12 Oct 2026 14:52:20
I'm so tired of modern football. It's up there with modern film/tv and gaming.
Everything is coerced and grubby with no joy to be found, no natural/organic feeling to any of it anymore.
Sadly I think football is done, I can't see a way back from where we have ended up. Money, VAR and terrible decision making from all areas has made it all a joyless affair. Add into that the futile feeling that city's actions have caused I can see interest in a once great sport waining nationwide.
I don't understand the sport and have never played but i'm very jealous of rugby fans. That institution seems a much better ran enterprise and actually seems fair and honest from the outside.
12 Oct 2026 16:04:02
Almost sent a post in saying very similar things about two hours ago. Don't know what's happened tk the game at all.
12 Oct 2026 17:45:33
It's not actually hard to fix, you start with red carding divers, then full transparency on VAR (live display of exactly what they're doing and saying), and then you implement regular investigations into dodgey refereeing decisions, and you immediately suspend referees under suspicion.
You do those 3, and things would change incredibly quickly. Problem is getting the league to do anything at all, they need help wiping their own arse.
12 Oct 2026 17:53:07
This Man City stuff could have ruined English football altogether
The more you think about it, the worse it gets.
12 Oct 2026 17:56:40
I said on the live chat yesterday that I'm going to find it hard to watch league football this season knowing what we know about City. The fact they have been found guilty but are still able to take part in - and lead - the league just feels baffling to me.
Ultimately they have made a mockery of the Premier League through 20 years of cheating. It's embarrassing.
12 Oct 2026 17:55:55
Yeah but how do we fix modern day films and music? Think it all boils down to technology. Take it all away, we've become to reliant on all of it.
12 Oct 2026 23:57:03
No-one has the appetite to fix it while there is so much money floating around. Beyond the actual game, it is just a vehicle for the unscrupulous to glean money off through gambling and corruption.
13 Oct 2026 09:28:40
@Chewy, you are treating the effect, not the cause.