Football Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

Maradona Argentina vs Belgium 1986

We're all used to hearing how football was better back in the old days.

Standing on the terraces. No prawn sandwich brigade.

Jumpers for goalposts, and kicking a rolled up pair of socks against a wall for two hours to improve your cultured left foot.

But what if it's all true, what if the best days really are behind us?

The players we only seen once every four years at the World Cup. The mystery of foreign clubs. Your Dynamo Kievs, your Estudiantes.

The romance, the legends, the myths, the history. The reasons we all became football fans in the first place.

Every once in a while I'll be exploring a topic from football's yesteryear, and trying to remind us what got us hooked in the first place.

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