Yes, and my point to you and others was to correct the assertion that Dennis Wise was matchfit, which was inaccurate, simply fit.And I maintain that....given the reasons I've repeated.
Different players, different leagues, different styles, different formations, different technology ....and different decades.
Joe Cole has alluded to poor advice and conditioning programmes have affected him.
Couple that with possible genetic factors between different sportsmen may explain part of the problem.
Personally I don't think advances over a decade are that huge, yet sure there will have been gains, I believe I read somewhere that Chelsea were performing a type of dialysis on players, cleaning players blood, now that is a development, whether a good one or not who knows.
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