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[Football] What I miss about football growing up
- Thread starter dennis
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pasty
A different kind of pasty
Shirt numbers 1 to 11.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Being fit enough to run around like a headless chicken for 90 mins, which I only did occasionally as I was normally in goal being lobbed regularly as I was mini Maty Ryan size
Shirts with no advertising and numbers only on the shirts
Slightly OT but of all sports the thing I most like to be brought back is cricket whites in all games
Shirts with no advertising and numbers only on the shirts
Slightly OT but of all sports the thing I most like to be brought back is cricket whites in all games
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Terrible pitches. This would stop 95% of diving as the overpaid prima donnas like Grealish would not want to get muddy or risk losing their alice bands.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Pale blue Mobility cars parked in the corner
All of the above, keepers with plain green or yellow shirts
Pay on the gate and the mechanichal turnstile mechanism
Pay on the gate and the mechanichal turnstile mechanism
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- #7
Yes and the announcement of changes to your program, wearing number five ....
Biscuit Barrel
Well-known member
4 great big floodlights. Great landmark for finding the away ground, nice star shaped shadows from the players and just seemed a better atmosphere for night games.
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Almost the same players playing every game often twice a week, the seemed to never get injured or dropped or rotated, they did not scream, they did not pray or look for God after scoring.
It was like you knew them all personally.
And terrace smells.
It was like you knew them all personally.
And terrace smells.
GT49er
Well-known member
Just turning up and POTG - no bloody loyalty points, booking in advance, photo ID and all that bullsh*t.
- Jan 3, 2012
- 16,601
The half-time scores being a list of matches in the programme with corresponding letters, and metal plates with numbers on being put out alongside those letters on the wall round the pitch.
Archie Macaulay.
Jumpers for goalposts.
Archie Macaulay.
Jumpers for goalposts.
Swaying crowds and friendly bundles on terraces. It was all less sanitised and spontaneous, just turn up at the turnstile with your dosh.
No player diving.
No VAR delays.
No player diving.
No VAR delays.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Away day weekends , usually crammed into the back of a minibus , Friday night on whichever town we were at , waking up Saturday morning in a place that time forgot , 10.30 back in the pub enjoying the local hospitality then getting into the ground as close as was possible to the home fans to collect the cost of the trip in loose change lobbed by the generous home fans , strangely the further north you went the more generous the home fans were .
R-C GULL POSTS
New member
- Mar 31, 2019
- 8
programmes being spelt p r o g r a m m e s .
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Indeed, I'm proud to operate one those when I man the gate for the occasional Horsham YMCA home game. An ex Goldstone one too, saved from the skip in 1997.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,617
The standard of football was poor and, most of all, the pitches were dreadful (which makes that a circular reference).
That said, the experience wasn't as regimented as it is now and a more natural. I certainly miss that. I'd like the terraces and the raw atmosphere.
So take today's football and pitches, add the 70s terraces and the raw experience, take out the violence, and we have the perfect mix.
That said, the experience wasn't as regimented as it is now and a more natural. I certainly miss that. I'd like the terraces and the raw atmosphere.
So take today's football and pitches, add the 70s terraces and the raw experience, take out the violence, and we have the perfect mix.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
All of this . . . plus lobbing the odd stick of celery. Celery! Celery!
or walking into a butchers shop in some God forsaken, industrial northern town, and asking for partridge, or pheasant, then enjoying their reaction.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,617
Needs another thread that. I don't mind the coloured clothing but I DO mind the silly suffix in some team names. I have never used the name 'Sharks' when mentioning Sussex. Good on those counties who have nothing to do with it.