Why Does No One Care About Football Becoming Boring?

Every year football, at the highest level, appears to be becoming more and more unequal. The result is incredibly predictable, and is draining some of the magic out of the sport, yet attendances have never been higher. HITC Sevens ponders how that can possibly be the case.

[@miche1df]

The Romanian Liga I is unpredictable -- you never know which club is going to go broke next!

[@Thesunowriter]

And very few goals...boring league

[@Oriontrollsftw2]

rip steaua

[@switchgear2501]

Dallas Michelbacher hahaha underated comment. I Hope it gets better

[@trominho8914]

😂😂😂 It's the sad truth tho

[@tonywilliams8922]

Maybe Clinceni seen as they have the lowest wage budget

[@danielkellett2742]

Championship this season is mad, I’m a Preston fan and we went from top to tenth losing most games including 4-0 to hull, but were still only 2 points off 5th

[@nsk3584]

I’m a Huddersfield fan but at the start of the season I predicted stoke ( who are in a relegation battle) to get playoffs

[@TawanMomo]

Same here, I don’t think anyone expects them to do this bad

[@BlazinBlz]

That's the thing, with less money sloshing about, it's easier for not only a team but fans of both the team and others to get carried away after a spending spree I predicted Stoke to go back up, I'm in shock of how bad their doing, but in that same book, Millwall are pushing for the playoffs when most people predicted them to barley survive if at all, Huddersfield are doing worse than most people expected, as are Derby I will stand by this statement, the Championship is the best league to watch as a whole, the quality is easily better in the Prem, but the unpredictability makes the Championship fun, 1 good youth player fires a team up the league, as does a good manager (ask Millwall under Rowett) Imagine if what happens in the Championship every season happened in the Prem, be way more fun

[@christianmayall8034]

I predicted qpr, hull and millwall in the play offs and derby and m’boro in the play offs

[@loganbutler8984]

And I thought town would be mid table

[@pikachudardis]

I thought they would win the league loooool

[@MrDideg]

The Portuguese league has been dominated by 3 teams ever since it's creation.

[@julianfrost4698]

dideg.santos I know nothing about Portuguese football but I’ve noticed in highlight videos that the grounds of smaller top flight clubs are soooo small

[@therealdave06]

@@julianfrost4698 it's basically a 100% chance of either Porto, Benfica or Sporting Lisbon to win

[@albertjulio8881]

Braga, the spurs of Liga NOS

[@NoaGlyn]

dideg.santos braga abd flamenco

[@mike.n.n.7723]

In more than 100 years of Portuguese football I think only 2 teams have won the league outside of Porto, Benfica and Sporting

[@Bugdu]

My girlfriend once said the worst about football is that theres no last episode and it just keeps on goin

[@btbtm5189]

I think he’s forgetting the top 6 IS being cut open by two teams right now Could be 3

[@arr0w769]

Could be said 3 tbf

[@btbtm5189]

Andrew Haselden yeah

[@arr0w769]

@@btbtm5189 Sheffield, wolves, Leicester

[@btbtm5189]

Andrew Haselden 👍

[@reintaler6355]

@@arr0w769 I doubt Sheffield stays there for long, they may end up just being a one season wonder. Definitely a possibility for the other two though as they have the financial prowess it takes to establish themselves

[@cspresimir]

Why Does No One Care About Football Becoming Boring? Today's football is just money playing against other money, everybody who cares is too small and insignificant to change this.

[@hdr_diamondz]

Many people care, the people who don't are people like me who move on to sports that are more entertaining. Im my case it's Formula 1 and motorsport in general. It's great.

[@spudders9034]

Honestly i much prefer watching my local team, we may be in divison 7 of Northern Ireland and we will never win the big trophies but seeing them win is such a good feeling

[@Jordi775]

even the top irish premiership is more competitive, the top 5 is insasnely close

[@jamescarlin235]

@@Jordi775 top 4, I reckon Coleraine are out of it now

[@jamescarlin235]

@@Jordi775 midfield is too thin and not enough up top for ud

[@spudders9034]

@@Jordi775 exactly, while the standard of irish football is slowly improving, the competitiveness is better than most top leagues in europe Any of the top 5 have a chance to win

[@Tom-wr6mq]

My mom always says RecoRd ANd wATcH lAteR😴not the same

[@notleco7147]

Yeah same,when I try to I just cant help myself to look at the score

[@zoom5817]

Same

[@shulzcomps3788]

Same

[@aleksandre9711]

@@notleco7147 it's not about the score its just not same

[@notleco7147]

@@aleksandre9711 Agreed

[@qaisarbegum5955]

Money has ruined football. Small clubs find great players and big clubs steal them by offering huge salary

[@KakashiH318]

He’s you’re right money has ruined football indeed

[@iameverywhere8551]

@@KakashiH318 yes it ruined but main thing is that nowadays we just focus on strikers and midfielder Those who score goals we make them GOD but defenders are also there we should also appreciate them too...

[@Domino13334]

They are paying tens of Millions for the player. So how could this be called stealing?

[@srykextraodinairecreation9962]

And the richest football club suffered the most debt.

[@paulwoodford6229]

@@Domino13334 It is creative theft. The big teams are taking the talent with their endless pockets, after the smaller team does the hard work of nurturing and molding the player and achieving their potential.

[@ryanbridges4042]

We need a salary cap in football to make it better

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

NBA viewership and ratings are declining rapidly

[@dabbigailwilliams]

just wanted to say, this kind of football content is interesting but rare, and i’d love to see more of this type of concept. great job, HITC Sevens!

[@karlito_ln7091]

I agree with you. I am a psg fan, I was enjoying more back in late 90/ early 2000 because every game was a battle, some seasons, we were good, most we were dreadful, still, i enjoyed every victory. Nowadays, I still follow but it is hard to enjoy as much as before. I think most people keep on watching football because we love the sport way too much.

[@shoazdon7000]

Finally someone who gets it, I enjoyed football up until tevez left man United. It was going into a decline for my team then but also for the whole premier league in general. And today it’s honestly terrible, no real challenges and it’s boring. It’s lost it’s passion man

[@BakaryD]

Yeah I'm a PSG fan and you're a straight liar. We're always struggling every year to get through UCL and if the passion isnnt there then just say you're not true supporter

[@iNTERS22]

"It's unscripted" Just like a FIFA game!

[@SweetChilliPhil92]

iNTERS22 nah man FIFA IS SCRIPTED HAHAHAHA

[@kathryneversole4845]

iNTERS22 fifa is shit

[@aunoriginalname3779]

Sarcasm?

[@yuvrajtalukdar5579]

@Enrique Santos from where cricket came in football discussion

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

Footballs biggest issue, in my opinion, was the fact for outright refusing to introduce a salary cap. It helps to avoid situations bordering on monopolies and legal cases which should have been investigated as a violation of cartel laws (e.g. Bayern Munich's pre-contract with then pay TV channel sky which basically had them involved in the decisions how much they'll get of the cake and how much the rest of the league will get). Why is a salary cap useful? 1. Awards clubs investing in player, club infrastructure, scouting and manager development long term. It would make it possible to turn a club like, say Union Berlin, into a dynasty since they have a check on all these boxes. They would not have to worry about players being transferred away but just how well their club is structured, and anyone following US sports knows exactly what I talk about here. E.g. The New York Knicks are the most valuable NBA team but nobody wants to play for them because their club owner and management is an absolute shit show (chaos is being punished). If you have a salary cap it doesn't matter anymore if you play for PSG or Nottingham. If you are a top player, you'll get your max contract either way, so the clubs environment becomes much much more important 2. Avoid monopolies as mentioned, it cripples competition and innovation. Have a good look at what happened to wrestling when the WWE lost its only competition in the WCW. It went down hill from there on.

[@WhyAreAllTheGoodUsernamesTaken]

That's why Scandinavian football is so fun (both of these have 16 teams in them). Swedish league last season: only 5 points between last to 12th place, and only 5 points between 1st and 4th place, meaning that even on the last game of the season there were still a lot to fight for. In the Norwegian league there were 2 points separating last and 11th place in the league before the last round, meaning there were six teams fighting to avoid relegation last game in the season. So football is still fun some places (didn't include the Danish league because that one had a pretty boring season)

[@eirik0792]

Random Dude couldnt agree more

[@eirik0792]

Aassd Asjdj yup and the icelandic😂

[@EndlessTomahawks]

@Aassd Asjdj Finland is not a part of Scandinavia

[@runethfc]

Random dude, nah it was great last season until the last bit.

[@dandycliff2]

I'm Norwegian and the Norwegian series is SHIT

[@bluearmy2699]

I have to say that I think that the most entertaining league in the world let alone England is the Championship

[@oliverward8296]

Blue Army Or League 2

[@alexstainke2424]

SPFL

[@e.l.b6435]

2nd Bundesliga.

[@ieuan67]

ILOVE JOHN MCGIN what?

[@Nathan-ke3dn]

League 1

[@afrontmacz]

This had a Tifo Football feel. Alfie always brings that good Tifo feel to the channel for me. It would be cool to see them do a collaboration sometime!

[@frequentlyoffline3917]

It doesn't feel like a Tifo Football video without a "The Athletic" reference.

[@danielsuchorowiec7314]

@@frequentlyoffline3917 true

[@white_will_smith]

@@frequentlyoffline3917 lmao yeah

[@坤良洪-g4w]

Soccer is only good for sleeping... especially those boring 0-0 games

[@concacaf3898]

Better than whatever your sport is

[@j1real506]

Lol

[@Burner026]

You don't have to score to make it a good game it's about the plays even if it doesn't result in a goal that's why billions of people watch the game that's the beauty of the sport

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

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[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Obviously, it should read "American Football," because the real people know that football is the one listed above under "Soccer." Americans can't play the best game in the world, so they give it a different name, which only they use for it, and create their own game, which involves around a minute of "play" for every five minutes of standing around and advertisement breaks. They even have the audacity - despite the fact that the ball is rarely ever kicked during a match - to call it football. Logic and America don't belong in the same sentence. The rest of the world will continue to focus on being good at the sport which matters most and is the undisputed, biggest and greatest sport in the world. The one you call soccer.

[@hdr_diamondz]

I stopped watching football last January. Too many fixtures and only 20% are worth pouring 90+ mins of my time into. The beautiful game is also the stagnant game, with very little changes to spice things up except occasional ESL threats and small but dodgy rule changes on offsides and handbas. Big teams always stay big unless they themselves mess up. Tactics aren't easily seen to a regular viewer on the pitch. And shock wins only give 3 points which isn't a big swing in points. Formula 1 is better. There's 20+ races a season and all bar 1 is worth the 100 minute of your time. Qualifying to decide who starts where for the race is always intense and entertaining. Strategy is clearly visible playing out on the track with drivers stopping for new tyres st different points. There's also regulation changes every few years that change up the car designs and therefore give smaller teams a chance if they can nail their own design. A shock win is massive for midfield and below teams, worth 25 points which can make a huge difference when all is said and done. And, the 2021 season was the best title fight in the sport's history.

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is the best and the most entertaining sport in the world

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Formula 1 is boring

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football It’s the sport of many names, but in terms of its worldwide identity, there is no sport to match football! The game is played by billions and watched by billions. Football has 4 billion fans. In Europe, it’s huge. In South America, it’s huge. In Africa, it's huge. In Asia, it’s huge. There are superstars on the field of play, in the managerial dug-outs, and in the TV studios. There are global competitions, controversial moments, and goals galore! World Cup excitement can border on hysteria, as the hopes of a nation are thrust onto eleven men. Simply put, there’s no sport like it!

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is growing in popularity rapidly ⚽️ ❤

[@Hagi223]

The MLS is extremely unpredictable & is why it’s the fastest growing league in North America. There is a new champion every single year thanks to no relegation and equal salary caps, the talent is equally dispersed amongst 28 clubs 🏆

[@thomasmuller6301]

Because they just care about winning, not the entertainment

[@raphaelnasser7084]

@Bronze League Gaming RL winning is entertaining

[@thomasmuller6301]

No it isn’t. Football was designed to entertain, managers like Benitez and mourinho who park the bus are a disgrace

[@MrBark1969]

@@thomasmuller6301 lmao delete this it's so cringe

[@raphaelnasser7084]

@@thomasmuller6301 disgrace cause they get results in a results based business??

[@bobbyfirmino6562]

@@raphaelnasser7084 if everyone played with 10 up front it would be boring. We need mourinho for a vilian to root against .

[@Tom-vu1wr]

As a rugby fan, this recent predictability in football is the reason we want to keep a salary cap in the premiership and top14

[@Evan8787]

Premiership isn't the best example. 5 winners between 2010 and 2013. Saracens win too much. Top 14 is very competitive, though. It's up there with the NRL as the best rugby leagues in the world.

[@Tom-vu1wr]

@@Evan8787 well Saracens weren't following the salary cap which somewhat negates the argument

[@charlieherman1]

I'm a morecambe supporter. We're in the 4th division of english football. We fight every season to stay up and it is really exciting because sometimes we will finish top 7 and other seasons like this one we are fighting to stay in the English league

[@rewnz6632]

and now you're on the verge of going up :O

[@astronautthoi297]

Football isnt as beautiful as it use to be now it is all about money and now with technology comming in I don't know where it will head atleast from my Pov it's a dying sports the new generation are more into eSports ,tech is everywhere not a beautiful game anymore as it use to be back in the days and after Ronaldo Messi era its bound to go dead

[@astronautthoi297]

@holland how old are u

[@user-sr3sf]

⁠@261i7no, it is the opposite. Football is getting more and more unpopular. In football nations like Brazil and Germany most people didn’t even care for football anymore

[@eduardvandenbrink5694]

Makes it worse for smaller leagues like the liga nos, eredivisie, etc. We cant keep up with that level

[@justsamoo3480]

Eventually the likes of Ederdivisie and Greek Super League, will have to start their regional leagues for their teams to be competitive. The Nordics could have a league, The Balkans, Benelux, Visegrad (Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia), maybe even Alpine league with Austria and Switzerland. These leagues already exist in European Hockey and Basketball, why not football?

[@afcjonny1]

The long distance support thing you mentioned towards the end of the video would go some way to explaining why the league here in Scotland is so heavily dominated by Celtic and rangers. I like you, was taken to football matches by my dad from a young age who is a Newcastle United fan and my grandad was also a Newcastle United fan, in Scotland however all across the smaller towns and cities everyone “gloryhunts” Celtic and rangers. They buy Celtic and rangers shirts and might on occasion go to ibrox or parkhead when they fancy a day out, the support for the old firm clubs absolutely dwarves everyone else. I went to a high school in Perthshire, more than 35 miles from Glasgow where the closest club sides were either st Johnstone or Stirling Albion, yet I would say 90% or more of people I went to school with supported Celtic and rangers

[@anonymoustangerine]

This is y i got into the mls when i started watching soccer, completely unpredictable. 7 straights years with a different supporter shield winner and 6 different mls cup winners in that time as well. The shield streak may end this year, but the mls cup is always up for grabs and with two teams that have never won it before in the race this year, we may see a different cup winner this year

[@luukvangendt5541]

You forgot that Ipswich also won the top flight as a newly-promoted side in 1962. That was also Ipwich first ever season in the top-flight

[@tonybates7870]

Under Alf Ramsey (ex-Tottenham, natch). No wonder they gave him the England job - after the World Cup win I'm surprised he wasn't canonised.

[@ZapSports]

I know it's very unlikely to happen but a suggestion would be to have a salary cap (a maximum amount of money a club can spend on wages per week) with clubs allowed one 'marquee' player, who's wage can be exempt. This works well at least in Australia (where I am from) Thoughts?

[@guess_who18]

Zap Sports that’s why no one watches Australian football ( no offense)

[@BlazinBlz]

as an Australian, I have to disagree, the A-League frigging sucks, though that is probably because of how low the wage limit is, the MLS is somewhat tolerable because it's so much higher, but I don't think that would work, unless FIFA forced it onto every country with one consistent limit it won't work

[@ZapSports]

@@BlazinBlz Yes, I agree that the only real way it could work is if fifa made it mandatory worldwide or something, and my comparison to a salary cap was more towards how it works in the AFL rather than the a league

[@BlazinBlz]

@@ZapSports so more just a hard cap, that would work, but again, it would need FIFA to enforce it, and, well, FIFA won't do jack

[@ryansmith-jr4gn]

Salary cap would be terrible.

[@j.p.zukauskas7626]

Absolutely agree, especially regarding the entertaining competitiveness of the lower divisions. I’m a new-ish football fan, and it became very clear to me early on that the top flight of any league is pretty boring, and that it’s the financial disparity that reinforces it. Financial fair play rules, while a good idea on one level, only calcify the table. I ended up as a Leyton Orient supporter, and it’s a lot more interesting.

[@nasihbasheer8342]

Liga MX is the most unpredictable league in the world

[@isaaccastro4846]

Used to be* Sadly that is changing slowly

[@Christopher_TG]

Both the two major North American leagues are pretty unpredictable. That kind of happens when you have financial systems in place to promote parity and you use playoffs to determine your league champion.

[@jamescarlin235]

Northern Irish Football League is class to watch, my team Coleraine were midtable last year and are challenging for the league this year

[@ATS1031]

Nasih Basheer j league is

[@carlosquesnel8881]

💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

[@cnut4563a]

Excellent video, I'd like to see more exploring the economics and societal impact of football. What you describe is a trend which is echoed in the wider world, late capitalism/neoliberalism creates massive inequality, and there's seemingly little the 99% of people who are left behind seem to be able or want to do about it. On a different note, I'd also be interested to see you looking at the evolving tactical trends in football, and the extent to which they are driven by data. It's a fascinating area to me, but I can't help but he dismayed when I look at what's happening to midfield. Gone are the days of Pirlo, Xavi and Iniesta, skilled passes of the ball have been replaced by workman like athletes, and, for me, it makes the beautiful game far less beautiful.

[@danielgertjohannesvankoppe9252]

Watch Hakim Ziyech

[@reintaler6355]

@@danielgertjohannesvankoppe9252 I hope he does that in one of the top 5 leagues on day. Otherwise, the point still stands

[@lcc8394]

more a dumbass video....in 2013/14 leicester were in the championship....2 seasons later they won the premiership.....just think about it............it's not impossible to break the top 4 it just takes money and a manager who has that experience......go back to the previous ten years and Liverpool, spurs and man city didn't finish every season in the top 4..............man city came from th depths of league 2 back in 2000.....

[@katgunderheisendonoghue6050]

mullen50 Nobody cares that you dropped out of school so you could practice labour and smoke whenever you liked.

[@nicolas.idrovo]

I feel intimidated by your vocabulary

[@sma5605]

Would love to see a video on why you continue to support Hull City! What drives you to continue going to the games if there is a ceiling on the club’s success and you keep having to suffer the frustration of big teams pinching standout players? I’m not having a dig. I’d genuinely like to see a video on it.

[@TheT0ttenham]

Probably my favourite video you e made, or certainly up there. I’m a spurs fan and also a student who goes to regular games, so I know how lucky I am. I support the club through my family and have got lucky that we have been “good” when growing up. I think the top 6 will become extinct in a few years time however, and replaced by something else eg the top 4 used to be set in stone with Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea’s and arsenal but now us and city have joined. Think teams like Everton and potentially West Ham with Leicester as well could form a different group. When abramovic and mansour leave you never know what will happen to city and Chelsea and they could (I hope) slide down. But you are right in the fact that money rules and I for one would like to see a return to the older days , or at least a similar situation to the lower leagues. I do realise though that I’m saying this in a very comfortable position as being an established top 6 club, albeit we are rubbish this season haha, and I may feel differently if what I’m asking for does happen and we become mediocre again.

[@kagge2120]

As a Liverpool fan i agree. Would love to see the money from the prem and other leagues get split and distributed down the pyramids and even out everything. Yes big clubs would still have rich owners but small clubs could have more economical power than before. Something does have to change for football to reach an even higher entertainment level.

[@gribhead9780]

This would be shit its fun to see those small clubs woth no money work there way up the league why the fuck would you want every team to get equall amount of money this would so boring

[@MrSilencedGamer]

I get what you're saying and i'm also a Liverpool fan but you gotta face the fact that most new teams to the premier league are spending upwards of 100 million pounds in the summer windows. They are also getting financially stronger, it's really more about bad signings and impatient owners than it is about economics at this point. Every owner thinks that they can instantly turn money into success but it just doesn't work like that.

[@everythingisamindgame9666]

@@MrSilencedGamer Spot on

[@Santiago-ts6ko]

Premier League money gets distributed very fairly, the difference between the team that gets the most money from tv rights and sponsors from the one that gets the least it's 1.6 times, while in Laliga and Bundesliga is 3 times and in Liga MX ir goes as far as 9 times. Small Premier League clubs are way better off financialy than small spanish or French clubs

[@HelloKittyUwW07]

It is getting distributed😂

[@harleyhayes-scott37]

I’m a chelsea fan (yes I know, we’re a team that benefited from this significantly, but we was a top 4 team beforehand) and I completely agree. I reckon there needs to be a wage and transfer quota implemented. Also this may be a bit of a stretch, but they could make it a rule that you can’t sign players under the age of 18, also could say 21 in order to help smaller teams flourish with their amazing youth talents. I just would like to see smaller clubs compared to the top 6 manage to even challenge for a cup, like look at what happened to Watford last season, didn’t really have much of a chance. The FA cup used to be won by a different team pretty much every year.

[@_______2107]

Wholeheartedly agree

[@someguynamedmike4766]

Think the Homegrown quota needs to be scrapped personally, shouldn't matter your nationality if you're good enough xenophobia shouldn't stop you having a team of Portuguese, French, Italian etc instead of the forced English-ness of the PL

[@someguynamedmike4766]

@John Mitchell I am aware of the stipulations like it's something along the lines of 3 years in the squad before you're 21 you class as "homegrown" just never liked the rule, it's just so every nation can give an advantage to their youth in the whole, you're good enough regardless of colour, age, nation, sexuality, size, height imo no need to enforce rules like that

[@MillerMighty]

Chelsea were going bankrupt if it wasn't for the money man himself Roman Abramovich they may not even be in the PL let alone top 4

[@Strictly45Sound]

Top 4????? Wtf? Chelsea???? Not until they became chelski were they top 4 ya cheating plastic spastic.

[@tommair5783]

In Australia most major sports have a salary cap, and the leagues have different winners almost every season, and no club has been able to completely dominate the NRL or AFL over the past decade, and it means when teams do succeed it’s more down to skill. There is certainly no set top 6 in either league

[@Evan8787]

Agreed, then Penrith happened.

[@kierantv9857]

Are you going to the Hull and Chelsea game I’ll be in the west upper stand

[@dalex7447]

Bit late, but truly excellent video Alfie !! As a Birmingham fan the reality is very depressing for the rest of my life as a fan

[@markusk9080]

Result of over-professionalisation. You know the players are so well coached that there's little room for individualism on the field. They'd rather make a pass to the wing than to have a go from 30 yards or so as they have been told that it's the better choice long term. However, it's made watching a lot less fun. Even a team like City who play great football from a theoretical and objective point of view are not great to watch for me. There's no flair and so much is predictable. They just pass their way through to the goal line, someone squares it into the six yard box for a tap in. It's a well crafted goal, but it feels like a review of a goal they have scored so many times before. It's getting repetitive.

[@dejanstojkovic8757]

Without offence to the likes of you and many other fans around the world but thats the main reason why football is among the most boxing sports ever today I much prefer basketball in that regard

[@justinsumba3510]

This is exactly why watching football has gotten boring for me, I always had fun sitting down for a full game stuck to the seat, watching wondering what happens next, but now and days it doesn’t have that same feeling,now I only watch my home country play now

[@engage1942]

Well said

[@hdr_diamondz]

I didn't know how to describe the feeling that you described, but you've absoloutely nailed it. Well done. The players are just too sensible. Formula 1 is better. Teams are often forced to gamble with strategy to get ahead of cars they would not have been able to overtake with a more conventional strategy. Strategy is clearly visible for viewers with drivers stopping for new tyres st different points, sometimes to get ahead immediately and sometimes to have younger and faster tyres at the end of races to overtake cars ahead of them easier. Drivers can also be forced into attempting risky overtakes instead of being over-professional, such as if the car starting the race ahead of you is faster than you, and it is critical to get ahead of them as you're fighting them for position in the championship, so at race start, you make a risky overtaking attempt or defend aggressively if they end up behind you after they stop for new tyres. And the most recent season had one of the best title fights in the sport's history so it's good.

[@MrBenji0]

So long as wages are as high as they are, and clubs are able to rake in the multi-millions, there's really not much that can be done unless you're bracing for a dark age. Financial caps in the current state is only going to choke small clubs even more than they because they need w/e cap they can get to attract the best from the bottom of the barrel (Fair play's too-little-too-late policy comes to mind). Only two viable options that I can think of are: 1. Put a cap of ticket prices (which won't happen) and 2. Have a draft system similar to the one practiced in the NFL.

[@SonOfJudah2002]

You can’t have a draft. You’ll have to kit rid of relegation

[@gibbygoldfisch7012]

Football has absolutely gotten duller and more rigid, but it's happened so slowly and insidiously that we've grown used to it and adapted to it. I've got a mate who supports Crystal Palace, and he gets annoyed with clubs like Wolves and Everton spending big to reach the top, but for whatever reason just accepts that the big guns are going to do that anyway. He still won't accept that football is now based on false principles and continues to believe that there is some combination of players, manager and good form that will make Palace a genuine force. I think that goes for a lot of fans who get caught up in one-off matches and lose sight of the bigger picture.

[@mannytuzo]

That’s why I love Liga MX from Mexico and some south American leagues. It truly is unpredictable! In liga MX a team will be champion and next season be almost dead last! Nobody ever really knows who will be champion in any season. We do have the playoff system so that does have an effect on it. It definitely does add an interest touch to it.

[@Evan8787]

Great example. America is the top dog but they never dominate. Several teams have won it in the past decade or so. Any team can realistically win a championship.

[@davidprescott5690]

The sole reason I support a non league side. Completely unpredictable and incredibly exciting compared to the stagnant boredom that is Europe's top leagues. I was born near enough to Liverpool to have them as my local club, but I stopped supporting them almost entirely 2 seasons ago, because I could see that they were/ are in for a period of incredible growth, and I just didn't want to sit there every week expecting to win against anyone and everyone. Where has the dynamism gone? Before Christmas, Southport, my non-league club sat in 3rd in the Conference North, now we are in 10th with 6 defeats in a row, but still miraculously only 9 points behind 3rd. That is football's unpredictability at its very best IMO.

[@matthewbarone9088]

I agree. I am from Australia and do support Liverpool for a family member. But I know a lot of people that follow them for no reason at all. It is almost forced in a foreign country to go for one of the top 6 clubs otherwise it is seen as “oh were you originally from ..... is that why you go for them.” But if you go for let’s say Man U people are like ok. I think it is stupid and I don’t know 1 person that goes for a team outside of the premier league unless they have family or heritage from there. The only exception is Brighton with Matt Ryan and Aaron Mooy playing there and at an Australian standpoint, of course I hope they do well.

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

This is really why the EPL is a snoozefest for anyone not a fan of the top 5 clubs. Problem is it's just as bad elsewhere, including sadly in the Serie A where Cheatventus dominate. In Spain there are only two clubs with a chance so that's even less interesting than the EPL as well. I've started following the NFL instead of European football now. It's just too dull and uncompetitive and I needed something else.

[@danieleatwell7757]

YES! It's so boring watching the same 6 clubs dominate the league every year! I'm not saying that we should have a lottery league where Man Utd can finish bottom and Bournemouth top, but can we at least have different teams challenging at the top every year like we did in the 90s. Liverpool and Aston Villa challenged in 1990, Arsenal and Liverpool in 1991, Leeds, Man Utd and Sheff Wed in 1992, Man Utd, Aston Villa and Norwich in 1993, Man Utd and Blackburn in 1994 and 1995, Man Utd and Newcastle in 1996, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Dortmund all won Bundesliga titles, Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Deportivo La Coruna and Athletic Bilbao all challenged in La Liga, Napoli, Sampdoria, Lazio and Parma all challenged in Serie A, Marseille, Bordeaux, Monaco, PSG, Nantes, Lyon, Auxerre, Lens and Metz all challenged in Ligue 1, Red Star Belgrade won the european cup in 1991, Sampdoria reached the final in 1992, Marseille won it in 1993, Ajax won it in 1995 and reached the final in 1996, Dortmund won it in 1997. The point is that the idea of an exciting competition is that you don't know exactly who is going to finish where or who will finish in the top 6. Football needs to become more open again!

[@cormacdonnelly5015]

in the last 10 years there have been 3 different winners, soon to be a fourth, including leister. This is so different to Europes other top 5 leagues

[@danieleatwell7757]

@@cormacdonnelly5015 In the 2010s there have been four different premier league champions. Of those four, one of them are part of the traditional elite and are the richest club in England (Man Utd), two of them are money clubs with sugar daddies (Chelsea and Man City) and of course there was Leicester which was a fluke. So nine times out of ten you need to be either a traditional big club that's very rich or you just need a sugar daddy that came in before ffp, either way you need to be one of the richest clubs. But at least it's not a one or two team league like other leagues.

[@cormacdonnelly5015]

Daniel Eatwell just proved my point

[@danieleatwell7757]

@@cormacdonnelly5015 It's more competitive than europes other top leagues, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. Over the past three seasons there has been a top six league and then the other 14 battling it out for the best of the rest. Definitely not as open as it was in the 90s and earlier.

[@cormacdonnelly5015]

​@@danieleatwell7757 theres 2 teams outside the 'top six' in the top 6 as we speak

[@baquithemonkey5330]

One of the reasons I'll never stop watching CONMEBOL football. I was born in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. To this day there no other club I support more than my hometown team. And although the quality of football of the the Colombian league will never be European level, I will never stop watching it. It's unpredictable and I've an emotional attachment

[@muthuchelvam6751]

Appreciate you man but in my country cricket is a religion and we rarely compete in football but I am slowly getting into the beauty of football and I love both football and cricket love colombia from india

[@mrcfan4619]

@@muthuchelvam6751 not only cricket and football india compete with kabbadi and badminton too this sports are my favorite.

[@xdemgeo3581]

Football is inherently boring because of lack of action in between goals. Very low scoring game. Not much exciting parts other than goaling. Basketball and volleyball are miles ahead in terms of excitement.

[@dababy1234]

Cap

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

If real football ⚽️ is boring, then how is real football ⚽️ the most popular and most watched sport in the world

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is the best and the most entertaining sport in the world

[@rafaelcarvalho9031]

It's so much worse in Portugal, only 3 teams really win league titles Benfica, Porto and Sporting. In fact only Benfica and Porto have consistently won since the 1970s. 90% of the people support one of these clubs, most of the stadiums outside of the big 3 plus Braga and Guimarães are pretty much empty. In the current league table Benfica have amassed 48 out of 51 points, Porto is next with 41 and Sporting is just on 29 points. Sporting can't even compete on the pitch or off it with Porto and Benfica anymore.

[@BlazinBlz]

To add on that, in the Primeira Liga, only 5 teams total have won the league, the three you mentioned plus Belenenses (45/46) and Boavista (01/02)

[@leedsedits927]

In my opinion the Championship is the most entertaining league in the world. You can get clubs thatve recently come up, like luton or coventry, doing extremely well, aswell as clubs that have just gone down, like stoke or sunderland, winding themselves in a relegation battle. The smallest of clubs can sometimes thrash the biggest clubs in the Championship. Predicting this league is like predicting a league you've never watched before. Last Year Barnsley found themselves in a promotion battle, but this year they'ved dropped all the way down to last in the league. The Championship is by far the most unpredictable league in Europe.

[@DanteTheIguana]

Hey Alfie, I was delighted to hear someone finally talking sense on FFP and how it maintains the status quo. I always get really angry when I hear fans (usually Liverpool or Manchester United) whine and complain about how Manchester City & Chelsea bought titles. As you alluded to with Blackburn in '95, spending money for success is nothing new, even in the days of the maximum wage, many clubs would make unofficial under the counter payments to secure the best players. I love the idea that any club can come into money, and in time, challenge. Success is not, or at least shouldn't be, a privilege of the elite. Fans of "BIG" clubs bang on about history, and sneer at clubs like Manchester City because they don't have it. Even ignoring the fact that Manchester City is a pretty historic English club, I just find this view so unbelievably elitist. That people can call Manchester city fans plastic glory hunters, then two sentences later laugh how they can't fill the Etihad, absolutely baffles me. You know why they don't fill the stadium? Because they're the same bloody fans who were going to Maine Road in League One! I am happy for Manchester City's success, because as a fan of a lower league club (Bradford City) it gives me a glimmer of hope. Maybe... maybe one day. I know I've been more blessed than many fans supporting their local team, having watched my team beat Liverpool on the final day of the season to stay in the Premier League, and gone to Wembley to cheer my team on in a League Cup final whilst playing in League Two. Since then we went up to League One, fell twice to Milwall in the playoffs, and were relegated in 24th last season. Back to League Two, challenging for the playoffs. It's not the Champions League... but hey. I love my team and always will, through good times and bad. Perhaps even especially the bad. I've ranted on longer than I meant to, I just feel passionately about this stuff. Huge fan of the channel, and your book, keep on talking sense mate.

[@joshdolan9146]

So true

[@nursestan7788]

Quality at the top gets better and better and if you don’t keep up you get left in the dust. It’s boring for everyone involved knowing that if you play Liverpool or city you have 0% chance of winning (pretty much). United have stagnated, arsenal are woeful and Chelsea are after losing Eden hazard. Spurs are just underperforming. Liverpool aren’t even that good they’re just consistent... For outsiders of the top 6 like who support teams such as Wolves, Everton or Leicester. I do believe there is an opportunity for those clubs to get a step closer but because of the commercial value of a United, Arsenal or Spurs. It wont last long- these clubs will have to accept there is virtually 0 chance of them winning a title unless a lot of things fall into place

[@everythingisamindgame9666]

Yea

[@jungsbodyguard]

When I was little kid, I wanted to support Liverpool. My dad (a West Brom fan) said he didn’t mind which of the local teams I supported but it should be a local side My mates were largely Aston Villa fans, at the time, so I chose them. It’s been a tumultuous 25 year love affair but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, despite Liverpool being excellent now

[@abigailslade3824]

jungsbodyguard your dad can’t tell you who to support. It’s not his decision but as long as you’re happy

[@randomvideosforrandompeopl2175]

It is ridiculous but this season: It looks like the ‘big six’ will be disbanded Liverpool will win their first title since 1990 No one can tell who will win the champion’s league And Leicester’s title win was only four years ago

[@gibbygoldfisch7012]

The big six is still there, Arsenal are just having a crap year and Leicester a good one. They'll spend a lot of money and be back next season. Liverpool should probably have won a title a while back, this has been a long time coming. The Champions League will be won by one of the same six or seven teams that are always contenders. And Leicester's title win remains a footballing miracle!

[@rorybessell8280]

Football is still much less predictable than any other major team sport

[@rorybessell8280]

@MrNorthernSol As a cricket fanatic I disagree entirely. Literally any team can beat another like Auckland FC at the club world cup a few years ago. Afghanistan beating the West Indies came as no surprise at all seeing as they had already beaten them multiple times and had been improving rapidly over the past ten years

[@rorybessell8280]

@MrNorthernSol Don't get me wrong there are plenty of upsets in cricket, but in football you see semi-professionals beating top tier sides in competitions like the FA cup which is slightly more of a jump than two national sides even if those are still huge upsets. I love cricket so much more than football but it's not as unpredictable

[@muthuchelvam6751]

@MrNorthernSol bro nope not every team with an odi status can beat every other team especially a top team and which country you are from bro because I hardly see people outside of sub continent speaking about cricket

[@muthuchelvam6751]

@MrNorthernSol bro eventhough you invented cricket football is the most popular sport in your country isn't it and about cricket I may didn't clearly mention about it but apart from top 15 teams no teams have quality nowadays and yes t20 is the most unpredictable format but can you say a story like greece of 2004 winning the euro or porto of 2004 winning the ucl or Leicester city winning the league in cricket eventhough I am a die hard cricket fan I also love football because of this unpredictability

[@muthuchelvam6751]

@MrNorthernSol yep bro I agree with you for me the biggest upsets in wc are , Ind winning the wc in 1983 vs wi because wi was the best team during that time and aus winning the wc in 1987 because they came there as underdogs and still won that and pak winning the wc in 1992 because they started as huge underdogs that tournament and finally sri lanka winning the wc in 1996 and finally do you watch ipl

[@callumpeters2529]

People forget for a lot of the premier league era the “top 6” have had some insane managers with SAF and wenger being the long running ones 🤷‍♂️

[@gribhead9780]

I dont think people realise that there is eras for each team it if there was always a even playing field it will be way to boring if you wanna see what its like watch the aleague most boring league Because there is a salary cap

[@richardpentney8438]

This is exactly why I haven't watched a minute of Premier League football in over 2 years and spend more time, it is so dull. If you feel like disagreeing with this then go and spend some time at your local non-league side and see how happy they are to see you compared to the faceless corporations of "top level" football.

[@notleco7147]

@Burnt Toast Support.Your.Local

[@tonybates7870]

Yeah, but people that are "happy to see you" are not necessarily the best players. If they were they wouldn't be playing non-league football. Stands to reason.

[@richardpentney8438]

@@tonybates7870 what do you mean by "the best players"? The Ballon d'Or has only ever been won by 3 Englishman since it started in 1955 and not by anyone in a British team since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008. That's an awful lot of not having the best.

[@tonybates7870]

@@richardpentney8438 I mean compared to non-league players.

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes, with a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.

[@esbenjakobsen4575]

Great video! I agree on a lot of things. But then you still get people complaining when the likes of RB Leipzig actually comes along and challanges BVB and Bayern in Germany and break the status quo, beacause they dont like the way in which they have achieved this. And it's like: WHAT DO YOU WANT?! Also I think it is worth noticing just how much the quality of the game itself has improved in the same time frame. Would we have gotten the same performances from the likes of Messi and Ronaldo absolutely spellbinding us. Almost making us thank a god we dont even believe in, that we are alive to watch these two footballing geniuses. I'm not really sure.

[@priyanshupradyot]

Esben Jakobsen Leipzig are a club built on Red bull money.

[@esbenjakobsen4575]

@@priyanshupradyot I know that. What's your point? My point is that there is nobody stopping any future billionaires from buying any others clubs outside the top 6, and making them competitive. Thereby disrupting the top 6.

[@TommyIstas]

@@esbenjakobsen4575 The point is that you do not seem to know anything about the structure of German club football. The fans are supposed to be the majority share holder of their clubs and not an Austrian company. German clubs are not supposed to have billionaire cunts as owners. The fans are supposed to own their club.

[@holnrew]

Intelligent analysis, really interesting video.

[@GrinddalCPH]

I do think there should be a wage loft - For many reasons, it helps make the American leagues unpredictable. It would also make sure players don't become silly rich, and are in it for the money more than the game. Normal people cannot relate to players anymore.

[@TheJackson1991]

It used to be a competition of a consistant 2 teams at the top, then 4, now 6. And with the money becomming more available for the generally lower teams being able to spend (albeit still needed smartly) along with 4 of the big 6 struggling to find the same consistency as they used to, and teams are truly beginning to compete against those top 6 teams more than they have for a long, long time. So couldn't dissagree more on that part. So at least when talking about the premier league, if anything, it's becomming more open, which is much more fun overall.

[@matthewkilcoyne7217]

Your essay gets a b-

[@TheJackson1991]

@@matthewkilcoyne7217 Yeah yeah Ed, hurry up and offer Phil Jones a £300.000 a week contract already will ya!

[@amandygirl78]

But still more stale than the pre-Premier League days.

[@Cream147player]

It would actually be a lot more boring for football to be entirely equal. Then there would be very little to separate the clubs other than where they happen to be, and what colour kit they play in. The various storylines of clubs throughout the season are given flavour by the relative and varying quality of their squads, size of their bank balance, and history of success (or lack thereof). In the world as we have it, Leicester winning the league is a magical moment and it could and did happen. In a more equal world, it would have just been another season.

[@GammaTrader63]

Football is boaring

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is the best and the most entertaining sport in the world ⚽️❤️

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is growing in popularity rapidly ⚽️❤️

[@redlavish7027]

I used to love watching football but as soon as gambling got involved, I don’t give a shit about the games as long as I win money lol.

[@kaiharding7996]

This has really changed my view on football but as only been born in 2004 I hsvnt rlly thought about it being grown up with this rigid top 6 idea but I have heard of the times when anyone could win anything including us (Newcastle fan) but like alot of people they have just grown up with this and cant remember the real days of unpredictability.

[@kierantv9857]

I’m also born in 2004, it’s crazy how much it’s all changed and like us the younger generation may of thought the top 6 has always been the samr

[@henrylong00]

Great video mate, I fully agree. As a rovers fan i'd love to be back in the prem but i'd hate to stay there, just depressing

[@Leesin6767]

Money has destroyed the purity of football, The "English" game is now run by Saudi and Chinese billionairs, among others. Still, Wolves ay we :D

[@blada0017]

I like the Bundesliga becaus there are teh 50 + 1 rule

[@paulwoodford6229]

MONEY and GREED is the reason football is f*cking boring.

[@huzaiz]

This "predictability" is why upsets become even more amazing when they do occur And I think it is still possible for clubs to break the dominance of the top teams like atletico Madrid did (won everything but the CL). However to do so requires a lot of quality and efficient management, and when lower clubs try to achieve this it only adds to the league's quality which is def a plus

[@HITCSevens]

Doesn't is show how accustomed we have become to only a handful of teams being able to win the big prizes when Atletico Madrid winning La Liga is considered a great shock, Huzaiz? They're hardly Derby or Forest winning the First Division, they're one of the biggest and most successful clubs in Spain.

[@markuslanz88]

Atleti is a big club from one of the biggest cities of Europe.

[@gibbygoldfisch7012]

@@HITCSevens On that note, everyone talked about how Leicester won the league at 5000-1 odds, but everyone overlooked the fact that 5000-1 odds in a 20-team league is a completely absurd situation to have in the first place.

[@Domino13334]

@@gibbygoldfisch7012 Imagine an old disabled men runs 100 meters versus prime Usain Bolt. The odds on the men would be extremely slim he wins the race. The fact that you can just bet on 2 atheltes („50-50“) changes nothing.

[@dangibson2641]

@@Domino13334 But that analogy doesn't work in this context; Leicester are not an old man, they're a major city with a 32,000 seater stadium and a big local fanbase! The huge disparity that's grown between clubs like themselves, Newcastle, Palace, Fulham et al and the big six is ridiculous, and it's hurting the sport in this country. People act like they're Hereford or Accrington Stanley, with lumps in the pitch and one working stand, but in truth they've just missed the globalization bandwagon that's allowed the likes of Man U, Liverpool etc to accumulate ridiculous levels of wealth that makes them too big to fail.

[@M1SUNSH1N3]

Because it is stupid and boring already

[@WilliamRobinson-bb6mr]

A very good video. I am a Leicester fan so my viewpoint is a bit blurred to what can be achieved. The one thing I do believe is that eventually the debts that the elite clubs will catch up with them after a season without any European football. The falls of Blackburn, Newcastle and Leeds show that this is the case. Equally find a good manager, some decent players and anything can happen. Our 2016 team was one of if not the oldest average age (no-one of the first XI was younger than 25) so all in their primes for one season. Anything can happen in sport.

[@vickiekostecki]

Why does no one care? Because it's being marketed so effectively. The millions that are poured into making working class people see young millionaires as their champions and saviors would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

[@6beto]

It's getting more boring but I still watch some games looking for that thing called magic. Maybe is like the Skinner box experiment, I think.

[@thejoshway764]

Not everyone is a premier league fan

[@manishbastola8729]

He is a English so he is quite familiar with English teams so he used English leagues to show the example thats all no one has said you to follow premier League . Also people follow it because there are at least 6 teams fighting for the title not like bundesliga or seria a or ligue 1 where it's always a single team dominating and laliga where it's about Barca and real

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Premier League is the best and the most entertaining league in the world

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

​@@manishbastola8729 Football is the most entertaining and the most competitive sport in the world

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

​@@manishbastola8729 American football is going in popularity rapidly

[@RuleBritannia1987]

I remember when people were saying the so-called "Big 4" would dominate forever. Forever lasted about 5 years.

[@Lodatzor]

I remember when it was just a Top 2, and they both wore red. Anyone saying that English football hasn't diversified at the top hasn't been watching very long.

[@nu-metalfan2654]

As someone who started watching football and supporting Liverpool since 2004, I have never seen Arsenal, Man Utd and Chelsea so bad. Those 3 sides have fallen from grace over the last few years. But if you look back at the first 12 years of the Premiership it was completely dominated by Man Utd and their only competition they had was Arsenal, so back then it was only 2 teams who could realistically win the Title. What changed that was when Abramovich bought Chelsea and hired Mourinho, so 2 teams became 3 and then with Benitez managing Liverpool you had 4 teams at the top. After that you had Sheikh Mansour buying Man City in 2008 which then became 5 at the top and then you had Pochettino doing well with Tottenham which then became 6 at the top. So my point is over the near 28 year history of the Premiership it has never been this unpredictable and now especially with Arsenal, Man Utd and Chelsea not being the teams they once were are now opening up even more unpredictability with Sheffield Utd, Wolves and Leicester catching up with them at the moment.

[@lancechimese1715]

Poch at tottenham? That is very wrong their rise began under redknapp

[@nu-metalfan2654]

@Lance Chimese. Yes that's true, but it wasn't until Poch started doing well at Spurs that cemented them as a top 6 side.

[@jtmmmm27]

So long as money is the biggest factor it will always be boring/predictable. If they implemented some kind of salary cap then it would make it more competitive throughout. The biggest problem is the all the top leagues would have to agree or the players would just flock to the free markets. It sounds oppressive but it works in the US and players wouldn’t necessarily be worse off if they use the hard floor rule where if a clubs salary falls under say 90% of the cap then the extra money is dispersed evenly to the contracted players.

[@Dryice36]

Just watch the championship

[@yourguy382]

One of the key things not addressed in this video is that people want to see an incredibly high standard of football. For example, Liverpool vs. Manchester city games usually exhibit the highest quality football performances ever witnessed... and that is an enjoyable and even very intense watch, regardless of the team you support. When you watch clips of old games, you see how much lower the standard was than it is now.

[@Ben_PN]

9:10 is that you, Alfie? 😂

[@rhysburns5420]

😂

[@zqualified3901]

The premier league isn’t getting boring there’s 6 teams constantly challenging for the title would you prefer that or the same club like ligue 1 or 2 clubs like La Liga, there’s nothing wrong with the premier league and it’s still the best division in the world. We’re in a dry spell where teams like liverpool and manchester city constantly winning or challenging for the title because they have world class managers at the helm. Jurgen and pep will eventually leave and the teams will slowly fall apart and then it will be some else’s time on the thrown. Don’t even dare say the premier league is boring when there’s league out there like Seria A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the SPL where it’s a one team league where it’s the same teams winning over and over. On the odd occasion you’ll have teams like Monaco or Dortmond winning the league but that will be only for 1 season then it’ll be the original teams winning again. People say the championship is the best league cause anyone can beat anyone and everyone backs that and they love the league but when it happens in the premier league where Norwich beat man city and then loose to United people start throwing their toys out the pram and making rant videos like this one and True Geordie. Currently you’ve got young manager taking over their clubs like Arteta and Lampard who yes don’t have a lot of managerial experience but give them time and they’ll be challenging for the league and europe. It’s only cause Liverpool and Manchester city have got experienced managers and have built a team for the past 5 and 3 years respectively. Don’t moan about the wage gap and the prices of footballers and that’s the reason players are moving to the prem, most players are moving cause the league is competitive and extremely hard and its a challenging to become a solid name and cement your legacy in the league like Aguero and Rooney and other telent. Prices are rising cause commercially teams are getting more and more money and people are tuning in globally to be able to see the amazing talents perform and the clubs have enough money to do so. Don’t say ohh Arab money and oil money is ruining football. Yes it can be annoying seeing city spend £100 million a window but that’s what we’ve got to deal with cause they’re earning it by winning 4 cups in one season like last year and having people watch them play. It’s just the way the world of football is evolving. I doubt we’ll ever get to the point of buying players for players any higher than £200 million any time soon unless top top top young talents move like mbappe or felix. But then they’ll drop back down to like £50 million per transfer. Then it should level out until a new generation moves in in 20 to 30 years and then it’ll be the same. Sorry for the rant. Respect if you actually read it all.

[@hunorbalazs8395]

The best team from every european country that has never won the UCL/European Cup

[@everythingisamindgame9666]

Atleti

[@moodysworld6734]

We humans go through Anhedonia, which means feeling the loss of pleasure in the things which made us feel happy. The same is with Football as well.

[@lodevermeiren3152]

Please do top seven brothers in world football right now

[@MotRi1986]

Because football is so much more than just the results. To put it simply it is fun to watch, it is pure entertaining to watch a good team play even though you know Liverpool or any other dominating team is going to win. It is a sport that is perfect for both TV and live. It is about the community, the suporters. No matter if you support a team in Norway or Brazil you can relate and understand each other. Every supporter from every nation on earth have the same excitement before a game or the same fear if you support a team in the relegation zone. Football simply the perfect entertainment product.

[@carltonleboss]

The Championship is very unpredictable!

[@pacoramon9468]

Liverpool already won the league in december so why should we care? Wacht La Liga, Serie A or Bundesliga instead.

[@gerardoa9179]

Pfff Serie A? With Juventus wining Like 8 conscutive years? Bayern winning like 10 consecutive Years ? Man that Leagues are worst and more boring

[@joshdolan9146]

2:20 how could you talk about this and not mention mancity winning the league and gettig relegated following seaon?

[@Ranta1nkkari]

I mostly agree with your opinion. But, too much parity can also make a sport kinda boring, because then we'd lose all that entertaining mythology of underdogs, black horses and teams to beat. For example modern NHL (hockey) is kinda becoming boring cointossing.

[@pagknowledge1817]

Football is the boring game in the world

[@SenuraKumara-ii5rq]

Football is the most entertaining sport in the world

[@SD-xh8fz]

The Prem still has unpredictable winners compared to France, Italy and Germany where it's been PSG, Juve and Bayern pretty much every year. Even Spain it's always Barca or Real, maybe Atletico every now and again

[@napa5235]

France used to have a more balanced and unpredictable league before PSG got tons of Cash, PSG used to be a really weak team

[@jamieenglishthfc1863]

HITC Sevens can you do a video of 7 footballers with criminal convictions pls

[@matthewkilcoyne7217]

Adam johnson

[@haraldgrundetjern2184]

Then you should check out Alexandre VIllaplane from France

[@RevStickleback]

They did this on Fantasy Football League. The "team" was something like... No.2 Peter Storey (Arsenal) Counterfeiting money No.3 Peter Storey (Arsenal) Running a brothel No.4 Peter Storey (Arsenal) Contempt of Court No.5 Peter Storey (Arsenal) Stealing two cars No.6 Peter Storey (Arsenal) Smuggling pornography in his car tyres...

[@gm2407]

Football is a game of pattern recognition. The game has ebs and flows that players and fans recognise. There are things that get fans excited and things that bore them. Sadly the "most effective" methods have been drilled into most teams so the game has become a tedious standoffish pass fest. So many games have the appearance of training sessions and the urgency and competativeness of a no stakes game of cards whilst waiting to die. Meanwhile the TV channels try and make every game out to be the most important high stakes drama. Reminds me of the Mitchel and Webb sketch. Its also to expensive to watch top tier football in person or on TV most of the time as well. So who is watching or exited by it?

[@jwines2000]

Could you do Yeovil Town's 2013-14 Championship team, where are they now?

[@madwolf7966]

Lol I live in yeovil and remember the embarrassment. Yeovil got promoted to the championship and we got relegated to league 1 🤣

[@kevinjsmeetz3231]

Leicester breaking into the top six will be the norm

[@uthayaalagusamy6076]

This didn't age well.

[@Prognosis__]

A salary cap will even football out but this will never happen in UK or Europe. I follow Australian rules football as well and they have a cap so results will change over the years.

[@dantespina7398]

Australian here also, its very interesting when salary caps and no relegation make it very interesting

[@ZapSports]

another Australian, was thinking the same haha

[@tonig3373]

Australian here also...i love the promotion relegation battles with the new teams in to the leagues is exciting and follow it more than the top 6 which simply is crap...i personally would love to see something to break the same champions around europe for the good of the game. What i dont like afl as example, is how a top 8 is the elite championship model at the end and also with no relegation a number of clubs don't care once they realise they can't play finals with no punishment.

[@barcadoubletreblesixtuple4020]

Because they are glory hunters who only prefer winning trophies and point over playing beautiful football... VAR is good but slowing games down...Also VAR didn't even make correct decisions... I rather watch Barca playing tiki taka and lose rather than winning ugly under Valverde... I am so glad with Barcelona firing Valverde and replace with Setien who coached beautiful gameplan... I miss watching Ronaldinho games with my roomates during my university year and Tiki Taka era during Guardiola era...

[@synonymsandantonyms9513]

Hi mate, I share the same idea as you. Well, do you watch TalkFCB channel on YT? I mean it is a brilliant channel to follow on Barcelona matters

[@AnggaTangerang]

Football become boring × Football become expensive ✓