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What will Football be like in 50 years?
Dave2l
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Prediction for the year 2075.
Will football still be the most popular sport in the world? It has altered quite a bit since 1975 up until this point.
Will it eventually be 110 years of hurt? It still hasn't come home?
What will happen?
Just like anything in life - expect the unexpected.
Personal predition:
1) England would have won a World cup or euros by 2075
2) There will no longer be an on field ref on the pitch.
Perhaps a drone will fly on the pitch to hand out a yellow card!
3) The USA and or Saudis will probably have further increased involvement.
4) football will still be a moderately popular sport but if compared to the 90s/early 00s, it would have taken a significant step back.
5) The record of the £1billion pound signing would have been broken in the year 2040 roughly speaking.
6) An input of Incredible advanced technology
7) Palace will suffer after going into administration. They will beg to groundshare at the Valley. We casually decline.
What do you predict?
Will football still be the most popular sport in the world? It has altered quite a bit since 1975 up until this point.
Will it eventually be 110 years of hurt? It still hasn't come home?
What will happen?
Just like anything in life - expect the unexpected.
Personal predition:
1) England would have won a World cup or euros by 2075
2) There will no longer be an on field ref on the pitch.
Perhaps a drone will fly on the pitch to hand out a yellow card!
3) The USA and or Saudis will probably have further increased involvement.
4) football will still be a moderately popular sport but if compared to the 90s/early 00s, it would have taken a significant step back.
5) The record of the £1billion pound signing would have been broken in the year 2040 roughly speaking.
6) An input of Incredible advanced technology
7) Palace will suffer after going into administration. They will beg to groundshare at the Valley. We casually decline.
What do you predict?
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Football will have non contact/very limited contact rules like basketball.2
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The Premier League will still be dominated by the Big Six Cartel. Time and time again, whenever any "outsider club" crashes that esteemed party, they can rub shoulders with them for a year or two before they're plundered and looted by said clubs (or Real Madrid), and down they go.
Maybe we'll do a Leicester within the next 50 years.2 -
There's a huge reset after a decline in ticket sales and TV buys due to a huge recession, and the Sky bubble goes pop, taking a few clubs with it.0
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1,Collapse of Euro Zone Super League
2,Formation World Super League Top Ten clubs playing Home/Away No relegation or promotion.
3, Smart GoalPost technologies and smart ball at grassroots levels.
4, World Cup every 2 years
5 Euros every 2 years
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After the great Water Wars of the 2060s, football will be a luxury enjoyed only by the ultra-wealthy in their sky-pods. It will be played entirely on VR headsets. Occasionally, back on earth, a survivor will kick the head of a fallen one out of nothing but sheer anguish1
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who cares I wont be around.5
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Teams in England will only play 30 league games a season as there wont be enough weeks due to the WC & Euros lasting 3 months due to every country qualifying.
Points will be awarded for clean sheets & deducted for scoring more than twice in a match. Extra points are awarded for a 0-0 draw. All to do with equality & not wanting to make your opponent suffer.
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VR will allow you to experience the game whilst siting at home with zero tangible difference from the experience.
The World club championship is now important.
I can't picture where the European competitions could be - there in such transition at the moment we cant even get a lock on where they are at the moment let alo
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...Will be played on the moon in zero gravity0
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Kelman still waiting for his first goal.
Charlton still haven't beaten Millwall.
Amorim still waiting for back to back wins.
That Man U fan still hasn't had a haircut and now lives in his own hair.
Arteta still hasn't won the league.
Champions league replaced by a global super league, with air travel advances meaning teams can travel across the world in just 2 hours.
Palace release "proof" that they were actually formed by Henry VIII after his wedding to Anne Boleyn.
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Hopefully the obsession with playing it out from the back at all costs will have disappeared completely. VAR replaced by a referee on the pitch making all the decisions. Tv gets one commentator per match and knows what and when to speak and when to leave the viewers in peace. And the footballers of world to finally recognise money should spent wisely and not just on Bentleys and sharp haircuts.3
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5 out of 6 not bad, the last one utterly ridiculous.usetobunkin said:1,Collapse of Euro Zone Super League
2,Formation World Super League Top Ten clubs playing Home/Away No relegation or promotion.
3, Smart GoalPost technologies and smart ball at grassroots levels.
4, World Cup every 2 years
5 Euros every 2 years
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Games will be a maximum of 60 minutes.
A number of lower league teams will have merged into franchises, with only 2 or 3 full time UK divisions.
Arteta will still be telling Arsenal fans to trust the process as they dream of collecting their first silverware under his tenure and enviously eye Spurs haul of trophies.1 -
We still won’t have beaten Millwall2
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Just reminded myself.
I'd be 86 in 2075 and if the grave hasnt already called my name, id probably either in a retirement home, living on the streets, living in a mansion or living in some crappy place in gravesend.
If this forum still exists in 50 years....I may sit there with my Samsung galaxy super 500X smart phone, open this discussion and say
"I told you so" when palace do in fact go into administration.0 -
People won’t actually play football. All games will be AI generated and you won’t be able to tell the difference from the real thing. The AI generated Charlton v Millwall match will still not result in a win for Charlton.0
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Stadiums will improve and become more and more expensive to attend.
Ground sharing will become normal in two club cities.
All games will be streamed on a PTV basis.
Many small town clubs will go to the wall or become farm clubs for teams in the two division 44 team Premier League.
Non-league (ie non-affiliated to EPL teams) local football will thrive however as the only affordable way to watch live football.
Football tactics will rotate from possession to long ball to all out defence to flying wing play as rules are changed to keep TV audiences happy.
The Middle East football bubble will burst.
The museum will be the only club presence at the Valley as the Addicks move to their new stadium built about the Thames Barrier that they share with West Ham.
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I do wonder whether heading the ball might get banned at some point in the future, unless they find a way of reducing the dangers of this and if it did happen, what the implications might be. Would it be normal to have a more skillful five foot nine centre back, when being six foot three is not such of an advantage other than being physically stronger. Same with playing big lump centre-forwards.
When I coached junior football a few years ago, the FA banned headers up until fourteen years old, I think, not sure if that has changed / increased,
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I recently heard a piece on the radio about the expansion of Anfield and how the club have declined to issue season tickets for those new seats.
The bitter truth is Liverpool can earn far more from casual supporters and tourists than they can from a young scouse family and business evidently comes before tradition and loyalty. There are already complaints that the atmosphere is suffering due to the new corporate areas.Since the expansion work first started eight years ago, match-going Liverpool fans have complained about how the atmosphere inside the stadium has dwindled. Adding more corporate areas is said to have made Anfield more sanitised, which is detrimental to what made the ground famous in the first place.
The latest expansion to the Anfield Road Stand has only made these complaints louder, with some fans claiming that fans in the newly expanded area aren't interested in helping to generate the famous Anfield atmosphere.
I think football is in danger of losing its heart and soul - at least for successful clubs. Maybe in 2075 we'll just take in an occasional game, watching the action amongst a myriad of screens whilst commenting on the Lobster salad.
Is that what you want for Charlton? I mean, come on lets get Nathan out before he gets us promoted!0 -
If I get to 100 (I'm 6 months away from my 50th!), I'm fairly sure Spurs won't have won the PL in that time.0
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If I had to pick just one wish then it would be a World Cup win for England. It still feels like the ultimate 'bucket list' moment that many of us need to experience.0
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That ship sailed a long time agoRaith_C_Chattonell said:I recently heard a piece on the radio about the expansion of Anfield and how the club have declined to issue season tickets for those new seats.
The bitter truth is Liverpool can earn far more from casual supporters and tourists than they can from a young scouse family and business evidently comes before tradition and loyalty. There are already complaints that the atmosphere is suffering due to the new corporate areas.Since the expansion work first started eight years ago, match-going Liverpool fans have complained about how the atmosphere inside the stadium has dwindled. Adding more corporate areas is said to have made Anfield more sanitised, which is detrimental to what made the ground famous in the first place.
The latest expansion to the Anfield Road Stand has only made these complaints louder, with some fans claiming that fans in the newly expanded area aren't interested in helping to generate the famous Anfield atmosphere.
I think football is in danger of losing its heart and soul - at least for successful clubs. Maybe in 2075 we'll just take in an occasional game, watching the action amongst a myriad of screens whilst commenting on the Lobster salad.
Is that what you want for Charlton? I mean, come on lets get Nathan out before he gets us promoted!2 -
UK population in 2075 is predicted to be levelling off at around 76 million.
On that basis, transport will have become more difficult, and we will have adapted fully to the 'less active' lifestyle.
I predict that physical attendance at matches will become a thing of the past ... games will be streamed directly to us via Cloud/human brain implants. In fact these will allow us to position ourselves 'virtually' on the pitch (although without influence on the game, of course) as we tuck into our fast food delivery. Appropriate levels of euphoria and despair will be available on demand.
A further step is to do away with the physical game altogether. The grandson of AI will allow full and accurate simulation once Nathan Jones (for he will still be in charge thanks to the Pfizer immortality pill) and the opposition counterpart have announced their respective line-ups.
Injuries, parking problems and queues at each of the fifteen Thames Crossings will be no more.
Take that, Duchatelet. We're in it for the long haul.
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If Duchatelet is somehow still alive, still owns the Valley in 2075 and after rejecting the 900th offer, he then rejects a billion pound offer from Chinese investors....I think it would be fair to say Roland Mr Dead still has it in for Charlton a bit.0
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That was all sounding very sensible until point 6!usetobunkin said:1,Collapse of Euro Zone Super League
2,Formation World Super League Top Ten clubs playing Home/Away No relegation or promotion.
3, Smart GoalPost technologies and smart ball at grassroots levels.
4, World Cup every 2 years
5 Euros every 2 years
6, Charlton beats the Spanner Home and Away0 -
Dave Rudd said:UK population in 2075 is predicted to be levelling off at around 76 million.
On that basis, transport will have become more difficult, and we will have adapted fully to the 'less active' lifestyle.
I predict that physical attendance at matches will become a thing of the past ... games will be streamed directly to us via Cloud/human brain implants. In fact these will allow us to position ourselves 'virtually' on the pitch (although without influence on the game, of course) as we tuck into our fast food delivery. Appropriate levels of euphoria and despair will be available on demand.
A further step is to do away with the physical game altogether. The grandson of AI will allow full and accurate simulation once Nathan Jones (for he will still be in charge thanks to the Pfizer immortality pill) and the opposition counterpart have announced their respective line-ups.
Injuries, parking problems and queues at each of the fifteen Thames Crossings will be no more.
Take that, Duchatelet. We're in it for the long haul.
Wouldn't be overly surprised if by that time, a strict law comes in to make sure every parent is only allowed a maximum of 1 child
As sad as that may sound ....realistically speaking, it's the only long term solution1 -
I'd like to think we will finally get the Andy Delort signing over the line.0
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The robots will have taken over by then.0
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I think it will be the opposite. Big payments for parents to have children. There is already a shortage of children with primary schools closing at a rapid rate. The increase in population is due to immigration and rising life expectancy not birth rate. Immigration will be reduced significantly in the coming years, whoever is in power.Dave2l said:Dave Rudd said:UK population in 2075 is predicted to be levelling off at around 76 million.
On that basis, transport will have become more difficult, and we will have adapted fully to the 'less active' lifestyle.
I predict that physical attendance at matches will become a thing of the past ... games will be streamed directly to us via Cloud/human brain implants. In fact these will allow us to position ourselves 'virtually' on the pitch (although without influence on the game, of course) as we tuck into our fast food delivery. Appropriate levels of euphoria and despair will be available on demand.
A further step is to do away with the physical game altogether. The grandson of AI will allow full and accurate simulation once Nathan Jones (for he will still be in charge thanks to the Pfizer immortality pill) and the opposition counterpart have announced their respective line-ups.
Injuries, parking problems and queues at each of the fifteen Thames Crossings will be no more.
Take that, Duchatelet. We're in it for the long haul.
Wouldn't be overly surprised if by that time, a strict law comes in to make sure every parent is only allowed a maximum of 1 child
As sad as that may sound ....realistically speaking, it's the only long term solution1 -
Not as good as it used to be.0
