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IT’S NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS…

Self-confessed ‘Grumpy Old Fan’ ROB BRADLEY says football just isn’t what it used to be

A PART from the obvious impact of completing the Leicester City miracle, the recent Chelsea v Spurs encounter produced another sort of by-product.
The pace of the football, the aggressive challenges and the overall thrust of the game was like something from a bygone age. A football age that some of us really miss.
In these days of pristine pitches and tentative tackling, how wonderful the old days when we were kids seem now. The days when Peter Storey’s motto was ‘if yo...

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