Quote Originally Posted by PricopGeorgeCătălin View Post
Not always, they had great pitches too, their boots was normal and at the start Messi and Ronaldo had same...
Sorry. I have to disagree. The old style boots were over twice as heavy as they are now, Also, watch some videos of matches pre 1980's, the pitches were more like fields than the state of the art things they are now. And those footballs were extremely heavy once they got wet and covered in mud. All these things had gone from the game, long before Ronaldo and Messi were even born.

I have been watching football for almost 50 years.