Things you don’t see anymore in football

[abu13]

Dog shit alley.

 

[Gabriel]

Team photos where some players were sat on the ground, like a school photograph.

 

[Bobby the blue]

Team photos where some players were sat on the ground, like a school photograph.

Keepers in the middle arms folded.
Used to even have the youth team sitting down at the front sometimes.

 

[Gabriel]

Players celebrating winning a trophy but wearing their opponent’s swopped shirt, ala Dennis Tueart in 1976.

 

[Alex williams 67]

Them hotdog trolleys outside the ground

 

[Gabriel]

Keepers in the middle arms folded.
Used to even have the youth team sitting down at the front sometimes.

Another one that you still see but I’ve never understood why it happens: why was it that there always had to be a team photo on European nights?

 

[Alex williams 67]

Pinching policeman's helmets

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Players grasping opponents warmly by the throat, explaining that 'there will be consequences if you do that again, Sonny Jim..' (a la Dave Mackay on Billy Bremner) without so much as a 'by-your-leave' from the referee..

 

[Bobby the blue]

Another one that you still see but I’ve never understood why it happens: why was it that there always had to be a team photo on European nights?

Good question. I have no idea. Everyone I’ve ever seen they all look as miserable as fuck.

Do you remember years ago some chancer ran on the field when United were having there photo done and just joined in dressed in full kit.

 

[Bobby the blue]

Pinching policeman's helmets

Steady. Let’s not turn it blue.

 

[Gabriel]

Good question. I have no idea. Everyone I’ve ever seen they all look as miserable as fuck.

Do you remember years ago some chancer ran on the field when United were having there photo done and just joined in dressed in full kit.

To be fair, there’s a fair few chancers done that in recent years for that lot. Long may it continue.

Must be something about the pennant. You have one of those on a European night and the cameramen are round like moths to a flame.

 

[Bill the Blue]

Good question. I have no idea. Everyone I’ve ever seen they all look as miserable as fuck.

Do you remember years ago some chancer ran on the field when United were having there photo done and just joined in dressed in full kit.

Phil Jones ?

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

Fully grown men dressed as bears.

 

[dickie davies]

The "occasional" warm up was two players kicking a ball to each other on either side of the pitch. And it was a novelty to see that

Only three match officials
The lino on the dugout side had the responsibility of checking the player/s entering the field of play

Only two named subs allowed

 

[Vienna_70]

The "occasional" warm up was two players kicking a ball to each other on either side of the pitch. And it was a novelty to see that

Only three match officials
The lino on the dugout side had the responsibility of checking the player/s entering the field of play

Only two named subs allowed

I’m old enough to remember only one substitute per team, though not that old that I can recall the time, when none was allowed.

 

[ysmsa]

Bovril

Still sold in the South Stand!

 

[ysmsa]

The man with the pocket radio pressed against his ear. Could have been relaying any manner of nonsense but he was respected a level of trust nobody in modern society attains.

"They've score"

moustached Rag disagrees :-)

 

[Gabriel]

The sides of the pitch were just strips of mud from where the linesmen ran up and down them.

And the substitute only ever ‘warmed up’ when there was an injury to a teammate, and even then it had to be a near fatality to shift some.

 

[ysmsa]

Unless you get to a champions league final then you can make your own

Haha, and still not get in