Nostalgia is a disease and we’ve got World Cup fever

Do you remember the first time?

Of course you do. It probably came flooding back in recent weeks — as you read a preview supplement, stuck up a wall chart, or drew Costa Rica in the office sweepstake, making you feel a bit like Proust, except with Panini stickers instead of fancy French biscuits.

Maybe it was Cruyff’s turn, or the rapture of Marco Tardelli, or Maradona’s goal against England (which one?).