Things which have been lost from football.

[xenophon]

Rattles and kids standing on boxes that their grandfathers had made for them.

There's a guy in Block H with a rattle, I've seen him a few times now

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Menacing Skinheads

 

[Trigger]

Football itself has been lost in this business.

 

[skipper734]

Brown ankle high boots, with nail in leather studs and a toecap that would not look out of place on a modern pair of steel toecap safety boots.
I was about Twelve before I learnt you didn't have to kick the ball with the toecap. Coaching was a foreign word in those days.

 

[getreal1]

Perimeter boards with the half time scores on.

 

[getreal1]

Being excited because your team, albeit in the lower leagues, was going to be on either MOTD or the Big Match that weekend (or Southern Soccer with David Bobin).

 

[Gwylan]

BCoaching was a foreign word in those days.

Coach IS a foreign word - it's derived from a Kocs a town in Hungary that developed the first coaches. Coach in the training sense is because the coaches carry their students through the course.

That's today's trivial fact for you

 

[skipper734]

Coach IS a foreign word - it's derived from a Kocs a town in Hungary that developed the first coaches. Coach in the training sense is because the coaches carry their students through the course.

That's today's trivial fact for you

So at the Albion. Russell is the driver of the coach, or the Coacher and Dean White and Bob Booker are the Postilions.