spacecadet
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Oh and the Greenall Whitley beer farts every other Saturday and Wednesday on the good old Kippax terrace. Some proper fucking clear outs.
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The old days
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2pm before floodlights.Most matches being 3pm on a Saturday and tickets were never an issue. You also kept hold of the ticket for future proof of attendance!
I started going in 1998 which is nothing for some of you lot.
BrianW
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I think it's hard to discern the subtle difference between nostalgia for your youth and nostalgia for how things really were.
The truth is the quality of football in the past was shit compared to today. In part because the old pitches were mudheaps that made kick-and-rush practically a necessity. The English game valued energy, courage and determination way, way above skill or technical quality which were seen as something for 'foreign softies'.
Of course, there were compensating factors like getting in the Kippax for 25p as an adult and being able to go to practically any game you chose. But it was by no means paradise. Going to Liverpool or Everton was almost as dangerous as taking part in a commando raid.
The truth is the quality of football in the past was shit compared to today. In part because the old pitches were mudheaps that made kick-and-rush practically a necessity. The English game valued energy, courage and determination way, way above skill or technical quality which were seen as something for 'foreign softies'.
Of course, there were compensating factors like getting in the Kippax for 25p as an adult and being able to go to practically any game you chose. But it was by no means paradise. Going to Liverpool or Everton was almost as dangerous as taking part in a commando raid.
Manchester1894
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Pay on the gate is the biggest miss
SamBlue
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Nostalgia is like crack-heroin for (mostly) white middle aged men.
mexico1970
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Nostalgia is like crack-heroin for (mostly) white middle aged men.
What a shit pointless comment, everyone is nostalgic.
SamBlue
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Nope, I am not, the only way is forward. --> --> --> -->What a shit pointless comment, everyone is nostalgic.
mexico1970
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Nope, I am not, the only way is forward. --> --> --> -->
Everyone is nostalgic, why did you mention white people men in particular?
SamBlue
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And why does it bother you that I mentioned 'white people', which I suppose me and you are? ;)Everyone is nostalgic, why did you mention white people men in particular?
mexico1970
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And why does it bother you that I mentioned 'white people', which I suppose me and you are? ;)
Because it was a stupid comment aimed at just white middle aged men, it's an untruth.
And don't miss-colour me mate ;)