Looking Forward - The Blizzard

Looking Forward - The Blizzard

How the former Chelsea defender John Dempsey left football behind to work in a care home This piece was written by Brian Oliver for issue 17 He played against Pelé, Cruyff and Beckenbauer. George Best was suspended for his testimonial match but Eusébio came instead and played alongside Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst. He scored against Real Madrid in a European final, and was one of the outstanding performers in a classic FA Cup Final. But there i…

I never thought something like this would happen to me. I've seen retired people for hours looking at municipal factories, with a kind of mockery, commenting on the workers' tasks, between nostalgia and bitterness. Obviously, in their time, things were done better, today's workers don't know how to work, they're just lazy, look at how they handle that machine, how rude, they'd deserve a good war —gentlemen, calm down, it's coming!—, if I were th…