> it's also fair to differentiate between eras in which the game was fundamentally different.
Nah, it's just a lazy justification for breathless pundits and journalists to hail "the best ever" this or that, dropping 20th-century football history into a memory hole. The likes of Chelsea or Manchester City can "break records" every other year, generating easy work for the commentariat classes, and reminding little people that the only thing that matters is money. "Oh, your club was a league founder? But you're in the bananarama league now, sucks to be you."
Nah, it's just a lazy justification for breathless pundits and journalists to hail "the best ever" this or that, dropping 20th-century football history into a memory hole. The likes of Chelsea or Manchester City can "break records" every other year, generating easy work for the commentariat classes, and reminding little people that the only thing that matters is money. "Oh, your club was a league founder? But you're in the bananarama league now, sucks to be you."