BBC are rerunning the 1966 final if anyone is interested. Weblink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/26684674
First half over, exciting end to end, but awful skill level. Constant miss passes, loses of possession and hoofball. Can't believe how many of these are voted into the best of all time lists
Big Ron Yeats or any other Liverpool defender from 66 were better than the late Bobby Moore and Hurst wasn't the best attacker/forward in England at the time, there was Nobby from Utd who was a clogger...and the list goes on, but they won the thing and deserve credit but not the selective knighthood given to only one player, if one was knighted they all should have been. So much hype and exaggeration after all these years.
Agree. Football has improved immensely since then (and that is not an inevitability). I watch old videos sometimes and like you - I'm not too impressed by neither technique, tactics nor athleticism. Maradona was the usher to the modern game, and came 10 years earlier than the rest. From the 90s onwards, perhaps in part due to the Bosman ruling, I see similar, if not better, competition and quality to today's football. Some nostalgics will make excuses for their Peles, Bests and Charltons - but I'm not impressed. In any sport, as in any field, there are geniuses that transcend time and have a unfadeable golden gloss, like Maradona, R9naldo, Rod Laver, Michael Jordan, etc. They impress in all dimensions and from any viewing angle and don't need excuses made for them.
