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One of my most treasured possessions is his signed autobiography. Anyone watching him live or as in my case seeing him in Escape to Victory as young boy couldn't help be in awe of the man.

Given how ill he had been over a number of years this isn't a surprise but it is still going to be a shock to the system when he finally departs.
 

Hope he gets better but always find it mad how people can claim he is the greatest when they never actually watched him play apart from a few times every four years at a world cup, most of these people probably only watched highlights as well.

It's basically just repeating other people's opinions. Literally, no one here ever watched him play a club match because foreign football was not televised back then. Same goes for Maradona (albeit to a lesser extent) when you have people telling you of all the amazing things he did at Napoli.... lads you never watched him at Napoli, the games weren't televised, you're just repeating soundbites and pretending you witnessed it yourself (@davek :p)

At least with modern football you can now watch every game in every country if you chose to and build your own informed opinions rather than relying on history lessons to tell you why someone was the best ever.

im gonna take this post into proper controversial terrirtory now... buckle up

Its a bit like when we refer to ourselves as the school of science and the amazing football we played, then you go and watch the Bayern semi-final and the quality of football isnt actually that great and visually looks miles behind modern football :p

*ducks for cover*
 
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