Its tough to compare eras against eras.
The pitches were awful, the balls different, players less fit, however dont kid yourself, much of football on offer today is dire, ponderous rubbish.
For all its faults, you had a real atmosphere, intense football and perhaps some feeling of association...
Yep thats about right.
Not surprisingly it seems that the Germans seem to have found a way to embrace some of those attributes within the modern arena.
I have to say that the Premier League has the power to replicate the German model and it eventually will but not until attendances decrease...