It was a ridiculous rule that has no relevance in modern day football. Always hated itOriginally Posted by redgunamo
It was a ridiculous rule that has no relevance in modern day football. Always hated it
True. But it was rather like the lira, the peseta or the mark or the frank; pointless and ridiculous, of course, often infuriating too, but an essential and mildly amusing part of the whole foreign experience. Losing on away goals was always synonymous with Cheating Foreigners Cheating and therefore reassuring.
Things are somehow not the same without it.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
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