Things you don’t see anymore in football

[elbearos]

Booing the away team on to the pitch

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Lace up footballs (sorry if this has already been posted)

 

[Gabriel]

Players in their club blazers. Smart as a row of carrots, freshly scrubbed

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Small local companies with an advertising board for the season
Pitch being at eye level even when you’re standing up on the terrace
20 lads trying to take an entire end jacked up on tennants super
Turn up on the day & pay at the turnstile (even aways) locked out many times
Jimmy Hill on everything football related
Little signs hung up at the turnstile with price of entry on
Pie trolleys
Whistling at young women walking round the pitch & get your …. out for the lads
Brass bands
Corrugated roofing & testing out the echo when you’re first in at an away match
Fanzines being sold outside the ground
Program’s with expected team/1-11 on the back page
Tiny club shops

 

[yeah whatever !!]

The rags singing;
'We score when we want-we score when we want,
We're man united-we score when we want.

 

[jimharri]

The souvenir shop at Maine Rd, beside Stan Gibson's house. 6 people in there, and it was rammed.



Er; the souvenir shop, not Stan's!

 

[jimharri]

Tearing the page with the appropriate match number out of your season ticket book.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Comb overs.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Fans carrying an outstretched blanket around the ground and collecting for a worthy cause.

Happens at the Moston Rag Socks every home game although the cause isn't worthy....

 

[bluemoon32]

As a small kid, Ralph Coates looked like a 50 year old!

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Fine player though

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

A drop ball with a player from each side going for it

Players wearing sweat bands on their wrist (Peter Withe)

Players with those weird white strips on their nose (Fowler)

Fans queuing up over night for tickets

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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 scored.....

 

[Kippaxpete]

Going to Piccadily station during the week to buy your football special ticket for the following Saturday.

The football special! Very worst rolling stock on the British Rail network chartered especially for the game with what was essentially a tuck shop behind a metal grille providing the only refreshments. When the authorities treated us like animals back in the 70's they shouldn't have been surprised when some behaved like animals.

 

[KentBlue]

They've scored.....
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One of the most iconic pictures in BlueMoon history.

 

[Kippax77]

The smell of beer, tobacco and farts when stood on the terraces

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

Police marching round the pitch just before the end of the match to the Laurel & Hardy theme tune being whistled by the fans

Or singing "Harry Roberts is our friend"

 

[Bobby the blue]

Players wearing headbands.

Proper full on shoulder barges.

Players getting muddy shorts.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

The smell of beer, tobacco and farts when stood on the terraces

Or the players changing room ;)

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Why does nobody wear a decent pair of shinpads nowadays