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Rob Andrew - the game is getting worse not better
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<blockquote data-quote="GarethGriffiths" data-source="post: 876514" data-attributes="member: 75489"><p>I know that it's football, but Billy Bremner once commented that (when asked about playing nearly 60 games a season when Leeds United were the best team in the country) 'you don't even think about it - you just enjoy the game if you're on a good run of form'.</p><p></p><p>That was back in the days of the old leather footballs and when tackles were more X-Rated than today!</p><p></p><p>I get that both football and rugby are now businesses and players are investments today instead of..well...players. However, the price you pay (literally) is that the game suffers for the reasons mentioned above.</p><p></p><p>Look at football in England since 1992 - it's awash with cash, yes, but has the game improved that much domestically? Only one World Cup in the past 60 years although, currently, England's youth are doing very well internationally (U17s and U19s are World Champions?) but how many of these players will go on to play in the first teams for their clubs?</p><p></p><p>Take money out, bring the sport back and we might get somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GarethGriffiths, post: 876514, member: 75489"] I know that it's football, but Billy Bremner once commented that (when asked about playing nearly 60 games a season when Leeds United were the best team in the country) 'you don't even think about it - you just enjoy the game if you're on a good run of form'. That was back in the days of the old leather footballs and when tackles were more X-Rated than today! I get that both football and rugby are now businesses and players are investments today instead of..well...players. However, the price you pay (literally) is that the game suffers for the reasons mentioned above. Look at football in England since 1992 - it's awash with cash, yes, but has the game improved that much domestically? Only one World Cup in the past 60 years although, currently, England's youth are doing very well internationally (U17s and U19s are World Champions?) but how many of these players will go on to play in the first teams for their clubs? Take money out, bring the sport back and we might get somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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