Todays soccer vs yesteryear

[demarcation]

Hi guys, my first thread! I love football, but todays football annoys me. I am 51 & when younger a good player. The pitches reflected the seasons, essentially the balls were leather & you had to LEARN how to hone your weaker foot. Todays balls are like little plastic things. It is bollocks. Also you can't tackle today, Messi wouldn't last 5 minutes even in early 90's. Baggio, Maradona, they were warriors.

Sure, its good some of the evil has gone out of game... Chopper Harris, Styles, Terry Yorath, Romeo Benetti - they'd break your leg for fun. Evil bastards.

But somethings sadly been lost too? They started really making ball lighter in late 90's.

There, my first thread.

[valencia]

Money and politics has ruined football (and most other sports/entertainment) for me. I understand your romance for the past fella but its gone and its not going to return to the way we enjoyed it, my advice is watch the old stuff and enjoy your memories. #Lapsed

[demarcation]

Originally Posted by valencia

Money and politics has ruined football (and most other sports/entertainment) for me. I understand your romance for the past fella but its gone and its not going to return to the way we enjoyed it, my advice is watch the old stuff and enjoy your memories. #Lapsed

You're so right! At least theres Youtube.

[gh0stjona]

For this sport every time I win a few money

[bapgap]

Agreed. It started getting bad in the late 90s and it only got worse from there. I remember when they expanded the European Champions Cup and they got rid of the Cup Winners Cup replacing it with the bullshit UEFA Cup allowing 5th placed teams to compete in it. Then the two group stages in the Champions League adding more games for TV money. The final straw for me was when they expanded Euro from 16 to 24 teams. How I wish I could go back to Euro 96, what a tournament that was and what a time to be a football fan. It feels like that was the last pure competition.



It's like comparing the old Wembley to the new... the old stadium had character with the iconic twin towers. The new one looks like every other modern NFL stadium.

[Nono]

Since "Champions League" allows 3rd, 4th teams to participate it is ridiculous. It should be a league for best teams in all countries in Europe.
It should be called "League of subjective selection"

Thank god I don't give a shit. I used to LOVE soccer. It is a big pile of shit now.

big teams like Real Madrid, MU, Juventus, etc can and do buy good players from eastern europen teams making them unable to be a good team. It's all about the money. Juventus is not better than let us say Dinamo Kiev. They are just richer.

[Nono]

And there is latest winner Bayern München....
Neuer, Kimmich, Thomas Müller. They are germans. Lewandowski polish, but also white.
The rest are black, spanish. nothing to do with "München"
I am not racist, but a german club should have german players, a spanish have spanish and a hungarian team should be full of hungarians.

[Fallon]

I am a lifelong fan of the Red Devils. Not the moneygrabbing a-holes from Manchester, but the real ones from Kaiserslautern. Those Red Devils who formed the legendary core of the 1954 World Cup winning Team who beat the legendary Mighty Magyars (Sorry once again, Nono )

In 1982 we beat Real Madrid 5-0 in the UEFA Cup Quarterfinal

In 1991 we beat Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich 2-1 at home and won the Championship

Later that year, we beat Barcelona 3:1 in the European Cup. Nevertheless, Barcelona got into the next round due to its away goal and eventually won its first European Cup. Even today, this game is being well-remembered by many Catalans.

In 1997, after spending one season in division two, we won the first game of the season away at Bayern Munich 1-0 and became the first promoted team to win the German championship.

...

In 2021 we sit at the bottom of the third division, one place behind Bayern Munich's second team, about to be relegated once again, this time to the amateur tiers.

....

This is everything you need to know about modern football: the rich ones are getting richer, the poor ones are getting poorer.

There have always been clubs that shaped an era. But in the 80's and 90's you could still beat those teams on a good day. Nowadays, with all their financial power, they buy all your best players, give them four or five times the money they get at your club, only to put them on the bench.

That's not my football anymore.

[Nono]

Agree!

As for 1954
Just 2 words: offside and metamfetamin

[bapgap]

I agree with Nono. When teams have so few players from the country they play in, why should I even care about my local team anymore. There's no home pride whatsoever in modern football.


Man United, Juventus, Real Madrid confirm plans to participate in Super League

http://espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4364173/man-unitedjuventustottenham-among-team-to-participate-in-super-league

Hopefully fans boycott this shit and it backfires on these clubs. The current Champions League is a farce anyway and creating a super league will only make things worse. But we all know football has become all about oil money, especially when they gave the World Cup to Qatar. I'm glad I don't care anymore.