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Watching matches towards the end of the season and large portions of the pitch, particularly around both penalty areas and the centre circle, being more or less completely grass-free, with large quantities of sand liberally dumped in those areas.

Masking tape being used in lieu of a proper captain's armband. Or was that only ever the EIRE team?

People having a bit of a soft spot for Man City and their long-suffering supporters.

English football teams being owned, not by a Saudi 'prince', American 'sports  group', Russian oligarch, east-Asian Kleptocrat or brutal Gulf state dictatorship, but rather a local businessman; probably the owner of the region's bathroom showrooms or furniture warehouses, who arrives at games in a chauffer-driven Jag rather than a helicopter landing on the pitch, and whose level of wealth, and evil, is of an altogether more modest nature.

Old-fashioned advertising hoardings that aren't of the garish electronic kind promoting a Korean lager or Qatari airline but are instead plywood and making people aware of an obscure local tyre fitters or butchers shop.

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I watch a lot of those football years on sky.  You always had 'Harcros Timber Merchants'  and 'Ascot Sports' and 'British Steel' advertising in most grounds.

Going back to the 1980's you had a lot of those alphabets on the sidelines.  Someone said they were for announcing the half time scores.  Not sure how that worked!



Nowadays you have those companies sponsoring the entire ground, more so at lower league grounds in England. LOL

Yeah, I've seen those alphabet yokes on perimeter hoardings while watching those retro games on BT Sport. Anyone know what they were really for? 
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Going back to the 1980's you had a lot of those alphabets on the sidelines.  Someone said they were for announcing the half time scores.  Not sure how that worked!
Printed in the programme, each letter associated with a fixture of the day in that Division.  Should be alphabetical, so a match programme shouldn't be needed.
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Going back to the 1980's you had a lot of those alphabets on the sidelines.  Someone said they were for announcing the half time scores.  Not sure how that worked!
Printed in the programme, each letter associated with a fixture of the day in that Division.  Should be alphabetical, so a match programme shouldn't be needed.


Right and how on earth can you tell a score off a letter?
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Goalkeeper kits used to be a bit more individual and exotic. Nowadays they are just one colour from head-to-toe and very bland.

The kind of kit worn by Jorge Campos or Klaus Lindenberger is now more likely to be an away strip for a premier league team, used even when there is no clash of colours.
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I remember Stuart Pearce recalling forest allowing him to continue doing cash jobs as a plumber even though he was not only full time but an England international!bit hard to see any of today’s little luvvies pulling on the boiler suit
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Managers wearing football manager type coats - those Umbro ones that go down to near your knee (before the Wenger sleeping bag)

Captains exchanging pennants before kick off

Shoot and Match magazine 
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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Managers wearing football manager type coats - those Umbro ones that go down to near your knee (before the Wenger sleeping bag)

Captains exchanging pennants before kick off

Shoot and Match magazine 

Pennants still happen before most Serie A games 
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Originally posted by oldbilly oldbilly wrote:

I remember Stuart Pearce recalling forest allowing him to continue doing cash jobs as a plumber even though he was not only full time but an England international!bit hard to see any of today’s little luvvies pulling on the boiler suit


I remember reading that he used to advertise the business in the matchday programme.  He had his brother working for him by then but it was under the name Stuart Pearce Electrics or something.  Clough brought in his iron and told Pearce that he was a fraud and that he was making people think that stuart Pearce would come round to your house and fix your appliance or whatever you were looking for.  He told Pearce that he better fix his iron personally or he was out of the team.LOL
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I have heard Pearce tell that story on a podcast alright!

Regarding the alphabet mentioned above, there would be two hatches below the letter giving the half-time score with the home team listed first. 



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Football shirts that aren't 'retro-influenced'.

High-profile players with Hi-Tec boot deals.

Full-backs who covered their centre-half and made a genuine attempt to prevent the ball from being crossed into their penalty area.

Cica boots.

Those nasal-strips that the likes of Robbie Fowler and Kenny Cunningham used to wear. 



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The annoyance of watching Grandstand on a Saturday and having it suddenly rudely interrupted by Final Score from Northern Ireland and Jackie Fullerton telling you how Ards got on against Crusaders.

Staying up to watch the midweek football highlights on Sportsnight. https://youtu.be/naD6cYYVs_c

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Originally posted by UCDFAN UCDFAN wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Going back to the 1980's you had a lot of those alphabets on the sidelines.  Someone said they were for announcing the half time scores.  Not sure how that worked!
Printed in the programme, each letter associated with a fixture of the day in that Division.  Should be alphabetical, so a match programme shouldn't be needed.
 
Don't really remember these yokes. Any photos of them going?
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Originally posted by Devrozex Devrozex wrote:

Originally posted by UCDFAN UCDFAN wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Going back to the 1980's you had a lot of those alphabets on the sidelines.  Someone said they were for announcing the half time scores.  Not sure how that worked!
Printed in the programme, each letter associated with a fixture of the day in that Division.  Should be alphabetical, so a match programme shouldn't be needed.
 
Don't really remember these yokes. Any photos of them going?
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/h8t6g/does_anyone_know_what_those_alphabets_on_the/
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Originally posted by Shedite Shedite wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/h8t6g/does_anyone_know_what_those_alphabets_on_the/
 
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Footballers with their shirt tucked in at the front but out at the sides and back
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Keepers wearing baseballs caps, hasn't been seen in Premier Lge since Chris Kirkland wore one in 2009. Also 45 year old goalkeeping coaches on the bench in emergency crisis non-existent.
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http://www.goalkeepersaredifferent.com/keepers/getting-personal.html lot of stuff here you don't see any more
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Originally posted by PaddyDaCulchie PaddyDaCulchie wrote:

Keepers wearing baseballs caps, hasn't been seen in Premier Lge since Chris Kirkland wore one in 2009. Also 45 year old goalkeeping coaches on the bench in emergency crisis non-existent.


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