Football 10 Years From Now

[palerider]

There'll still be a Premier League.

97 per-cent of the players will be from abroad.

Sky will control it even more than they do now.

Televised games will have mid-half breaks so they can put on a gambling advert.

And Sheffield Utd. will be suing somebody.

[jon15u]

I mean the like of Sir Bobby certainly didnt play it for the money, they got pittance compared with todays lot. Even in those days wages it wasnt enough to hang up your boots with after a career in the game.

Morning

I see a lot of comments along this line, and find myself in a minority of one in disagreeing with them.

Players played for the money back then too. That there was less of it washing around is plainly evident, but that doesn't alter the fact that motivation has always been financial.

Yes, wages were lower. But so were everyone's. A player needed a testimonial so he could buy his pub in Es*** to fund his retirement. But that was still an unachievable dream for most people.

But earnings were still high enough to fund fast cars and rich lifestyles.

So football stars were still stars - even in the 60s and 70s. They still went where the money was - even our own did that

[terrya1965]

I mean the like of Sir Bobby certainly didnt play it for the money, they got pittance compared with todays lot. Even in those days wages it wasnt enough to hang up your boots with after a career in the game.

Morning

I see a lot of comments along this line, and find myself in a minority of one in disagreeing with them.

Players played for the money back then too. That there was less of it washing around is plainly evident, but that doesn't alter the fact that motivation has always been financial.

Yes, wages were lower. But so were everyone's. A player needed a testimonial so he could buy his pub in Es*** to fund his retirement. But that was still an unachievable dream for most people.

But earnings were still high enough to fund fast cars and rich lifestyles.

So football stars were still stars - even in the 60s and 70s. They still went

[avit]

You can't really compare 70s with today football wise.

In the 70s no one had what we have today. It's a different world. A trip to Benidorm was jet setting in the 70s.

In 10 years time the world will be different. All the big clubs will have a super duper league and the rest will revert to jumpers for goalposts.

The super league will be played in China and beamed live into new fangled 3D goggles. You'll be able to pick a player on virtual cam and see the game through his eyes by way of 'lash cam'#

No refs, just a control room with a hundred camera views.

[jon15u]

In that you are correct sir, but it was really meant as a comparison to attitude rather than haves or haves not.


As for refs, if Jarome Champagne ( bet hes got a bubbly personality. ) gets voted in in the next FIFA election video reffing will be on the table.

[Hammerman69]

Agree about the money but there is also another factor.

When I was growing up I had no idea who played for Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan and until they started dominating in the 80s, AC Milan.

There was little to no coverage and the only time you saw these players was either during the WC or if one of the English clubs (usually Liverpool) drew them...Remember there was only one club in the European cup then and a couple in the lesser comps (ECWC and UEFA)

Now there is blanket coverage...all the Spanish games seem to be on and you can watch Dutch, German and Italian football.

The mystique of the world cup has gone also...I remember being excited to see Brazil and Argentina as I had no idea who was going to be playing...in 82, only Falcao played in Europe.
Nowadays, you turn on a Brazil match and half the players play here and the rest you know well from the European games...its totally ruined it for me.

[Whiskyman]

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As you say, it seems that most of the european leagues are dominated by 1 to 3 teams and the rest left to scrap over the pickings. I actually wonder if a super league is imminent, but then wonder how it would work cause all the revenue would then be concentrated mainly there.

The revenue will only be there if spectator (T V Viewer) interest is still there. I think that if the same clubs continue to dominate interest will diminish and if that happens so will revenues.

Money feeds the game, but i feel in the end its going to destroy it. In the past support was more domestic, and like you have said, now with the young it seems its more success orientated regardless of boundries, so the richer the club the bigger the fan base.

Don't think it's so much to do with success as exposure. When I started taking a serious interest in the game (age 10/11) the only way you could see a to

[Taansend]

By the year 2020 there will be a Euro Super League with 20 teams in it.

The Champions League will be for the right to play in the Super League, with the winner replacing the bottom placed team.

In Eastenders Dot Cotton will take up squash.

[dagenhamJohn]

crystal ball anyone?

or should we just click our red shoes together and wish for division 1

[jon15u]

Well i think we have decided that football in the future will be played on a PS 22 made in China.

There will be a super league comprising of the best 20 teams around europe and it will work on a relegation system.

The referee will be electronic, exterminating any transgressors of the laws of the game.

Wages will be paid in black bicycles and the odd ford capri.