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[anton pulisov]

Jan Mulder aged 21 (on the left):


Jan Mulder aged 29:

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Careful now, you'll have someone saying they're all on drugs.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Here's the ever-youthful Uwe Seeler in 1963. Aged 26. He looks younger now.

[Borracho]

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Theo Janssen in 2010



Theo Janssen in 2011



Theo Janssen in 2015

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Mind you, on the subject of the 1966 World Cup Final, Nobby Stiles was 24.

[Calvert]

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Nobby looks like a weird cross between Topper Headon and John Terry.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Glenn Hysen, aged 30, winning the title at Liverpool in Dalglish's side in 1990



and just before his next haircut (edit: this must have been in '91, as by '92 we had that daft shirt with the three big stripes over the right shoulder)

[Sam]

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Amazing what the angle of a photograph can do, isn't it. Pretty much the only real difference between those two of Hysen is that the camera's at or slightly above his eye level in the first one, but looking up at him in the second. But it makes him look totally different, including giving the impression he's had steel girders inserted in his jaw.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Alan Cork, mid-80s



Alan Cork, early-90s

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Ironically, Carlton Palmer hasn't changed at all.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

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Jim Gallagher and Jim Fallon of Clydebank are 26 and 27 years old here. Although to be fair, they always looked like that.

[treibeis]

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There were probably about five years between these two photos of Matthias Sammer:

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Then he joined the Angry Bald Men™ of FC Bayern.

[Snake Plissken]

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Kanu aged 21



Kanu aged 47

[3 Colours Red]

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Let's not sully this thread with Kanu and the two Clydebank players - they're subject to what should be called "The Arjen Robben Conundrum"... which is also a good name for a prog rock band.

I tried to find a picture of a dark-haired youthful Ravanelli but it's absolutely fucking impossible, he must have come out of the womb with a baby face and white hair therefore looking a lot like Phillip Schofield.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Three Times A Reddy wrote: I tried to find a picture of a dark-haired youthful Ravanelli …

Best I could manage:

[3 Colours Red]

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If the information in that picture's URL link is accurate, then he would have been no older than 19 there.

I've been going grey for 11 years and still haven't reached that stage yet.

[AFC42]

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Kevin McNaughton
At Aberdeen: