I did not approve of these number what ever happened to 1-11
Players are usually given numbers for the whole season, rather than on a game by game basis. I'm sure that explains it.
I did not approve of these number what ever happened to 1-11
when did this change occur? It kind of makes all the talk of "we need a good old fashioned number 10" kind of thing a bit meaningless to a whole generation of younger fans. You knew where you were with 1-11.
Thank you, I should have guessed it was "premier league" related, all the worst ideas seem to be!Squad numbers started in the Premier League (Premiership at the time) for the 1993-94 season.
I think football league teams switched to squad numbers in 1999-2000 season though I think some teams including us had trialed using them in the previous two seasons.
One aspect of American sport that I wouldn't be adverse to is the way teams retire shirts and hang them from the rafters.
Sure it's still a pretty crap idea but it even then it still knocks spots off t-shirt cannons, fireworks, cheerleaders, goal music etc.
Perhaps we should have a lucky dip one match. Randomly draw 11 and then play them.
From Wikipedia:
In 1993, The Football Association (The FA) switched to persistent squad numbers, abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up. The first league event to feature this was the 1993 Football League Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, and it became standard in the FA Premier League the following season, along with names printed above the numbers.
Squad numbers became optional in the three divisions of The Football League at the same time, but only 10 out of 70 clubs utilized them. One of those clubs, Brighton & Hove Albion, issued 25 players with squad numbers but reverted to traditional 1–11 numbering halfway through the season.
I did not know this last bit!
From Wikipedia:
In 1993, The Football Association (The FA) switched to persistent squad numbers, abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up. The first league event to feature this was the 1993 Football League Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, and it became standard in the FA Premier League the following season, along with names printed above the numbers.
Squad numbers became optional in the three divisions of The Football League at the same time, but only 10 out of 70 clubs utilized them. One of those clubs, Brighton & Hove Albion, issued 25 players with squad numbers but reverted to traditional 1–11 numbering halfway through the season.
I did not know this last bit!
No neither did I. Worrying really, l would have thought l'd remembered.