| Has the game gone? 13:25 - Mar 3 with 6884 views | KensalT |
Ruud's got a point. Even if he did play for that mob on Fulham Broadway.
The game is in danger of eating itself
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| Has the game gone? on 17:48 - Mar 4 with 1448 views | colinallcars |
In reference to the 1967 thread - that team was so so ebulliant, no shirkers, no cheats although someone likened Rodney to a “dying swan” because he allegedly went down easily in the box.
Maybe, but he got kicked all over the place by craggy defenders who got away with it then. |  | | |
| Has the game gone? on 19:41 - Mar 4 with 1282 views | VancouverHoop |
| Has the game gone? on 17:48 - Mar 4 by colinallcars |
In reference to the 1967 thread - that team was so so ebulliant, no shirkers, no cheats although someone likened Rodney to a “dying swan” because he allegedly went down easily in the box.
Maybe, but he got kicked all over the place by craggy defenders who got away with it then. |
True, and he deliberately played for them. He'd keep his foot on the ball in the penalty area and roll it around while defenders' boots came flying in from all directions. Eventually one of them would get pissed off and take him out. He'd just get up, grin, and put the ball on the penalty spot. | | | |
| Has the game gone? on 21:19 - Mar 4 with 1182 views | paulparker |
Watching a team like Arsenal win the premier league with their anti football is not helping either |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Has the game gone? on 08:08 - Mar 5 with 949 views | Phildo |
Can I add constant foul throws and corners evidently outside the quadrant to the list of set piece horrors set out above. Every single change making the product worse. |  | | |
| Has the game gone? on 08:44 - Mar 5 with 907 views | NotSoSuper |
| Has the game gone? on 08:08 - Mar 5 by Phildo |
Can I add constant foul throws and corners evidently outside the quadrant to the list of set piece horrors set out above. Every single change making the product worse. |
https://www.theguardian.com/fo | | | |
| Has the game gone? on 09:40 - Mar 5 with 848 views | eastside_r |
I can’t recommend that article enough. I was going to post on this thread that in some ways I agree with the general premise and in some ways not, but this article puts it much better than I ever could.
Liew is an excellent writer (although Jonathan Agnew and others may disagree.) |  | | |
| Has the game gone? on 09:55 - Mar 5 with 817 views | KensalT |
Interesting piece.
Manages to list some of the gripes about the modern game while still defending the product and making the reasonable point that every generation had it's own gripes about the way the game is changing.
Maybe it is just a generation thing and maybe I am becoming a grumpy old git. And maybe da yoot thinks all that grappling at corners, deliberately delaying every restart, and the VAR tension is great.
It would be an interesting experiment to get a bunch of young fans to sit through the 1970 World Cup Final to see what they make of it. Would they delight in the creativity, skill, and flair of the Brazilians tearing the best organised and most cynical defenders of their generation a new one, or would they go full Alan Hansen and come away with the conclusion that the Italians were just crap at defending and tactically naive? | | | |
| Has the game gone? on 10:21 - Mar 5 with 749 views | Phildo |
| Has the game gone? on 09:55 - Mar 5 by KensalT |
Interesting piece.
Manages to list some of the gripes about the modern game while still defending the product and making the reasonable point that every generation had it's own gripes about the way the game is changing.
Maybe it is just a generation thing and maybe I am becoming a grumpy old git. And maybe da yoot thinks all that grappling at corners, deliberately delaying every restart, and the VAR tension is great.
It would be an interesting experiment to get a bunch of young fans to sit through the 1970 World Cup Final to see what they make of it. Would they delight in the creativity, skill, and flair of the Brazilians tearing the best organised and most cynical defenders of their generation a new one, or would they go full Alan Hansen and come away with the conclusion that the Italians were just crap at defending and tactically naive? |
True - if you rewatch that England v Maradona world cup match its 90 minutes of English players attempting to kick the Sh1t out of him (and failing). | | | |
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| Has the game gone? on 10:27 - Mar 5 with 738 views | SydneyRs |
All about the money now. The prem is dull as dishwater, I've had next to no interest in it for years. A bit of a shame really. | | | |
| Has the game gone? on 12:33 - Mar 5 with 650 views | TheChef |
| Has the game gone? on 10:21 - Mar 5 by Phildo |
True - if you rewatch that England v Maradona world cup match its 90 minutes of English players attempting to kick the Sh1t out of him (and failing). |
Although ironically, just before scoring his wonder goal, Hoddle got blatantly fouled but the ref decided to play on. |  |
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| Has the game gone? on 20:42 - Mar 5 with 504 views | KensalT |
Sarr goal for Palace disallowed because his nose was offside.
You can't make this stuff up.
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| Has the game gone? on 20:55 - Mar 5 with 482 views | FredManRave |
If you look at that offside image, how can his face possibly be ahead of his knee?! |  |
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| Has the game gone? on 20:59 - Mar 5 with 467 views | stowmarketrange |
| Has the game gone? on 20:42 - Mar 5 by KensalT |
Sarr goal for Palace disallowed because his nose was offside.
You can't make this stuff up.
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It doesn’t seem to have affected Palace too much as it’s now 3-1,and the spurs fans are hitting the high road.Will they have the best ground in the championship? |  | | |
| Has the game gone? on 07:13 - Mar 6 with 308 views | numptydumpty |
Offsides and Penalty decisions by VAR so difficult to understand !
And your fringe at the top of your forehead being offside is bonkers !
The auditions for "Saving Private Ryan" when a player leaves his leg behind to get contact from the opposition players big toe !
Surrounding the referee attempting to get a nomination for best dramatic performance at the Baftas !
Youtubers and fantasy football experts making millions out of the game from their back bedrooms !
And 40% of the game being played between the centre backs and the goalkeeper !
Progress, they say - wouldn't class myself as a dinosaur, but on reflection do feel sadly there are many more negatives than positives with regards to how the game is today.
i remember loving the 82, 86 and 90 world cups. Yet under Southgate's era, we were much more successful, i think two semi final appearances and two finals also, but i was generally bored watching it and didnt enjoy it at all.
Progress is not always the way, and especially if passion, excitement and unpredictability are taken out of the game !!!
As to the question - Has the game gone ?
There is no doubt !!!
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