I've been thinking this for a while, but last night has just confirmed it for me - football is the most boring it's been in my lifetime.
Granted, my 'memory pool' isn't huge - I was still in secondary school 10 years ago. But even casting my mind back to those days, football just felt more... fun.
You had Suarez doing outrageous things (both good and bad) every week. Hazard running around people like they weren't there. Bale leaving people in his dust at Spurs. Deeney scoring the infamous playoff goal. Wigan winning the FA Cup. Sunderland staying up despite being bottom at Christmas. City and Liverpool both scoring over 100 goals and pushing each other right to the end (I could go on but you get the point!).
Things just didn't feel as predictable back then. Atmosphere's were better, derby's were more fierce, even the goals seemed better (why does no one shoot from outside the box anymore??). Players themselves and teams in general took more risks.
The game just doesn't feel the same anymore - it feels like the soul of football has been lost and the whole aim of the sport has changed. Football used to be about community, passion, of course partly money, but ultimately entertainment - it's now almost entirely about making money. Everything else seems forgotten.
The saddest part of it all, is this isn't just happening in the Premier League - football as a whole is just becoming really tame and uninspiring.
