Is Football Finished?

The piece rambles about a bit, but certainly chimes with my own feelings about the state of the game.

I genuinely don't understand why so many grown adults get excited about it. I've played and watched (live) since I was a kid, but I can't be giving my soul to these people. That said, I still enjoy football as entertainment, just not prepared to invest emotionally in a top level game owned and run by such terrible owners with a variety of ill gotten gains and dubious motives.
 
No.....that simple.

I have lost interest in it as a result of several points made, but it will never end as it's a business now, not sport. It makes money and until this changes the business will continue to thrive
 
About 6 weeks ago Football was the talk of the country, it seemed like just about everyone was engrossed in the World Cup, and now it's finished? People in the press have short memories.
 
No it’s not finished - if anything it’s getting more a popular as the years go by , it may have changed and become a lot about money but it’s not finished
 
While football in general certainly isn't finished, for many "traditional" fans it definitely is done and dusted. A few games a season get me interested and I think I'll always follow my team's scores but the days of investing heart and soul into it are long gone.
 
azazel said:
While football in general certainly isn't finished, for many "traditional" fans it definitely is done and dusted. A few games a season get me interested and I think I'll always follow my team's scores but the days of investing heart and soul into it are long gone.
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Correct. But I still sulk when the mighty Aldershot lose.... which is often! :rofl:
 
It's finished as an interest for me, BUT not as a spectacle. I don't follow the results coz I don't care. But would I go and watch a game, if I could get a ticket? Sure, now and again, but not every week.
 
Does anyone know how lower league attendances, revenue etc are these days. That would seem to be where the old 'spirit' of football that people miss exists. Affordable to most, home grown talent, community connections etc.

I am not a massive follower of football, it has always been rugby for me (which is heading down the football route slowly but surely) but if I were I would certainly see the lower/non league club as the one that I would follow.
 
At the top level in England (and maybe also in the 2nd tier) football is now to me just like any other form of leisure entertainment - like going to the theatre, musicals, opera, ballet. it's become something I might do with my son as a treat - a special day out. That's not football as I knew it growing up. Fortunately it's still there in Scotland and the lower leagues in England - I actually feel sorry for the fans of the EPL clubs.

And as a fan of a lesser Scottish club the glamour of big European (Cup or Cup Winners Cup) nights were things of fantasy - of a never never land that was simply for the Weegie Bros. - and - for a short period in the early 1980s - The Boys of Fergie and MacLean. What the rest of us never had we're not going to miss.
 
It's a closed shop for sure, the richer leagues are getting richer and the poorer leagues are struggling to compete. The disparity in cash from both European competitions is obscene. From a Scottish perspective it isn't right that if Celtic qualify for the CL they can get £15m+ before results in the group stage or qualifies whereas clubs in the Europa are getting around £3m+ before results in the group stage or qualifiers.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
At the top level in England (and maybe also in the 2nd tier) football is now to me just like any other form of leisure entertainment - like going to the theatre, musicals, opera, ballet. it's become something I might do with my son as a treat - a special day out. That's not football as I knew it growing up. Fortunately it's still there in Scotland and the lower leagues in England - I actually feel sorry for the fans of the EPL clubs.

And as a fan of a lesser Scottish club the glamour of big European (Cup or Cup Winners Cup) nights were things of fantasy - of a never never land that was simply for the Weegie Bros. - and - for a short period in the early 1980s - The Boys of Fergie and MacLean. What the rest of us never had we're not going to miss.
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Good patronising there. Thanks for your sympathy. x
 
For footie to be finished you'd have to have zero interest at junior level...
From going to a few junior tournaments, to watch my grandson play, I'd say there's still plenty of enthusiasm, for the game, for a while yet...
 
No, certainly not, kids team packed out and kids playing football, it’s not the same as when we were kids, but nothing in life or our culture is.
 
Not a big football fan, I just follow the team my mate plays for so Middlesborough now was Bristol City last season.

I must admit from seeing him over a couple of league games attendances can be poor at times unlike big cup matches. Not seen him at the new club yet but i imagine stronger attendances.

Haven't La Liga just confirmed they are to play 'x' number of matches in America now? Probably for an obscene amount of money. Wonder if the PL will follow suit or any other lower level clubs which could boost attendances. OR is it just bad for the game. I don't know or care to be honest.
 
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