What do you miss from football as it used to be ?

[Fox92]

How fast paced games were. 

 

Every game I watch now the goalkeeper gives it the centre back, he gives it the other centre back, he gives it a full back.. slow.

[LcFc_Smiv]

Mainly the authenticity of it. My earliest memories were turning up as a kid at Filbert street, the pre-match music, the fact that being a Leicester City fan was a very unique feeling that I only shared with those who followed our club. Now every club feels like it's all rinse and repeat, the stadiums to some extent, the 'fan engagement', the music, the shitty PL franchise pushed down your throat in every single way. It's not our club anymore, it's a franchise under the PL umbrella that is marketed to thousands around the world who have no real interest or connection to Leicester, who the club or the fans are. I'm not knocking those who have maybe supported the club or taken an interest over the previous years who aren't from the city, I'm no better of a fan than you, rather I'm just fed up with how clubs, the leagues and football itself was happy to sell its soul to generate more interest and as they all want, more £££.

[CosbehFox]

10 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Non-league is good and I will never knock people who go to it but there's no chance it scratches the itch that I had growing up - like I say I think a lot of it was based on naivety.

 

I went and watched Scarborough last week as I was up there for the week and I did genuinely quite enjoy it. It's not a slant on non league at all.

I am a fully paid up member of the NL Experience but the style of football even as low as Step 5 is becoming very stale. The FA is creating coaches of system rather than talent. 

[Elsie Effcee]

I'm enjoying the comments and memories in this thread, I don't think there's one I could disagree with.   

I guess football reflects the World generally - problems are solved with answers that create new problems. 

As far as Foxes Talk is concerned, surely it wouldn't be the same site if there was nothing controversial to talk about.   

FT probably gets more mileage from the bad changes, dodgy decisions etc than the good ones.  There's always a feeling that the majority of us have more common sense than the decision makers :)

As genuine, faithful fans get pushed further away,  both physically and financially they have little control.  A platform to express thoughts and concerns with like minded fans and friendly opposition is something we should never lose or change.  

[StanSP]

52 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

How fast paced games were. 

 

Every game I watch now the goalkeeper gives it the centre back, he gives it the other centre back, he gives it a full back.. slow.

I watched Blackpool vs Wigan last night. I'd say for about 70-75% of the game it was 'end-to-end'.

 

I think the game is so saturated now in so many elements, it's hard to find lots of consistent excitement.

 

Perhaps nostalgia talking and perhaps because the quality wasn't as good as it is now, but the early 00s era there always used to be something riding on a lot of games. If more than one team can push Man City close to the title this season then perhaps that'll be different. But it just gets a bit boring when money and owners that don't have 'football interests' as their priority become more popular. 

[Tielemans63]

When football clubs weren't owned by American or Asian billionaires and the owners had a genuine connection to the club, even if you didn't like them. The globalisation of the Premier League has killed the sport for me.

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

When football clubs weren't owned by American or Asian billionaires and the owners had a genuine connection to the club, even if you didn't like them. The globalisation of the Premier League has killed the sport for me.

Globalisation = More £££s

 

The race for more £££s in any avenue of life seems to end in disaster for the majority.

[Tielemans63]

3 minutes ago, davieG said:

Globalisation = More £££s

 

The race for more £££s in any avenue of life seems to end in disaster for the majority.

Absolutely.

 

In my opinion, the billionaires have turned football into something that is less a sport, more a 24 hour media industry. It's a huge profit-making business now, punctuated by the occasional 90 minutes of actual football.

 

The absolute rinsing of every penny from fans is particularly galling. Charging £70 for a replica shirt, for example - **** off.

[Guest Lako42]

I miss the fact that I never had a horrible underlying feeling of feeding a billionaire to enable them to pay millionaires. 

 

Makes it really hard to care as much now. 

[Guest Lako42]

People actually being present in the stadium and everyone being engaged with the same thing. 

 

Now it's somewhere else to look at your phone. 

[RoboFox]

Looking at the scores on Teletext. 

 

Hearing the classified football results read out by James Alexander Gordon on the radio. 

 

Simpler times. 

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

I am a fully paid up member of the NL Experience but the style of football even as low as Step 5 is becoming very stale. The FA is creating coaches of system rather than talent. 

Watching footy is more than just watching the footy, eh?. Well, for me anyway. It's the whole club & community thing that gets me - joint visions, joint efforts, working together. 90 minutes forms a tiny part of the day and week. I can be painting some fencing, cutting some grass, emptying the bar of beer and cheese cobs...I've never gone to matches to see all flowing attacks and Cryuff turns. No one does - because it's never existed.

[Crinklyfox]

Being able to afford to go to a match.

 

Being able to get a ticket to go to a match.

[purpleronnie]

I wonder if the yoof of today will look back in 40 years and think the same?

[RonnieTodger]

Not knowing everything before the event. 
 

Journalists leaking England squads and transfer news. 
 

I'm ****ing bored about Ballon D’Or discourse, but how shit is football when Fabrizio Romano can tell us that Rodri has won the award, before the envelope is opened.

 

The same twat has ruined any excitement over transfers. I’m a hypocrite mind you because I follow him for LCFC updates. He gets most of them wrong anyway! 

[Tielemans63]

While we're moaning, I miss the days before the modern day obsession with data and stats killed a lot of the unpredictability in football. Players know exactly what the opposition are going to do, almost to the minute. As such, players don't really take risks anymore in the same way.

[Guest Lako42]

Seeing the players I love in local pubs enjoying quite a few beers and being open to a chat 

[Fox92]

26 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

While we're moaning, I miss the days before the modern day obsession with data and stats killed a lot of the unpredictability in football. Players know exactly what the opposition are going to do, almost to the minute. As such, players don't really take risks anymore in the same way.

I used to enjoy opinionated debates like xx player is better than xx player but nowadays someone comes along with xx is better because he's had 1.2345 shots in the last three games  

[CheeseHead]

Waiting for the Sporting Blue or the Sporting Pink or the Sporting Green to come out at about 5.30pm after a 3pm Saturday kick off

[Zear0]

I miss having an entire row in SK2 to myself to pace along when stressed. 

[urban.spaceman]

Fair competition.

[Stuntman_Mike]

The roar of the crowd when the players ran out for what felt like the start of a battle. It set the tone, especially for big games.

 

Now it's just pampered players coming out to some shitty PL jingle whilst wearing a new walk out jacket every month because selling 'merchandise' is more important than passion.

[CosbehFox]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

Watching footy is more than just watching the footy, eh?. Well, for me anyway. It's the whole club & community thing that gets me - joint visions, joint efforts, working together. 90 minutes forms a tiny part of the day and week. I can be painting some fencing, cutting some grass, emptying the bar of beer and cheese cobs...I've never gone to matches to see all flowing attacks and Cryuff turns. No one does - because it's never existed.

Don't disagree Daggers. Wouldn't be spending most Saturday afternoons going around the Midlands watching non league. Just disputing the notion about a football ideal on the pitch 

Edited 29 October 2024 by CosbehFox

[davieG]

56 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

The roar of the crowd when the players ran out for what felt like the start of a battle. It set the tone, especially for big games.

 

Now it's just pampered players coming out to some shitty PL jingle whilst wearing a new walk out jacket every month because selling 'merchandise' is more important than passion.

That’s because they come out together to lessen any partisan verbals , another nail brought on due to the violence. 

[SpacedX]

22 hours ago, StanSP said:

The authenticity.

 

Feeling a real connection to the club you support.

 

 

Very much this. The identity and the localised fanbase that has been eroded away by bigger clubs, their glory hunters and owners.

 

Also, being able to go to a game on a whim, both home and away without the necessity of having a season ticket or accruing points through membership added to which the lack of an allocated seat. We would often spontaneously decide down the pub on a Friday night to drive to an away game that weekend in a fleet of cars or take the football special because we hadn't been to the ground before or visited that town or city. Simply turn up, pay your money (a couple of quid) and watch your team play away.