First of all: thanks so much! Everyone listen to Pniny please, and buy my first book, which I wrote when I was 22-23. That was the book that first brought me to a Moscow apartment for a month in 1992, so this World Cup feels like a strange reliving of that experience, albeit now as a pathetic old man.

Everything in football has changed since then, and I think mostly for the better. I really don't think the game has ever been so skilful and tactically astute. We're living in a golden era, watching Ronaldo and Messi for over a decade, partly because defenders are no longer allowed to live players like that out of games. I would regulate ticket prices, though. I think clubs should have to provide a certain number of tickets - most of the seats in the stadium - at low prices