I liked it better when teams represented the style of play of the country they are based on. Now every team is full of foreign managers and foreign players. I think the foreign player limit maintained a sense of identity associated with each club. It forces you to develop your own talent, and the fans are always going to be more into it when players are from the same country as them. Now we rarely ever see teams develop talent.
New style of play. It’s so robotic now. Every team just recycles play & plays percentages until they overload & get a cut back.
1997-2012 was the peak of football. All elite teams had outrageous players & you had to watch because they could do something amazing.
Now it’s just waiting to see how many cut backs Man City etc can tap in. It’s boring.
Referring to the ‘peak of football’ as literally an entire 15 year period is wild btw
I think people will always refer to the ‘peak of football’ in the period where they were young and experienced the most ‘exciting’ football in their eyes. It’s purely based on nostalgia. I’m not saying 1997-2012 wasn’t wonderful, but someone else would refer to a completely different period and it’s mostly the time where they were between 15-30 years old
This is more likely to be correct yeah. Same reason people always revisit the music they discovered in their teens too
1995 was the peak of football, it all went downhill from 1996.
I feel like 1995 was the peak of EVERYTHING and it all went downhill from there.