Not quite your age but I recall way back to the 80's when the team was often poor but the play seemed more interesting, more engaging, more exciting. Games where you often felt the opposition had much better players but we would still scrap it out, often for a gutsy loss all the same. There were always characters in the side, it feels like we are about to lose our one remaining character.
I have failed to get even slightly excited about the football for the last 4 seasons. It's been like going through the motions awaiting that final whistle for a reason to get on with the rest of your life. I'd rather lose in style than win by boring everyone, including the opposition, to death. 2014-15 gave me some of the most nervous energy I've ever experience in one season, a lived out roller coaster of a season. Leicester City Football Club has been playing itself into obscurity and not many will notice, except for us old enough to have memories of when we excelled at playing badly but it was sometimes exciting, interesting, engaging badness. Its become all so bland, predictable, stale.