To be fair the “boring football” opinion could have been used to describe most teams in the PL at some point in the last few decades, whether they are winning or fighting relegation.
My hot take is that there should be a bonus point system, 3 points for the win + 1 extra point for scoring 4 goals, or 0 points for a loss, but 1 point for losing by a single goal.
Teams would chase goals more rather than being happy to sit back and defend their 2-0 lead.
The bonus point rule has worked fine in Rugby, but I wouldn’t necessarily say it leads to teams going all out to get the extra point - its exactly what it says; a nice bonus. Plus with the amount of matches these days I would be worried about pushing players even harder.
I always feel like people who suggest shit like this just don’t enjoy football. The point of the game is not constant action and drama, if you want that then watch basketball or whatever.
It is first and foremost, a form of competition. As soon as entertainment takes the stage over competition, it is a completely different thing entirely.
The reason sports exist is competition first. The reason we find sports entertaining is because of the competition.
A big part of the beauty of football is the simplicity, you make the rules messy and convoluted and people will hate it.
Also I don’t think it’s fair to punish teams because of how their opponents set up against them. Last season everyone realised you can’t give us space centrally, and you have to double team our wingers. Now we have to play the lowest block in the world on average, and 90% of teams don’t even press us, they just lock down the middle and hope they can deal with the crosses.
In these games it can be impossible to score four (especially since teams like Everton, Burnley and Sheffield don’t even change their tactics after going down a goal). And I also don’t feel like they should be punished for playing to their strengths, if that’s the best chance they have to get something from the game then let them play like that.
Instead what we should focus on removing is the unsportsmanlike behaviour which often (but not always) comes with these types of performances. I’m talking about rotational fouling certain players the moment they get in a position to hurt them. Incessant time wasting, often even while a goal down because they want to keep it 1-0 until the 85th and then score a corner/free kick so you don’t have time regain the lead. The diving as soon as they get into the opposition half, big strikers throwing themselves to the ground in every aerial duel because a free kick they can put into the box is the best chance they’ll get at a goal.
These are the unsportsmanlike parts of traditional “parking the bus”, and that’s the part we should focus on getting rid of imo. Not sitting deep and defending well, that’s a skill too
or maybe the rules themselves should change, to encourage attacking. Right now football is the only sport in the world that I can think of where players actually get REWARDED for committing fouls. Maybe focus on that complete joke of a situation first
To be fair the “boring football” opinion could have been used to describe most teams in the PL at some point in the last few decades, whether they are winning or fighting relegation.
My hot take is that there should be a bonus point system, 3 points for the win + 1 extra point for scoring 4 goals, or 0 points for a loss, but 1 point for losing by a single goal.
Teams would chase goals more rather than being happy to sit back and defend their 2-0 lead.
The bonus point rule has worked fine in Rugby, but I wouldn’t necessarily say it leads to teams going all out to get the extra point - its exactly what it says; a nice bonus. Plus with the amount of matches these days I would be worried about pushing players even harder.
I always feel like people who suggest shit like this just don’t enjoy football. The point of the game is not constant action and drama, if you want that then watch basketball or whatever.
Very few people actually enjoy football the same way other sports are enjoyed.
It is first and foremost, a form of competition. As soon as entertainment takes the stage over competition, it is a completely different thing entirely.
The reason sports exist is competition first. The reason we find sports entertaining is because of the competition.
A big part of the beauty of football is the simplicity, you make the rules messy and convoluted and people will hate it.
Also I don’t think it’s fair to punish teams because of how their opponents set up against them. Last season everyone realised you can’t give us space centrally, and you have to double team our wingers. Now we have to play the lowest block in the world on average, and 90% of teams don’t even press us, they just lock down the middle and hope they can deal with the crosses.
In these games it can be impossible to score four (especially since teams like Everton, Burnley and Sheffield don’t even change their tactics after going down a goal). And I also don’t feel like they should be punished for playing to their strengths, if that’s the best chance they have to get something from the game then let them play like that.
Instead what we should focus on removing is the unsportsmanlike behaviour which often (but not always) comes with these types of performances. I’m talking about rotational fouling certain players the moment they get in a position to hurt them. Incessant time wasting, often even while a goal down because they want to keep it 1-0 until the 85th and then score a corner/free kick so you don’t have time regain the lead. The diving as soon as they get into the opposition half, big strikers throwing themselves to the ground in every aerial duel because a free kick they can put into the box is the best chance they’ll get at a goal.
These are the unsportsmanlike parts of traditional “parking the bus”, and that’s the part we should focus on getting rid of imo. Not sitting deep and defending well, that’s a skill too
or maybe the rules themselves should change, to encourage attacking. Right now football is the only sport in the world that I can think of where players actually get REWARDED for committing fouls. Maybe focus on that complete joke of a situation first