In an age where Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are breaking every record in football history, it's very easy to become desensitised to previous achievements and to look back on the past with pity.
It's not only individual players who are creating this blind spot for historic brilliance however. The birth of the Premier League in 1992 has led to all previous title victories and domestic successes being disregarded and belittled - just ask 18-time league winners Liverpool.
But in order to fully celebrate the smashing of each record by today's champions, we need to appreciate the men who laid the foundations, and allowed these records to be broken.