Welcome to Episode 27 of the Half & Half Scarf Football Podcast with Nick & Dom.

Have we got a pre-Christmas treat for you, and it might just be our best episode to date - let us know what you think.

We have called this episode "Back to the Future" because football seems to have re-discovered:

• The Long Throw
• The Set Piece
• Giant Centre Halves at Corners
• 442

Even at the top level of the Premier League, teams like Arsenal are ripping up the Pep Tikka Taka playbook (thank goodness) and trying "new" things, that to many, are not that new.....

Tony Pulis and Sam Alladyce must be loving it, but please don't expect the call to arms to fill a dugout position anytime soon Guys - your time has come and gone - we can but hope.

So, if we are indeed going "back to the future", does that mean we can expect to see the re-emergence of the genuine Football Maverick - a player who's off-field legend supports his on-field silky skills and unique approach to getting fans off their seats? Probably not as the lifestyle choices would certainly be seen as "questionable" in the modern era - but that's no excuse for us not to discuss;

• George Best
• Peter Osgood
• Stan Bowles
• Tony Currie
• Frank Worthington, and.....
• Gazza

What do they all have in common and who does Nick compare them to in terms of England Caps - to Dom's amazement?

Also, who do we think is the last genuine on-field Maverick - so difficult to manage that even Neil Warnock gave up and let him have free rein, to brilliant effect?

Finally, who is the genuine 1970's Football Maverick so potentially obscure that there is book written about him entitled "The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw"?

Whatever your age, whatever your vintage, whoever you support and grew up adoring, we think that proper football fans will enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

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