I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

