Things you don’t see anymore in football

[KS55]

Keith Weller!

Aye, that’s him. I could picture him in my mind when posting, but couldn’t remember his name.

 

[Big Swifty]

Clubs keeping the same strip for several years

 

[dickie davies]

You missed off the annual Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks battle inbetween

This could be recreated with Rooney vs Shaw

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I

Those blue disabled cars parked up around the pitch.

Invacars??

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Physios running into the pitch with a bucket of iced water and a sponge..

What's that..?

You've had a kick on the shin
Got cramp
Elbow in the face
Twisted ankle
Lost your front teeth
Dead leg
Something in your eye

There was no need to employ expensive doctors or over qualified medical staff back in the day..


A quick dip of the sponge into the bucket of iced water and application of said sponge to the injured player's nether regions and he's immediately back on his feet and ready to go..!

Magic sponge

 

[bluemoon32]

I was gutted when ref's started wearing different coloured shirts meaning we could no longer chant "Who's the b@stard in the black?"

Yeah, "who's the bastard in the turquoise" just doesn't sound right.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Don’t know if anyone already mentioned this, but meat pies with meat in them !

A figment of your imagination…

 

[tregyblue61]

Magic sponge

Does anyone remember a mid week home game against Grimsby 1996/97?

Nigel Clough went down, the fans cheered, the trainer with the magic sponge came running on to Ne Naw Ne Naw, Cloughie got up and everyone booed.

Brilliant days!

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Fergie time.

 

[richardtheref]

Utd challenging for trophies

 

[yeah whatever !!]

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

Dont forget the ticket tout.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

One of the most iconic pictures in BlueMoon history.

It's just the perfect picture / video. The odds of them being stood right in front / behind each other.
I was disappointed City didn't try and contact them and secretly (unbeknownst to each other and that City were organising it) invite them to a slap up meal at a top restaurant on the 10th anniversary and have Aguero turn up to give them some kind of award on behalf of City fans everywhere

 

[penalty spot]

Crowd surges up and down the terraces in big games.

 

[Aba452]

Do not miss trying to squeeze through the kippax turnstiles. Designed for anorexic cocktail drinkers, rather than short, with a tendency to portly folk.

If I knew anything about BMI charts, I'm the perfect weight, if I was 9ft 3 ;-)))

 

[the blue panther]

Richard Keys - I know he's still out there on some middle eastern channel, but it's a comfort not to have to see the twat who was once the face of football on Sky - the hirsute, lip-lacking, stub-nosed, annoying, thick, useless ****.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Old but funny

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

The Somme....

Love old photos like that. Where did you dig them out?
I'm pretty sure that the top photo is at Stamford Bridge, with the old Shed, when it really was a shed. The second looks very familiar to me, with that distinctive stand design over to the right, but I can't quite place it. Can anyone locate the second and third, please?
Edit: just occurred to me to look at the jerseys! Middle one looks like Sunderland jerseys (the bloke with the ball), but could be Saints, too. Roker Park? The Dell? Bottom one looks possibly like Arsenal v Spurs, but surely you'd have to go back a long way at either ground to still have a completely uncovered terrace the length of the pitch, so that's implausible to me.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Decent pundits and presenters.

I think they've got better, actually (well, some of them). Have you listened to Ken Wolstenholme on the old matches? I think his main qualification was that he had one of those affable BBC voices that have now become rare.His ‘commentary’ was limited to calling out the names of the players as they received the ball. And he sometimes got that wrong, too.
Motty was o.k., but more enthusiasm than knowledge, honestly. Rightly got roasted by Cloughie once, on just those grounds.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

I think they've got better, actually (well, some of them). Have you listened to Ken Wolstenholme on the old matches? I think his main qualification was that he had one of those affable BBC voices that have now become rare.His ‘commentary’ was limited to calling out the names of the players as they received the ball. And he sometimes got that wrong, too.
Motty was o.k., but more enthusiasm than knowledge, honestly. Rightly got roasted by Cloughie once, on just those grounds.

The pundits in the 70s and even 80s called out players when they needed to, criticised them and weren't afraid to ask awkward, intelligent (frequently) and interesting questions. We garner nothing from the pr-arranged guff and hot air nowadays.
But.......opinions, opinions.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Don't know if they still show it on British tv (strongly doubt it) but I used to love Grandstand on Saturdays with that theme music and those cameras with the four lenses on a sort of revolving hub.
Edit: as an unrepentant FOC, I of course refer to the proper theme and introduction, back in the sixties. I see that that was dropped in 1971.

On the same note: James Alexander Gordon reading the results. Still miss that voice.