Remember when pre-seasons mattered?
Recollections of the 1999 Ansett Cup Grand Final - there was something Fishy about that night 🎣
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A lot has changed in football over the decades.
And it’s usually a sign you’re getting old, getting on in life, when you constantly use phrases such as:
“I remember when…”
“It was so much better when…”
“Back in my day…”
So with that in mind I remember when pre-season football mattered. It was so much better when clubs played for and cared about, what the pre-season cup competition represented. Back in my day, there was only a couple of months of ‘off-season’, because February and March meant plenty.