The old days

[give it to gordon]

Now dont get me wrong I'm living the dream and wouldnt want it any other way.

But I miss when football was just about what was played on the pitch.

Now every one is an accountant, a lawyer, a ref etc.

FFP bent as a nine bob note brought in to stop competition and protect the old school.

VAR again brought in to protect the old school and to effect games ( Rashford at old toilet for one )

Football press/media only cover 2 or 3 clubs, and again properly employed by American owned media outlets.

Tweeter, Facebook etc allow hatred to be passed around the world so quickly.

American owners wanting a closed shop league.

Fans seem to spend most of their time talking about things of the pitch.

I really fear for our game and deep down think we have seen the best and the American owners will slow destroy our game we loved as kids.

Anyone else miss the time football was simple and just a game between 22 players ?
Or am I suffering from rose tinted glasses ?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

hmmmm the old days...

Thug football where the Roy Keanes and VInny fucking Jones were the best in Europe!?
Only utd and arsenal mattered.
Where it wasnt even televised unless someone at ITV decided they would put it on.
Players so shit they were stealing a living.
All the fans fighting, street battle over a game of football.
The racism my god the racism. I just dont get the criticims nowadays when there were whole stands singing racists songs at players, on TV, without anyone saying a thing about how wrong it was. We have improved so much there.
refereeing standards so poor they couldnt keep up with the players.


What I do miss was the simplicity though. Its 22 plyers kicking a ball about, there wasnt micro-analaysis of everything, or extracting as much money as possible out of it. But like everything else that is profitable it was never going to stay the same .

 

[BlueRockape]

hmmmm the old days...

Thug football where the Roy Keanes and VInny fucking Jones were the best in Europe!?
Only utd and arsenal mattered.
Where it wasnt even televised unless someone at ITV decided they would put it on.
Players so shit they were stealing a living.
All the fans fighting, street battle over a game of football.
The racism my god the racism. I just dont get the criticims nowadays when there were whole stands singing racists songs at players, on TV, without anyone saying a thing about how wrong it was. We have improved so much there.
refereeing standards so poor they couldnt keep up with the players.


What I do miss was the simplicity though. Its 22 plyers kicking a ball about, there wasnt micro-analaysis of everything, or extracting as much money as possible out of it. But like everything else that is profitable it was never going to stay the same .

Ahhhhh the good old days : )
But I do miss the smells of bovril hotdogs stale beer and piss on a Saturday afternoon : ( .



By the way I am not being sarcastic...I really miss it

 

[mexico1970]

hmmmm the old days...

Thug football where the Roy Keanes and VInny fucking Jones were the best in Europe!?
Only utd and arsenal mattered.
Where it wasnt even televised unless someone at ITV decided they would put it on.
Players so shit they were stealing a living.
All the fans fighting, street battle over a game of football.
The racism my god the racism. I just dont get the criticims nowadays when there were whole stands singing racists songs at players, on TV, without anyone saying a thing about how wrong it was. We have improved so much there.
refereeing standards so poor they couldnt keep up with the players.


What I do miss was the simplicity though. Its 22 plyers kicking a ball about, there wasnt micro-analaysis of everything, or extracting as much money as possible out of it. But like everything else that is profitable it was never going to stay the same .

You would have to roll back quite a few years to even consider them being good old days mate, IMHO early 60's to the 80's.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

80s to 2008 for me.

 

[superwatsonwatson]

Now dont get me wrong I'm living the dream and wouldnt want it any other way.

But I miss when football was just about what was played on the pitch.

Now every one is an accountant, a lawyer, a ref etc.

FFP bent as a nine bob note brought in to stop competition and protect the old school.

VAR again brought in to protect the old school and to effect games ( Rashford at old toilet for one )

Football press/media only cover 2 or 3 clubs, and again properly employed by American owned media outlets.

Tweeter, Facebook etc allow hatred to be passed around the world so quickly.

American owners wanting a closed shop league.

Fans seem to spend most of their time talking about things of the pitch.

I really fear for our game and deep down think we have seen the best and the American owners will slow destroy our game we loved as kids.

Anyone else miss the time football was simple and just a game between 22 players ?
Or am I suffering from rose tinted glasses ?

I get what you are saying give it. I’d also say there are so many celebrities off the pitch and in the studio these days it’s becoming tiresome. You know what they are going to say before they say it.
At least the script should change now for our Champions lge games.

 

[give it to gordon]

hmmmm the old days...

Thug football where the Roy Keanes and VInny fucking Jones were the best in Europe!?
Only utd and arsenal mattered.
Where it wasnt even televised unless someone at ITV decided they would put it on.
Players so shit they were stealing a living.
All the fans fighting, street battle over a game of football.
The racism my god the racism. I just dont get the criticims nowadays when there were whole stands singing racists songs at players, on TV, without anyone saying a thing about how wrong it was. We have improved so much there.
refereeing standards so poor they couldnt keep up with the players.


What I do miss was the simplicity though. Its 22 plyers kicking a ball about, there wasnt micro-analaysis of everything, or extracting as much money as possible out of it. But like everything else that is profitable it was never going to stay the same .

Your last paragraph was what I was trying to say lol

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Ahhhhh the good old days : )
But I do miss the smells of bovril hotdogs stale beer and piss on a Saturday afternoon : ( .



By the way I am not being sarcastic...I really miss it

I work as a bus driver mate....if you miss those smells catch a bus about 11pm and stay on for a couple of hours.

 

[Del_Bosque]

You miss when we were shit, it used to kick off all the time and you couldn’t watch the games you didn’t make it to and coverage was a side column in the MEN?

We’re absolutely blessed to be winning it all now and watching hundreds of angles of every action at your finger tips day and night rather than passing round vhs to watch on shitty tv’s like United in 99.

It might be more expensive but the day out is better as well, town is a million miles ahead of any time before.

I don’t reckon theres any fans in England ever had a better time of it than City fans having a day out in NQ/Ancoats with their mates, strolling to the game, watching City rip apart some “European giant”, then heading back in to town after to celebrate and soaking up the highlights and podcasts about it over next few days.

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

You miss when we were shit, it used to kick off all the time and you couldn’t watch the games you didn’t make it to and coverage was a side column in the MEN?

We’re absolutely blessed to be winning it all now and watching hundreds of angles of every action at your finger tips day and night rather than passing round vhs to watch on shitty tv’s like United in 99.

It might be more expensive but the day out is better as well, town is a million miles ahead of any time before.

I don’t reckon theres any fans in England ever had a better time of it than City fans having a day out in NQ/Ancoats with their mates, strolling to the game, watching City rip apart some “European giant”, then heading back in to town after to celebrate and soaking up the highlights and podcasts about it over next few days.

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing but this is a great post. We've never and probably won't ever have it better than what we've had in the last 5 years. Soak it up, blues. We don't know we're born.