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Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 12:50 pm
by blueforyou
Listening to the radio on a Monday for the FA Cup draw
Replay after replay after replay...
The full time results by teleprinter on Grandstand
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:33 pm
by Cods
Cereal Killer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 11:42 am
On a slightly different tangent, this is the current story about my local team… I’d like to say it whiffs of pure bullshit, but why even make it a thing??
“Rumours of a Qatari-backed £250 million bid for the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC, have begun to circulate, with a Yorkshire tech scene veteran at the centre of them in Dave Richards MBE.
Richards is fronting the offer for Sheffield FC alongside Yorkshire AI Labs, the Sheffield venture capital firm which he is a founding member and managing director of.
If the proposed deal goes ahead, it would instantly be one of the most surreal and ambitious football projects in the country – a ninth-tier club with the financial backing to become one of the richest teams on the planet.”
Love them to turn around and say 'thanks, but no thanks'.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 9:11 pm
by Cereal Killer
Cods wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:33 pm
Love them to turn around and say 'thanks, but no thanks'.
Turned down two bids so far!
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:33 am
by Evertonfc15
typhoo tea cardboad posters of the everton team and players arriving in the post and going straight on my bedroom wall
bally labby tommy wright ray wilson et all - alongside mott the hoople and hendrix posters
the smell of proper strong pipe smoke at goodison
the best soccer saturday team with stelling tiss charlie ol big nose and merse
the mid week match on weds and trying not to know the score so u were watching it live
no VAR
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:02 am
by 4evablu
I miss turning up to actually play the game I love….meeting up with the lads….training..team talks…the smell of the changing rooms…linament and clean kit hanging up…anticipation and nerves before a game…the manager team talk before going out….half time bollockings….then when moved into coaching…most of the above….working with the players….developing the players…I could go on…
The game is not a game anymore it’s a business and for me therein lies all of the problems stated as above….
P.S I can remember when substitutes were called reserves….
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:28 am
by 4evablu
Cereal Killer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 11:42 am
On a slightly different tangent, this is the current story about my local team… I’d like to say it whiffs of pure bullshit, but why even make it a thing??
“Rumours of a Qatari-backed £250 million bid for the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC, have begun to circulate, with a Yorkshire tech scene veteran at the centre of them in Dave Richards MBE.
Richards is fronting the offer for Sheffield FC alongside Yorkshire AI Labs, the Sheffield venture capital firm which he is a founding member and managing director of.
If the proposed deal goes ahead, it would instantly be one of the most surreal and ambitious football projects in the country – a ninth-tier club with the financial backing to become one of the richest teams on the planet.”
Little side note…..I’ve only ever been there once…it was when Chris Waddle was doing his coaching badges I was his assessor and we had “booked” a session there because it was convenient for both of us…..anyway at one point after his session had finished he was “coaching” lads how to curl a free kick in over the wall….he put the ball down and just bent it into the top corner….one of the lads said bet ye can’t do that again….bang straight in the top corner again at this point I said Chris as a coach your supposed to coach them how to do it…oh right he said….so lads put the ball down and the put your foot like that and bang in it went…there ye go boys….and walked off ha ha …
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:41 pm
by Bluedylan1
Nostalgia is an illusion and a cognitive bias. It's a yearning for a thing that never existed. It's a bittersweet comfort blanket.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:43 pm
by biziclop
Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:41 pm
Nostalgia is an illusion and a cognitive bias. It's a yearning for a thing that never existed. It's a bittersweet comfort blanket.
That is true but there also were things in the past that were better. It's just ... they came with a price of other things being a bit shit.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:44 pm
by Bluedylan1
biziclop wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:43 pm
That is true but there also were things in the past that were better. It's just ... they came with a price of other things being a bit shit.
Indeed.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 4:34 pm
by blueforyou
Tea and oranges at half-time
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:55 pm
by 4evablu
My white Alan ball boots…
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 10:10 pm
by Risky
blueforyou wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 4:34 pm
Tea and oranges at half-time
Never been a tea drinker in my life, but the half time cup of sugary tea was something special.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2026 6:49 pm
by AllyBlue14
Common sense from referees. This letter of the law bullshit is ridiculous - especially when they choose to apply it so selectively.
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2026 7:23 pm
by Bob Sacamano
Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:41 pm
Nostalgia is an illusion and a cognitive bias. It's a yearning for a thing that never existed. It's a bittersweet comfort blanket.
the pain from an old wound that allows us to travel around and around and back home again to a place where we know we are loved
Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2026 8:00 pm
by Stumpy
I tell you what else pisses me off now, when away teams change their kits for no reason whatsoever.
Ipswich were away to derby on the weekend, derby obviously play in white but ipswich changed their blue kit for red, why?
What difference did it make playing in red than it did in blue?
I'd love the idiot that came up with that decision to explain that away, because there is no reason