Football and The Inexorable March of Time
This is something that I've been thinking about a lot lately. I used to be encyclopaedic in my football knowledge - probably between 1998-2012 being able to rhyme off when X happened, who did Y, who managed Z in 2001, etc. But recently I've realised that not only have I lost a lot of that knowledge, but I've also failed to gain anywhere near the same knowledge about the most recent decade of football (say 2012 - 2022). My feeling is that there is simply too much football too often to keep track of, even though I watch far more football now than I did when I was younger. I also wonder is it because I am now the age where I've seen players make their debut and then retire in my football-watching lifetime. I know I'm probably one of the younger members on here, so you've likely all experienced this already. So how have you coped with football in perpetuity? Or is it all simply down to me not playing Football Manager for 8 or 9 years?
And for fun post some stats that have made you feel old.
