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Article: Throwback weekend reflects badly on modern day practices
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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At the risk of coming on like one of those baby-boomers who
insist everything was better in the 1960s (which, of course, it
was), it must be said that all the either/ors of last night's draw
for the fifth round of the FA Cup were clarity itself compared with
its equivalent of 33 years ago.
Ah, 1963. Now that was a winter, when snow cleared to the side
of the road at the turn of the year was still there in blackening
piles in mid- March. To some it evokes memories of four lovable
moptops banishing the Brylcreem Boys, or images of an American
president who would not see another January. For football fans, it
was it was a time to go into hibernation.
Snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures made it ...