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With teams now able to substitute half their team, the days of a team becoming ‘tired’ with only ten players is over. Add in the increased amount of tactical fouls (see Sam Field) now being made, in part, due to more flexibility in making these additional subs it’s yet another example of the game as a spectacle gone backwards.