Things that have "No Place in Football"

[The Large One]

The use of the suffix '-gate' to describe a controversial incident or practice.

In fact, you could apply that to any incidence of that, but it's particularly grating in football.

It's not as though the original use of the suffix has been stolen and placed into the right context. I mean, it wasn't 'Watergategate', was it?

 

[xenophon]

Gategate - some untoward happening involving a scandal of some sort.....and a gate

It WILL happen

 

[The Spanish]

i'm just waiting for some 22 year old who has read a book about football in the eighties to start talking about the myth that is the popularity of adidas trim trabs.

retro Adidas fills the shelves but where is Diadora in all this?

 

[Mellotron]

The use of the suffix '-gate' to describe a controversial incident or practice.

In fact, you could apply that to any incidence of that, but it's particularly grating in football.

It's not as though the original use of the suffix has been stolen and placed into the right context. I mean, it wasn't 'Watergategate', was it?

Yeah but "BollockstoREMF-watergate" doesn't have the same ring, does it? Gate on it's own is snappy and everyone knows what it means.

 

[The Spanish]

The use of the suffix '-gate' to describe a controversial incident or practice.

In fact, you could apply that to any incidence of that, but it's particularly grating in football.

It's not as though the original use of the suffix has been stolen and placed into the right context. I mean, it wasn't 'Watergategate', was it?

Pizzagate is the official lowest point of this incident naming phenomenon.

 

[Gwylan]

Correct, I was minus 3. I'm too young to appreciate what a match day atmosphere was like in 1983, all I see is dreadful football whenever I watch clips from those days, played on absolute mudbaths a lot of the time.

Dreadful football?

There were some amazingly skilled players in British football in the 70s and 80s: Hoddle, Dalgleish, Rush, Ardiles, Villa, Bryan Robson, Ray Wilkins, Muhren, Thijssen off the top of my head. We also saw competitive games and leagues: the same teams didn't win the league and cup every year - in the 10 years before 1983, five teams won the league and seven teams won the cup (and only one team did both).

And one thing that you saw in football in those days, that you don't see now was tackling. Lots of fans (me included) think that full-blooded tackles from the likes of Dave Mackay and Albion's own Paul Clark were an exciting part of football.

The players are richer now, I grant you but just because an average Scandinavian hoofer is on good dosh, it doesn't make him a world-class player.

You're right about the pitches but that generally made for better entertainment as far as I was concerned.

 

[xenophon]

retro Adidas fills the shelves but where is Diadora in all this?

Hands up, I own a pair of white Diadora trainers. I've always had a "thing" for pristine white trainers, ever since I was a kid. I'm now too old to be wearing these things still, but still do. Is there some kind of counselling group I can attend?

 

[User removed 4]

retro Adidas fills the shelves but where is Diadora in all this?

i know , loved my diadoras, might even go and buy a diamond pringle later !

 

[Safe.]

Hands up, I own a pair of white Diadora trainers. I've always had a "thing" for pristine white trainers, ever since I was a kid. I'm now too old to be wearing these things now, but still do. Is there some king of counselling group I can attend?

 

[Mellotron]

Dreadful football?

There were some amazingly skilled players in British football in the 70s and 80s.

On the other hand, for example - you would see a League Two defender do a Cruyff turn nowadays and no one would think anything of it. Back in the 70/80s it took one of the BEST players in the world to do that.

George Best would be a good Championship player nowadays. I've seen Glen Johnson do better tricks than Best. And hit better goals. That's Glen Johnson, the regular/good full back.

 

[Safe.]

I used to laugh at my dad when he said that Diadora, Fila etc were the makes back when he was a kid.

 

[User removed 4]

Dreadful football?

There were some amazingly skilled players in British football in the 70s and 80s: Hoddle, Dalgleish, Rush, Ardiles, Villa, Bryan Robson, Ray Wilkins, Muhren, Thijssen off the top of my head. We also saw competitive games and leagues: the same teams didn't win the league and cup every year - in the 10 years before 1983, five teams won the league and seven teams won the cup (and only one team did both).

And one thing that you saw in football in those days, that you don't see now was tackling. Lots of fans (me included) think that full-blooded tackles from the likes of Dave Mackay and Albion's own Paul Clark were an exciting part of football.

The players are richer now, I grant you but just because an average Scandinavian hoofer is on good dosh, it doesn't make him a world-class player.

You're right about the pitches but that generally made for better entertainment as far as I was concerned.

just a minor point, who did the double between 73 and 83 ?

 

[The Spanish]

Hands up, I own a pair of white Diadora trainers. I've always had a "thing" for pristine white trainers, ever since I was a kid. I'm now too old to be wearing these things still, but still do. Is there some kind of counselling group I can attend?

yes Bjorn Borg runs one.


No shame in that mate Diadoras were/are the f***ing business. Adidas is for northerners.

 

[Gwylan]

just a minor point, who did the double between 73 and 83 ?

No-one did...I didn't anyone did. I said only one team won the League and the Cup sometime between 1974 and 1983 ...and only one team did.

 

[The Large One]

Yeah but "BollockstoREMF-watergate" doesn't have the same ring, does it? Gate on it's own is snappy and everyone knows what it means.

In journalistic terms, it's shocking laziness of the worst kind, made up by gormless hacks who lack the wit and intelligence to ably and aptly report on an incident without it descending to the level of the lowest common denominator every time.

It has no place in football, no relevance in comparison to the original use, and no class in terms of intelligent debate.

So there.

 

[xenophon]

No shame in that mate Diadoras were/are the f***ing business. Adidas is for northerners.

...is the right answer, I never liked adidas. Nike, Reebok, even British Knights at one point. I just love white trainers, I only buy coloured trainers as proper running shoes

 

[User removed 4]

No-one did...I didn't anyone did. I said only one team won the League and the Cup sometime between 1974 and 1983 ...and only one team did.

liverpool ?

 

[Gwylan]

liverpool ?

Indeed.


It's staggering to think that 11 different teams won the two major competitions in a 10-year period. We'd be lucky to get six now.

 

[User removed 4]

one thing i dont miss really is terraces,even in my twenties i preferred to sit down.

 

[coventrygull]

Calling Certain teams a brand name