Bladesman
The Great Grumbleduke
I've been thinking about this for a while now before posting and I really do feel like football has lost its identity. I read a report yesterday that stated there has been over 50 rule changes in football over the past 2 seasons (70% of them were this season) and the original rule book that was created in Sheffield has never been further away from how the professional game is played today.
We have the PGMOL that are making changes and adding stuff in like VAR (which is basically passing one human error to another human to make an error)
We have the handball rule changed season after season, nobody knows the correct offside rule anymore for example.
Is footbal becoming less enjoyable to watch? Are we as fans being short changed by the will to change the identity of the game and "modernising" it if you will?
I feel like watching football doesn't have the same feel of when I watched football growing up in the 90s, watching the old Premiership Years season reviews just shows what I miss about football.
Yes, I hadn't noticed there had been that many rule changes.
It may not have changed the result of the match but Gordons handball for Newcastle really does boil my piss. Whatever rule change that allowed that to stand takes the smeg.
Also, this isn't a woe is us situation. We were complaining about a lot of this crap in our first PL season under Wilder. If anything it's worse now than it was in 2019.
How can anyone enjoy it when the rules keep being changed and you don't know if you can celebrate a goal or not.