The Best of Bygone Football - And the winner is...

...Multiple Replays After Drawn Cup Ties!

Yes, you, the football nostalgia-lovers of this great world of ours have voted and made your voices heard. In your opinion, the best thing about bygone football is the potentially never-ending run of matches that decided the winner of Cup matches many years ago.

The result may be a surprise to some, but clearly we underestimated the strength of feeling by those of you that think penalty shoot-outs decide the winner of Cup ties all too quickly these days.

One of those people was Duncan A Woods who perused all his voting options before telling us on Twitter: "Couldn't decide until 'multiple replays after drawn cup ties' made me go misty eyed... Also replays must take place the following Tuesday and/or Wednesday and not in 10 days time." Duncan obviously remembers a time when the domestic football calendar wasn't skewed by the prominence of Premier League and Champions League fixtures - a sentiment no doubt shared by many of you.

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The Best of Bygone Football - Let battle commence!

As promised recently. we bring you the grand vote-off to decide The Best of Bygone Football.

With thanks to all of you that sent us your entries, we've been able to create a list of 30 candidates that in their own small way encapsulate all that's great about football the way it used to be.
All we ask is that you now spend some time considering the list below and make certain that your judgement selects what you believe to be the single most wonderful thing about soccer's golden era.

There's no need to rush, but you need to cast your vote before midnight (BST) on Friday 25 April 2014. After that, we'll tot up the scores and announce the winner as soon as we possibly can.

So now it's over to you. Choose your favourite, have the courage of your convictions and make a claim for the Best of Bygone Football. Happy voting and good luck!

VOTING HAS CLOSED ON THIS POLL

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The Best of Bygone Football - The Search Begins!

About a month ago, we recorded our most recent podcast. It was all about the myriad of largely overlooked but much loved things that used to make up the world of football several decades ago. Many of you contributed memories of your own to our discussion (thank you!) and we had a wonderful time reminiscing about everything from rosettes and rattles to Elton Welsby!

(Well, almost a wonderful time...)

Such enjoyable chatter gave us an idea - to find the best thing ever about bygone football. Way back in July 2013, we carried out a similar exercise to find out The Worst Thing About Modern Football, but that proved to be far too depressing - not least because we forgot to add Joey Barton to our list right at the start of the campaign.

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