Better than the good old days

It's a delight watching City winning trophies. I never thought City would win the league in my lifetime never mind my dads!
You also don't get that smell watching a game that was a cross between sweaty socks and onions standing on the Kippax or wonder if you'll lose your
shoes celebrating a goal!
 
I miss the half time choices we had at MR, either go to the toilet, or queue for food.
 
I miss Maine Road everything about it but really I miss my youth . The memories are mine though . I like the Etihad but the mustard is not as good as Maine Road not by a long shot .
 
Football specials warm piss on the back of your legs smell of sardines in the kippax bogs blues not twatting blues yes I loved my apprenticeship
 
KippaxCitizen said:
When it interrupts all the diving and pretending to be injured, football is actually of a higher quality than it ever has been. Just watch any full games (difficult with no ESPN Classic these days) from decades gone by and the quality, even at World Cup Final level, is way WAY off where it is now.

The pitches are better.

It's safer than it used to be to go and watch.

That is all...everything else about the sport is worse. Or maybe I've worded that incorrectly; the sport should be better than it is from where some aspects of it have developed from.

As I've said, the diving and feigning injury, as the game has speeded up officiating isn't moving in at the same level, there's still no video ref, fouls are given for anything, you at yellow cards for things that are just fouls, there's no proper challenges anymore, it costs a fucking fortune, what used to be a coach load of lads aged 18-35 going home and away every week it's now just the odd few of us each home game and away games are a rarity, no offence to anybody them but crowds are full of old blokes women kids and geeks, the atmospheres are poor, over-sanitised, too family orientated, clubs are just interested in earning money they don't care about fans, Sunday games, Monday games, fans have never been more disjointed from players...this sport could be so much better than it is. It's a real shame what this sport has become compared to what it could be as it is a wonderful game spoilt by too many factors.
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Absolutely spot on, the quality and facilities are obviously better but the match day 'experience' is awful, the lack of passion from the terraces, the cheesey pre-match shite and the prices :-(, without going all Colin Schindler give me Maine Road every time, bizarre as it sounds i go to all the homes out of duty and loyalty as much as anything.
 
philiph20 said:
Absolutely spot on, the quality and facilities are obviously better but the match day 'experience' is awful, the lack of passion from the terraces, the cheesey pre-match shite and the prices :-(, without going all Colin Schindler give me Maine Road every time, bizarre as it sounds i go to all the homes out of duty and loyalty as much as anything.
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I take it you've air-brushed Alan - the rag - Keegan and Jo Blakeway out of your Maine Rd memories. ;-)
 
Bbc spokesman said:
I miss Maine Road everything about it but really I miss my youth . The memories are mine though . I like the Etihad but the mustard is not as good as Maine Road not by a long shot .
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Haha. Me too. As someone said earlier, we'd been in a pub until near kick off and then stagger in, up those strange steps and be at the top of the Kippax looking down on a sea of noise and colour. Someone would get the pints at half-time as I was skinning up. After the match [we never left early], into town until some ridiculous time, then up and playing footy on Sunday Morning.

No, thinking about it, youth is overrated. We had culture back then but fuck all else. The quality of both life and football is much better now. The 80s were the worst of all. Up North in Thatcher's Britain. Now we are [apparently] THE Northern Powerhouse and have, of course, the most magnificent football club on the planet. The good old days, my arse.
 
Better - facilities, football quality, TV coverage, family friendly,

Worse - Prices, away ticket availability, lack of atmosphere, traffic, kick off times

Same - bovril
 
Personally the only thing I can think of that's better is city aren't shit.
Standing on the kippax was miles better.
The atmosphere was better.
It was cheaper.
You had a better crack cos u met new mates.
People didn't have to plan 3 months in advance before they went to a game.
 
The 'good thing' about the old days was that it was cheap, in real terms, not only getting in but train travel and so on. And you could decide to go to practically any match on the day or the night before without any hassle obtaining tickets, worrying about loyalty points, etc.

Pretty much everything else is better now. Except the atmosphere is sanitised, and there is cheesy, pre-match 'entertainment' and deafening 'music'. But many people like that.
 
The half and half scarves.......they're great. Never had them in the good old days.

Fans singing where were we when we were shit...never had any of that either. (Just "Always look on the bright side of life.......)
 
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