| Favourite era for watching football? 09:38 - Nov 11 with 895 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Following on from the Leif debate yesterday, comparing left backs across the years.
What era have you enjoyed matches most, taking the whole experience into account such as standing on terraces, pre VAR, number of substitutions allowed, physicality, law changes, all games kicking off at 3pm etc.
Secondly, do you think, like music, that so much is related to your age and situation rather than the actual game. [Post edited 11 Nov 9:39]
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:42 - Nov 11 with 786 views | Swansea_Blue |
Burley’s I think. There was something special about that slow build improving over the years along with the multiple heartbreaks of losing out in the POs. It made Wembley 2000 all the more sweeter and then that first PL season was the cherry on top. Obviously we were more of a force in SBR’s time, but I was too young to appreciate how good we actually were and that it wasn’t normal.
PS. I highly recommend the Burley era book available via TWTD for anyone else who found that a special time, if there are any left. [Post edited 11 Nov 9:43]
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:44 - Nov 11 with 775 views | Metal_Hacker |
Early 80's for me
Some distasteful stuff kicking off around football grounds.... but not only was it a quality time for us a club but I was also in my early teens.Pubescent snotty nosed kid loving life . Living in a pub frequented by several players whilst we lived there .
Smash Hits delivered every Thursday morning , creating friends for life at the time
Standing in the North Stand surrounding by pi55ed up blokes but those very same pi55ed up blokes protected you like you were their own
Toilet rolls strewn all over , away supporters clambering on top of the old North Stand roof and Celtic blowing the floodlights !
Plus the football wasn't too bad !! [Post edited 11 Nov 9:45]
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:48 - Nov 11 with 751 views | Blue_In_Boston |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:42 - Nov 11 by Swansea_Blue |
Burley’s I think. There was something special about that slow build improving over the years along with the multiple heartbreaks of losing out in the POs. It made Wembley 2000 all the more sweeter and then that first PL season was the cherry on top. Obviously we were more of a force in SBR’s time, but I was too young to appreciate how good we actually were and that it wasn’t normal.
PS. I highly recommend the Burley era book available via TWTD for anyone else who found that a special time, if there are any left. [Post edited 11 Nov 9:43]
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I suspect we are of similar age (Mid-50s?). Agree with every word you say, the promotion season culminating with potential Champions League qualification the following season were unbelievable days.
The thing is, under Sir Bobby we were no flash in the pan, football was a more level playing field in those days, look at Forest under Cloughie. | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:49 - Nov 11 with 741 views | Herbivore |
Burley years for me but closely followed by the McKenna years. I started going to games under John Duncan so missed the glory years. |  |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:49 - Nov 11 with 741 views | davblue |
90’s for me the rise of the premier league, seeing some big name players come in from Italy where Serie A was the top league. Grounds improved, better tv coverage. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:51 - Nov 11 with 721 views | Blue_In_Boston |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:44 - Nov 11 by Metal_Hacker |
Early 80's for me
Some distasteful stuff kicking off around football grounds.... but not only was it a quality time for us a club but I was also in my early teens.Pubescent snotty nosed kid loving life . Living in a pub frequented by several players whilst we lived there .
Smash Hits delivered every Thursday morning , creating friends for life at the time
Standing in the North Stand surrounding by pi55ed up blokes but those very same pi55ed up blokes protected you like you were their own
Toilet rolls strewn all over , away supporters clambering on top of the old North Stand roof and Celtic blowing the floodlights !
Plus the football wasn't too bad !! [Post edited 11 Nov 9:45]
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I'm envious of those who were your age at that time. I was too young for the North Stand, had to watch it all from the Churchmans with my Dad. | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:55 - Nov 11 with 669 views | Metal_Hacker |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:51 - Nov 11 by Blue_In_Boston |
I'm envious of those who were your age at that time. I was too young for the North Stand, had to watch it all from the Churchmans with my Dad. |
To be fair I think I was too young looking back but with my parents running the General Gordon as it was back then , believe it changed to the Earl Roberts , them taking me to supervise etc wasn't an option
How times have changed ! | |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:59 - Nov 11 with 649 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:48 - Nov 11 by Blue_In_Boston |
I suspect we are of similar age (Mid-50s?). Agree with every word you say, the promotion season culminating with potential Champions League qualification the following season were unbelievable days.
The thing is, under Sir Bobby we were no flash in the pan, football was a more level playing field in those days, look at Forest under Cloughie. |
Yep, mid-50s  . It was a good time. I enjoyed the Lyall years too as I’d not long learnt to drive then so was driving around the country having a blast with uni mates. That was special, but Burley’s era had it all. Where you are in life has a lot to do with it I think. That’s partly why our resurgence under KM, while obviously great for the club, meant less to me personally as I’m too far away and have too many things on with the family to make football a priority. I haven’t created that many memories in recent years. (And even though we seemed to win every week, every time I saw us through 22/23 and 23/24 we drew or lost!). | |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:59 - Nov 11 with 651 views | norfsufblue |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:44 - Nov 11 by Metal_Hacker |
Early 80's for me
Some distasteful stuff kicking off around football grounds.... but not only was it a quality time for us a club but I was also in my early teens.Pubescent snotty nosed kid loving life . Living in a pub frequented by several players whilst we lived there .
Smash Hits delivered every Thursday morning , creating friends for life at the time
Standing in the North Stand surrounding by pi55ed up blokes but those very same pi55ed up blokes protected you like you were their own
Toilet rolls strewn all over , away supporters clambering on top of the old North Stand roof and Celtic blowing the floodlights !
Plus the football wasn't too bad !! [Post edited 11 Nov 9:45]
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Mid 70's to early 80s can't really be topped for me, apart from the violent undercurrant we had great teams, trophies ,great music and I turned 18 in 78 Polegate drinking too.... TWTDs! |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 10:34 - Nov 11 with 569 views | homer_123 |
"related to your age and situation"
Yes, suspect it is linked to this as much as anything. |  |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 10:37 - Nov 11 with 556 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
If we are talking about Town, obviously the late 70's/early 80's
If generally, the late 80's, very early 90s before Sky got their hooks into it.
Proper Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures. Do I need to say anymore? [Post edited 11 Nov 10:37]
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 10:42 - Nov 11 with 525 views | Churchman |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 10:37 - Nov 11 by Cheltenham_Blue |
If we are talking about Town, obviously the late 70's/early 80's
If generally, the late 80's, very early 90s before Sky got their hooks into it.
Proper Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures. Do I need to say anymore? [Post edited 11 Nov 10:37]
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This. I loved watching GBs teams too. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 10:47 - Nov 11 with 507 views | MattinLondon |
In terms of Ipswich being successful the late 70s and early 80s was definitely the best period to watch them. I’m too young to have witnessed that team in full flow but definitely the most successful Town team ever.
Saying that, if a young teenager watches highlights of 80s football, they’ll probably see much more hoofball than what they are used to. Quite slow passages of play with a lot of fat footballers given a lot more time on the ball.
Everything is relatable to age - it’s quite hard to keep in touch with stuff. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:00 - Nov 11 with 468 views | Sarge |
If we’re talking about Ipswich then 2022-present. If it’s football as a whole then 2004-2010 or thereabouts is my favourite. Watching MOTD, collecting Shoot Out cards, reading Match magazine, etc etc. It felt like the gulf between the PL and the Championship was not quite as big, no VAR to ruin everything, the Champions League was viewable on terrestrial channels, and perhaps most critically I was between 10-16 years old. | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:09 - Nov 11 with 430 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
For me it has to be the late '70s / early '80s.
Lots of games, beating the best in England and across Europe, Wednesday night UEFA cup, expansive one-touch football, movie stars at Portman Rd, etc
What else could you want? | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:09 - Nov 11 with 430 views | gsoly |
I wonder how many people would say anything other than their teens?
Does feel like that is when we're at our most impressionable. I'm early 30s, and very fondly remember the Magilton era, when we seemed to win every home game, but could never make the play-offs. Yet I'm sure fans 10 years older lamented that period because we'd had the horror period post-relegation.
But it's that Magilton team for me, and then the McKenna era. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:18 - Nov 11 with 403 views | Sharkey |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:44 - Nov 11 by Metal_Hacker |
Early 80's for me
Some distasteful stuff kicking off around football grounds.... but not only was it a quality time for us a club but I was also in my early teens.Pubescent snotty nosed kid loving life . Living in a pub frequented by several players whilst we lived there .
Smash Hits delivered every Thursday morning , creating friends for life at the time
Standing in the North Stand surrounding by pi55ed up blokes but those very same pi55ed up blokes protected you like you were their own
Toilet rolls strewn all over , away supporters clambering on top of the old North Stand roof and Celtic blowing the floodlights !
Plus the football wasn't too bad !! [Post edited 11 Nov 9:45]
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Same for me. Going to both Portman Road and Layer Road as a kid, mostly by myself. I loved everything - the passive smoking, the whiff of violence, the long urinals, the witticisms from the crowd, the strong accents of some of the old blokes. It was like being allowed in the pub before you were allowed in the pub. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:33 - Nov 11 with 371 views | woodbridge_blue |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:09 - Nov 11 by SuffolkPunchFC |
For me it has to be the late '70s / early '80s.
Lots of games, beating the best in England and across Europe, Wednesday night UEFA cup, expansive one-touch football, movie stars at Portman Rd, etc
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It's one of the advantages of being the age I am now (65), to have had the glorious enjoyment of growing up with Bobby's teams.
No ID required in pubs, bar staff turning a blind eye to 16 and 17 year old drinkers. No irregular kick off times, we would commence at 11.00 in the Cock and Pye, a lot less comfortable than it is these days, maybe a couple of frames in the Lucania, then the Coach and Horses, long since disappeared as a pub, followed by The Plough, maybe Blue Coat Boy if we felt brave enough and finally The Falcon.
Into the North Stand via pay as you enter turnstiles by 2.30 at the very latest.
Entertained by a group of players the like of which we will never see again.
Games ending no later than 4.45, speed walking to Mannings, which always opened earlier than the legal time in those days.
Collecting the Green Un from the bottom of Lloyd's Avenue before 6.00 pm....how on earth was such a marvellous publication produced in such a short space of time?
An evening in Ipswich without any threat or peril, ending with the unique entertainment of the First Floor Club, and the excitement of not knowing where we would end up at the end of the night.
Almost seems like a different world, but boy it was great. | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 11:45 - Nov 11 with 323 views | ParisBlue |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 09:59 - Nov 11 by Swansea_Blue |
Yep, mid-50s . It was a good time. I enjoyed the Lyall years too as I’d not long learnt to drive then so was driving around the country having a blast with uni mates. That was special, but Burley’s era had it all. Where you are in life has a lot to do with it I think. That’s partly why our resurgence under KM, while obviously great for the club, meant less to me personally as I’m too far away and have too many things on with the family to make football a priority. I haven’t created that many memories in recent years. (And even though we seemed to win every week, every time I saw us through 22/23 and 23/24 we drew or lost!). |
Similar age to you. In 91/92 I was away at uni, my record read P4 W0 D0 L4.
After almost 20 years of having a season ticket before relinquishing it, in 23/24 I decided to start going to away games in preference to home games (i have a 450 mile round trip, so every game is an away game). Fair to say I've embraced the last 2-3 years. I don't think anything will ever equal that season for me. |  |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:18 - Nov 11 with 270 views | FBI |
'78-81 was my formative Town era. Churchman's, Golden Goal tickets, dolly birds flogging merch from trays, the toilets of terror on the way out, stopping off for a postmatch bag of Worcester Sauce French Fries and a can of coke at the newsagents on the roundabout on the way home and THAT team: I just assumed that was how it was and didn't appreciate how special they were.
EDIT: Oh, and Mick Lambert on the bench. Always. The only option.
EDIT EDIT: We beat Barcelona? (Shrugs)
Downsides were how deeply unpleasant British football grounds and fans could be, the "Trigger Trigger Trigger" song and the insularity that meant we lived in a sporting bubble where we still thought English football was the best in the world despiute barely qualifying for any international competitions.
It does colour this old git's feelings about modern football, with VAR, play acting and shouting "Shoooootttt!!!" but this generation will look back mistily in 30 years' time too, I suppose. [Post edited 11 Nov 12:36]
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:28 - Nov 11 with 225 views | Mark |
The promotion under Burley at Wembley after years of building up to it followed by finishing 5th to earn European football has to be the best era of football in my years of going. Back the there was no VAR, no digital advertising, teams usually wore their proper colours, and most games kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday. Clubs could not substitute half their outfield players, meaning less advantage to the bigger clubs, and that also made yellow cards more important. The best seats in the stadium belonged to fans, not the press back then. |  | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:47 - Nov 11 with 178 views | Deano69 |
Late 70's, early 80's - probably obvious if you are an oldie like me I guess. |  |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:55 - Nov 11 with 152 views | mellowblue |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:18 - Nov 11 by FBI |
'78-81 was my formative Town era. Churchman's, Golden Goal tickets, dolly birds flogging merch from trays, the toilets of terror on the way out, stopping off for a postmatch bag of Worcester Sauce French Fries and a can of coke at the newsagents on the roundabout on the way home and THAT team: I just assumed that was how it was and didn't appreciate how special they were.
EDIT: Oh, and Mick Lambert on the bench. Always. The only option.
EDIT EDIT: We beat Barcelona? (Shrugs)
Downsides were how deeply unpleasant British football grounds and fans could be, the "Trigger Trigger Trigger" song and the insularity that meant we lived in a sporting bubble where we still thought English football was the best in the world despiute barely qualifying for any international competitions.
It does colour this old git's feelings about modern football, with VAR, play acting and shouting "Shoooootttt!!!" but this generation will look back mistily in 30 years' time too, I suppose. [Post edited 11 Nov 12:36]
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Beat Barca twice. 3-0 in 77 and 2-1 in 79. Lost both ties away 3-0 and 1-0, lost on pens. | | | |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:58 - Nov 11 with 139 views | FBI |
| Favourite era for watching football? on 12:55 - Nov 11 by mellowblue |
Beat Barca twice. 3-0 in 77 and 2-1 in 79. Lost both ties away 3-0 and 1-0, lost on pens. |
Yup. And I thought that was just the way things happened. | |
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| Favourite era for watching football? on 13:06 - Nov 11 with 107 views | Jon_456 |
In recent times it has to be 2nd half of the 2022-23 season.
From February (0-0 at Bristol) we were simply unstoppable. 13 clean sheets and just two goals conceded in 15 games, while scoring 43.. +41GD in 15 games is just mental. | | | |
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