Quote: "Yes, times have changed..Money for one thing..When Sir Tom Finny retired, he carried on his life with a plumbing business.
Now a player carrying on as Long as Sir Tom Finny, are able to retire to places permanently in the sun. But IMO football was better in the era you mention."
Quote: "Certainly more affordable Ernest ..... and players did not have to be 'rested' a few weeks into the season."
Quote: "I don't follow football avidly these days, the nature of the game has changed. and the prices are extortionate."
Quite right, agree with all of this!
Getting back to aviation, is Brentford FC, under the LHR flightpath, the only club with a pub on all 4 corners?
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 14th November 2012 at 17:05.