Football used to be quite a simple game. Two teams, usually of 11 players, were kicking a ball to score a goal. The team who managed to score more goals wins.
Not anymore.
As with everything else, football has been hijacked and perverted.
The principle of polarity, one would say, “Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.”
And poles can be inverted.
Nowadays, the main goal of most teams is not to concede goals. Up to eight field players are often arranged in two defensive lines, protecting the square in front of their goalposts. The secondary purpose is not to allow the other team to play anything and expect mistakes or miracles to score a goal from counterstrikes.
Fortunately, most of the time, these tactics fail. Unfortunately, coaches persist in adopting these tactics, and the games become annoying.
Football aka soccer
