Football baths... All in it together?

clippedgull

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Near Ducks, Geese, and Seagulls

• Apr 10, 2014

• #1

more here: http://www.theguardian.com/football...-pictures-gallery#/?picture=434046578&index=0



Ipswich Town players having a bath together at Portman Road in 1939 after their 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa in their FA Cup third-round replay (2nd picture)








Fulham players enjoy a brine bath in Southend, in preparation for their important 1929-30 fourth-round FA Cup tie against Nottingham Forest

 

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Prince Monolulu

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The Race Hill

• Apr 10, 2014

• #2

Pass the soap please.......

 

One Teddy Maybank

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Worthing

• Apr 10, 2014

• #3

Whitehawk used to have a huge bath, I've heard they've replaced it with showers.

 

catfish

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Dec 17, 2010

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Worthing

• Apr 10, 2014

• #4

I love the one of the Ipswich players smoking in the bath.

 

Mellotron

I've asked for soup

Jul 2, 2008

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Brighton

• Apr 10, 2014

• #5

Bath that small with that many sweaty men is surely just going to make you dirtier...?

 

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jonsey

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Aug 5, 2011

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North Sussex

• Apr 10, 2014

• #6

Horsham FC also had the same at Queens Street....old skool

Get in first or wash in all the mud from the other players.......thank god for the shower

 

Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003

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In a pile of football shirts

• Apr 10, 2014

• #7

Where's the soap?

Yes, it does, doesn't it?

 

smeariestbat

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May 5, 2012

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• Apr 10, 2014

• #8

i cant remember where it was, but we played a rugby tournament somewhere in sussex, i must've been about 10. They had 2 massive baths that seemed like swimming pools at that age! probably more like the picture of the ipswich guys nowadays though

 

Dorset Seagull

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Shaftesbury Dorset ( Hovis hill to you )

• Apr 10, 2014

• #9

Played at the old Wembley once and was in the England changing room and there was a big communal bath with half a dozen single baths....don't recall any showers. This was about 1997 ish

 

Quinney

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Hastings

• Apr 10, 2014

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Pilot Field Hastings after winning a cup final drinking some dodgy lager. Happy days.

 

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Harry H

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Aug 11, 2010

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• Apr 10, 2014

• #11

Golstone Ground,Hastings,Whitehawk,Horsham......Bin in them all.
At Southampton (The Dell) they were individual.
You can't beat a long soak in the bath.

 

Barrel of Fun

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Sūþsēaxe: The Land of the South Saxons

• Apr 10, 2014

• #12

It was two to a bath at Mowden (now Lancing College Junior).

Just four baths available for 18 dirty rugby players meant the last ones in were faced with a thickened muddy soup to bathe in.