Arsenal fans take Liverpool title as the worst in Premier League
Have Arsenal fans become the easiest to rile in the Premier League? And is football actually any fun anymore?
Send your views to theeditor@football365. com A question for the youth of the Mailbox I'm seeing more mails and more articles all generally exuding the same message - football has gotten more boring.
It tallies up with the feelings of me and my friends, less time spent watching it, less time generally spent caring about it, less time spent talking about any of it. I doesn't seem like a big deal, just part of growing up I suppose, but the mail last week from Chris, Croydon really resonated (and not just because I found out there's a wine bar in Croydon).
Wasn't football more fun when any given Super Sunday would be worth going to the pub for if you had the time, because seeing a few "crap" teams on the fixture list didn't mean it would be boring? Wasn't football more fun when football could be a clash of styles - Wenger's Arsenal vs Pulis' Stoke or Fergie's United vs Mourinho's Chelsea - similar to when the UFC would be a great kick-boxer vs an excellent BJJ grappler.
Much like the UFC has become a hegemony of well-rounded fighters with less specialties fighting on the White House lawn in front of military flyovers, it feels like football has become the same - carbon copy teams with different badges competing in cash grabbing product. What I'm wondering, and putting to the younger members of the mailbox, is - are we just old men viewing the olden days through the rose tint of nostalgia while we talk about the glory days of Dion Dublin headbutting Robbie Savage?
Or has football actually gotten more boring? Do young people still think this is fun?
Do you talk about xG in the pub? JB (can't wait to find out being in my 30's makes me the youth of the scientific control group that is the mailbox) Ready to throw Trigger's broom in the bin I've finally realised what supporting a football team is exactly like Trigger's broom in Only Fools and Horses.
Trigger gets an award for looking after his broom for 15 years and then tells the lads that it has had multiple new broom handles and multiple new brushes. So there is nothing of the original broom left.
Since I started supporting Manchester United in the '60s there have been multiple new managers and even more players. The owners have changed, the strip is replaced every year, and the style of football directed by each manager is nothing like that of Best, Law and Charlton.