Why can't they leave the game alone?

From Todd Boehly to Gerard Piqué, people who should know better keep suggesting daft changes that mess with football's simplicity and ignore the fundamental issues

Football is not only the most popular sport in the world, not only the most popular sport there has ever been, it’s the most popular cultural mode there has ever been, something made abundantly clear by David Goldblatt’s excellent book The Age of Football. And yet it seems that barely a week goes by without somebody who has bought their way into a posit…