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does england football need a bazball reset? i've just started reading about the bazball revolution in test cricket and it's such a fascinating thing in the simplicity of it, to summarise, mccullum and stokes wanted england cricket players to reconnect with why they started playing the game in the first place, that joy and love of the sport and the freedom of it is at it's core, often watching top level football these days is like watching paint dry, so coached are the players that the instincts have all but dried up in many cases, how many times do we see wingers collect the ball in an advanced area, stop and play a 10 yard pass back, then back it goes back again and again. RECYCLING the ball they often call it.
i'm not saying the bazball thing is that simple, i'm sure there are technicalities and tactics discussed but i do feel we have reached a point in "elite sport" where over coaching is guilty of driving out the purity of play (which is what sport starts out as being).

or coupled with this is the result the only thing that counts to the majority, so much so that opposition teams are prepared to spend 90 plus minutes entering the field simply to stop the other team from winning as opposed to trying to do anything themselves of any positive value? which in turn of course affects the team trying to acheive the objective we all started out with... to score goals and win games.

i wonder if this was in the thinking of footballing minds when 3 points for a win was introduced, to devalue the DRAW result, maybe it is time to go further and push it to 4 points for a win or 0 points for a draw (but then you'd have to go -1 for a loss)...

just thinking out loud on an evening where i was truly bored watching a game of football played by people who earn more in a week than many of us could dream of earning in several years.