Craig Burley

There's only growing one thing, your bank balance.

For Mr Burley, with La Liga doing a retro matchday, what would you implement from current football, besides money, in the era in which you played?

Is there anything you like today better than when you were playing?

Or vice versa.

What would you take back from the day that no longer kind of happens now?

Well, as I said this other day, I don't like going to any big sporting events, and everybody stood there with their phones.

Live in the now.

I certainly, we didn't have that, cuz we didn't have any mobile, or certainly it was in its infancy.

I also like back in the day, say back in the day, feel that we're dinosaurs.

We are.

I also like the interaction with the referees.

which you don't really have these days because it's very standoffish and the referees are all, the referees are mic'd up.

Back in the day, the referees were not mic'd up so they could give you a bit back.

So you would give them a bit of stick or a lot of stick, and they would quite often, depending on the individual, would give you some back.

And be quite sarcastic.

Yeah, oh, you're not having a great game yourself, Burleigh.

There's not that interaction now because all the referees' mics are all recorded for obvious purposes.

So things like that, subtle things like that, I think I've sort of missed out the game.

Dawn?

Yeah, all of what the boys have been saying, but I'd like to see physicality return to football.