Well I fancied him.Originally Posted by Mac76
and of course everyone in the good old days had really manly haircuts, right?
Well I fancied him.and of course everyone in the good old days had really manly haircuts, right?
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Sexy bastard.and of course everyone in the good old days had really manly haircuts, right?
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He’s no Charlie George
Can't beat Frank Worthington.
Plus, that goal for Bolton is.. wow.
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Last edited by Shaqiri Is Boss; 29-01-2025 at 07:28 PM.
Saw that guy play. What a player. I think he was 60 at the time and may well have been drinking a whisky and puffing a fag on the pitch (not an actual fag, a cigarette). His passing. LOL. Got the ball, didn't move an inch, then swung his leg and it was right on the boot of whoever he wanted it to be. What a legend. One of the bet players I ever saw live.
Also saw Tony Currie live. Similar. If they did passing stats back then they would have had to create a new measure called a Currie.
They literally didn't move, which puts paid to all the BS about athletic ability, they just got the ball and in a split second put it directly in the danger zone and on a plate.
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Nah.
What was actually better was...you. You were young and healthy (probably) and optimistic (possibly).
Now you're old and ill (probably) and deeply cynical about everything (definitely). So you look back on what you see as happier times and declare everything better. I see this all the time on FB. Old people going on and on about how everything used to be so much better. It wasn't.
It wasn't worse either of course, the truth is some things were better, some were worse.
With regards to football. That generation of players wouldn't cut it in the modern game. They might have been "real men" but they were slow and fat and unfit and wouldn't get near enough to the modern players to hack them down. Some of them would make it of course, they'd be brought up in the modern regime. But a lot would be off down the pub and would never get near the top level. And you are cherry picking the best players from yesteryear, ignoring how many utter cloggers there were.
Overall I think football has got worse but not because of the quality of player. The main issues are the money, the blanket coverage, the disconnect between fans and club - the relationship now being very much business and customer. As HCZ highlights, money has always been a thing but Sky and the expansion of the CL have turned it up to 11.
As for society in general. The 80s were a deeply sexist, racist, homophobic time. It might have been great if you were white, male and straight. Less great for black people or the gays. A lot of that is much better now. Other things have got worse - immigration has enriched us in some ways but the level of it is too high and that causes issues. House prices are inaccessible for most people. The internet has brought a lot of benefits and convenience but obviously there are big issues there with kids having access to stuff they shouldn't and cyber bullying. Ironically the multitude ways we have of instantly connecting with people has made people lonelier.
Overall - some things better, some things worse. Hard to quantify it into a definitive about things being better or worse these days.
some things are better - the smoking ban feels like one of the least heralded but most important steps forward, not least for the NHS but also (and I speak as an ex-smoker) just improving our social experiences by not treading on a carpet of fag butts, or being suffocated in small venues or ofc passively developing cancer
general air quality is better to thanks to (ahem) 'cleaner' fuel but ofc the elephant in the room is climate change which, as you at least are aware, is now getting the point where it's irreversible and makes me particularly glad I'm not any younger than I am, though even in my late 50s I'm far from convinced I'll miss witnessing some of the really bad effects of it
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