Things that are ruining the game.....

[Geoff Parkstone]

Thing I hate about football that have ruined or will ruin the game

#1 The Premier league aka money.

#2 Bosman and freedom of contract which seems, counter intuitively to have led to massive transfer price inflation. Or is that just coincidence?

#3 The inclusion of the goalkeeper in the the description of formations, unless the day ever comes that we cal field more than one keeper, or chose to field none.

#4 TV pundits. Let's just go back to a commentator saying what's going on. And no lengthy "expert" hours and hours of analysis before and after the game

[MadAmster]

Thing I hate about football that have ruined or will ruin the game

#1 The Premier league aka money.

#2 Bosman and freedom of contract which seems, counter intuitively to have led to massive transfer price inflation. Or is that just coincidence?

#3 The inclusion of the goalkeeper in the the description of formations, unless the day ever comes that we cal field more than one keeper, or chose to field none.

#4 TV pundits. Let's just go back to a commentator saying what's going on. And no lengthy "expert" hours and hours of analysis before and after the game

Did you, in the main, forget to post a "remedy" or don't you have one?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Did you, in the main, forget to post a "remedy" or don't you have one?

Ah I missed the bit about suggesting a solution!

To #1, sadly its way too late in the day to do anything about that
to #2, see 1 above
to #3, Swale can sort it out
to #4, I can only suggest that we rise up and rebel against these so called experts and turn off the TV apart from the duration of the match. Ultimately that may impact advertising revenue

May I add a 5th which possibly cannot be resolved - that is the abolition of betting on football apart from a simple win/lose/draw type bets. Secondary betting on the number of offside, corners, yellow cards etc are just pointless and only encourage people to bet and increase the money-go-round and its speed.

[swaledale]

Ah I missed the bit about suggesting a solution!

To #1, sadly its way too late in the day to do anything about that
to #2, see 1 above
to #3, Swale can sort it out
to #4, I can only suggest that we rise up and rebel against these so called experts and turn off the TV apart from the duration of the match. Ultimately that may impact advertising revenue

May I add a 5th which possibly cannot be resolved - that is the abolition of betting on football apart from a simple win/lose/draw type bets. Secondary betting on the number of offside, corners, yellow cards etc are just pointless and only encourage people to bet and increase the money-go-round and its speed.

I've already sorted it! Nobody puts the goalkeeper in a formation in senior football because he is always in the same place and as a professional earning 1,000s of pounds a week doesn't give a toss about not being included!. In fact many are quite happy to pick up 1,00s of pounds a week and not even get a chance to play!