I’ve used to enjoy football when I was tiny, but don’t any more and rarely even look at it on tv.
Like so many sorts now, a 90 minute match (plus half time) can become a 3 hour marathon on multipe channels, with armies of pundits and exhausting analysis.
The players get a lot of money, some in the hundreds of thousands per week, I am told.
Here’s an idea to make big matches slightly more interesting – have the penalty knock out first, before the actual match. This will give one team at least a greater incentive to play – at the end, if it’s a nil-nil draw, we know who will be the victors.