Bumping this thread after than Everton vs Chelsea game, but that is not the main reason.
I've realized now the main way to discuss and properly judge the quality of football over different era is to compare world cups.
Let's compare semi finals:
Here is 1990:
West Germany vs England
Here is 2014:
Brazil vs Germany
Compare the defending and the amount of chances presented in both games! Brazil getting thumped 7-1 was a result that was building up, you had the 5-1 Netherlands Spain thrashing, you had bayern and real smashing schalke by 5 goals, we had us getting smashed 6-0 and 5-1 the season before, you had Bayern getting smashed 4-0, Barca the season earlier getting beat 7-0 on aggregate or was it 8-0 over two legs, these are called 'Blowouts' when one team gives in and gets annihilated.
Back 14 years ago we got beat 6-1 at Old Trafford, we had a reserve backline out that day and a much changed side in a game that didn't matter too much, that result was still freak and rare for two big teams to produce that. Nowadays we are getting these stupid scorelines where one teams gives up and forgets the concept of defending all too often.
This is indicative to the massive declining quality of our game, what annoyed me was yesterday the commentators who seem clearly instructed to spout 'how exciting the premier league is' when Everton completely forgot how to defend yesterday. I didn't enjoy the match yesterday, it was full of pathetic errors for both sides, it was like watching early teenagers in a Sunday league game.
It really hit me watching the West Germany vs England game and comparing how clinical both teams where when just a small amount of space was given in that game compared to the stupidness we saw in that Minerazao!
Its becoming more and more obvious, something needs to be done! There too many little things now creating a big problem.