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For me it was the mid 1980's to mid 1990"'s football was starting to be regularly televised and if you wanted to go to the games it was possible financially. The more physical asects of the game from the 1970,s when frankly it was a thugs game on occasion were going out of the game.

Post hillsborough the grounds started to improve and the surge of houlligsnsm was fading from the game.

Thereafter it's been on a downward spiral and the next ten years could see very serious financial problems and many more clubs being unable to support their cost base because of fans leaving the sport because its financially prohibitive and other reasons e.g a disconnect to the communities.

Oddly enough, for me football was at it's most interesting during a time when we were doing ok but not a shadow of our former selves (too much of a good thing maybe?).
Early premiership years under roy evans with fowler, collymore, macmanaman and the twilight years of the likes of rush and barnes. The game was benefitting from a reasonable quota of foreign players, tackling was still allowed and the game wasn't riddled with cheats, tatooed pansy boys moonlighting as models, and claims of 'racial abuse' every 5 minutes. Money wasn't as grotesquely high as it is now and the league was less of a 1 or 2 man race.

Those were the golden years of my support moreso than the european cups won by paisley and beintez. Right or wrong, I was far more entertained when Roy (Evans!) was in charge than anyone else.

Yes what a joke that is today. Real racisim yes not the posturing and point scoring of today.

late 70s early 80s for me stanley, muddy pitches, tackling and loads of characters also the drinking culture was still in force, miss the orange balls in the snow too and the baseball ground with not a blade of grass on even in the summer haha...

agree with the 70s and early 80s, we had proper footballs then (leather) and real men who played on a real pitch.
Tackling was allowed (within limits) and there were no theatrics by the pansy brigade. The manager's word was law and the team played with passion.

there were characters all around the managerial world too in those days too, Cloughie, Big Mal, John Bond, our vey own Jimmy Melia, David Pleat running across the old Maine Road pitch when Luton secured safety and Big Ron to name but a few...

Great post, I think football is light years ahead now, Pitches and the football played more exciting only one problem for me I gennerally hate footballers now and therefor watch less now than I ever did before.

Looking back the 80's I think I loved it back then the players were more like us and of coarse we ruled the world and Man Utd were average

I think football has lost its innocence and romance from the late 90s. its too much of a business and politics now. no show billionaire owners, terrible governance from fifa and the exposure of every footballer to the hungry press. hooliganism and racism has been eradicated mostly from the stands, but so has the atmosphere and buzz that was once assiotiated with a sell out terraced Saturday game. gone is the tackle and the backpass and in is the goal line technology.football is less edgy of your seat stuff these days. maybe its just nostalgia but I had a lot more love for footballers of yesteryear and watching classic games from the 90s u cud see the joy and passion compared to football today

Big fan of the eighties I was.

think a big difference is the fans have changed, they are alot more manufactured than what they were, sky sports fans I call them as they think football started in 1993...