Modern football is rubbish – Here’s the proof | OneFootball

Isn’t modern football great.

You know, ever since Sky Sports invented it in the early 1990s.

How did we ever manage before that?

We should all bow down and give our thanks to the football gods who delivered us to what we see today.

The thing is though, is it really all that?

Yes, we are told by the gods of football that we should look at all that money and all the brilliant players that it buys, how much better the ‘product’ is.

Hmmm, I have my doubts.

Have we all been brainwashed and actually football is anything but better now?

International breaks

September, no proper football for a fortnight.

October, no proper football for a fortnight.

November, no proper football for a fortnight.

March, no proper football for a fortnight.

Welcome to modern football.

Before we arrived at this current nonsense, back in the day you watched your club play on a Saturday. Then international players headed off to their national squads and played for them on the Wednesday night, then came back home and played for their club again on the following Saturday.

If we had a vote amongst football fans, what would be the outcome? Is there anybody who honestly thinks this is better now??

Transfer windows

If ever there was a contrived thing for the media, this is it.

In the past there were no transfer windows, any club could buy players for around ten months of the year, apart from roughly the last couple of months of the league season.

Yet there was a millionth of the transfer speculation compared to what there is now, yet you can’t buy players for around eight or nine months of the year, just two or three months in the summer and in January.

Substitutes

Each team used to be allowed one sub each. Quite often no subs were made at all in matches but if they were, the subbed player ran off and his replacement ran on.

Can you honestly believe we have now reached a point whereby it often happens that half of all the outfield players who start a match, get replaced! Yes, 10 of 20 outfield players.

Often as well, all of these can be in the second half. Plus every sub usually takes forever to be made as they crawl off and cuddle numerous teammates. It does my head in when the opposition do this to waste time, sometimes three subs made at same time and yet instead of all three running off and their replacements running on, it is one by one, very very slowly.

The football

I don’t think that there is any doubt that technically, the football is better.

As in, if you measure it by how well teams keep possession.

However, is it more entertaining? Which after all, is what we are all watching football for, isn’t it?

Modern football CAN be entertaining BUT I don’t think it is entertaining as often as in the past. Wingers taking full-backs on, surely that is what we want to see??? Not a thousand sideways and backwards passes.

Atmosphere

I don’t think this one needs any explanation.

Getting into St James’ Park

You wanted to go and watch Newcastle United play, you turned up and paid at the turnstile. If you thought it was going to be a big crowd, you turned up a bit earlier.

Unless you have a season ticket now, it is almost a full-time job trying to get tickets.

Plus you now have clubs like Man City and Arsenal who have to threaten season ticket holders to not miss so many matches, or at risk of losing their season tickets. People with plenty money who buy season tickets with no intention of anybody sitting in the seat for many of the games. How sickening is this when so many fans are desperate to get into matches.

Waking up in the morning

Imagine waking up on a Saturday morning and thinking, you know what, I think I will go to Old Trafford, Anfield…

Yes kids, that is what used to happen.

Or more likely when drunk on the Friday night, talked into piling into a transit van the next morning to head off to whatever stadium.

Now it involves military style precision planning and for most of us, a million times more chance of getting a ticket for Oasis than getting a ticket for a Newcastle United away match.

European football

Once upon a time, there was this crazy system whereby competing teams in European competitions were picked out of a hat at random, you never knew who you would be playing until the balls were pulled out ahead of each round. A fair system for everybody and whoever was the better team over two matches, home and away, went through. Every single game mattered as it could be your last in the competition.  Look at all the different clubs from so many different countries that got to the later stages so often.

Now we have a fixed system where idea is to try and get the exact same clubs to the later stages every single time, especially the Premier League.

Countless pointless matches end up played using league systems now.

Squads

Back in the day, all the best football players played week in week out.

These days, some top class players will end up lucky to start 200 Premier League matches in their entire careers.

Clubs have massive squads, the most successful have really massive squads. A lot of excellent players hardly start a match all season, used as regular subs if they are lucky. Whilst some find themselves spending season after season on loan from these clubs.

Many players earn millions per season but hardly ever play. How has it come to this?

These are just a few that came straight to mind, any I have missed???