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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I love football, especially watching Arsenal, but I can see a time on the horizon where that starts to wain as the enjoyment is sucked out of the game.

We already have teams playing anti football to buy time, and disrupt the opposition's rhythm, plus VAR on top of that killing the game.

Now I just watched a report on the recent IFAb meeting where they are discussing ramping up the testing of Sin Bins, with one journalist suggesting they could be introduced into the higher levels of football by as early as one year maybe two.

And Merson's obvious conclusion is that it will increase the amount of teams parking the bus, and playing anti football to stop play, for the 10 minutes they are down to ten men.

Ironically IFAb were also discussing ways to increase the amount of time the ball is in play and encouraging continuous flowing football, while also expanding VAR to FKs, corners and 2nd YCs lol

With all that I could see myself reading a good book or watching a movie while watching a game, looking up only when the ref blows the whistle to resume play after yet another lengthy intervention or players are released from the sin bin.

Fuck 21st century football.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The good news is that there's always a tipping point, and rule changes soon follow to improve the spectacle.

That's how we got the ever-evolving offside rule, the backpass rule, tackles from behind outlawed, the list goes on.

In terms of quality of football, World Cup 1990 was a nadir and triggered a bunch of changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's also how we got to 22 players, 2 managers plus > 40K fans standing around for 5 minutes waiting to decide if they can celebrate a goal or not.

However you cannot legislate against anti-football. Those tactics are employed to negate the better team and are completely within the rules if done properly, we see it all the time if/when a team goes down to 10 men, and sin bins could in theory temporarily see a team go down to 9 men on a weekly basis depending on how touchy the officials feel.

I'm all for showing respect to the ref, they are people after all, but sin bins are not the way to go imho

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