'Premflix' and tourist fans - future of football predictions
•'Premflix' and tourist fans - future of football predictionsByCiaran VarleyBBC Sport JournalistPublished1 minute agoComments"If this is the future of football, you can stuff it."A...
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'Premflix' and tourist fans - future of football predictionsByCiaran VarleyBBC Sport JournalistPublished1 minute agoComments"If this is the future of football, you can stuff it."A clip from 1994 showing experts making predictions for where football would be in 10 years recently resurfaced on social media, and fans online cannot believe how prescient some of their forecasts proved to be.Arsenal fanzine editor Mike Collins was part of the trio on the viral clip and - along with the disappearance of fanzines - he predicted credit card entry to stadiums, a decline in "hardcore support" and a rise in "glory hunters"."I and all other old-style fans want no part of it at all," he said.While not all predictions have come to fruition, some were on the money.Neil Duncanson, a former broadcast executive, predicted that, "television will run football completely in the next century".Meanwhile, Alex Fynn, an author and football consultant, divined that match-going fans would be seen by clubs as "incidental"."If they are part of the equation, it will only be because television companies want them to provide the spectacular background, so that they can bring their pictures into millions of homes," he said.These excerpts are taken from Standing Room Only, a BBC football programme that ran between 1991 and 1994.BBC Sport caught up with Duncanson and Fynn to reflect on their Nostradamus moment - and get their take on where our national game will be 10 years from now.This X post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.View original content on XThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.Skip X post by BBC ArchiveAllow X content?This article contains content provided by X. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read X’s cookie policy, external and privacy polic...المصدر: BBC Sport Football | Source: BBC Sport Football
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