"Children of men" is one of the worst dystopias ever written, not due the state that the world finds itself in (as there are many worse in the aspect of living conditions and opression), but due the premise of mankind going sterile in 2009. Basically in 2027 they find a pregnant women and history goes on after it.
So, there are a bunch of commercials in the movie, and on in special got my attention. The football one:
0:55 of the video.
So, football is ongoing, something expected since the average age of acting players is 18-34, so in fact by 2027 the last young people of the last generation would be joining the football scene, something very sad but also interesting to think of.
Going on spoilers, it seems at the end that the woman who got pregnant have been saved and now mankind found a way to be fertile again, due the sound of children at the end of the movie. This brings the idea of how would football survive in this scenario. As such let me set a few things.
First, let's set that the end is that the cure is discovered, but it take times to spread it everywhere. Since the UK has one of the most functioning government left and the state is very totalitarian in nature, they successfully spread it in ten years, so birth rates return around in 2037, when the youngest football players will be 28. This mean it is going to take 18 more years for a new generation of players to be active again.
How would that play out? The 2009 generation will be 46 when the 2037 generation is able to play. How would the transition be like? Would the teams keep players active in their 40s? Would the British league stop the British football tournaments after most of the players are over 30 and use that generation to train the new ones?
So, there are a bunch of commercials in the movie, and on in special got my attention. The football one:
So, football is ongoing, something expected since the average age of acting players is 18-34, so in fact by 2027 the last young people of the last generation would be joining the football scene, something very sad but also interesting to think of.
Going on spoilers, it seems at the end that the woman who got pregnant have been saved and now mankind found a way to be fertile again, due the sound of children at the end of the movie. This brings the idea of how would football survive in this scenario. As such let me set a few things.
First, let's set that the end is that the cure is discovered, but it take times to spread it everywhere. Since the UK has one of the most functioning government left and the state is very totalitarian in nature, they successfully spread it in ten years, so birth rates return around in 2037, when the youngest football players will be 28. This mean it is going to take 18 more years for a new generation of players to be active again.
How would that play out? The 2009 generation will be 46 when the 2037 generation is able to play. How would the transition be like? Would the teams keep players active in their 40s? Would the British league stop the British football tournaments after most of the players are over 30 and use that generation to train the new ones?