There was a thing on tv showing the brilliance of the past, Owens goal, Gemmils, Paolo Rossi, Maradonna, Pele, countless others.

You will not see the like again. There are no players like that anymore. They exist, but cant get a game.

Free flowing football has gone for good. In the 80s the dutch labelled english football as industrial, repetitive, conformist, hopelessly predictable.

Its like that today. My theory as to why is that todays football is defence minded, its prime concern is to stay in shape. To stay in shape means you cannot do anything out of position or plan. Dont concede.

There are no marauding right backs, breaking up play to create space for others, no left backs either, or any other off the cuff play.

Today every game is the same, tippy tappy scuttling, pushing the other team back, till a little space becomes available. Then like five a side games, scuffing the ball in, not through skills from god, but by effort,

There is no Michael Owen.

There is no Peter Leggett. Old Cambridge fans will now him, a Cambridge George Best, at least as good, if not better.

No all the others, with god in there feet.

FOOTBALL IS DEAD.