20: Declan Rice, England, M&S Eat Well Play Well, Official England Sticker Collection
In this post Mat Jolin-Beech takes a brave step for any nostalgia based football blogger and points out that modern football is rubbish compared to the good old days. Similar arguments abounded when we were growing up and older generations were upset by players having snazzy hair or colourful boots. No doubt there were some in the 1890s complaining about footballers not having moustaches or having attended a suitably respectable public school. Time for an old man to yell at a cloud. Over to Mat. There was a post the other week on Twitter-was-X that was probably just pure click-and-rage bait : “The level of the Premier League is the best in history. Haaland is better than Henry Isak is better than Rooney Van Dijk is better than Vidic Alisson is better than Cech Salah is better than Giggs Rice is better than Gerrard ” WELL. Just no on so many levels. The only one of those I’d even entertain being true is Declan Rice, the sticker for this post, being better than Steven “don’t let it slip...