The YouTube generation...

The innovation of the internet has changed how we view the world of football, there are thousands upon thousands of websites dedicated to the beautiful game dealing with everything from tactics, to comment, highlights to just for fun but what we need to appreciate and the future generations should appreciate is how much this opens up the great players from this era to the future generations and players from all corners of the globe to us.

The "greatest player of all time" argument is a favourite, who was better Pele or Maradona, is Messi better than Pele...but the fact of the matter is unless you have seen all of the greats play live you probably aren't in a position to comment.  We are lucky that we can watch Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robin van Persie etc etc perform week in week out on the telly and then fire up the internet and find clips and highlights from Brazil, Malaysia, UAE...pretty much anywhere.

The other beauty is the sheer volume of homages to the greats from the 90's onwards, so I thought it may be a good time to introduce a few of my favourite montages to the public domain...and if the Rocky series and the A-Team have taught me nothing else, its that we all love a montage.

Magnificent Montage Numer 1 is dedicated to the Maradona of the Carpathians...the majestic and magic Gheorghe Hagi...left foot like a traction engine, 5"8' tall with size 5 feet and one of the select few who have played for both Real Madrid and Barcelona.