Things you don't see in football anymore

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:22 pm

St Johns Ambulance

Coppers in blue jackets

Referee in black

Snooks

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:32 pm

Sportsmanship?

Bop · Post by **Bop** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:40 pm

Fans getting upset because their best Christmas golf jumper got ruined shortly after.

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:49 am

A white ball.
Sometimes when you looked at it on the centre spot waiting to kick off it was ridiculously white, like a balloon.

andyh · Post by **andyh** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:53 am

Ploughed fields of pitches.

Sarum · Post by **Sarum** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:00 am

60s era airline-style shoulder bags with club's name.

Mine had "Burnley, 22 years in first division" at a time when there were 22 teams in the first division. And guess what: by the end of that season Burnley were no longer one of them and the bag fell to bits.

Oliasclaret · Post by **Oliasclaret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:17 am

The smell of pipe tobacco !!!!!!!

CleggHall · Post by **CleggHall** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:27 am

Wooden rattles!

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:32 am

Air Horns.

MrTopTier · Post by **MrTopTier** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:34 am

Ball boy appreciation, remember when the ball boys used to come on the Turf stand in a circle, get a round of applause and then go to their positions.

Number tags on socks

Numbers 1 to 11.

2 Bee Holed · Post by **2 Bee Holed** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:04 pm

Yes! The numbers 1 to 11 and one sub (don't think the sub had a number!).
Military bands marching on the pitch before kick off and at half time.
Letters that later told you the half time scores (didn't we have tannoys?).
Songs you could keep up with, and how many of them were related to WW2 tunes?
Police that were older than you and didn't mind giving you a belting.
Very rarely rolled around on the floor after a tackle, it was too muddy!

In fact anyone rolling around nowadays should automatically not get a free kick.
If you are seriously injured you tend to lie still.

On the plus side:
Police hats being kicked/thrown around.
Darts in people's heads.
Agro

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:19 pm

Hamburger stands

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:21 pm

Sweatbands on wrists

BurningBeard · Post by **BurningBeard** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:24 pm

Jumpers for goalposts.

7decades · Post by **7decades** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:27 pm

black football boots

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:30 pm

Free kicks for obstruction
Corners take with the ball inside the quadrant
Black boots
Goalies wearing the same colour shorts and socks as the rest of the team.

Dougall · Post by **Dougall** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:51 pm

The Championship Trophy available for presentation to the championship winning team after the final game!!

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:32 pm

Baggy kits,
bobbly, muddy and waterlogged pitches being played on,
Honesty and integrity.

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:06 pm

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:A white ball.
Sometimes when you looked at it on the centre spot waiting to kick off it was ridiculously white, like a balloon.

Interestingly, I always thought exactly the same when the ball was orange and sat on the centre spot,especially on bright,sunny afternoons.

Shappie · Post by **Shappie** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:29 pm

Flags on the halfway line

Black boots

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:43 pm

Orange balls on snow.
Guys using rolled up newspapers for a toilet.
Rattles (I hardly remember them actually).
Proper full-on tackles.
Playing in rain so bad the spray was like the M6 on a bad day.
Oxo.
Bovril.
Happy Rovers fans.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:44 pm

Shappie wrote:Flags on the halfway line

Black boots

I'd completely forgotten about those flags, when did that stop, they just kinda disappeared.

Vintage Claret · Post by **Vintage Claret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:56 pm

Goalkeepers having only a few seconds to get rid of the ball once they pick it up.

Goalkeepers having to take a goal kick from the same side of the goal that the ball went out.

'Cheerleaders'

Leaving 2 men 'up' when defending a corner

Chicco (thank God)

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:57 pm

icu81b4 wrote:Goalie's socks that match the rest of the team,

Foul throws being penalised.

Not just me then screaming foul throw at almost every match. Although, did anyone see the Spurs lad (Aurier I think) who couldn't manage to take a throw against Palace t'other week? Must have got pulled up for it at least three times!

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:57 pm

Elton Welsby
Colourful coats in the crowd
FA Cup Final day being all mystical and important
Players just getting on with it
Lardarse refs

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:02 pm

Random old blokes in the dugout.

Less than a thousand people in the dugout.

A dugout that was just an old bench and not car seats.

A dugout.

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:03 pm

Half price pies after the match.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:12 pm

My mate Lee.

If anyone see's him, let me know.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:17 pm

The sports pink on the way home with all the results and reports. How did they even DO that?

Shappie · Post by **Shappie** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:29 pm

houseboy wrote:I'd completely forgotten about those flags, when did that stop, they just kinda disappeared.

I don’t really know! They don’t use them in local football either

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:38 pm

Substitute suits. What we had in the 90s, they were absolutely massive boiler suit things

Iloveyoubrady · Post by **Iloveyoubrady** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:41 pm

Short Shorts!!!

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:45 pm

Dyched wrote:Substitute suits. What we had in the 90s, they were absolutely massive boiler suit things

bartons baggage · Post by **bartons baggage** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:50 pm

ablueclaret.

Beehole67 · Post by **Beehole67** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:54 pm

[quote="Dyched"][/quote]
I'm sure I have pictures of some of our subs in Red and white Ellgren boiler suits somewhere.

Notsosuperstevedavis · Post by **Notsosuperstevedavis** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:00 pm

Penalties given to Burnley

Ptangyangkipperbang · Post by **Ptangyangkipperbang** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:21 pm

Bop wrote:Fans getting upset because their best Christmas golf jumper got ruined shortly after.

Think all the bottom right hand corner of the long side got a diamond Pringle for Christmas when we played Blackburn Dec 1982

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:22 pm

tim_noone wrote:The blue three wheeler cars.

As a kid I thought they must be a club sponsor for advertising..... even at 7 or 8 I thought it was an insult that we couldn't at least attract Ford

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:31 pm

Bucket and sponge
St Johns ambulance sat on wooden benches all around the pitch.
Cigars
proper mud
Someone standing out in coloured boots
Keepers in Green shirted versions of the team kit.
Tie ups with the little flags on
Socks worn down

hchy82 · Post by **hchy82** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:39 pm

B*stard fans gloating

THEWELLERNUT70 · Post by **THEWELLERNUT70** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:45 pm

Being allowed to play on with a heavily blooded head/shirt

P!ss plumes emanating from open air urinals

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:48 pm

MrTopTier wrote: Numbers 1 to 11.

I guess you can add LAST NAME on the back of shirts to that list these days

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:50 pm

bladder!

Joe14 · Post by **Joe14** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:51 pm

Owen Coyle.

Beehole67 · Post by **Beehole67** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:54 pm

THEWELLERNUT70 wrote:Being allowed to play on with a heavily blooded head/shirt

P!ss plumes emanating from open air urinals

I've still got the pictures somewhere of John Deary playing against Maidstone with Blood running down one side of his face.

califclaret · Post by **califclaret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:57 pm

Goalkeepers wearing green tops.

Burt · Post by **Burt** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:57 pm

Blackburn Rovers on Match of the Day

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:58 pm

Patrick cagoules and farah pants.

Folk walking round the pitch with a blanket for fans to throw coins into (or at those carrying blanket) . This might just have a Gigg Lane things.

SussexDon1inIreland · Post by **SussexDon1inIreland** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:58 pm

Strong decent neutral referees

MrTopTier · Post by **MrTopTier** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:53 pm

Fences.

Teams coming out of the middle of a stand like we used to do.