DECADES AND DECADES
Ten years is a long time in football. At Southampton in 2014, Rickie Lambert, Jay Rodriguez, Gastón Ramírez and Adam Lallana formed possibly the most Streets Won’t Forget forward line since Sam Allardyce’s Bolton side. Victor Anichebe’s infamous “can you tweet something like” tweet didn’t even exist yet. Steven Gerrard had just slipped. Heady days.
If your interests extend beyond Social Media Disgrace retro b@nter accounts – and Football Daily refuses to confirm or deny if this is the case – then there was also some football going on. Real Madrid, the so-called Kings of Europe, hadn’t reached a Big Cup final since 2002, and 10 years ago this week, fac…