Things you miss about football since you first went.

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What I miss most was the childish notion that everyone turning up were in it together. We knew we were a bit shit but didnt care, we were there to support and each one understood how important it was to the other.

Died for me when Reid was hounded.

Probably was never real, as I was just a daft kid.
 


Junior Birdman said:
Standing in the Fulwell
Cheap prices (including pies etc)
Ridiculously bad toilets
Blokes walking away from the match with transistor radios pressed to their ears trying to listen to the other results while everyone else tried to hear too
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Shouting f*** off you mag bast*** everytime the scoreboard operator in the RE put up the mags were winning !! Daft really, just something you had to do:rolleyes::oops:
 
Parkmaverick said:
There was cheating and diving in the 70's when I started.
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There sure was, but it was not as rife as it is today. People used to hurdle tackles or run round opponents, rather than ensure there is contact and throw themselves to the floor.

It was a different ethos for me. There was more of a stigma attached to diving or cheating. I remember England playing Italy in the 1970s and the fans and commentators going mad over the rolling around on the ground from the Italians. Tame stuff compared to the current breed.

I am probably looking back through rose tinted glasses, but I don't care. I liked 1970s football, it's what I fell in love with. We were shite then too.
 
Home wins.

We were always shit away from home but in the 60s we alays were decent at home, even in those seasons we struggled.
 
bmp1970 said:
The police dog show at half time when the German Shepherd chased the baddie accross the pitch..
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Spot on. I remember the first time I saw it - I really thought I was witnessing a crime (I can't remember what the 'baddy' actually did - did he run out with a pretend gun or am I just imagining that?!). And the red and white striped dog (the dog wasn't striped, you know what I mean) always beat the one in black and white stripes in the jump off.

I also miss Z cars music, teams running out separately so you could boo the opposition, We Will Rock You, and getting to the match an hour before it started.

I don't miss standing at matches (probably because of my age, I think I had the best of both worlds, standing when I was young, sitting now).

I also don't miss being afraid to take my child to the match because of the risk of bother, the risk of being knocked about on the terraces, the risk of someone pissing on him, the risk he couldn't see a thing.
 
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