You cannot rate a modern player at a Cup unless you watch Maradona's goal for the 7,456th time (please don't ask which goal), confirm why your dad made such a fuss about that Cruyff guy, figure out the Divine Ponytail isn't a Buddhist hair saloon and pick up your jaw after watching Pele dummy the Uruguay goalkeeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.
When Bobby Charlton saw it, he thought: "You bugger, how do you think about coming up with a dummy like that?"
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