[meandbrenarebaggies]

Just thinking about the future of football.  Lets pull a few reasonable assumptions

together; in no particular order of importance.  Real Madrid will continue to dominate
from a financial aspect; they will continue to be able to buy any player at any price at
any time they like.  There is not a Russian, Far East or Shiek billionaire big enough to
take on the collective money at Real.  Spanish football will remain a two-horse race.
Italian football will remain too poor to have any real impact.  It will manage to scrape
together a few good teams over the next 20 years but that will be as a result of talented
Italian players opting to stay as big fish in a small pool (Seria A) rather than expose
their fragile talents abroad. Germany will continue to play well because of their
attitude towards teamwork rather than reliance on star players.  England will continue
to be mystified as to why they have the best competitive league but the worst national
squad despite everybody knowing its because of use of foreign players in too high
a proportion.  Latin American players will continue to be the best in the World.  The game
will become more technical.  Sponsorship will become more and more important.
Facebook will enter a team in the World Cup when Sweden becomes the first country to
have 100% of their population on Facebook and they elect to ditch the name “Sweden”
in favour of Facebookland.  FIFA will be smashed to pieces and then rebuilt almost exactly as it was before.  All in all, football in 10 years time will be as screwed up as it always has been
and it won’t worry me at all as I will probably be long gone by then.