Football’s converging moral panics hold up a mirror to our fractured world | Jonathan Liew
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<p>From grappling at corners to VAR, the endless list of complaints reflects a wider sense of dislocation from ‘the product’</p><p>A terrible boredom stalks the land. Across the nation’s television studios and podcast armchairs, wearied men grizzle accursedly with forked tongues into branded microphones: entombed by a game they despise and yet are paid so generously to discuss. Out there in the wild digital beyond, the sickness festers still deeper. <em>The game has gone&
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Football’s converging moral panics hold up a mirror to our fractured world Jonathan Liew From grappling at corners to VAR, the endless list of complaints reflects a wider sense of dislocation from ‘the product’ A terrible boredom stalks the land. Across the nation’s television studios and podcast armchairs, wearied men grizzle accursedly with forked tongues into branded microphones: entombed by a game they despise and yet are paid so generously to discuss. Out there in the wild digital beyond, the sickness festers still deeper. The game has gone , they type into a little white box. This is not the football I once loved , click send. The beautiful game is broken , pleads the Telegraph. They think it’s all over, and perhaps it always was. Arne Slot is no longer enjoying himself , and presumably a good proportion of the Liverpool fans at Molineux on Tuesday night know exactly how he feels. John Terry is no longer enjoying himself. Yaya Touré is “disappointed”. Ruud Gullit is so disgusted he has decided to stop watching. Chris Sutton thinks Arsenal will be the ugliest winners in Premier League history. Mark Goldbridge is bored out of his mind, albeit nowhere near as bored as you would presumably need to be to watch a Mark Goldbridge livestream. Deep down we know what they mean, or at least we think we do. It’s full-blown grappling at corners. It’s the little towels they leave by the touchline for long throws. Ninety seconds to take a set piece. Everton hoisting the ball skywards, rugby-style, straight from kick-off. It’s Arsenal scoring against Chelsea from a corner, then conceding from a corner, then scoring from a corner . It’s the erection you can no longer get without pharmaceutical assistance. No, hang on. Sorry, that was meant for a different thread. I’ll delete that. The first thing to say is that this is not a debate that can ever really be settled, or proven or disproven with stats, because ultimately it is based on a feeling. It makes no odds to point out that...
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