The Arsenal

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.

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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

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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.

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Fuck 21st century football.