04-11-2014, 17:27
Obviously changes with the ball play a part in "average" players being able to do wonderstrikes nowadays, but generally, most things that were revolutionary in football yesterday naturally become commonplace by tomorrow. Look at the Cruyff turn: these days it gets taught to seven-year-olds alongside passing with your instep and shooting with your laces; it's one of the most basic skills in football to a modern kid. Conversely, if you invented time travel and took Jerome Thomas back to the Seventies or Eighties, he'd be a world star with all of his step-overs.
It does hammer home how timelessly great Bomber was in the first video when they reveal his goal ratio was greater than Lampard's or Gerrard's though.
It does hammer home how timelessly great Bomber was in the first video when they reveal his goal ratio was greater than Lampard's or Gerrard's though.
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