There’s an episode of the TV present I’m Alan Partridge, the place the titular hero is making an attempt to pitch a mission to a commissioning editor. He lists numerous detective dramas to which the commissioner, Tony Hayers, reacts by saying the size of that listing means there are too lots of them.
“That’s one way of looking at it,” says Partridge, undeterred. “Another way of looking at it is: people like them, let’s make some more of them.”
It’s in that spirit that we current to you a sequel to an article we revealed in November, which individuals appeared to get pleasure from, concerning the issues which have disappeared from fashionable soccer. It’s an illustration of how a lot the sport is altering that we’ve got been capable of give you one other set of those.
In many respects, it’s a very totally different sport to the one many people grew up watching, and extremely totally different even to the one which existed initially of the Premier League, some 32 years in the past. So right here is one other set of issues that footballers merely don’t do — or at the very least do an terrible lot much less — in 2024…
