This is a series on the history of English Football’s Anxieties. This is part 5.
Here’s part 1 – Masturbation and muscular Christianity2, part 2 – It’s Bad Manners Being Clever!, part 3 – Magician, Stakhanovite, Stanley Matthews, part 4 – Vinnie Jones, the Portrait of an Antagonist.
Football’s Missing Link was the last common ancestor of yesterday’s dribblers and today’s. His dribbles were not merely dribbles – they were expeditions.