iaatpies
Well-Known Member
You are completely missing every point.
If you are only interested in football for massive scorelines maybe it's not for you. The 5-5 game against Hibs sums it up. Lots of goals, but absolutely no quality whatsoever. Two very poor sides with no understanding of tactics playing schoolboy style football.
I'd suggest those writing off anything that it's of a high technical standard are missing the point.
It's entirely possible to watch a game of football that is low on technical ability but delivers on entertainment. You can have 2 very technical, very tactical teams playing out a dull 0-0 draw that offers no entertainment. You can go along to your local lower league team and watch 2 teams going all out to beat each other, watch a tactically and technically basic game of football and be entertained. The 5-5 Hibs game? There might not have been any quality in it but there was certainly entertainment.
We've been conditioned as modern football fans to reject anything that it's highly technical. Otto Rehagel's success with Greece in the Euros was a travesty because although they were a highly technical and very tactical team, they were absolutely atrocious to watch. Is that what we want from modern football? Teams that are technically and tactically highly proficient but games with zero competitive edge and little to no excitement?
The modern football fan has an unsustainable image of football. They've been brought up to reject anything that doesn't match the idealised image of football that TV companies and marketing gurus sell them. If we lose lower league and community football then football stops becoming a sport and is reduced to nothing more than another form of mass entertainment. It has to be about more than watching games on TV.