I find it sad that modern day football is being reduced as a spectator entertainment to who is the best at the dark arts and sh1thousery.

I am not naive enough to think teams were like the Corinthian Casuals in the past--Dirty Ledds come to mind--but to praise this stuff as long as you win, as fans did under Ismael, is where I depart from "modern football".

God forbid sports like cricket, golf and snooker going this way. Imagine a snooker player wheeling away taking his shirt off after sinking a long pot or standing at the table in the way of his opponent as he stood up to take his shot.

You get what you wish for and tolerate.

Football will end up like ice hockey with a few seconds of play between the next full on feyt amongst the players.

The saddest aspect for me is to see these attitudes creep down all the way even to kids football with serious abuse of the referees, even violence, now commonplace from players and fans.