English clubs’ ban from European competition, imposed 35 years ago on Tuesday, led to years of struggle until the 1990 World Cup helped bring the national game out of isolation
In May 1985 the Sunday Times published a now-notorious editorial which alleged that British football was “in crisis: a slum sport played in slum stadiums and increasingly watched by slum people, who deter decent folk from turning up”. That deterrent was reaching peak effectiveness: in the following season top-flight attendances dropped to their lowest level since the first world war, and in the second tier to depths not seen since 1906-07.
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