Things you don’t see anymore in football

[Bobby the blue]

Indirect free kicks in the penalty area after an obstruction.

Goalkeepers drop kicking the ball out of their hands.

Players shaking hands after a goal has been scored.

Toilet roll being thrown on the pitch.

At a World Cup or cup final players with socks rolled right down.

Players wearing black football boots.

Goalkeepers having a glove bag with them to go in the net or a spare pair of gloves on the nets.

Keepers marking out the posts with their studs on the six yard box.

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[Kippaxpete]

Pitches looking like ploughed fields, even in the top flight.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Flags on the halfway line.

 

[pirate]

the rags winning trophies

 

[Newman Noggs]

Fat trainer scurrying onto the pitch to attend an injury with a bucket and sponge sometimes accompanied by a hovering band of St John's ambulance men.

 

[blue wang]

Streakers..

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Plain white footballs. Orange ones in the winter.

 

[BrianW]

Players having to be dragged out of the Claremont to sign for another club. (Bobby Johnstone.)

Players standing outside the ground eating fish and chips, only to be told by the Chairman that they're playing that day. (Mike Doyle).

Players with hardly any teeth. (eg Nobby Stiles.)

Football rattles.

 

[Blue Mist]

the rags winning trophies

Winner. End the thread now.

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Combovers. Ralph Coates’ used to drag in the mud behind him.