Football baths... All in it together?

[clippedgull]

more here: http://www.theguardian.com/football...-pictures-gallery#/?picture=434046578&index=0



Ipswich Town players having a bath together at Portman Road in 1939 after their 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa in their FA Cup third-round replay (2nd picture)








Fulham players enjoy a brine bath in Southend, in preparation for their important 1929-30 fourth-round FA Cup tie against Nottingham Forest

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Pass the soap please.......

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Whitehawk used to have a huge bath, I've heard they've replaced it with showers.

 

[catfish]

I love the one of the Ipswich players smoking in the bath.

 

[Mellotron]

Bath that small with that many sweaty men is surely just going to make you dirtier...?

 

[jonsey]

Horsham FC also had the same at Queens Street....old skool

Get in first or wash in all the mud from the other players.......thank god for the shower

 

[Superphil]

Where's the soap?

Yes, it does, doesn't it?

 

[smeariestbat]

i cant remember where it was, but we played a rugby tournament somewhere in sussex, i must've been about 10. They had 2 massive baths that seemed like swimming pools at that age! probably more like the picture of the ipswich guys nowadays though

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Played at the old Wembley once and was in the England changing room and there was a big communal bath with half a dozen single baths....don't recall any showers. This was about 1997 ish

 

[Quinney]

Pilot Field Hastings after winning a cup final drinking some dodgy lager. Happy days.

 

[Harry H]

Golstone Ground,Hastings,Whitehawk,Horsham......Bin in them all.
At Southampton (The Dell) they were individual.
You can't beat a long soak in the bath.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It was two to a bath at Mowden (now Lancing College Junior).

Just four baths available for 18 dirty rugby players meant the last ones in were faced with a thickened muddy soup to bathe in.