gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
When people hark back to the football of the 1970's they should cast their eyes to the world of pubs in that time to get a sense of perspective.
Both are unrecognisable today from what they were forty years ago, for a number of technological and socioeconomic reasons. Blue-collar boozers broadly don't exist anymore because the word that spawned them is no more.
The same is true about terraces and paying on the door at games, for better or worse.
The world keeps turning and little, very little, remains unchanged.
Arterial roads in towns and cities up and down the country are littered with formerly bustling boozers. Some vacant, some converted to residential properties, others now alternative retail outlets; including restaurants. All stand as testament to the unsentimentality and harsh brutality of human progress.
Sad, but inevitable, I'm afraid.
Both are unrecognisable today from what they were forty years ago, for a number of technological and socioeconomic reasons. Blue-collar boozers broadly don't exist anymore because the word that spawned them is no more.
The same is true about terraces and paying on the door at games, for better or worse.
The world keeps turning and little, very little, remains unchanged.
Arterial roads in towns and cities up and down the country are littered with formerly bustling boozers. Some vacant, some converted to residential properties, others now alternative retail outlets; including restaurants. All stand as testament to the unsentimentality and harsh brutality of human progress.
Sad, but inevitable, I'm afraid.
