Things which have been lost from football.

[Twinkle Toes]

Scaldingly hot Ribena at half time - in a wafer-thin plastic cup

Smoking

Bog-roll streamers

Grass-free pitches which resembled WW1 battlefields when it rained (eg The Baseball Ground).

 

[Storer68]

Exciting games.

tackling, decent defending rather than a mindless hoof upfield........

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Cup Final Grandstand starting at 10:30am

Player of the Season winning a telly

Didn't the viewer who's vote won goal of the month on MOTD win a small amount of premium bonds?

Also, if you look at old games on ESPN Classic or Big Match Replayed teams consisted of pretty ugly journeymen who looked like they were sunday pub team players. They seemed to be rather substantial units with no idea of style when it came to hair and beards/taches. Also looking back on those games on TV now, it always seemed to be much colder in winter and much hotter and sunnier in Summer.

 

[Seagullible]

celery
Rocket Man

 

[Publius Ovidius]

6ft+ skinheads with Doc Martins, short drain pipe jeans, white shirts, braces and green puffer jackets

 

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6ft+ skinheads with Doc Martins, short drain pipe jeans, white shirts, braces and green puffer jackets

thats what you get when you go to revenge for a pre match pint

 

[Munkfish]

woman streakers

 

[Twinkle Toes]

British Rail running regular 'Football Specials'.

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Fences
No players names on shirts
A-Z half time score boards
Just one substitute

 

[The Spanish]

coppers helmets occasionally flying about in the middle of a terrace.

ejections not leading to lifetime bans or DNA samples but simply having to go home without your mates.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Atmoshphere

Are you Steve McClaren?

 

[Jello]

marching bands before ko and at HT

 

[backson]

The old guy with thick rimmed glasses, who used to come out of the tunnel just before the players, to wave up at someone to start "Sussex by the Sea"

 

[backson]

Goalkeepers with no gloves

 

[crasher]

Sam Leitch

 

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goalies with plain green shirts.

 

[glasfryn]

players who play with some passion for the club that pays their wages




where in gods name have they all gone?

 

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players who play with some passion for the club that pays their wages




where in gods name have they all gone?

i take it you didnt see the way joleon lescott played yesterday ?

 

[phil1977]

Saint and Greavsie

Jimmy Hill

Players shirts numbered 1 to 11

Teams like Wimbledon and Cambridge succeding by playing long ball tactics

Millichip and Kelly playing with the FA Cup balls at Lancaster Gate before it became a lottery style event

Royalty handing out said cup to winners

 

[Jamon Jamon]

ejections not leading to lifetime bans or DNA samples but simply having to go home without your mates.

applies in all walks of life now, take work for example, things that used to get you a good old fashioned bollocking now get you the sack. sad times we live in