Norwich City paint away changing room pink to lower opponents testosterone

Oggy Red said:

I remember back at the end of the 80s playing for my club's reserves away at Home Park, Plymouth Argyle.

The Away dressing room was unheated and stark, like a prison cell ....... walls of unplastered breezeblock painted faded pale blue about 10 years before, with a tiny barred window high in the middle of one wall. Bare wooden benches and the bath of cracked old white tiles.

We had a quick gander at the Home dressing room with all it's creature comforts.
It's called home advantage.

Home Park advantage.

ShootersHillGuru said:

Think all this gamesmanship and psychology shit in trying to get a minute advantage is pretty pathetic to be honest. Just have your players prepared as well as you can and go out and beat the fuckers.

I think they're not as clever as they think they are. The psychology of being treated like shite by your hosts surely only adds to the away team's determination to stick it to them. It would for me anyway.

Ormiston Addick said:

Scoham said:

Ormiston Addick said:

Yeah, I reckon if we painted the away team dressing room grey at The Valley then we might just nick a point against Scunthorpe rather than getting turned over.

In the brilliant Left Foot Forward the legendary Garry Nelson mentioned the following tactics employed by Wimbledon back in the day at Plough Lane....

- Turn up dressing room central heating to 30 degrees roasting hot

- Put salt in the tea urn

- Supply deflated practice balls

- Cold water only in the showers

- Deafening music pumping into your dressing room so loud you could not hear the managers team talk

Similar stories of Cambridge under John Beck.

http://theinsideleft.com/john-beck-cambridge/

Faced with the prospect of superior opposition, Beck’s tactics got more extreme and the manager cranked gamesmanship up to the max. The team trained on the playing surface at the Abbey Stadium to try and make passing football as difficult as possible, while the grass in the corners of the pitch was grown extra long to help hold the ball up. Opposition complained of boiling hot dressing rooms, deflated practice balls and tea topped up with a whole bag of sugar.

Yep, Beck also pioneered giving ball boys a towel to dry the ball for attacking throw ins and also used to dump huge loads of sands in the corners so that long balls hit into the corners would hold up there and stay in play.

Cambridge United were one playoff game away from being in the first premier league in 1992

Pink used to be a boys colour

Abingdon police are experimenting with a pink prison cell https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-45037919 to see whether it has a calming effect compared with white painted cells.

BUT... however much we may have been conditioned from birth to expect blue for boys & pink for girls, pink was originally the boys' colour, being considered a toned-down version of military red. Blue was for girls, since it was the colour traditionally used by artists for the Virgin Mary's robes. Don't know what this means for Norwich's idea!!

Edit: Sorry @shine166 I didn't see your post until after I posted this - oops!

Colour theory would suggest there's something in this.
But then it would, wouldn't it.

shine166 said:

Pink used to be a boys colour

And it still is... in Belgium!

Oggy Red said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Oggy Red said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Think all this gamesmanship and psychology shit in trying to get a minute advantage is pretty pathetic to be honest. Just have your players prepared as well as you can and go out and beat the fuckers.

It's called home advantage, Shooters.
In their own way, each and every club does it.

It's ever been thus.

I wonder what our approach is...

In our Charlton Life Demelza games at The Valley (2007), my team lost the toss and we had to use the away dressing room.
It was smaller than the home dressing room, white tiled, clean and bright - but definitely more basic.

Can others here who played that day add their recollections?

Thats why I was shite!

I think they might have a rethink on their colour choice.