Football will never be the same.

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derfblade.3

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What on earth is happening to our great game. Entertainment should be the number 1 priority for the fans who are paying out huge sums on season tickets travel and merchandise.
Football was fantastic in my era of the 60s and 70s. formations of 2/3/5 where the object was to get the ball wide and feed the attackers and inside forwards backing up the wingers and centre forwards.
Hugely entertaining with loads of goals to see.
Now what do we get? Goalies walking around the area passing to full backs then getting it back and passing to a centre half who gives it him back and so on. Outfield players who rotate the ball slowly from wing to wing looking for little gaps. Almost every move you can see coming.
We now have coaches (not managers) who jump around the touchline looking like retards because they are egoistic attention seeking dipsticks.
I have lost count the number of games i have turned off half way through because they all seem the same turgid and boring.
Gone are the entertainers who got involved with the crowd and we all know who they were.
Now we get stats thrown at us with expected goals , touches in opponents box. Players running around in bra's measuring how far they have run and now players being picked by artificial intelligence.
It's gone.
 

If you want to watch players acting like it's 50 years ago then can I direct you to the Northern Counties East League fixture list?

Actually, it's online and not in the Green'un so I guess that won't work
 
I am sure people have said this every single decade as football evolves in every single way all the time.
 
Aye for the day going to Bramall Lane, smelling pipe smoke, buying a programme with Fox's glacier mints being the only advertised product, seeing the sandwich board man on Bramall Lane with "The end of the world is nigh" and the wonderful Ian Ramsay as the stadium announcer.
Happy days
 
Bet you wouldn't have seen a hamer goal with them old caseys break your bleeding foot young uns watch the film Kez for a proper game of football
 
There's still the route-one unfit Stoke ball you're remembering, it's just in non-league football. Get yourself to some games.
 
As we get older we all reminisce about the old days in terms of football but times do move on and by and large for the better.

I loved being on the West Terrace in the early 90s, loved my formative away days on falling down away ends in the 80s, loved the intimidatory atmosphere on G and H early 2000s.

But despite people trying to separate the two, football mirrors society.

Football stadia, styles to a degree, and attitudes from yesteryear wouldn't survive today.
 
It's gone.


…….to a whole different level.

Someone must be doing something right because football has never been as popular as it is now.
Most clubs in the Premier league have long waiting lists for season tickets.

It’s crazy to think that at Arsenal they charge £50 adults and £25 kids just to be added to their season ticket waiting
Yet their waiting list stands at 90,000.
 

…….to a whole different level.

Someone must be doing something right because football has never been as popular as it is now.
Most clubs in the Premier league have long waiting lists for season tickets.

It’s crazy to think that at Arsenal they charge £50 adults and £25 kids just to be added to their season ticket waiting
Yet their waiting list stands at 90,000.

I'd be very interested to know if that's actually true for TV in this country. The Premier League, and probably the EFL have bigger audiences worldwide than ever before, but it definitely seems as though people watch less football here these days. That could definitely just be my perspective due to my age and the people I mix with, but I suspect it's not.

Worldwide audiences are not a good gauge of the quality of the product. Those audiences have risen because of access in other countries, and very successful marketing. UK audience numbers would tell a better story (although still affected by the same things, to a lesser extent).
 

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