LMAO wrote:I can't say the quality is any better or worse than it was 5, 10, 20 years ago.
Tactics play a bigger role today than they did before, and sports science and nutrition have significantly closed the gap between great players and good players.
Nutrition and diet has been important since the 60's. is just England that was behind in that and had to wait till Wenger came in to change that.
Spots Science has improved a lot but it's over analysed too much imo. Its important but its far to overused.
The only thing I can say for sure is that players in today's game aren't as expressive, but that goes back to the modern tactics-focused game that makes everything more rigid as players play more as well-drilled units than individuals banding together for 90 minutes.
Tactics are bad now, very little variety to teams these days, the importance of them in the modern game has increased because the stricter tackling laws allowing the game to be faster, players are more 'generic' than ever before and the whole obsession over Pep's modern interpretation of total football is progressing this ideology more and more. Back before the tackling laws changed in 2007. Teams would built strategies entirely to suit their unique superstars rather than have a core philosophy everyone is forced to abide to.
The whole joy of football dies quickly these days for many players, the game becomes a job the majority these days which is sad reality to the nature of the game in 2019.