As more and more rules are added to the game of football, the way fans watch the game has changed. Today, TA journalist George Caulkin writes that the increasing number of rules has gradually changed the original flavor of the sport.
Caulkin said in the article that football in 2024 is no longer what it used to be. In the past, we judged whether a player was a star based on his performance, but now it is a bunch of spreadsheets and data, analyzing players through them. Moreover, the PSR rule forces teams to sell their young players to comply.
Football is a belief. When the ball goes into the net, countless people cheer for it. But VAR intervenes at this moment and tells you that the goal just now is invalid. In 2024, we can no longer believe what happens on the field. What we see may not be what we get, because VAR needs to confirm and repeatedly review whether the goal is valid. The moments that make us excited and forget ourselves are disappearing.
Football should be fluid and full of emotion. It should allow anything to happen. With VAR, anything can be canceled at any time. In the past, referees may have made some mistakes, but once the game is over, these mistakes will not be investigated too much. But VAR is different. When you use the most advanced technology but still get misjudgments (the serious misjudgment of Forest last season), it doesn’t make sense.
With the implementation of PSR, the standings we see may not be real, because points may be deducted. Last season, Everton were deducted 8 points and Nottingham Forest 4 points. In the weeks after the summer transfer window opened, we saw clubs frantically selling players in the hope of meeting PSR requirements. Until then, Manchester City, winners of the Premier League, were still facing as many as 118 charges.
The original intention of PSR was to prevent clubs from going bankrupt due to reckless spending, but it is a temporary solution. If we start with a review of acquisitions and prevent those who have no money from buying these clubs, isn’t that a better solution?
The sport of football has always been in pursuit of fairness and perfection, but perfection does not exist, and no fans really like this kind of “fairness” and “perfection”.
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