| Things that have disappeared from football 22:07 - Feb 13 with 9750 views | Plums |
What happened to the centre line flags? I haven't just noticed they've gone but I've been pondering the big issues in life today and for some reason they crossed my mind.
When did they go?
What else has gone from the game? |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:04 - Feb 14 with 1080 views | Churchman |
Proper black football boots - apart from Alan Ball’s white ones
The current multi coloured ballet shoes look a nonsense. |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:12 - Feb 14 with 1074 views | MattinLondon |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:04 - Feb 14 by Churchman |
Proper black football boots - apart from Alan Ball’s white ones
The current multi coloured ballet shoes look a nonsense. |
I remember someone on here mentioned that a Town winger from the 1950s (I want to say Stephenson but that’s probably not right) used to wear red laces with his boots and due to that, was considered quite flamboyant. |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:22 - Feb 14 with 1053 views | Plums |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:12 - Feb 14 by MattinLondon |
I remember someone on here mentioned that a Town winger from the 1950s (I want to say Stephenson but that’s probably not right) used to wear red laces with his boots and due to that, was considered quite flamboyant. |
I'm not sure that was possible - wasn't everything in black and shades of grey in those days anyway? | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:25 - Feb 14 with 1047 views | Parsley |
2 up top - big man, little man combination |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:25 - Feb 14 with 1041 views | Plums |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:25 - Feb 14 by Parsley |
2 up top - big man, little man combination |
Liam and Chappers? Bring it on | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:32 - Feb 14 with 1025 views | WeWereZombies |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:22 - Feb 14 by Plums |
I'm not sure that was possible - wasn't everything in black and shades of grey in those days anyway? |
Unless you were from Lowestoft or Jamaica. |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:38 - Feb 14 with 1007 views | monty_radio |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:12 - Feb 14 by MattinLondon |
I remember someone on here mentioned that a Town winger from the 1950s (I want to say Stephenson but that’s probably not right) used to wear red laces with his boots and due to that, was considered quite flamboyant. |
Don't think it would have been Rocky; wasn't that sort of guy. Incidentally, didn't sign till 1960. I think Sir Alf might have taken a dim view. But when the Sixties swung into view Danny Hegan would have been a standout for colourful laces or more likely, soles, and the shortest of shorts. |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:42 - Feb 14 with 998 views | monty_radio |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 09:16 - Feb 14 by bluelagos |
Coppers with big helmets
Open terraces
Toilets that were basically a brick wall and pools of piss
Pay on the gate
Vouchers for ticket priority in the big cup games
Milk crates
Singing 30 mins ahead of kick off
The whole terrace culture is pretty much dead compared to the 80s when it was truly a magical occasion. We get the odd moment for sure (Sarmiento goal) but back in the day every match day was an immersive occasion where you were swept away with the atmosphere / tension and the trepidation of the walk back to the car/station.
The gentrification of the game is relentless and continues apace. |
Personally, I eagerly await the gentrification of the West Stand toilets (plus a rule that says if blokes don't wash their hands when they're done, they're not allowed to sit near me). | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:47 - Feb 14 with 989 views | Rocky |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 22:34 - Feb 13 by Keno |
Rattles, rosettes and toilet rolls |
Shouts from the crowd whenever a ball was hoofed of the pitch of "Keep it on the island!" and "Windy!" |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 16:16 - Feb 14 with 933 views | garygboltonblue |
Knees up mother brown | | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 16:17 - Feb 14 with 930 views | OldFart71 |
Footballs with laces and a tube inside them. Football boots that were boots with wooden studs. Goalkeepers being knocked into the back of the net and the goal stood. Taking a player out and not a yellow card to be seen and that player getting up and not rolling around like someone had shot him. Away days with no loo on the coach and lads p*ssing in polythene bags and throwing them out of the skylight on the coach. No VAR but very iffy refs (Clive Thomas). Singing on the coach all the way to an away match and back again whether winning or losing. Getting bricks thrown at you by Millwall fans. Standing in the North stand with a cage down the middle to stop fans from fighting each other (Two black eyes and a broken nose, that's how the North stand aggro goes) | | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 16:18 - Feb 14 with 929 views | ellaandred |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:47 - Feb 14 by Rocky |
Shouts from the crowd whenever a ball was hoofed of the pitch of "Keep it on the island!" and "Windy!" |
Or ''Bungay ball '' |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 17:06 - Feb 14 with 869 views | Zx1988 |
Goalkeepers wearing the outfield players' shorts and socks.
YTS kids cleaning the pros' boots. | |
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| Obstruction. (n/t) on 17:09 - Feb 14 with 867 views | GeoffSentence |
| Obstruction. (n/t) on 22:19 - Feb 13 by Bloots |
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Which is something Ben Johnson likes to take advantage of |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 17:20 - Feb 14 with 849 views | NthQldITFC |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:25 - Feb 14 by Parsley |
2 up top - big man, little man combination |
...yet not the feeling some still seem to have that this is the 'proper' way, and the thing to revert back to when these fancy, new-fangled tactics don't produce constant wins. |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 17:23 - Feb 14 with 845 views | swede |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 07:52 - Feb 14 by Stadiumofdark |
Checking other scores in Currys / Tandy / Rumbleows window [Post edited 14 Feb 7:55]
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I watched an FA Cup final in Currys window once! | | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 17:28 - Feb 14 with 835 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 15:04 - Feb 14 by Churchman |
Proper black football boots - apart from Alan Ball’s white ones
The current multi coloured ballet shoes look a nonsense. |
It might have already been said, but along the same lines is the officials wearing any colour other than black. The worse thing about that is 75% of teams have black away kits and it gets very boring (except for our blackout kit, which was awesome). |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:01 - Feb 14 with 787 views | Trequartista |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 23:36 - Feb 13 by vapour_trail |
Riyad Mahrez is as skinny as they get.
Mo Salah never tracks back.
You’ve got me on unfit though. |
I meant kind of non-muscular, I suspect Mahrez is still muscular.
I'm sure Salah does track back a bit out wide, I'm thinking of Le Tissier, Berbatov, brilliant players the likes of whom we will never see their heat map again. |  |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:02 - Feb 14 with 788 views | monty_radio |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 17:23 - Feb 14 by swede |
I watched an FA Cup final in Currys window once! |
I watched England's '66 semi-final v Portugal also in a Currys shop window, in Southend high street, while on family holiday. By the end of the game there were a dozen gathered watching the silent show, but with commentary provided via the obligatory tranny. | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:02 - Feb 14 with 785 views | Trequartista |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 00:45 - Feb 14 by CrayonKing |
I was trying to explain Neil Gregory to my son the other day. The idea of a striker justifying his place on the bench by being a half-decent goalkeeper is so alien to modern-day football he just didn’t get it! |
Didn't he eventually have to go in goal and was totally crap? (Neil Gregory, not your son) | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:03 - Feb 14 with 787 views | Churchman |
The teams running out to ‘Entry of the Gladiators’.
No pre match build up deafening music or much else. Just the joyous sight of the crowd gathering and the groundsmans pottering about with the fork or lobbing a bit more sand down in the goalmouth.
Ahhh the hum of the crowd before a game and if it was very cold, steam rising off the terraces. | | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:36 - Feb 14 with 745 views | Churchman |
Players who could do other stuff. Denis Compton - England cricketer and Arsenal footballer. In the 70s Chris Balderstone played county cricket and professional football.
My favourite though is Sidney Norman Webster. Played 69 times at full back at the end of the 20s for Ipswich Town and captained the team for one season. Webster was also a serving RAF Officer, based at Martlesham. He was also a member of the High Speed Flight and piloted a Supermarine S5 to victory in the 1927 Schneider Cup Air Race. He finished as an Air Vice Marshall with an C.B.E., Air Force Cross and bar.
Designed by Reginald Mitchell, the S5 was the precursor to the S6B that won the trophy outright a few years later. These airplanes were a proving ground for high speed, aerodynamic design ideas that led to the creation of the Spitfire.
Players these days? Wimps! | | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:53 - Feb 14 with 732 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 18:36 - Feb 14 by Churchman |
Players who could do other stuff. Denis Compton - England cricketer and Arsenal footballer. In the 70s Chris Balderstone played county cricket and professional football.
My favourite though is Sidney Norman Webster. Played 69 times at full back at the end of the 20s for Ipswich Town and captained the team for one season. Webster was also a serving RAF Officer, based at Martlesham. He was also a member of the High Speed Flight and piloted a Supermarine S5 to victory in the 1927 Schneider Cup Air Race. He finished as an Air Vice Marshall with an C.B.E., Air Force Cross and bar.
Designed by Reginald Mitchell, the S5 was the precursor to the S6B that won the trophy outright a few years later. These airplanes were a proving ground for high speed, aerodynamic design ideas that led to the creation of the Spitfire.
Players these days? Wimps! |
Westy - decent swimmer
Shane Supple - top level Gaelic footballer
Norwood - ‘hilarious’ prankster | |
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| Things that have disappeared from football on 19:22 - Feb 14 with 717 views | Mercian |
From personal experience. Being an "assistant groundsman" at both Portman Road and The Baseball Ground as a teenager. Duties were to come onto the pitch at half-time and full-time to flatten any mole-holes etc and unofficially to do the opposite to the penalty spot in the home area, just in case. |  | | |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 19:58 - Feb 14 with 691 views | monty_radio |
| Things that have disappeared from football on 19:22 - Feb 14 by Mercian |
From personal experience. Being an "assistant groundsman" at both Portman Road and The Baseball Ground as a teenager. Duties were to come onto the pitch at half-time and full-time to flatten any mole-holes etc and unofficially to do the opposite to the penalty spot in the home area, just in case. |
You weren't by chance the guy who had his sand bucket kicked by that irate Norwich fan? | |
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