The problems of modern day football

[ARLukomski 𝕏 ARLukomski Instagram declanweliczko_arlki]

I've seen a lot of talk on Twitter about the scrapping of FA Cup replays and that sides from non league have missed out on important revenue.

Guiseley, Kettering (even though they won in extra time), Weston-super-Mare, Maidenhead, Southend and Forest Green all missed out on replays due to the scrapping of them.

That brings me to the bigger question. What, in modern day football, needs to be changed or what would you change to bring back our game.

FA Cup replays, independent regulator, distribution of money to other leagues, salaries etc? What's your opinions?

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

I'm sceptical of having an independent regulator. I'm afraid there is no such thing as an independent anything nowadays. People have opinions, so they are going to be for or against a particular thing.

Even an independent regulator will favour the bigger clubs rather than the smaller ones, because at the end of the day money talks, & if you have the money it makes a club very powerful.

As for the PL. There should be a salary & transfer cap. Each club should only be allowed two of the most expensive players, & their needs to be at least 6 home players on the field of play at any one time to help home players develop.

This may reduce the standard in the PL but I think it needs to be done.

[Piethagoram 𝕏 @piethagoram]

I'm all in favour of an Independent Regulator as too much financial power is vested in the Premier League. 

I would also convert the NL to EFL3.

Funding for EFL3 to come from PL overseas TV monies.

I would ban plastic pitches... allow only for NL N&S divisions and below

Increase the EU players eligibility to 5 first team players in EFL teams

Bring back Anglo Scottish cup in place of Bristol Street Motors trophy

 

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

When all is said and done the problem with Football is money, two much of it belongs to the top six clubs & not enough gets filtered down the football tier.

Until that changes in any mean full way. Nothing will change.

[DangerousSausage]

This is a great question and could be a long thread!

- Club ownership needs to be tied to a strict set of conditions, a "fit and proper persons test" on acid. No more sportswashing, no more ownership by dodgy foreign states.

- Clubs need to be accountable to fans. There needs to be a mechanism that allows supporters to block certain decisions by club owners, such as stadium moves or name changes.

- Scrap VAR.

- Implement a total ban on betting advertisements in football.

- Eject all Milton Keynes-based franchises from the Football League / National League.

- Bring back FA Cup replays; sentence whoever suggested scrapping them to a week in Mansfield.

- We need to create more opportunities for UK-based players in the Premier League in particular. Maybe a minimum number of players in the matchday squad who have been in the UK from a certain age.

- The Premier League and the Football League need to be merged and possibly expanded to include the fifth level. At the minute, the PL is acting in the narrow interests of its 20 members and opening up a yawning gap to the rest of the professional game. This has to end. The wealth has to be shared to keep our game competitive and exciting and healthy in the long term. If this means that PL clubs have to give up their financial advantage over the continent's other top clubs, so be it.

- And to do all of the above we need an independent regulator with representatives from the PL/FL, non-league, the government, supporters' groups and the PFA. Otherwise, we'll simply carry on with the status quo.

[Fozzy]

1 hour ago, DangerousSausage said:

- Bring back FA Cup replays; sentence whoever suggested scrapping them to a week in Mansfield.

Ye gods, anything but that!

[Fozzy]

Independent and Financial Regulator to be appointed. Never allow a football club to be bought and the debt placed on the club (e.g. UTD). 

Fairer distribution of monies throughout the leagues and scale the money paid to the Premier League so that the clubs finishing lower down the league receive a larger slice of the revenue to help close the gap.

Set a wage cap.

Reinstate all cup replays, but allow Premier league clubs to carry a larger named squad that they could then afford if a wage cap was in place. Dock league points for fielding weakened sides in the cups.

Remove all U21 sides from the BSM trophy.

 

 

 

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

We've seen a big example of it today. Something that is very wrong with modern football.

There is no loyalty in modern football whatsoever. If a person doesn't deliver 100% of the time, their time is very limited.

[DangerousSausage]

Got another one.

- Smoke bombs and pyrotechnics in football grounds. Chucking smoke bombs on the pitch is chavvy behaviour and it's about time that trend died a death.

- Related to that, pyro. In Germany, pyrotechnics aren't allowed in football grounds. This has led to a kind of arms race among ultra groups, which try to outdo each other with ever bigger fireworks displays, costing their clubs hundreds of thousands of euros in fines. As well as being dangerous and expensive, lighting up bengalos is lame and low-effort compared to the tifos and displays ultras became known for.

- Related to that, ultras (or at least most of them). The good ones that make an effort to get the rest of the crowd going can stay. The ones that spend all game droning through an obscure song to the tune of Big Big Girl while the rest of the crowd looks on in bored silence can go. You're not the greatest fans just because you're waving flags.