CONTRAST/COMPARATIVE PARAGRAPH

 Nowadays, people discuss whether actual football has evolved from old football. People might think that with all the advances in technology and marketing, might have improved it to a better place, but it hasn’t.

On one hand, old football used to be cheaper than actual football, and it’s true that before TV wasn’t able to retransmit matches, but at the present days because of marketing campaigns even to watch football through TV you have to pay, so now it’s not accessible anymore. To get to a stadium you had to pay very little or even don’t pay for it. In a normal match today, you have to pay normally more than 50 Euro, and not even for the best places. In some matches the resold tickets can reach even thousand Euros!

On the other hand, the spectacle the viewers are having is not the same anymore. Clubs pay millions for their players, they are now some kind of superstars which fans can’t even reach anymore. Players are not close to people, they are exclusive, and that is reflected on the pitch. Players dive pretending to get faulted while in old times players gave their best to keep on going no matter the obstacles. And if they got kicked, instead of making the scene against the rival, they shook each other’s hands and played on.

So after making it an exclusive and expensive sport to watch, not for everyone, and make the quality of the spectacle decrease, definitely old football is better than the actual one.