It's that preening ponce Ronaldo who started the fashion for the toe-punt. The problem is that with this shítty ball, it works.
You may mock my age when I yearn for a heavy leather lump with a bladder laced into it, but when you struck such a ball you knew it would go where you aimed it. The skill was in aiming it properly, not punting it into unpredictability and hoping for the best.
I mean - just look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u--2vzQP6KQ
He really could peel an orange with his left foot. Dear old Chippy.
The night he limped off injured during his final season when we knew he was going to leave and the (17,000) North Bank sang, 'Don't go Brady Don't go Brady Don't go Brady Don't g!' so plaintively that grown men wept and he waved at us as if to say, 'Sorry boys, I don't have a choice.'