All too briefly, when Keegan made his entrance, it was a throwback to the days of dubbined boots, cigarette cards and laced leather footballs. |
Once you're turned out properly, with your webbing blancoed, your boots dubbined and your brass buckles gleaming, the natives will look at you quite differently. |
Football will never recapture the sepia-tinged, post-war innocence of cloth-capped crowds paying homage to Brylcreemed heroes in dubbined boots. |