STUART BOL TON RECALLS WHEN HE WAS HOOKED BY AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN INVOLVING THE DUTCH MASTER

THE FOOD FOR SUPERSTARS
FOR a football mad eightyear- old like me, whose team (Manchester United) had just been relegated to the Second Division, the 1974 World Cup finals couldn’t come along quickly enough.
I needed a new hero and Johan Cruyff fitted the bill.
Going into the tournament the Netherlands captain was widely recognised as the world’s greatest player, but could he live up to the hype? You bet he could.
While Cruyff and his Dutch teammates would fall at the final hurdle ...