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I love football, especially watching Arsenal, but I can see a time on the horizon where that starts to wain as the enjoyment is sucked out of the game.
We already have teams playing anti football to buy time, and disrupt the opposition’s rhythm, plus VAR on top of that killing the game.
Now I just watched a report on the recent IFAb meeting where they are discussing ramping up the testing of Sin Bins, with one journalist suggesting they could be introduced into the higher levels of football by as early as one year maybe two.
And Merson’s obvious conclusion is that it will increase the amount of teams parking the bus, and playing anti football to stop play, for the 10 minutes they are down to ten men.
Ironically IFAb were also discussing ways to increase the amount of time the ball is in play and encouraging continuous flowing football, while also expanding VAR to FKs, corners and 2nd YCs lol
With all that I could see myself reading a good book or watching a movie while watching a game, looking up only when the ref blows the whistle to resume play after yet another lengthy intervention or players are released from the sin bin.
Fuck 21st century football.
Anti-football is nothing new, in fact there’s defined eras of it. What you’re doing is recalling fond memories and comparing it with reality of the present.
These things come and go because the world is full of variance. Football is an endless cycle of change where someone breaks ground and the rest adapt. The media are just selling stories otherwise they’d address the rank incompetence of PGMOL, IFAB and the likes which is the fundamental factor in all of this.
The rampant corruption across the game, on the other hand, I find incredibly off-putting.
What are you talking about?
Firstly I never said anti football is anything new.
Secondly this isn’t the press just selling stories, they are reporting on something that has actually happened, or are you going to claim the IFAB did not just hold their ABM in London 27/11/203, or maybe you are trying to claim that IFAB did not agree that sin bins should be trialled at higher levels in that ABM?
Or maybe you have issues with journalists/pundits speculating on recent events, which is like their job?
What stories are you on about?
What a silly take you have.
The good news is that there’s always a tipping point, and rule changes soon follow to improve the spectacle.
That’s how we got the ever-evolving offside rule, the backpass rule, tackles from behind outlawed, the list goes on.
In terms of quality of football, World Cup 1990 was a nadir and triggered a bunch of changes.
It’s also how we got to 22 players, 2 managers plus > 40K fans standing around for 5 minutes waiting to decide if they can celebrate a goal or not.
However you cannot legislate against anti-football. Those tactics are employed to negate the better team and are completely within the rules if done properly, we see it all the time if/when a team goes down to 10 men, and sin bins could in theory temporarily see a team go down to 9 men on a weekly basis depending on how touchy the officials feel.
I’m all for showing respect to the ref, they are people after all, but sin bins are not the way to go imho
Sin bins would be awful considering how inconsistently punishments are applied in the first place.
Exactly and from what I saw in that source, IFAB are considering them for showing disrespect to the officials and the rules lol
It will be a nightmare.