Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
Well ok first off I’m talking about your view of football in general in that the standard has dropped exponentially from this arbitrary time in the past. Henry and Bergkamp were extraordinary even when they were playing, they weren’t of a standard that was easily replicated. Pires ? Well I don’t think Odegaard, Saka are far off that standard at all but please thrill me with your acumen as to how wrong you KNOW I am.


I think football is no better or worse, it just changes…..we are certainly better off now as spectators than ten-fifteen years ago when there were more teams emulating either the Mourinho or Atletico Madrid style or just the kind of non football displayed by Bolton, Stoke etc

I do think that too many teams play the low block, but it’s nothing new. A year after we won the double in 2002…we had teams sticking 11 men behind the ball both in the champions league and the premier league. The fact is the brilliant, one touch pass and move football that you’re eulogising even back then became pretty turgid when it was denied space to operate in, in the final third.
Well thanks for proving an actual answer. It really does move things along so much better.

Here's my conspiracy theory. I think football used to be mostly about sport and partly about money (as a necessity) and is now entirely about the money and with nothing to do with sport. And if you view things that way then absolutely everything makes perfect sense. Try it.

Saka vs Pires? Seriously?