Tom8558 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 This isn't a depressive thread although it may come across as one. Football (as a league) began to be established probably just over 150 years ago. Now with football progressing from the working-class bread-line man's game to a high paid millionaire's play toy (abramovich) where do you see football being in the next 150 years. There is a thought that ticket prices will increase to such ridiculous levels that football will start being over-valued and loans and debts by football clubs will start to cost them (look at down the road). I mean to say, at the current rate that football is progressing, how long will it last before new sports become the foreground to society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 How long can you see football lasting? Forever. Close thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascadia Saint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Jet packs, and goals in the air, Harry potter style. 500 grand for a pint. New kits every home game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Life, death, taxes and football. I'll say forever too. Probably get video refs and central timing sometime in the next 100 years as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 What an odd thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 It'll be banned on Health and Safety grounds. I mean, just look at all the appalling injuries players incur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Football's crap now to what it was that there is no doubt, no atmosphere and far too expensive, smaller clubs have no chance of winning the Premierleague and the best you can hope for is an easy draw in the cup and hope the teams you do play are concerned about relegation, promotion and European football that season, the sprad of quality players is being compressed into the top top sides who can afford to keep tens of millions of pounds of players on the sidelines so others dont have them, the teams that do develop players are often forced to sell them after a good season as they want to cash in or more likely the players agents forces a huge overpriced move. Long live the Bundesliga **** the premierleague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint si Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Following the introduction of goal-line technology in 2013, football slid down a very slippery slope. By 2030, all refereeing decisions were being made in real time by computer. There was no need for a 4th, 3rd, 2nd or even 1st official anymore. After the computer was hacked some time in 2035 by the mysterious "SAF" virus, and Man United were awarded a penalty every time a United player entered the opposition's box, the powers that be at the Premier League decided it was simply too risky to leave something as important as the football business to chance. Thus, the Premier League's Fit and Proper Season test was born. As of 2063, the entire season is first simulated 10,000 times using Football Manager Galactic Edition '63, by a man known only as "God". From this, a set of scenarios are handpicked and screen tested behind closed doors by human clones in the key demographics of India, China, Brazil and Moonbase Zeta 3. Once the most appealing and dramatic scenario has been chosen, the simulation is then acted out in real time by the football "players", who are now all just soap opera actors with an on-pitch persona. Diving is of course still a major problem in the game and bad acting is severely penalised. Fans are still not allowed to stand, and are now automatically restrained in their seats whilst the ball is in play, using a complex system of magnets and lasers. Anybody who mentions remembering "the good old days before all this technology killed the game" will be told they are just afraid of change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggles31 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Jet packs, and goals in the air, Harry potter style. 500 grand for a pint. New kits every home game. Made me lol. What would the relay be? I presume jet packs would be involved again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
110_Persaint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Everything has a lifespan. Rest assured footie should last well beyond all our lifetimes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rational Rich Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 45 mins each half. Plus injury time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stud mark of doom Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Longer than me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 If you live in Porstmouth, a few months at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 japan will win the 2034 World cup with a team made up entirely of computer generated 3D images controlled by boffins sat in the stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max_saints Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Football's crap now to what it was that there is no doubt, no atmosphere and far too expensive, smaller clubs have no chance of winning the Premierleague and the best you can hope for is an easy draw in the cup and hope the teams you do play are concerned about relegation, promotion and European football that season, the sprad of quality players is being compressed into the top top sides who can afford to keep tens of millions of pounds of players on the sidelines so others dont have them, the teams that do develop players are often forced to sell them after a good season as they want to cash in or more likely the players agents forces a huge overpriced move. Long live the Bundesliga **** the premierleague. other than your point on crowd atmosphere and ticket prices, how much different is the bundesliga from the premier league according to your argument? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 (edited) other than your point on crowd atmosphere and ticket prices, how much different is the bundesliga from the premier league according to your argument? Other than quite important factors as price and atmosphere you have home grown players which in turn leads to a better national side, you have the fact every club is owned by the supporters so they have a true say into what goes on, you also have safe standing, you also have far better modern stadia in most of the grounds and even the one where the world cup games did not take place over our make do and mend and concrete o'dome efforts, you also have the fact the club turn profits mostly every year or small recoverable losses unlike our unsustainable model and you all have the fact a high percentage of wages are paid by seperarate sponsors to the footballers direct thus taking a huge burden away from the club. Football as it should be, they honestly feel sorry for us as they have the intelligence to see we have lost our way, we one the other hand believe Murdoch's adverts. Edited 5 March, 2013 by Barry Sanchez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Wayman Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 What an odd thread Odd to you maybe but actually somebody trying to introduce a sensible debate into a forum that usually is full of repetitive nonsensical speculative drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 What an odd thread The irony of odd and you putting it into a post should not startle me but it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzmeister Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 japan will win the 2034 World cup with a team made up entirely of computer generated 3D images controlled by boffins sat in the stands. This is actually quite an interesting concept. Its not inconceivable to think that in the (not to distant future) a splinter league of human vs computer controlled (ala fifa) football players. This would start small, a yearly/bi yearly competition sponcered by EA Sports where all there sponcer players take on a number of Fifa fans who won a competition. However the popularity of this will grow until demand for a full league is generated. You think it sounds silly. Who wouldn't want to try their best in the world Fifa skills against a best in the world real footballer/team? (Then eventually the computer controlled footballers will go all AI on our asses and stage a mass take over of each stadium, and thus each city in the country thus starting the Robots take over the world scenario). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Odd to you maybe but actually somebody trying to introduce a sensible debate into a forum that usually is full of repetitive nonsensical speculative drivel. chill out, he never said it was a bad thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stud mark of doom Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Other than quite important factors as price and atmosphere you have home grown players which in turn leads to a better national side, you have the fact every club is owned by the supporters so they have a true say into what goes on, you also have safe standing, you also have far better modern stadia in most of the grounds and even the one where the world cup games did not take place over our make do and mend and concrete o'dome efforts, you also have the fact the club turn profits mostly every year or small recoverable losses unlike our unsustainable model and you all have the fact a high percentage of wages are paid by seperarate sponsors to the footballers direct thus taking a huge burden away from the club.. But other than those factors, what's different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint si Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 You know who else thought Germany was better than everyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 You know who else thought Germany was better than everyone else? Stan Colleymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonroader07 Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 This isn't a depressive thread although it may come across as one. Football (as a league) began to be established probably just over 150 years ago. Now with football progressing from the working-class bread-line man's game to a high paid millionaire's play toy (abramovich) where do you see football being in the next 150 years. There is a thought that ticket prices will increase to such ridiculous levels that football will start being over-valued and loans and debts by football clubs will start to cost them (look at down the road). I mean to say, at the current rate that football is progressing, how long will it last before new sports become the foreground to society. And I get accused of Stupid Threads..... Absolve the Lyndhurst One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Football's crap now to what it was that there is no doubt, no atmosphere and far too expensive, smaller clubs have no chance of winning the Premierleague and the best you can hope for is an easy draw in the cup and hope the teams you do play are concerned about relegation, promotion and European football that season, the sprad of quality players is being compressed into the top top sides who can afford to keep tens of millions of pounds of players on the sidelines so others dont have them, the teams that do develop players are often forced to sell them after a good season as they want to cash in or more likely the players agents forces a huge overpriced move. Long live the Bundesliga **** the premierleague. I like the Bundesliga, but it's really not all that different in terms of top clubs dominating. Only one more club has won it since 92/93 than the EPL. It has still effectively been dominated by Bayern & Dortmund. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOWSaintDaz Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 It'll last until the Iranian's have enough uranium and missiles to launch the big one then were all screwed!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Claus Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Following the introduction of goal-line technology in 2013, football slid down a very slippery slope. By 2030, all refereeing decisions were being made in real time by computer. There was no need for a 4th, 3rd, 2nd or even 1st official anymore. After the computer was hacked some time in 2035 by the mysterious "SAF" virus, and Man United were awarded a penalty every time a United player entered the opposition's box, the powers that be at the Premier League decided it was simply too risky to leave something as important as the football business to chance. Thus, the Premier League's Fit and Proper Season test was born. As of 2063, the entire season is first simulated 10,000 times using Football Manager Galactic Edition '63, by a man known only as "God". From this, a set of scenarios are handpicked and screen tested behind closed doors by human clones in the key demographics of India, China, Brazil and Moonbase Zeta 3. Once the most appealing and dramatic scenario has been chosen, the simulation is then acted out in real time by the football "players", who are now all just soap opera actors with an on-pitch persona. Diving is of course still a major problem in the game and bad acting is severely penalised. Fans are still not allowed to stand, and are now automatically restrained in their seats whilst the ball is in play, using a complex system of magnets and lasers. Anybody who mentions remembering "the good old days before all this technology killed the game" will be told they are just afraid of change. Thought you deserved more credit for this. Made me laugh. What an odd thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericb Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Premier league football is dead already, can honestly say i've not felt so disenfranchised with the sport in a long, long time. In fact higher price or not i'm seriously doubting i'll bother with a season ticket next season as it's so bland, boring, sanitised and dull. Probably stick to cricket for days out on the **** with my mates instead. Sky killed it years ago by making it an "entertainment business", foreign billionaires stuck the knife in by buying leagues and hoarding players and computer games like championship manager/fantasy football robbed the soul and turned it into a spreadsheet, making fans more interested in stats than the day out with their mates, the culture of the terraces or the game itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 ...you have the fact every club is owned by the supporters ... Ahh yes those family clubs of Volkswagen Wolfsburg and BAYER Leverkeusen. Also, i know this is from the daily fail but seems well researched http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2143867/German-football-efficiency-The-Bundesliga-Martin-Samuel.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paris Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Hope it last's for the next thirty to forty years at least .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonToo Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Thought you deserved more credit for this. Made me laugh. Me too - especially the magnets and lasers bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummer Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Ahh yes those family clubs of Volkswagen Wolfsburg and BAYER Leverkeusen. Also, i know this is from the daily fail but seems well researched http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2143867/German-football-efficiency-The-Bundesliga-Martin-Samuel.html Not sure why Saints are in the list of clubs that have gone under more than once though...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Football will last forever, even if it dies professionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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