It's a shame that individuals can cause so much chaos to something that people enjoy.
It's happened for years though with multis and concentrated efforts to sow discord.

It's still the cyber place that I gravitate to the most but if I didn't have around 24 years vested interest in this site I'm not sure I'd bother with it.

I think a football only forum and then an everything else forum might work.

My preference would be to have a way of verifying your identity and doing away with multis and anonymity.

I think a few A-Political moderators would help.
I've no issue with Matt, but it's clear that plenty do due to inactivity and maybe his political views.
Some fresh moderation with a clean slate may help.