball or a tackle in the box, fuck var

 

[lazerblue]

It’s all bearable whilst we are being successful but I can imagine if we drop back into being a mid to lower PL team for a few years it will see a lot of match going fans chucking it in.

wait till they demote us to league 2, a tenner a ticket, full house every week with the stadium bouncing, great away days, bring it on, oh, and no var ;-)