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  1. #26

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    Football Echo
    Welsh Cup and annual (ish)entry to European Cup Winners Cup.
    Proper dive tackling.
    Improper dive tackling.
    Blood on shirt and just keep wearing it.
    Away side only changing their kit if it clashed.
    Football Specials.
    Green goalkeeper jerseys.

  2. #27

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    - Correct throw ins. Do you see how the mancs Valencia is allowed to take them? He just drops the ball from the top of his head.
    - Proper kick offs where the ball had to travel one circumgerence forward and not like they do now by kicking the ball back into their own half.
    - Goalkeepers now trying to save the ball with their feet/legs and not getting their body behind the ball.
    - Goalkeepers only playing in gloves when it was wet.
    - Can't stand cheating, diving and the word, 'simulation.'

    ... And so much more. What has happened to our game?

    StT.
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  3. #28

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve the Tea View Post
    - Correct throw ins. Do you see how the mancs Valencia is allowed to take them? He just drops the ball from the top of his head.
    - Proper kick offs where the ball had to travel one circumgerence forward and not like they do now by kicking the ball back into their own half.
    - Goalkeepers now trying to save the ball with their feet/legs and not getting their body behind the ball.
    - Goalkeepers only playing in gloves when it was wet.
    - Can't stand cheating, diving and the word, 'simulation.'

    ... And so much more. What has happened to our game?

    StT.
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    Agree on throw ins but I have no idea why people were upset about kick offs changing.

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  5. #30

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    Dogs on the pitch.

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  7. #32

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enoch Mort View Post
    BIF BAF
    Golden Goal Tickets
    Pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr
    The Bluebirds Club
    Real Zaragoza ticket booths
    Radio Ninian
    Ninian Park turnstile attendants on the fiddle by encouraging two of you to squeeze through at the same time
    Terry wearing his policeman’s helmet
    Football special buses
    Teams running out of the tunnel and getting on with the game rather than poncing about shaking hands
    Lew Clayton’s magic sponge
    Football Combination
    More toilet rolls on the pitch than there were in the toilets
    Goalkeepers wearing flat caps
    Players smelling of linament
    The Welsh Cup
    Football League Review
    You forgot The Football Echo. Always brought into our pub in Maesteg by the delivery guy about half an hour after we'd got back from Cardiff. Everyone bought one, no sharing in those days.

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    Boro in the Premier League:

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  10. #35

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry Monk View Post
    You forgot The Football Echo. Always brought into our pub in Maesteg by the delivery guy about half an hour after we'd got back from Cardiff. Everyone bought one, no sharing in those days.
    I used to wait in the newsagent ( Whitsons's in Whitchurch village) for the delivery of Football Echos which arrived bound in string. There was a sense of anticipation especially if we had won away from home. More often than not this would be the first time you would find out who scored for the City. How times have changed !

  11. #36

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    Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
    Agree on throw ins but I have no idea why people were upset about kick offs changing.
    At the risk going OT, this kick off rule change was one that I got upset over not at the rule per se, but because of the meddling with the game for the sake of it.
    This adds no value.

    Back on topic, wooden clackers. Can you imagine them being allowed nowadays? Lethal weapons!

  12. #37

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    Love is the drug appeared to be the only record in our collection played over the tinny tannoy

    Being able to get in around half time for free if you were skint or working

    Combination league games in the week where you could be unofficial ball boys

  13. #38

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    People standing on the terraces in suits and ties applauding opposition goals.

  14. #39

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    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    People standing on the terraces in suits and ties applauding opposition goals.
    Haha - I went to a mid week game after work before Xmas dressed in a suit and must admit it felt a bit weird

  15. #40

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    2 Wooden benches in the dugout instead of oversized padded seats.

  16. #41

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    Lace up leather balls.

    I know I'm showing my age but remember trying to hack a sopping wet cannon ball of a size 4 through long grass and mud over Sevenoaks as a school boy - loved it suppose as I carried on into my 40's.

  17. #42

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    Lace up leather balls.

    I know I'm showing my age but remember trying to hack a sopping wet cannon ball of a size 4 through long grass and mud over Sevenoaks as a school boy - loved it suppose as I carried on into my 40's.
    Anyone remember before food outlets on the terraces when the club had people walking around the pitch selling pies pasties and chocolate off of wooden tray type contraptions while the game was going on l kid you not,health and safety what’s that

  18. #43

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    Good thread. Some great memories there.

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  20. #45

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
    Catch that lace on your forehead and it frigging hurt

  21. #46

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    Quote Originally Posted by insider View Post
    The waft of St Bruno coming up the bobbank terraces
    Yes!

  22. #47

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    Yeah stood on the grange end and seeing the haze from ten thousand cigarettes being smoked on the bob bank

  23. #48

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Catch that lace on your forehead and it frigging hurt
    Are you 130 years old or wha' ?

  24. #49

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
    Boro in the Premier League:

    boro.jpg
    Like the fact she took the time and trouble to select the appropriate footwear.

  25. #50

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
    Yes that what the one, God knows what animal it was from 'cos the ones I played with weren't waterproof.

    Mind you neither were the cotton kits which sagged off you and made you and made you a stone heavier.

    Don't even get me started on the goalposts - how a group of 10 year olds set them up without serious injury in the middle of December I don't know.

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