The Generations Game They Are the Icons Who Lit Up the Beautiful Game with Their Unique Genius. We Asked Times Sportswriters of, Ahem, Varying Ages to Look Back On Five Decades of Football Heroes They Are the Icons Who Lit Up the Beautiful Game with Their Unique Genius. We Asked Times Sportswriters of, Ahem, Varying Ages to Look Back On Five Decades of Football Heroes the Seventies

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TOTAL football. Two words that capture the essence of the Seventies, a decade which belonged to the icons such as Johan Cruyff (below) , Franz Beckenbauer and the age-defying Pele (above ). Football developed more rapidly during these exciting years than at any time in its history.

Money had yet to truly taint the beautiful game, and men such as Ajax's Dutch master Cruyff led the way in displaying a level of technical ability which projected football on to another plane.

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The Generations Game They Are the Icons Who Lit Up the Beautiful Game with Their Unique Genius. We Asked Times Sportswriters of, Ahem, Varying Ages to Look Back On Five Decades of Football Heroes They Are the Icons Who Lit Up the Beautiful Game with Their Unique Genius. We Asked Times Sportswriters of, Ahem, Varying Ages to Look Back On Five Decades of Football Heroes the Seventies

The shackles of rigid positions had already been thrown off by the likes of Bayern Munich ski...

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