To sum it up, I'd say taking football seriously is very quickly getting old. More like a dinosaur-thing.
The experience of going to a full stadium and supporting a winning team is fun and still embraced by youth - but apart from that, it doesn't make much sense anymore in following it religiously from somewhere far away. From the occidental pov, it is.
It's definitely not that relevant anymore, either from an entertainment pov (takes too long, it's actually boring if it isn't in packed stadiums) or from an identity pov (money really, really took over the whole thing and players and agents are filthy rich, further dettaching them from us, average joes).
It's mainly an old habit that resists dying for us old heads. I'd say a forum like this has its days counted too.