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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.
Anti-football is nothing new, in fact there's defined eras of it. What you're doing is recalling fond memories and comparing it with reality of the present.
These things come and go because the world is full of variance. Football is an endless cycle of change where someone breaks ground and the rest adapt. The media are just selling stories otherwise they'd address the rank incompetence of PGMOL, IFAB and the likes which is the fundamental factor in all of this.
The rampant corruption across the game, on the other hand, I find incredibly off-putting.
What are you talking about?
Firstly I never said anti football is anything new.
Secondly this isn't the press just selling stories, they are reporting on something that has actually happened, or are you going to claim the IFAB did not just hold their ABM in London 27/11/203, or maybe you are trying to claim that IFAB did not agree that sin bins should be trialled at higher levels in that ABM?
Or maybe you have issues with journalists/pundits speculating on recent events, which is like their job?
What stories are you on about?
What a silly take you have.