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Celebrating 30 years of the back-pass law – the greatest change in modern football historyThe final of Euro 92 was a strange game. A post-80s greatness Denmark, who hadn’t originally even qualified for the tournament, beat the reigning world champions Germany 2-0 in what remains one of the great shock results of all time.
The back-pass law coinciding with the launch of the Premier League also offers a pretty significant riposte when yer da starts harrumphing about ‘Premier League era’ records and insisting “there was football before 1992, you know”. He’s right, there was. But it was a totally different sport. There really has been no other more significant or beneficial change in what might loosely be termed football’s modern era., but the back-pass law changed it here and all around the world.
Italia 90 is a relevant point here as well. While for England fans of a certain age it remains a tournament remembered with enormous fondness, it was also for the most part really quite shit. The football was generally abysmally dull and negative, culminating in what was at the time comfortably the worst final in the tournament’s history.
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