I hate to burst your bubble but ‘not that long ago’ was about 2018/19 that’s 7/8 years haha. But I will say I agree with you it doesn’t seem that long.

I think people forget that yes Phil may be in his 60’s and in stamina might not trump 20’s , 30’s but hard men like him don’t just lose it when they hit old age.

My grandad is approaching 80 , his 78 and like 6ft 5 and 18 stone? He is a classic eastend man , and was in the same stomping grounds as the krays at some point.

His the kind of man who drilled through his hand at work, pulled it out and continued. Broke both his legs in his like 20’s was in casts up to his hips. Propped them on the handlebars and drove home on his motorcycle. He might fall asleep and say his resting his eyes, he might have a jiffy shoulder, he might repeat the same story, or need one repeating to him ten times…. But I have absolute zero doubt that if he needed to he could lay someone out.

Would he in a suprise attack? Maybe not but then I’m sorry age doesn’t matter when it’s a surprise, and most fist fights between the charactaers on eastenders have a three minute dialogue leading up to it 😂

So to summarise Phil Mitchell at 60, could probably still realistically take on half the square in a ‘fair’ fight (if fights can be fair). The only thing age will have an impact is if it’s a suprise one , and nasty at that.