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I know this may sound like the beginning of a Monty Python sketch, but kids with a love of sport these days have it made!
In my day, football boots extended half-way up your shins. They each weighed as much as a large bag of coal. The leather footballs we played with were even heavier, especially in the rain, and if you were brave enough to threaten the goal with a thumping header, the chances were that you would bear on your forehead the impression of the football's lace (yes, footballs had their own laces) for the best part of a week. Sport wasn't for sissies those days.
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