MODERN FOOTBALL

I hear lots of posters expressing their distaste of modern football- so when do you think "modern football" started and what would you do to change it?

Personally I think that TV rights have taken over the game and we're all paying for it.

Sky and the Premier League

sky killed the old game , it use to be anyone could win Div 1 , now its always which 1 of 4 , there is too much money in the game now. It used to be a game for the working class now its becoming a game for the upper class now (Prawn sandwich brigade) .

I hear lots of posters expressing their distaste of modern football- so when do you think "modern football" started and what would you do to change it?

Personally I think that TV rights have taken over the game and we're all paying for it.

There seems to be different personal preferences and myths regarding modern football. The popular consensus was the birth of Sky TV and the Premier League. In 1979 first division clubs were finally allowed to advertise on their shirts and a few years after that the BBC, ITV and the football league realised it was far more lucrative to let there companies pay for extra advertising on shirts. The top clubs were rubbing shoulders with the corporations long before Sky moved in to take the game further. The'against modern football'mantra is full of hypocrisy but there are individual grievances I agree with

i haven't been around long enough to know what football was like before it was modernized, but even i know Sky Broadcasting rights and deals have brought to much money into the game!

Bring back terracing or safe standing

In the mid seventies I went out with a girl whose family were heavily into horse jumping. They claimed it was a more sophisticated sport than football and required serious money to work. I could not get my head around this or understand what they were saying but I had to admit the sport got a lot of tv coverage then. Then overnight the big corporations moved in and the horses had their names changes from a recognised horse name like Black Beauty to Sanyo Music Centre. I didn't half take the piss out of the girlfriend resulting in us not lasting long after.

Horse jumping soon died with hardly any coverage of it at all these days. However I always recall these events and how the big corporations used the sport for their own gain. Once there was no use for the sport they simple packed up and moved onto the next culprit sport. I just wonder if football will go this way.

In the mid seventies I went out with a girl whose family were heavily into horse jumping. They claimed it was a more sophisticated sport than football and required serious money to work. I could not get my head around this or understand what they were saying but I had to admit the sport got a lot of tv coverage then. Then overnight the big corporations moved in and the horses had their names changes from a recognised horse name like Black Beauty to Sanyo Music Centre. I didn't half take the piss out of the girlfriend resulting in us not lasting long after.

Horse jumping soon died with hardly any coverage of it at all these days. However I always recall these events and how the big corporations used the sport for their own gain. Once there was no use for the sport they simple packed up and moved onto the next culprit sport. I just wonder if football will go this way.

what would they move onto now tho? football is a worldwide sport, not many other sports that reach out to as many countries as football does

In the mid seventies I went out with a girl whose family were heavily into horse jumping. They claimed it was a more sophisticated sport than football and required serious money to work. I could not get my head around this or understand what they were saying but I had to admit the sport got a lot of tv coverage then. Then overnight the big corporations moved in and the horses had their names changes from a recognised horse name like Black Beauty to Sanyo Music Centre. I didn't half take the piss out of the girlfriend resulting in us not lasting long after.

Horse jumping soon died with hardly any coverage of it at all these days. However I always recall these events and how the big corporations used the sport for their own gain. Once there was no use for the sport they simple packed up and moved onto the next culprit sport. I just wonder if football will go this way.

what would they move onto now tho? football is a worldwide sport, not many other sports that reach out to as many countries as football does

That's the worrying part.

Just how far will the modern age take the game away from us. Everyone looks at Germany as an example which is right but what caught my attention was that by using the club Dortmund they claimed season ticket money is £200 cheaper for the fan. They argued if they charged UK prices they would make £2 million more. What is £2 million when they can get £100 million from tv rights. Basically they are saying ST money is a small proportion to other source incomes. That worries me.

In the mid seventies I went out with a girl whose family were heavily into horse jumping. They claimed it was a more sophisticated sport than football and required serious money to work. I could not get my head around this or understand what they were saying but I had to admit the sport got a lot of tv coverage then. Then overnight the big corporations moved in and the horses had their names changes from a recognised horse name like Black Beauty to Sanyo Music Centre. I didn't half take the piss out of the girlfriend resulting in us not lasting long after.

Horse jumping soon died with hardly any coverage of it at all these days. However I always recall these events and how the big corporations used the sport for their own gain. Once there was no use for the sport they simple packed up and moved onto the next culprit sport. I just wonder if football will go this way.

what would they move onto now tho? football is a worldwide sport, not many other sports that reach out to as many countries as football does

That's the worrying part.

Just how far will the modern age take the game away from us. Everyone looks at Germany as an example which is right but what caught my attention was that by using the club Dortmund they claimed season ticket money is £200 cheaper for the fan. They argued if they charged UK prices they would make £2 million more. What is £2 million when they can get £100 million from tv rights. Basically they are saying ST money is a small proportion to other source incomes. That worries me.

clubs make more money from fans watching them on tv than they do from the ones actually going to games! they dont care about how much STs are, they care what they are getting from tv deals! that'll never change, football is a money game now! sad really

Adverts for sky frustrates me. It is like 'Don't miss a single goal, etc' there is nothing better than being there live.

Its the post Abramovich are for me.

Clubs spending beyond their means to try and keep up with the Joneses and hitting the die hard supporters in the pocket.

Increase in season tickets, new kits every season, etc.

The TV money has gone crazy but the true supporters are not seeing any of it, its all gone to the players, which is wrong.

Average players being made multi millionaires whilst the cost to attend games has risen ten fold.

In the mid seventies I went out with a girl whose family were heavily into horse jumping. They claimed it was a more sophisticated sport than football and required serious money to work. I could not get my head around this or understand what they were saying but I had to admit the sport got a lot of tv coverage then. Then overnight the big corporations moved in and the horses had their names changes from a recognised horse name like Black Beauty to Sanyo Music Centre. I didn't half take the piss out of the girlfriend resulting in us not lasting long after.

Horse jumping soon died with hardly any coverage of it at all these days. However I always recall these events and how the big corporations used the sport for their own gain. Once there was no use for the sport they simple packed up and moved onto the next culprit sport. I just wonder if football will go this way.

Very interesting read Baked. Nice to see after all the drama this week. This is discussion worthy on its own.

In response I can't see football going the same way as its even got its claws into the USA now. I do think once MLS caps are lifted it'll go massive over there though possibly leaving us with a more British dominated game. I really hope the MLS does become the money league on football.

No such thing, just a Luddite view on progress.

It was always better decades ago..... I recall that being said to me in the 80's