Football is meant to be fun. Let's go back to that.
Football has always been an escape for me. Memories of Saturday afternoons and midweek evenings spent in the stands or watching Tottenham Hotspur play on TV punctuate all recesses of my mind. It was always a great experience and often the match become was the least important part. As I’ve got older, that seemed to change. Yes, there was a sense of excitement about the game, especially on derby day, but the focus tended to be more on stats rather than the games itself. Showing off to your friends as you can name the highest scorer in some obscure league or being able to pull random records out of nowhere. Statistics are important, especially when trying establish which player is better and generating excitement about a team. However, what tends to get lost along the way is the reason we watch football in the first place. My son is five years old and doesn’t really care for league tables or who the top scorer is each season. He doesn’t retain the names of hundreds of players. I...