Dirty Tricks - Pink Away Dressing Room - etc

[SWP's back]

I doubt there is a single player out there who would give a flying one about the colour or layout of the dressing room,

I very much doubt it. Everyone likes enough space to change etc.

 

[Blue Til Death]

I very much doubt it. Everyone likes enough space to change etc.

Maybe so but would it affect their performance? If it did the players in question would be pretty lame ...
Modern players are pampered in every way it’s true but once on the pitch I’m sure the facilities would be the last thing on their minds, the pink dressing room would be quite calming I would have thought ..

 

[m7mcfc]

Merseyside police publishing the route that City were going to take to Anfield knowing a baying mob were waiting to smash it. Possibly the lowest trick of all, orchestrated in conjunction with Itsneverourfault FC.

Total bullshit their coach stunt, if anything the lads should have thought fuck you lot and hammered them but we did not.
No excuses.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I doubt there is a single player out there who would give a flying one about the colour or layout of the dressing room, if anything it would spur most on if they thought the opposition were fucking about trying to gain an advantage...

I am sure there is some very clever scientist who can demonstrate that this has some sort impact on some individuals from a variety of tests over thousands of people, however for the life of me i cannot believe that this in any way gives the home team any tangible advantage.

For instance, by the fact it is now well known that it is supposed to put you off, you are more likely to dis-regard it.

If the reasoning was kept under wraps maybe there would be the slightest element where it may sub-consiously make the players balls shrink?

 

[petrusha]

John Beck’s horticultural skills in the corners of the pitch springs to mind.

Brings back memories. I watched that lot regularly during my time at university, when they started out playing some of the worst football you could ever possibly imagine and then really took off when Beck was appointed. They went straight from the old fourth to the old second in successive seasons, reaching the FA Cup quarter finals each time with some giant-killing wins. The football wasn't half basic, though - made the Wimbledon Crazy Gang look like the Real Madrid of Puskas and di Stefano.

There were loads of dirty tricks stories at the time. People claimed that Beck would occasionally break the flushing mechanism in the toilet in the tiny opponents' dressing room or turn off the hot water. When the complaint came through and someone was sent to fix the problem, he'd wasted half an hour of the opposition's preparation time. Another one I remember is that they'd pump up the opposition's practice balls to a slightly different pressure from the one used for the actual match ball so that the other team would keep under-hitting or over-hitting their passes once the game started.

This all seemed to be common knowledge among the supporters. And I don't remember speaking to any fans in the town in that era who'd ever suggest, when discussing it, that they had a problem with seeking an advantage through such unsporting methods. :)

 

[Vienna_70]

Brings back memories. I watched that lot regularly during my time at university, when they started out playing some of the worst football you could ever possibly imagine and then really took off when Beck was appointed. They went straight from the old fourth to the old second in successive seasons, reaching the FA Cup quarter finals each time with some giant-killing wins. The football wasn't half basic, though - made the Wimbledon Crazy Gang look like the Real Madrid of Puskas and di Stefano.

There were loads of dirty tricks stories at the time. People claimed that Beck would occasionally break the flushing mechanism in the toilet in the tiny opponents' dressing room or turn off the hot water. When the complaint came through and someone was sent to fix the problem, he'd wasted half an hour of the opposition's preparation time. Another one I remember is that they'd pump up the opposition's practice balls to a slightly different pressure from the one used for the actual match ball so that the other team would keep under-hitting or over-hitting their passes once the game started.

This all seemed to be common knowledge among the supporters. And I don't remember speaking to any fans in the town in that era who'd ever suggest, when discussing it, that they had a problem with seeking an advantage through such unsporting methods. :)

Was that during Dublin's time at Cambridge?

 

[deano ou812]

Remember some apparently turned the heating off in the away changing rooms ..

 

[petrusha]

Was that during Dublin's time at Cambridge?

Yes. He was the target man and star player throughout those days. To show what a great judge of a player I am, I thought he was a big donkey who could thrive in a set-up like Beck's but would be embarrassed at a higher level. He ended up playing over 300 PL games and being capped several times for England! :)

 

[Vienna_70]

Yes. He was the target man and star player throughout those days. To show what a great judge of a player I am, I thought he was a big donkey who could thrive in a set-up like Beck's but would be embarrassed at a higher level. He ended up playing over 300 PL games and being capped several times for England! :)

He did very well for Coventry with a certain Darren Huckerby alongside him, IIRC.

 

[petrusha]

He did very well for Coventry with a certain Darren Huckerby alongside him, IIRC.

Having seen him in his very early days when he'd just been given a free by Norwich, I couldn't believe it was the same player when I watched him play for Cov against us in the mid-1990s.