Iron Duke
7:02 Mon Dec 21
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What a load of bollocks. Football has been shit from at least 2000.
I would have loved to have watched it in the 70's.
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Northern Sold
7:00 Mon Dec 21
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Just watch a couple of episodes of the Big Match Revisited each week... that's all the football fix you need.
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Eerie Descent
6:41 Mon Dec 21
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Regardless of what age you were and when, football as an all round package peaked from around1990 to 2010. For all different reasons. It was a combination of still having characters, still having naturally gifted players who hadn't had individuality drilled out of them from the age of 7, still a contact sport, still a massive core if British players who cared, but had still become more professional.
As well as that, you could see more games on TV, without being inundated, getting relegated wasn't the end of the world, the FA Cup meant something, you didn't have Fan channels with newbie cunts talking bollocks.
The sanitised shit being served up now is not a patch on that 20 year period, nor was any time before it. Players from opposing teams high fiving each other and cuddling before games, rainbow armbands, kneeling before games and other political bollocks overshadowing the game, West Ham ballboys cheering on Arsenal at our home ground. Load of old cunt.
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TheBoleynBoy
6:23 Mon Dec 21
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Hermit,
You’ve made a good point but again, it probably was happening more often that you realised. The difference being not every game was televised in some format and then incidents weren’t analysed to the specifics that is nowadays.
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Hermit Road
5:20 Mon Dec 21
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“ As said already, there seems to be some sort of lovely nostalgia which distorts the past. Everything seems better when we were younger, because we were younger!”
Sometimes this is true, but it isn’t always the case.
The example here was specific. The diving and acting has made the game worse. Nostalgia hasn’t distorted the past. It didn’t used to happen nearly as much and, when it did, it was roundly condemned.
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Eerie Descent
5:14 Mon Dec 21
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This is not in the Christmas spirit is it, cunts?
I think you're all brilliant.
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Pagey
5:09 Mon Dec 21
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Manuel - you have and always will be a massively pointless, miserable, pathetic cunt so anything you say is immediately redundant. What a shit life you have. I’d feel sorry for you, if any part of me gave a shit.
Branded - if a game only means something when you’re there then that means that England winning the World Cup only had any kind of impact on around 100,000 people. Which would be laughable, so you’re wrong.
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goose
5:07 Mon Dec 21
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There’s some miserable old fuckers on this thread.
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BRANDED
4:34 Mon Dec 21
Re: Modern football
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“The game’s this season have been highly entertaining”. A game is nothing if you can’t attend it. Gayness at the game both on the pitch and in the stands had destroyed that before Covid. Now you might as well watch a video game or be in a sim. Fucking nonsense.
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Manuel
4:26 Mon Dec 21
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Pagey - Don't you ever tire of being the 'voice of reason' on every thread, your irksome cunt?
And everything WAS better when we were younger. You would have to be some kind of cunt not to see that. The world is shit now, fucked.
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,
4:26 Mon Dec 21
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Much more enjoyable when every match was played at the same, waiting for the half time scores to be put up etc.
I would not want to go back to the terrible pitches and sodden leather ball though.
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Pagey
4:23 Mon Dec 21
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Absolute horse shit.
The games this season have been highly entertaining with a record amount of goals scored in the opening few weeks. VAR has contributed to changing the games but hopefully that will improve with the decisions being made quicker and the rules more balanced.
The main problem is that there’s football on every single night pretty much but that means that people can pick and choose. It’s also great for lower league and even non-league fans as their teams are also getting coverage too. Compare that to back in the day when there was one live game a week, if we were lucky. Would people want to go back to that? Of course not.
As said already, there seems to be some sort of lovely nostalgia which distorts the past. Everything seems better when we were younger, because we were younger!
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BigLump
4:21 Mon Dec 21
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30+ years ago, you'd get excited as Saturday approached.
The game used to fly by but even now you can recall events in games from back then. Win or lose, it was a thrill
Now - Let's face it - Its shit, and ruled by money.
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ChillTheKeel
4:18 Mon Dec 21
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goose 6:14
Just because there's plenty of middle aged cunts doesn't mean they're not new breeds. You can smell 'em a mile off.
The modern game is more exciting in terms of the pace of the game nowadays, but give me terracing, quagmire pitches, seething tribal hatred and dirt cheap admission any day.
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zico
4:07 Mon Dec 21
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I'm just reading Ron Greenwoods Autobiography again, and what is interesting with regard to this thread is how Greenwood's thoughts on football in the first chapter echo much of what a lot of us feel about football today. He mentions much of what is written here as criticism of what the modern game was at the time he wrote that autobiography which was probably mid 80's which ironically is the game that many of us hark back to as a better time.
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percyd
9:44 Mon Dec 21
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Getting more and more like bleedin' prayer meetings.
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marty feldman
6:19 Sun Dec 20
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The sooner straight red cards are shown for cheating the better. But as we all know some clubs will receive better treatment than others .
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goose
6:14 Sun Dec 20
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If it was so unwatchable why is there so many ppl 40+ at games?
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Manuel
6:09 Sun Dec 20
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Deano - Just admit it, you ain't allowed to watch football, you doormat.
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WHUDeano
5:22 Sun Dec 20
Re: Modern football
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Interesting reading how many feel the same as me given I've never really voiced it. I've not watched a single game of football other than West Ham for a long time, though rather than being about modern football, I think it's more to do with there being no fans in attendance. But when stadiums are eventually full, I'm not sure whether I will actually bother watching any other games really.
There are so many things wrong with the modern game both financially, sportingly and culturally, that it is become almost unwatchable for anyone who regularly attended games pre 2000.
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smartypants
5:02 Sun Dec 20
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I’d prefer to loose to Blackpool rather than arsenal, just like I felt far more gutted loosing to Liverpool than I did palace.
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