| Wyrdness said: You keep telling yourself that because history was what forced the rule into being as well as many other things in football. Football is about outscoring your opponent but what goes on during a match wasn't always reflective of the aim of the game hence why the are rules in the first place, an example during a world cup games in the same group used to be played on different days because teams are meant to play to win no matter what right? Nope West Germany and another team fixed a match by just casually passing the ball around with no shot at goal the whole game because they knew a draw would see them both through knocking out another team (I think it was Algeria) that would have gone through if either of them had lost. This forced the competition to changed so that all group games are played at the same time. If you naively think what you see in today's game would happen with out rules you're fooling yourself, you've even flat out admitted the rule is doing it's job, the rule is in place for a reason and is the result of what I've told you, it wasn't just randomly made up on the spot the teams and the players are the ones who forced it into existence. You not liking Atleti's style means bugger all to me and I don't care tbh. They already tried decades with out the rule why do you think it exists in the first place, it made exploiting tactics and situations much more riskier plus the lure of an away goal made away teams more willing to attack. Before it was in effect many matches were defensive 1-0 and so on, the competition became more aggressive when UEFA created the rule as conceding a goal now had an added risk and new angle. |
lol at your post, like, really. You couldn't agree to disagree but continued to personally insult me, first by suggesting I was salty and now for being naive. Away games were harded back in the day for various reasons (look it up) and teams, players and managers who forced it are long retired. Today, there's a number of teams, managers, players etc. who would like to see this rule gone. As for me admitting the rule is doing it's job, try reading the rest of what I wrote about it.
You example of West Germany is a whole another issue and has nothing to do with argument at hand. A straw man that. I'm all for improving competition. Just because a rule was developed decades ago to adress issues they had back then doesn't mean it should never be re-evaluated. Rules change.
You didn't answer to my two questions at the beginning of my later post. Here's one more, if they took out this rule do you think football would go back to what it was in 60s and every team would just park the bus when playing away? Now, go easy on those lame personal insults, all we are talking about is a rule in football ffs...
