Keepers rolling the ball with their feet to the penalty spot then picking it up, bouncing it 3  or 4 times then kicking it from their hands up the pitch.  Think John Lukic, Bruce Grobelaar. Packie, Neville Southall. 

Keepers bringing a small kitbag and a towel into their goal

Players making awkward run ups when taking corner kicks because there was no noom. Having to start off from the gravel then jump up onto the pitch. Nowadays they have those carpets around the pitch at pitch level.

Shots nestling in the back of the net so the keeper has to lift up the net to retrieve the ball.

Pilon floodlights. You never see a player with 4 shadows anymore.

Stanchioning. Box netting in every stadium now. 

What was in the kitbag??   Was it just a bottle of water?

I miss the old jerseys that blew in the wind. They super tight ones are rubbish and even more so for the fans.

Not sure what was in it tbh

Maybe spare gloves?  Was a small washbag size thing. Usually had the glove manufacturer on it like Uhlsport or Sondico etc..

Sparta Praha 1991/92 lives long in the memory

The next European Cup round may suit

some of Trap Junior's laments.

The Argentinian sub goalie who ended up playing most of their game during Italia 90 used to do this. Had the tongue of the Copa's tied around the lower part of the shinguard too.

Sergio      GOYCOCHEA     EL    GOYCO

Keane kicking Speed to win the ball

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Depends on the keeper. Joe Harte had shampoo while others kept a few packs of Wrigleys Extra. Rene Higuita had a bag full of the white stuff. 

Pumpido got injured in the 2nd game against CCCP.  I dont know if they had a 3rd keeper if EL    GOYCO    got injured

EDIT: He broke his leg 2nd game not 1st game.

 

Karius is fulfilling the void quite well at Besiktas, it's almost a weekly thing now for him. 

If there's ever a Wall built in the UK, it wouldn't be Brexit, it'd be the scousers putting one up so he can't come back to Liverpool once the loan ends.

 

If you use 1934 as a barometer then yes, you may have some sort of point.

That was the year that the attendance record for an English club ground was set, when 84,569 people attended Manchester City vs Stoke. Not bad for a club with no fans or history.

 

I imagine that you weren't around then, and didn't get into football until the 1990s. If so, then the average Man City home league attendance in 1994 was 22,725

Despite being relegated to what used to be known as Division One, the average attendance a few years later was actually higher, at 26,753, and in 1998/99, it was a remarkable 28,261 despite playing in Division Two

 

Those figures are almost half of the average attendance these days in the Etihad Stadium however, which was most recently 54,130. Again, not bad for a team with no fans

 

 

 

Exactly. From working at a bar in Manchester I used to enjoy city fans coming in.  They were knowledgeable to chat to and didn't seem to take current success for granted.  Used to dread working for United matches.  Pub be full of peaky blinders wannabe scrotes from dublin who couldn't handle their drink and scandinavians who were as much craic as a funeral or had no interest in football and were just there to see zlatan

I remember there being a time when you couldn’t get long sleeve replica jerseys.

Allegri smokes, doesn’t he? 

As I’m here, you never hear any pundit say anything interesting, entertaining or even mildly worthwhile.

 

Did we ever get much of that though? I always thought the realm of football punditry was the preserve of inane sound bites and clichés. Certainly in the UK at least.

Yeah, but at least there was only one of them! Now you have a squad of fifty of them saying even less! They used to have personalities too, many of them bad, but it was something!

 

This is true. There's no doubt they have become more vacuous over the years, I just don't really recall a 'golden age' as such of football punditry. Or if there was it was before my time!

There probably wasn’t, although Clough was a pundit for a while, but it seems to be regressing. When BT started off they had some decent writers on their Sunday night European show, that was a step in the right direction.

I guess as the game has become boring at the highest levels the discussion around it is hardly going to evolve!

Rolls of receipts been thrown on the pitch. 

Players running across goalkeepers during their kick outs, trying to put them off. 

The number boards. (not the digital kind) for changing subs. 

Big tongues covering the laces on football boots used to be all the rage (puma king)

Mucky footballers. Pitches are too 'grassy' these days 

Black bands on the bottom of goalposts like Nou Camp or 1978 WC.

Player managers

Outfield players having to go in goals after the keeper got injured.

In fairness the last one is a lot more regular. It’s happened twice this decade at West Ham. Both Henri Lansbury and Carl Jenkinson have clean sheets to their name.

Two clean sheets!

 

On the sideline? Isn't it illegal to smoke in a football ground in the UK?

 

Players with tape over their rings

Small stripes like Aston Villa pitch 1992

Different brands of footballs depending on the ground.  Old Trafford had Umbro, Anfield adidas, Blackburn Mitre.

Small fishnet type nets with the small holes.

Mucky pitches and goalmouths

Clubcall for the latest team news

Keepers kicking the posts to clean their studs

Inflatable bananas

The Vidiprinter on BBC

The Pools results

How short were the shorts that let you see their rings?

Very

You never see players having to tuck their shirt into their shorts anymore. Think it used to be mandatory.

Different stadiums.  All the same symmetrical bowls now. No individuality or quirks.

Games in Eastern Europe being held in intimidating communist stadiums with commentary over a bad phone line.  Getting a win felt like going to Moscow, breaking into the KGB headquarters for top secret info and getting out of there with your life intact.

Liverpool winning a league 

Ireland players playing for a.top club 

Wasn't there this time around, but really like the Dinamo stadium in Tbilisi for old school feel. 

Plenty of old school stadia about. The problem is you dont really see them, because the national teams and the big domestic clubs who are in Europe normally have (or play in for Europe) soulless bowl arenas. 

Went to Rapid Wien's stadium before it closed down and got replaced by a standard Lego stadium. Cracking old ground

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

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.

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. 

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? 

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?

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.

Captains exchanging pennants before kick off

Shoot and Match magazine 

Pennants still happen before most Serie A games 

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.

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

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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Working class blokes going to watch Arsenal rather than the wanky middle-class twats you see nowadays who, rather than buying a burger at the ground, go to the Waitrose on Holloway Road on the way to buy something organic from the deli counter.

Feeling genuine excitement and enthusiasm before a big live FA Cup tie with the sense that it was a real event.

 

Don't really remember these yokes. Any photos of them going?

 

Sound. Mad looking things.

Think Jason McAteer

John Burridge and Steve Ogrizivic 

Steve Ogrizivic was told if he wanted a 1 year contract extension he had to give up smoking! Not much of that left either or again Ogrizivic, no more footballers spending their summers playing cricket

Was one in the old Landsdowne Road too

Saturday night sports news with David Davis or Rob Bonnett 

And ten seconds later “well thats Spurs through to the next round”

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with a right full who'd blem a free kick into the top corner from 40 yards.

Proper footballs.

The Adidas Tango.  The god of footballs.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Jesus, that's the winner right there 

Tony's was quality too 

I watched 90 minutes of it at Old Trafford today. I was getting flashbacks of Tony O'Donoghue interviewing MON post match it was all so eerily similar.

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Speaking of MON I saw a tv programme about Clough who would cancel training at short notice and make the lads run through a field of nettles.  Another time they went picking mushrooms.

I wonder did MON ever try that trick to keep the players on their toes.

Aston Villa v Trabzonspor, with Tony Gubba on commentary 

Ray Stubbs presenting MOTD

Did they not show Blackburn v Trelleborgs that night?

Trelleborgs won 1-0 if I remember!

Yep! 1-0.

But it was always a car crash.

Keepers throwing the ball out vast distances circa 50 yds throw by Schmeichel.

Keepers wearing baseball caps for the sun.

Magic sponges.

Adidas World Cup boots

German teams with the players all having mustaches.