11-05-2015, 12:42
Morning All,
MeandBren, this is indeed a suitable question to be debated as we come to the end of another less than comprehensive edition of the "Best League in the World".
Football in General has adapted well to the different challenges that have faced it in its 130 odd year history.
Simple things like better playing surfaces, stud changes, boot technology, and the ever increasing pull of "money madness " has meant the product has evolved over the years, and even when disasters has struck (Hillsborough, Bradford, Hiessel, Air disasters etc.) the footballing community has pulled together.
While there are the characters in football, such as Pele at World level, Greavsie and Hurst, Best and Gascoigne, and more modern day nutters such as John Terry, Jiimy Bullard, Eric Cantona , and great players like Thiery Henry and Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi and Ronaldo, then the game will survive.
Like everything in sport these days, players are getting bigger and stronger, faster and fitter, refs cannot keep up, technology is waiting in the wings, and spectacular events will ensure it will always attract the masses, unless costs eventually prohibit the working man from worshipping at his shrine of choice.
What the eventual shape of football will evolve into is anyones guess, but after over 100 years, and apart from the odd change to the offside rule, the game remains pretty much the same as laid out in the first football league match in the 1870,s, so heres hoping we dont develop a liking for the "rollerball" type of gladiatorial offerings futuristic movies have painted, but remains the glorious game we all love and hate in equal measure.
Without the lows, you never appreciate the good times, and long may it remain so.
Cheers,
Kookiebags.
MeandBren, this is indeed a suitable question to be debated as we come to the end of another less than comprehensive edition of the "Best League in the World".
Football in General has adapted well to the different challenges that have faced it in its 130 odd year history.
Simple things like better playing surfaces, stud changes, boot technology, and the ever increasing pull of "money madness " has meant the product has evolved over the years, and even when disasters has struck (Hillsborough, Bradford, Hiessel, Air disasters etc.) the footballing community has pulled together.
While there are the characters in football, such as Pele at World level, Greavsie and Hurst, Best and Gascoigne, and more modern day nutters such as John Terry, Jiimy Bullard, Eric Cantona , and great players like Thiery Henry and Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi and Ronaldo, then the game will survive.
Like everything in sport these days, players are getting bigger and stronger, faster and fitter, refs cannot keep up, technology is waiting in the wings, and spectacular events will ensure it will always attract the masses, unless costs eventually prohibit the working man from worshipping at his shrine of choice.
What the eventual shape of football will evolve into is anyones guess, but after over 100 years, and apart from the odd change to the offside rule, the game remains pretty much the same as laid out in the first football league match in the 1870,s, so heres hoping we dont develop a liking for the "rollerball" type of gladiatorial offerings futuristic movies have painted, but remains the glorious game we all love and hate in equal measure.
Without the lows, you never appreciate the good times, and long may it remain so.
Cheers,
Kookiebags.