I guess my thought is; What will be the long term affect of young people not being able to watch any live football for free?
Will fewer people play organised football?
Will peoples’ behaviour be even shitter when they do go to live events?
Will we lose a communal aspect of getting together to watch football in peoples’ houses?
Just thoughts, I’m not particularly upset by this or anything. My days of watching football as a neutral are behind me now. When I was growing up in the early 00’s I could watch CL, UEFA Cup, domestic cups, Serie A, Football League and International football on free to air, not to mention the stuff included on NTL or whatever we had at the time on Eurosport, ITV 4 etc.
I loved it, made me appreciate lots of different styles and it made me want to go to games and play football when there was none to watch.
People complain about people being disengaged from the live experience of being at a game as it is, I personally don’t think it will helped if you’ve got absolutely no appreciation for what a game of football actually looks like outside of an iPhone screen and edited down to the mad skillz by the most famous players.