| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? 22:06 - Apr 16 with 5043 views | TresBonne |
Starting to feel myself more and more bored after watching games as a neutral these days. Tonight & the Manc derby spring to mind as recent examples. (Granted I didn't watch the first leg as was playing 6aside me self)
Lengthy VAR checks, teams sitting in, can't remember the last thunderc*** of a goal that I saw. All seems to be getting a little dull tbh. |  | | |  |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 22:11 - Apr 16 with 3698 views | MattinLondon |
No, but it does seem fashionable to say that modern football is dull. |  | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:07 - Apr 16 with 3529 views | Garv |
Declan Rice literally scored two of them in the first leg. |  |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:11 - Apr 16 with 3518 views | TheBlueGnu |
I saw a very watchable top level match last week - the 4-4 draw between Glemham & Blaxhall Albion and Framsden Town was so exciting that my trust pet dog "Bill" literally did somersaults each time a goal was scored. We were watching the match in Bucklesham Village Hall alongside many cast members from old episodes of Heartbeat: Nick Berry, Tricia Penrose, and Sarah Tansey. |  |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:28 - Apr 16 with 3458 views | TresBonne |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:07 - Apr 16 by Garv |
Declan Rice literally scored two of them in the first leg. |
Told ya, I didn't watch  | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:29 - Apr 16 with 3456 views | TresBonne |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:11 - Apr 16 by TheBlueGnu |
I saw a very watchable top level match last week - the 4-4 draw between Glemham & Blaxhall Albion and Framsden Town was so exciting that my trust pet dog "Bill" literally did somersaults each time a goal was scored. We were watching the match in Bucklesham Village Hall alongside many cast members from old episodes of Heartbeat: Nick Berry, Tricia Penrose, and Sarah Tansey. |
Sounds like a good day out. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 06:30 - Apr 17 with 3169 views | franz_tyson |
Maybe there's just too much of it. Not only that, too much unnecessary drama and politics attached to it at top level.
Next season I won't watch the PL... just the Town games.
Football used to be a novelty and a bit of a treat.... but now you can watch it every day.
I was dead against the European Super League a few years ago and very pleased the fans put a stop to it.... but I'm beginning to wonder if it would even things up a bit and make the PL something worthwhile to aim for. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 06:43 - Apr 17 with 3142 views | PioneerBlue |
I hardly watch non ITFC football these days mainly because I don’t have the same emotional reaction highs and lows with other matches, time is another. I do watch the odd top table PL or championship match or most England games.
However I do have less interest in watching games where I’m not fully invested because I’m less interested in the way football is these days, the hype, the players acting and s-housing, the matching rules which are increasingly unclear and tv VAR refereeing looking for perfection rather than allowing games to flow. I also find low scoring matches a bit boring unless it’s us having secured a 1 nil versus the Arsenal. | |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 07:23 - Apr 17 with 3071 views | Nutkins_Return |
Villa vs PSG was a great game
I think this is 90% based on the fact we've struggled at the top level.
The other guy banging the drum on this a bit recently in Neville and I think 90% of that is his frustration at United.
There is a bit of truth in there being less 'mavericks' in the game but a bit of nostalgia comes into that opinion as well I expect. | |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:23 - Apr 17 with 2929 views | Wickets |
How about the great effort from the commentators don't they do a great job of convincing you how wonderful it all is !! |  | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:25 - Apr 17 with 2923 views | NthQldITFC |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 22:11 - Apr 16 by MattinLondon |
No, but it does seem fashionable to say that modern football is dull. |
Or is it fashionable to say that it is fashionable to say that modern football is dull?
(I know that a lot of my posts are dull.) |  |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:31 - Apr 17 with 2900 views | MattinLondon |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:25 - Apr 17 by NthQldITFC |
Or is it fashionable to say that it is fashionable to say that modern football is dull?
(I know that a lot of my posts are dull.) |
I actually like your posts.
I would say on here, it’s fashionable to say that modern football is dull as well as using nonsense phrases like ‘soulless bowls’. I’m definitely on the non-fashionable side of things.
But peace and love to all. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:38 - Apr 17 with 2870 views | NthQldITFC |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:31 - Apr 17 by MattinLondon |
I actually like your posts.
I would say on here, it’s fashionable to say that modern football is dull as well as using nonsense phrases like ‘soulless bowls’. I’m definitely on the non-fashionable side of things.
But peace and love to all. |
'I actually like your posts' - is how I read that, with a lot of ego-crushing emphasis on the 'actually'.
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:08 - Apr 17 with 2802 views | SomethingBlue |
There were always bad games, but fewer of them shoved in your face by TV. The Real-Arsenal game may have been dull but Inter-Bayern was an absolute thriller in both legs. | |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:16 - Apr 17 with 2746 views | MattinLondon |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:08 - Apr 17 by SomethingBlue |
There were always bad games, but fewer of them shoved in your face by TV. The Real-Arsenal game may have been dull but Inter-Bayern was an absolute thriller in both legs. |
Regardless of era I think most high profile matches always tend to disappoint. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:22 - Apr 17 with 2728 views | MattinLondon |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 08:38 - Apr 17 by NthQldITFC |
'I actually like your posts' - is how I read that, with a lot of ego-crushing emphasis on the 'actually'.
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Over the course of the next few days I’m going to crush a lot of egos.
On reflection I might well be confusing eggs with egos. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:37 - Apr 17 with 2656 views | lazyblue |
Personally I would rather watch a top premiership or relegation battle game than any European match .
To be fair after watching Rory win the other night nothing compares to the excitement of that. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 09:58 - Apr 17 with 2574 views | TheBlueGnu |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 23:29 - Apr 16 by TresBonne |
Sounds like a good day out. |
It was a fabulous day out - I took Jim Rosenthal with me to watch the match. | |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 10:33 - Apr 17 with 2407 views | EdwardStone |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 10:22 - Apr 17 by NthQldITFC |
A bicycle?
I'd conveniently forgotten that! |
Exactly.... A Bicycle.
You might have "forgotten".... but I will always remember  |  | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 10:47 - Apr 17 with 2372 views | VanDusen |
The big difference imo is
a) it's always the same teams these days (yawn), and there is much less variety than 30-40 years ago. This is reinforced by the media no longer allocating coverage based on league position, but simply on size - look at the amount of Man Utd and Tottenham games which are thrust upon us compared to Bournemouth, Brighton or Fulham.
b) regarding Europe double this - a tie like Man Utd v Barcelona would likely be a once in decade event, not likely to come round next season, or potentially even twice in the same season now there's terminally dull group stages to eke it out.
c) also in terms of Europe, back in the day there was a degree to which English teams were seen as representing the whole country and thus to some extent club loyalty would be discarded for the neutral - also one of the reasons why it's astounding Liverpool were ever 'forgiven' for Heysel in a way that almost no other club would have been given how many dreams they ruined for clubs like Everton, Wimbledon, Luton and, yes, Norwich. Nowadays you're clearly just watching multi-national corporations out for themselves competing to secure wealth above glory.
It's not just 'fashionable' to say modern football is dull (some of us have been saying it for 25 years or more), it's the fact that there's no longer any realistic other way of interpreting how corrupted it's become and most fans who get up out of their armchairs can see it clearly. Even Leicester's PL title - the one bright spot that is used to shut up naysayers - is almost a decade ago and practically in a different era the way the money has even further destroyed the English game. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 11:18 - Apr 17 with 2299 views | PioneerBlue |
There was a list started about useless modern football parlance. I would like to add
Soulless-bowls that is a cracker ^ | |
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 11:31 - Apr 17 with 2258 views | skinnybob72 |
It's very noticeable that teams are reluctant to cross the ball - I assume because they are likely to lose it in a 50/50 challenge in the air. Chelsea got the ball wide so many times on Sunday only to stop and pass the ball backwards.
Equally teams seem reluctant to shoot from distance, even when things appear to open up, because again they will likely lose possession. So more sideways and backwards passes ensue.
It's almost as if goals don't count unless the ball is walked into the net. | | | |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 11:35 - Apr 17 with 2239 views | DJR |
| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 06:43 - Apr 17 by PioneerBlue |
I hardly watch non ITFC football these days mainly because I don’t have the same emotional reaction highs and lows with other matches, time is another. I do watch the odd top table PL or championship match or most England games.
However I do have less interest in watching games where I’m not fully invested because I’m less interested in the way football is these days, the hype, the players acting and s-housing, the matching rules which are increasingly unclear and tv VAR refereeing looking for perfection rather than allowing games to flow. I also find low scoring matches a bit boring unless it’s us having secured a 1 nil versus the Arsenal. |
I've never had Sky and the only club games I have watched not involving Ipswich in the last 20 or 30 years are the Champions League Final, which tends to be free-to-air.
Like you it's because I don't care about teams other than Ipswich. [Post edited 17 Apr 11:37]
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| Is top level footy becoming a bit unwatchable? on 11:57 - Apr 17 with 2163 views | PrideOfTheEast |
Stadiums look the same, everybody seems to play in a similar way, defenders and goalkeepers seem to have the ball too much. I wouldn’t say unwatchable. However, not sure it’s really for me but I tend to go more for the day out, so won’t bother me when we reach the champions league! | | | |
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