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When did Football peak?

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Good Teeth Keith

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Really difficult one as I think many of us will have a bias for the era we were around 8-14 or around then as that’s the age you tend to view players as “icons”. Maybe even from younger. So naturally, Football seems more magical.

I personally think late 90’s early 2000’s before diving and play acting in general became so common but the standard of pitches, stadiums and the football had improved to a point where it was more enjoyable
 

Mackemansj1 said:
It’s will depend on your age. Late 90s early 00 for me. Just leaving school, just starting to go to away games. Teams were still largely British based, footballers while paid very well weren’t in £350k a week. Was a mixture of the old school tough football mixed in with skill and power.
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Exactly how I feel.

Was still exciting when you signed a foreign player, especially an international.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
It’s will depend on your age. Late 90s early 00 for me. Just leaving school, just starting to go to away games. Teams were still largely British based, footballers while paid very well weren’t in £350k a week. Was a mixture of the old school tough football mixed in with skill and power.
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The glory days of good old 442, with big man/little man up top, two tricky wingers, an artist and a mentalist paired in the middle of the park, and some no nonsense launch it defenders. The option of a maverick in the Di Canio/Le Tiss mould. Happy days.
 
SR7 said:
Late nineties and early noughties.
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This! Footy changed quite a bit in the 90s with the Sky TV money and allowed teams to spend on players like crazy. Back then many teams got a taste of it and it's why Boro where able to throw £42,000 a week at Ravanelli in the 90s as the revenue went up faster than the players fees and wages were rising and the influx of International players following the money.

Then in 2003 Abramovic came into Chelsea as the dawn of the mega rich owners just throwing money into it came about. Then Man City did the same in 2008 and then teams also went down the route of milking fans to the extreme in the 2010s and the huge financial gulf just got bigger.
 
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2026/27. England as WC winners then SAFC doing the domestic travel won’t be bettered in most of our lifetimes.
 
Enjoy threads like this, because I find it interesting to see where the interest that most people on this board have in football peaked rather than the actual game itself.

Early 2000s for me.
 
EverBlue86 said:
80's was a great time (bias of course).

I really enjoyed around 2005-2014. Its picked up a little this season (europe and relegation races) but post 2020/covid season I think its been dour.
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For you the mid 80s must have been great watching the the team of Reid, Bracewell etc, but crowds in that era were terrible, my mate who is a season ticket holder insists you could pay on the gate on the day Everton won the league at Goodison in 85. I went a few times early 80s as a kid watching Sunderland in that awful away end and the view from them terraces was crap. We were not in the 1st division when you came really good so I never went their, during that period.
 
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