Football Daily | Diego Gómez’s undisputed headline act proves fans still just love a very big kick

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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! In an age of counter-pressing, progressive carries and PPDA (passes per defensive action, apparently), it is heartening to know that we are – just like our childhood selves in the playground looking up in wonder at those in the year above – still absolutely entranced by people that can kick a football really, really far. In response to Mike Turney’s question about bands being present in a game ( Friday’s Football Daily letters ), and at the risk of revealing my advanced age, how about Peters and Lee in England’s 1970 World Cup squad? Though…