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Premiership football is like watching paint dry it's a case of which club has the most investment and can buy the best players and hire the best manager unless you have some rich uncle skeleton in the closet then be prepared to accept mid table or below...

 

Yes, why bother playing the football? Just get the chairmen of both clubs to an auction of the "result" and whoever pays the most wins the 3 points. No boring draws. You could even have a "margin of difference" between the final bids which could be summed and averaged and used like goal difference at the end of the season. We could also have slow motion replays of each bid, and have a panel of auctioneers on Sky punditing on the details of the body language of each chairman in the run up to each bid.

 

No need to spend money on players, just write out a cheque to the value of the winning bid and donate it to charity.

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Don’t you mean kicking lumps out of people? Don’t you remember Pele getting kicked out of the World Cup? Thankfully that doesn’t happen so much now.

 

To be fair he's a lot slower nowadays, there's no real need to foul him any more.

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Thanks for posting that. Nice to know that not everything everywhere is driven by the money in football.

 

What else would it be? It's a job. If someone offers you a better job for more money, you take it and there's nothing wrong with that sentiment.

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I miss

 

Black boots

Not having video refs (which are always useless anyway)

People calling the division by it's actual name not what it was called 12 years ago

Competitiveness

"Daylight" in offside decisions

 

that's it.

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  • 2 weeks later...

another sign of Modern football

 

Tottenham ban fans for 'persistent standing' after two games in new stadium

 

"We appreciate that fans will rise up at key moments in the match. Persistently standing for the whole match or for long periods, along with failing to heed requests from the stewards and fellow fans to be seated, is not acceptable behaviour, notwithstanding it's against ground regulations.

Several bans have, therefore, been issued to fans as a consequence of their persistent standing."

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/tottenham-ban-fans-for-persistent-standing-after-two-games-in-new-stadium/ar-BBVSChr?ocid=spartandhp

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