Sorry, but that’s another crock of shite with a paint job.
People have been predicting the death of the game for decades.
Do you want a return to the years of pitch fencing? 25,000 at Anfield for a league match? Many grounds infected with racism? Working class fans treated inhumanly by the authorities? We could continue down this path, but you get my point.
Or is it these fallow months due to a world wide pandemic? Actually, other than a few arseholes, football has been something for many people to cling to, look forward to: same as it always has been. Look at Marine. As Liverpool fan, we had the ticker tape of being champions to buffer the misfortune of the pandemic.
Admittedly, VAR is awful and talk of a European Super League a poison to the ear: but dissatisfaction has forever lingered around football. Football was apparently going to die with the Premier League, and yet here it is, here, and we sit as champions.
So no, don’t be glib and say something is a crock of shit. Football is here, it can be huge power of good in life. It’s fashionable to kick it whilst it’s down, look back to imagined past times and think about casting it off, but don’t forget some will disagree.
Looks like too many people are happy to go from believers to doubters in a few months: I can’t be arsed going through post histories but I don’t remember many of these posts last January.
Where on this site gave I ever even hinted that I'd like to go back to the past negative aspects of the game? I haven't, and never will do.
Where have I ever stated that I speak for anyone other than myself? I haven't, and I never will do.
Personally, I don't enjoy the repackaged product that the modern game has become. Some others feel the same, and that's their right. Some feel differently, and that's their right too.
Some who have been around for many decades, through thick, thin, tragedy and glory feel the game they love is dying as far as an enjoyable, emotionally investible spectacle is concerned. Some who have been through the same feel differently, as is their right.
I'll actually retract my "crock of shit" comment. I'm not normally so rude with my disagreement. You just seemed very dismissive of some lifelong fans' feelings, and that can hit a nerve for me at times.
Predicting the death of the game? People do not judge at what point this occurs for them by whether or not the game is still taking place in grounds and is still watched on television. Chances are, the game will always be around, but its audience will change.
I know so many lifelong, hardcore Reds who binned the game off over the years. Spiralling cost was one reason. Having the game stolen from the people, repackaged and sold back to them at inflated cost was another. Everyone has their tipping point. Of course, new people will take their place, so the cycle goes on...
Some on here have spectacularly missed the point of what some are saying. You can still love Liverpool, still love the game, but really dislike the 'product' that is being pushed onto us these days.
You can still want Liverpool to win with every fibre of your body, yet decide against tuning into the current farce where idiots use slide rules to identify a mm of toenail in order to rule out goals whilst turning a blind eye to assaults.
Also, you can still love Liverpool, still love this forum, still enjoy conversing with the people on this forum and still hold an opinion too, despite being fed-up with the overall product.
Anyway, please don't make out that I have in any way suggested that I'm speaking for anyone but myself. Plenty of others feel as I do, and plenty don't. I'm spokesman for myself only. I may agree with some, but I don't speak for them.
As far as the game today goes, I hope we smash these Manc twats all over Anfield. The fact I won't actually be watching 'the product' is neither here nor there. It's 100% inconsequential to the outcome.
Come on you Reds! Smash these pretenders.
Edited for typos.
