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.

 

[Sir peace frog]

a lovely bottle of cider winging its way over to the away fans :) also a good old punch up between two young men clad in nothing but denim and mullets

 

[old blue]

The lady from Everton walking around the pitch handing out toffees, I never got one.

 

[Deepest Blue]

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

White dog shit…… on the way to the match.

 

[remember arthur mann]

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.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

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There is a lot going on in that photograph.

 

[remember arthur mann]

There is a lot going on in that photograph.

Had to dig into the archives for this one, probably classed as an offensive weapon now.

 

[bluemoon32]

Atmosphere

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Had to dig into the archives for this one, probably classed as an offensive weapon now.

Is that a baguette in his pocket, or is he just excited?

 

[johnevans]

Players grasping opponents warmly by the throat, explaining that 'there will be consequences if you do that again, Sonny Jim..' (a la Dave Mackay on Billy Bremner) without so much as a 'by-your-leave' from the referee..