Lets face it. The 4-5-1 is killing entertaining football. Teams care more about not losing than winning. No-one is willing to take a risk anymore. What kind of entertainment is that? It seems to me that teams don't care about entertaining anymore, they forget that is what they're paid to do. Last year chelsea won the league playing (lets be honest here) apart from a few entertaining matches they were winning games 1-0. Juventus the same and Greece did it in Euro 2004. What happened to the time when attacking football that would get you off your seat and make you gasp would win you stuff. Arsenal a few years back did it, Brazil did it. But the 4-5-1. The evil of boring football is creeping in.
No longer is football a game where you play the ball around and score a great goal is praised. Now it's whethher you can pack the midfield and stop a team from crisp entertaining football. Now it's more important that you manage to play anti-football (Blackburn for instance). Has football becomce less important than the trophies assosiated with it?
I'm gonna rally a movement against boring football. Football should be stunning attacking football, scoring goals where every team member gets a touch, or a 40 yard drive after 3 1-2s in a row. Not hoofing the ball up the field hopnig your player manages to tap the ball in after kicking the defender in the bollocks and bouncing off his shin.
No longer is football a game where you play the ball around and score a great goal is praised. Now it's whethher you can pack the midfield and stop a team from crisp entertaining football. Now it's more important that you manage to play anti-football (Blackburn for instance). Has football becomce less important than the trophies assosiated with it?
I'm gonna rally a movement against boring football. Football should be stunning attacking football, scoring goals where every team member gets a touch, or a 40 yard drive after 3 1-2s in a row. Not hoofing the ball up the field hopnig your player manages to tap the ball in after kicking the defender in the bollocks and bouncing off his shin.