What if Football Stopped for a Year?

What if football stopped for a year?

Following football is essentially a full-time job now. The endless blur of Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday-Wednesday thrums through the calendar like a bassline and – with press conferences, transfer news, twitter, and fantasy football, it’s easy to become overwhelmed.

Is this what fans want? Not really, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Profit is king and at its worst, football looks a lot like capitalism: mechanised, distasteful, unavoidable.

But what if it wasn’t? What if we could press the pause button on football? What if, against all odds, everyone involved in the game agreed to stop, just for a year? Not the whole industry, but the matches.

What would happen? And might the sport be better for it?

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[calvincarleski]

Based on current events, it’s not as extreme, but this still sort of aged well

[ChasingLions_]

Tifo answering the questions I’ve never asked but am glad he did.

[iancypes]

Well now that Coronavirus is spreading....

[AJL]

I'd happily ditch the 'carabao' cup and reduce international friendlies.

[edmundbloxam]

I certainly think they need to play fewer games and have longer off-seasons. Attendances at Brazilian league matches, yes, BRAZIL, is really low. This is because they play 12 months of the year (with pointless State Championships in between league seasons). So, no one cares. This is where European and particularly English football is heading.

The off-season for American Football is six months. It means I get excited about it.

[utkarshtyagi]

Players like Eden Hazard coming to the training ground weighing around 120 kgs 😂😂

[asifshahriar]

Who else is watching in March 2020, when football is REALLY in danger of being stopped for like 3 to 4 months?

[kingaufswag]

Who else came across this video in their suggestions while coronavirus has suspended all the leagues?😂

[ngopz]

World will be in a depression for the whole year!!

[filipbardsley]

3:30 How many new set-piece routines could Tony Pulis imagine and execute😁😁😁

[saifabbas]

Abnormal improvement in my academic performance 😅

[leokuf]

All football fans: "I hope this will never happen!"
Corona: "Hold my Toiletpaper"

[NostalgiNorden]

If Football stopped for a year our almighty lord and savior Marcelo Bielsa would conquer the world!

[TheLeewi]

Could you make a video on world cup 2022 and how the leagues will play out since the world cup is in the middle of the season?

[judahadisurya]

It happened in Indonesian football few years ago when FIFA banned PSSI

[chikish]

We as fans need to stop tuning into and buying tickets for all those pointless off-season friendly tournaments and matches on Fridays and Mondays. If they don't profit from it, they will dial it back down and the quality of the football we get will be better.

[Beki]

Everything that happened last few days, remembered me of this video

[Burjennio]

Two full domestic cup competitions in England is overkill. Re-brand the League Cup to an Under-23s, or scrap it altogether. The only interest ever shown in it is if your team makes the final - even the two legged semi is seen as a hindrance, coming straight after the busy Christmas period. That may actually reignite some interest in the FA Cup, which is pale shadow of its former glories. Remove replays from the competition, and go straight to extra time and penalties, if original tie ends in a stalemate. Alternatively, use the Copa America formula from Brazil this past summer, and go straights to penalties after 90mins.


Work collectively with UEFA to establish a collective calendar for all leagues under its umbrella, and request FIFA to reduce the number of international friendly breaks, that are nothing more than cash grabs by the glamour nations, and do nothing towards establishing cohesion within a team (some chance of that last one happening....$$$)

[oslonorway]

_Sensible Questions number 2._
Number 1 was about making smaller goalposts.

... I'm telling you, it's an official series now.

[appiahallan]

No one ☝🏽:
Not a single soul :
Corona : Challenge accepted