It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

When Charles Dickens began his 1859 novel “A Tale of Two Cities” with the legendary line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” who knew that it would aptly describe the state of amateur football in 2025?

As Dickens put it, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...”

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’s 1859 novel set during the French Revolution, he wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” is the first line of which classic novel?

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.