| Things to dislike about the older football fan 19:20 - Jul 29 with 5483 views | MattinLondon |
Banging on about how ‘players could tackle’ back in the day when in reality it meant that a bunch of donkeys could kick the more skilful players and basically get away with it. Yeah, that’s a good idea.
Harping back to each stadium having character when actually they were little better than massive urinals and were places where families didn’t go due to the hooligans acting like p***ks.
Some now complain about pitches being too perfect because back in the day Professional football pitches were little better than muddy park fields without the dog mess.
You could abuse players back then because they weren’t overpaid prims donnas and could take it without admitting that Black players were routinely the target of racist idiots who thought that vile abuse was part of the game - or just banter.
England were awful and played long ball rubbish and failed to qualify in a couple World Cups but now it’s the fault of the foreigners if England don’t progress to at least the quarter finals.
Ipswich were great - I cant disagree.
Ok, some of the above is massively over-the-top and is basically me being a k nob but I get annoyed when someone posts about modern football being awful whilst romantically casting back the years. A lot of things today in football is far far better. |  | | |  |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:28 - Jul 29 with 3058 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Chill out dude.
It's just opinions. |  |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:31 - Jul 29 with 3036 views | BloomBlue |
I think the point is you cannot compare different times. For example the old leather balls used in 50's/60s were very heavy and got heavier when wet so I honestly dont believe Ronaldo could do one of his free kicks with one of those balls.
However footballers are a lot fitter now and footballers from 50/60s wouldn't keep up with them.
But I will argue footballers now roll around as if they've been shot much more than they ever did. |  | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:33 - Jul 29 with 3043 views | BryanPlug |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:35 - Jul 29 with 3033 views | MattinLondon |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:31 - Jul 29 by BloomBlue |
I think the point is you cannot compare different times. For example the old leather balls used in 50's/60s were very heavy and got heavier when wet so I honestly dont believe Ronaldo could do one of his free kicks with one of those balls.
However footballers are a lot fitter now and footballers from 50/60s wouldn't keep up with them.
But I will argue footballers now roll around as if they've been shot much more than they ever did. |
I agree with the rolling around and I’m not defending it - but what’s the difference between a defender deliberately taking out a striker and a striker diving in the area. Both is cheating. | | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:36 - Jul 29 with 3030 views | GeoffSentence |
Did you know, Ipwich didn't have a single player sent off between April 1950 and December 1968.
Ah those were the days, it's all softies these now. |  |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:38 - Jul 29 with 3007 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:35 - Jul 29 by MattinLondon |
I agree with the rolling around and I’m not defending it - but what’s the difference between a defender deliberately taking out a striker and a striker diving in the area. Both is cheating. |
I think he was talking more about the play acting, which is pathetic rather than cheating. | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:44 - Jul 29 with 2984 views | bahri |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:31 - Jul 29 by BloomBlue |
I think the point is you cannot compare different times. For example the old leather balls used in 50's/60s were very heavy and got heavier when wet so I honestly dont believe Ronaldo could do one of his free kicks with one of those balls.
However footballers are a lot fitter now and footballers from 50/60s wouldn't keep up with them.
But I will argue footballers now roll around as if they've been shot much more than they ever did. |
Todays footballers may be fitter, but the science of diet, looking after yourself and medical science have moved so quick. If the footballers of the bygone era had that knowledge they would be just as good if not better than most of todays players.
Think how good Best, Pele, Charlton, Moore would be.
Bobby Moore appeared in a T.V. advert promoting the local pub!! |  |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:46 - Jul 29 with 2969 views | braveblue |
How do you know modern football is far, far better when you did not see the older stuff? | | | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:53 - Jul 29 with 2939 views | BryanPlug |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:46 - Jul 29 by braveblue |
How do you know modern football is far, far better when you did not see the older stuff? |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:53 - Jul 29 with 2936 views | MattinLondon |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:46 - Jul 29 by braveblue |
How do you know modern football is far, far better when you did not see the older stuff? |
I’m actually 95 and I can compare both accurately | | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:53 - Jul 29 with 2942 views | Illinoisblue |
"Some now complain about pitches being too perfect" - you just made that up. |  |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:55 - Jul 29 with 2924 views | MattinLondon |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:33 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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I didn’t say all but I did say that black players were targeted more. | | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:56 - Jul 29 with 2921 views | GeoffSentence |
Leather balls!
They were much better than the namby pamby helium balloons they use nowadays. Kick one hard enough into a man's solar plexus and you could kill him. | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:56 - Jul 29 with 2922 views | MattinLondon |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:53 - Jul 29 by Illinoisblue |
"Some now complain about pitches being too perfect" - you just made that up. |
Honestly I didn’t. | | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:59 - Jul 29 with 2900 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:56 - Jul 29 by MattinLondon |
Honestly I didn’t. |
I think its a rather unfair generalisation.,... | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:10 - Jul 29 with 2860 views | pablovian |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:36 - Jul 29 by GeoffSentence |
Did you know, Ipwich didn't have a single player sent off between April 1950 and December 1968.
Ah those were the days, it's all softies these now. |
Who got sent off in December 1968? My memory is not what it used to be ... |  | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:14 - Jul 29 with 2842 views | Meadowlark |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:33 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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Same reason he made his post ageist I guess? |  | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:20 - Jul 29 with 2807 views | GeoffSentence |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:10 - Jul 29 by pablovian |
Who got sent off in December 1968? My memory is not what it used to be ... |
Derek Jefferson on 28th December at home to Chelsea.
Heaven knows what he did that no-one in the preceeding 18 years 8 months had done. | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:23 - Jul 29 with 2789 views | blueislander |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:14 - Jul 29 by Meadowlark |
Same reason he made his post ageist I guess? |
In his OP he did say that basically he was being a knob , so, I would leave it at that. | | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:27 - Jul 29 with 2767 views | Felstow1978 |
Apart from your ageist, racist rant you seem to overlook the fact that some (quite a few of us) back in the day actually enjoyed the fact that football was merely an excuse for carrying a Stanley and having a decent ruck and smashing up pubs and railway carriages, not to mention sending the local constabulary home with sore heads and bloodied noses together with the fans they were supposed to be protecting. Families weren't invented so no-one cared about causing offence through rustic chants, learned in school playgrounds and refined in pubs and clubs. That's what some of us miss most in the commercialised, politically correct environment in which football now exists. | |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:30 - Jul 29 with 2743 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 19:56 - Jul 29 by GeoffSentence |
Leather balls!
They were much better than the namby pamby helium balloons they use nowadays. Kick one hard enough into a man's solar plexus and you could kill him. |
If you didn't break your foot kicking it, that is! |  |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:33 - Jul 29 with 2725 views | BryanPlug |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:23 - Jul 29 by blueislander |
In his OP he did say that basically he was being a knob , so, I would leave it at that. |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:35 - Jul 29 with 2708 views | BryanPlug |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:20 - Jul 29 by GeoffSentence |
Derek Jefferson on 28th December at home to Chelsea.
Heaven knows what he did that no-one in the preceeding 18 years 8 months had done. |
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| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:37 - Jul 29 with 2704 views | WD19 |
I make you right.....
.....on the knob point. |  | | |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:56 - Jul 29 with 2641 views | factual_blue |
| Things to dislike about the older football fan on 20:35 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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Ron 'Chopper' Harris wouldn't have batted an eyelid at that. |  |
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