| Things you don't see in football anymore 09:09 - Mar 18 with 3259 views | MytchettSaint |
Don't know why but it I thought about the fad that was prevalent in the 00's that disappeared as fast as it arrived. Mainly Arsenal, but the practice of footballers smearing vicks vaporub on the chest of their shirts.
I firmly believe the disappearance of this practice coincided with Arsenals decline in winning league titles, nothing to do with them failing to replace great players with crapper ones. |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:15 - Mar 18 with 2160 views | DorsetIan |
Strange Football Fads No.2: Cutting circles in the back of your socks. |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:19 - Mar 18 with 2148 views | Number_58 |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:15 - Mar 18 by DorsetIan |
Strange Football Fads No.2: Cutting circles in the back of your socks. |
If it's to help avoid cramp it didn't work for Wolves. So many of them were hitting the deck on Saturday I thought there was a sniper in the stadium. Strangely though, they only get cramp when they're winning. |  | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:33 - Mar 18 with 2129 views | franniesTache |
Tearing up copies of the echo and chucking them in the air before kick off.
Chucking bog roll onto the pitch when a goal is scored.
Winning games |  | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:34 - Mar 18 with 2128 views | saints__fan__73 |
Goals? Wins? Or is that just us? |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:34 - Mar 18 with 2123 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:19 - Mar 18 by Number_58 |
If it's to help avoid cramp it didn't work for Wolves. So many of them were hitting the deck on Saturday I thought there was a sniper in the stadium. Strangely though, they only get cramp when they're winning. |
As did Newcastle platers Sunday, when they were winning of course |  | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 10:07 - Mar 18 with 2075 views | PatfromPoole |
Probably showing my age now....
1. Printed fanzines
2. The Pink paper / Sports Echo
3. End of season reviews on DVD / VHS (I remember buying these on VHS in Woolworths on Above Bar Street back in the early 90's) |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 10:23 - Mar 18 with 2054 views | dirk_doone |
Rattles and rosettes. |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 10:46 - Mar 18 with 2008 views | grumpy |
Terrace Wars |  | | |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 10:53 - Mar 18 with 1984 views | Centurion |
Smoke drifting up from the terraces from thousands of cigarettes.
Also, from the same, burn holes in your scarf and coats !
Numbered score boards. I rarely bought a programme so you had to look over the shoulder at someone who did, to get the scores. | | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:03 - Mar 18 with 1961 views | Heisenberg |
The smell of liniment wafting around the ground. Particularly at night games
Fans tying scarfs around wrists
Lifting kids over the turnstiles
Players having a half time fag
Saints winning |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:06 - Mar 18 with 1945 views | 1885_SFC |
A cup of my favourite hot Bovril on a freezing day... |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:22 - Mar 18 with 1921 views | SaintNick |
Thats why Arsenal got up my nose more than most clubs in the 70/80/90/00's |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:25 - Mar 18 with 1903 views | SaintNick |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 09:15 - Mar 18 by DorsetIan |
Strange Football Fads No.2: Cutting circles in the back of your socks. |
The socks now are very tight to hold in shin pads etc without tape and compress muscles, there fore some players have to cut holes in them to get into the socks.
They also cut off the foot part and wear grip socks underneath, that is why many players socks appear to have a white hoop at the bottom.
Anyone who has bought a pair will understand how hard the modern football sock is to get on and off the foot.
Professional clubs now have socks produces without a foot piece and so essentially just a tube | |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:49 - Mar 18 with 1857 views | TripleNiemi |
The gentleman that used to rock up at games with his postie uniform / bag having gone straight from work ……
#DellDays |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 12:29 - Mar 18 with 1804 views | Wints76 |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:49 - Mar 18 by TripleNiemi |
The gentleman that used to rock up at games with his postie uniform / bag having gone straight from work ……
#DellDays |
I still see him around Winch, mumbling cricket averages to himself. He was on an episode of The Weakest Link, with egg yolk all over his jumper.
Don't see cars around the edge of the pitch
Don't hear 5 announcements per match for fans to move their car as they are blocking someone in on Northlands Rd |  | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 12:34 - Mar 18 with 1799 views | SaintNick |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 12:29 - Mar 18 by Wints76 |
I still see him around Winch, mumbling cricket averages to himself. He was on an episode of The Weakest Link, with egg yolk all over his jumper.
Don't see cars around the edge of the pitch
Don't hear 5 announcements per match for fans to move their car as they are blocking someone in on Northlands Rd |
Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch
You dont see dogs invading the pitch any more
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 12:42 - Mar 18 with 1778 views | franniesTache |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:49 - Mar 18 by TripleNiemi |
The gentleman that used to rock up at games with his postie uniform / bag having gone straight from work ……
#DellDays |
He's still there, or at least was last season in the Itchen North. Think he drinks to the Wagon before the game as he goes with his daughter.
Top bloke and one of those proper faces from the Dell | | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 12:48 - Mar 18 with 1745 views | InTimeAddedOn |
The vaporub trend at Arsenal was down to their kit manager Vic Akers 😀 |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 14:03 - Mar 18 with 1663 views | saint901 |
Players staying on their feet when brushed by an opponent.
In my playing days (long departed) my manager would have taken me off had I gone to ground every time I was tackled. | | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 14:43 - Mar 18 with 1602 views | DorsetIan |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 11:25 - Mar 18 by SaintNick |
The socks now are very tight to hold in shin pads etc without tape and compress muscles, there fore some players have to cut holes in them to get into the socks.
They also cut off the foot part and wear grip socks underneath, that is why many players socks appear to have a white hoop at the bottom.
Anyone who has bought a pair will understand how hard the modern football sock is to get on and off the foot.
Professional clubs now have socks produces without a foot piece and so essentially just a tube |
It's not April 1 for a few days yet, Nick. | |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 15:20 - Mar 18 with 1565 views | LondonSaint76 |
A PA system where the speakers are out of sync - Number, Number, Number, 7, 7, 7, Terry, Terry, Terry, Paine, Paine, Paine…
Really, really muddy pitches with no grass in the penalty area. Then a member of ground staff repainting the penalty spot at half time.
Supporters climbing up the floodlight pylons from a heaving terrace to get a decent view of the game.
A player (usually a defender) coming over to the bench to get given a sock tie (which were just thin white strips of material) the real reason was to get some specific tactical info from the bench that needed implementing. The player would then relay the instructions on to the other players on the pitch and drop the sock tie on the floor when the ref wasn’t looking. Chris Nicholl used to be the recipient of the sock tie and tactical instructions from our bench when he played for us.
Half time scoreboards that were letters of the alphabet that got the scores manually added as they came through, usually by a man in a white coat. Some of those scoreboards ran horizontally at pitch level along the low wall in front of the stand near the halfway line. You were stuffed if you didn’t have a programme as you didn’t know who games A,B, C & D ect were without one.
Golden Goal tickets and the anxious wait for the announcement if you had 20m 37s and the analogue clock above the main stand said twenty past three exactly when we scored the first goal of the game!
At home games, the players chipping the pre match practise balls towards a member of the ground staff positioned up near the corner flag and said member of the ground staff catching them in a large sack!
Wagon Wheels that were entitled to wear the name with pride! Nowadays they are about the size of the thermostat dial on my central heating!
Players who drive ordinary cars - always remember Ted McDougall was considered flash as he had a brand new MGB GT in neon blue. One of the other players had a Triumph TR7 (can’t remember who). Erling Haaland’s new bronze Porsche has a spoiler on the back that’s so big you could sit three or four people in a line behind the car on barstools and serve them a meal off of it… [Post edited 18 Mar 19:39]
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 18:24 - Mar 18 with 1416 views | arfurdent |
Erica Roe |  |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 18:26 - Mar 18 with 1412 views | grumpy |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 18:24 - Mar 18 by arfurdent |
Erica Roe |
That was at Rugby. | | | |
| Things you don't see in football anymore on 18:26 - Mar 18 with 1413 views | InTimeAddedOn |
Players who open a small retail business on the high street in the town /city they play in or one nearby. A boutique was favourite choice, or a hairdressers for the missus to run. At one time x2 Chelsea players, a QPR player and a Fulham player all had boutiques in Fife Road in Kingston. Terry Mancini used to do a few afternoon shifts in his boutique so his manager could get a half day off. He’d also cover the manager’s summer holiday between seasons so he’d be working in there full time for a fortnight. | |
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| Things you don't see in football anymore on 21:41 - Mar 18 with 1280 views | felly1 |
The players wearing shirt numbers that reflected their position rather than their squad number.
1. Goalie
2. Right Back
3. Left Back
4. Midfield
5. CB
6. CB
7. Midfield
8. Midfield
9. Striker
10. Striker
11. Midfield.
12. Sub. | | | |
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