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Is modern football more boring than e.g. 90’s football

Do you find modern football more boring than the 90’s football ?

  • Yes - the super tactical pepified football is more boring

    Votes: 47 82.5%
  • No - the 90’s was messy I prefer the modern stuff

    Votes: 10 17.5%

  • Total voters
    57

qqq1

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Aug 31, 2012
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Two things I miss in football, out of shape players being the best on the pitch and 30 yard screamers.
 

jurgen11

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Sep 9, 2004
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Queing at the ground a week or two before a big game to buy a ticket was infinitely better than the current Spurs ticket exchange...and you got a ticket stub as a memento
 

muppetman

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Jul 29, 2011
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GIF Old Man Yells At Cloud | Tenor
 

Japhet

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Aug 30, 2010
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I think football was much more entertaining before it became a cheque writing competition. Probably need to go further back than the 90s for that though.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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I just think all of those things you’re yearning for come from a desire to be young again. It’s not really any different for youngster nowadays. They love football and footballers as much as we all did in the 90s and they’ll be yearning for this time again when they’re 30-50.

Like the list of players you gave underneath this post. All great players, but there are great players now too. We’re just too old to idolise and revere them the same way we did when we were kids trying to copy them in the playground.

I went to fetch my nephew from the park the other day where he’d been playing footy with his mates, they were still playing when I got there, even though it was pretty much dark. They were all doing things trying to copy their heroes, one kid doing the annoying Cole Palmer celebration nearly made me fetch up my lunch, but that’s kids. They’ve all got that same shitty Phil Foden/Henry the 5th haircut too. In my day kids were getting their hair done like Ravanelli, and celebrating like Klinsmann or Cantona with their collar up.

It’s just the way of the world. Sun rises, sun sets.
Nothing to do with being young again mate I just find this type of football and society a lot more stressful than the more simplistic times, that’s all.

Many people of all ages feel similar.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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I just think all of those things you’re yearning for come from a desire to be young again. It’s not really any different for youngster nowadays. They love football and footballers as much as we all did in the 90s and they’ll be yearning for this time again when they’re 30-50.

Like the list of players you gave underneath this post. All great players, but there are great players now too. We’re just too old to idolise and revere them the same way we did when we were kids trying to copy them in the playground.

I went to fetch my nephew from the park the other day where he’d been playing footy with his mates, they were still playing when I got there, even though it was pretty much dark. They were all doing things trying to copy their heroes, one kid doing the annoying Cole Palmer celebration nearly made me fetch up my lunch, but that’s kids. They’ve all got that same shitty Phil Foden/Henry the 5th haircut too. In my day kids were getting their hair done like Ravanelli, and celebrating like Klinsmann or Cantona with their collar up.

It’s just the way of the world. Sun rises, sun sets.
94% on here so far disagree ;) but each to their own.
 

rossdapep

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Aug 25, 2011
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I’ve watched some big football matches recently especially PL and frankly I just don’t find them as interesting to watch anymore on the whole and this has been happening more over the last 5-10yrs. Ange and Spurs are great as we are so attacking and open our games are mad but I’m talking generally on the whole the PL and modern football in general just doesn’t seem as fun to watch as it used to be.

I believe it is due to a few factors:

1) Most teams try to play a Pep style and it leads to a ton of short at times pointless passing

2) Modern football and life is very technical and tactical and imo overanalysed and overcomplicated, teams playing about 6 different formations during different phases of the matches, matches become like a game of chess rather than a battle of passion and an expression of freedom.

3) The level has improved but as a result there are far less mistakes be it technically or tactically so less space, less bloopers, less screamers, matches feel more sanitised and predictable like a game of FIFA. You don’t tend to get Gazza’s or even Rooney’s in the PL anymore as players are imo over coached so that playground style freedom of play is seen less and less

4) Lack of characters and personalities. Social media and cameras everywhere mean players and managers etc have to be really careful what they say and how they behave, add in VAR and there are far less big tackles and passionate scuffles which has imo taken the edge and spice out of some matches. Peak 90’s you had Roy Keane and Vieria going toe to toe, nothing comes close to than anymore.

5) Formations, every man and their dog plays 4-3-3 or some variant of it so you don’t get those epic strike partnerships and just generally there is a real lack of quality strikers and goalsscorers these days. Compare the likes of N.Jackson, C.Wood to the 90’s : Shearer, Sheringham, Cole, Yorke, Owen, Fowler etc etc

It could be that I’m just becoming a grumpy old man 😅 and yearning for nostalgia but I’ve spoken to a lot of other football fans about this and it seems quite a few do agree.

Keen to know what SC members think about this?
Quite simply it's a game for coaches today.

It used to be a game for players to express themselves.
 

Tucker

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Jul 15, 2013
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Nothing to do with being young again mate I just find this type of football and society a lot more stressful than the more simplistic times, that’s all.

Many people of all ages feel similar.
You may not want to admit it, but all this yearning for 90s players etc. it’s just a part of getting older.
 

aliyid

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Dec 28, 2004
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Problem with modern football compared to the 90’s is over saturation.

We see so much more of it that we notice all the rubbish mixed in while thinking back to the 90’s you only remember the good bits.

In reality, there was so much rubbish football in the 90’s. Still remember sitting through the cup semi vs Everton expecting us to stroll through to the final but it ripped out my 14yr old heart and crushed it into the ground.

Anybody doubting just how bad 90’s football was here is the full game

 

UncleBuck

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Aug 20, 2003
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‘Simulation’. The cheating has got so bad that they had to create a phrase for it.
Of course there was cheating in the 90’s but most players didn’t and would stay on their feet if they could.
None of this ‘oh he’s been clever there and drawn the foul’ from the commentators.
Most teams and managers thinking they’ve got to play like Pep, why? Football, like any other sport, is a game that is played to win so play to your strengths, not like what Southampton have been doing.
I think what Wimbledon done was absolutely amazing, might not have been the prettiest on the eye but they had their own identity and no one wanted to play against them.
Everything just feels so staged, false and regimented, especially on the pitch.
It’s pretty boring.
 

Danners9

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Mar 30, 2004
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The first 20 mins or so of this goes into tactics now vs when Scholes and Carragher were playing. And how the Premier League is changing again.

They talk about pretty much everything discussed in this thread.
 

Barmby Army

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Jul 21, 2020
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I just think all of those things you’re yearning for come from a desire to be young again. It’s not really any different for youngster nowadays. They love football and footballers as much as we all did in the 90s and they’ll be yearning for this time again when they’re 30-50.

Like the list of players you gave underneath this post. All great players, but there are great players now too. We’re just too old to idolise and revere them the same way we did when we were kids trying to copy them in the playground.

I went to fetch my nephew from the park the other day where he’d been playing footy with his mates, they were still playing when I got there, even though it was pretty much dark. They were all doing things trying to copy their heroes, one kid doing the annoying Cole Palmer celebration nearly made me fetch up my lunch, but that’s kids. They’ve all got that same shitty Phil Foden/Henry the 5th haircut too. In my day kids were getting their hair done like Ravanelli, and celebrating like Klinsmann or Cantona with their collar up.

It’s just the way of the world. Sun rises, sun sets.

100% this. It wasn't better back then, you were just happier. Bleak.
 
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