https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB40QpLh0_E
Obviously no more stanchions so no more 'stanchions' a bit like rounding the keeper. Seems to have gone out of favour.
Any other things?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB40QpLh0_E
Obviously no more stanchions so no more 'stanchions' a bit like rounding the keeper. Seems to have gone out of favour.
Any other things?
That was a thing of beauty. Players celebrating a goal by putting both arms in the air and turning their head skywards. Fullbacks whacking the ball into touch as hard as they possibly can (safety first) pitches having sand scattered over them, or grass bare by the end of march. Money spinner ticket man on sloper road. Changing ends on the terracing, depending on which way the city were scoring..........bliss.......
Moustaches
Artificial pitches. Luton, QPR, Oldham
The loss of terracing really took something away from football that will probably never return. Even when safe standing is introduced, you will still have to stand by your allocated “seat” rather than being able to stand with a group of mates, whether it’s a poorly attended game or big cup tie.
I long for those Saturday afternoons at Ninian Park, loooking down to find yourself standing in a river of piss gently cascading down the Grange End.
Alphabet on pitchside hoarding.
Orange footballs whilst playing on snow topped pitches, the line markings having been dredged.
Although thinking about it, perhaps some still about?
The waft of St Bruno coming up the bobbank terraces
Mullets
Floodlight pylons, getting rarer anyway.
Francis Benali and other guys who looked like they just got back from the Falklands.
Bovril
In my day etc
Police horses on the pitch
Admiral Kits
Chris Pike
Diving headers.
Raised colored piping on the shoulder seams of shirts and raised club badges. Gone. Just gone.
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
single-barreled surnames.
Portable Ninian Park bogs behind the Bob Bank.
How someone actually parked their arse to have a poo is tantamount to a pride of Britain bravery award.
Metal studs
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.
- 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?
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Dogs on the pitch.
Boro in the Premier League:
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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 !
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!
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
People standing on the terraces in suits and ties applauding opposition goals.
2 Wooden benches in the dugout instead of oversized padded seats.