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Things you miss from football

North Lower Neil
North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
in Other Football and Sports
I miss the non accessibility of scores at other grounds and the buzz of excitement at find out out the other scores from one of these:








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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Being able to just walk up to a turnstile, pay and go in. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    Or the one guy with a "transistor radio" at the ground.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    Stig said:
    Being able to just walk up to a turnstile, pay and go in. 
    Or trying to jump a wall.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    edited February 2020
    Having the players jump up to the side of the East Stand and sign autographs

    Chris Powell | Simon Royce just two that I remember doing it from years ago - Now they have to indicate to the kids that they can only do it after the game when I'm sure most parents want to just head off home

    Was the one aspect I quite liked in League One as remember Ben Hamer / John Sullivan chatting with fans at an away game when they were taking in turns to do their warm up drills
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017

  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    I was more Fantasy Football era than Saint and Greavsie, Phoenix From the Flames in particular was superb.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Having the players jump up to the side of the East Stand and sign autographs

    Chris Powell | Simon Royce just two that I remember doing it from years ago - Now they have to indicate to the kids that they can only do it after the game when I'm sure most parents want to just head off home

    Was the one aspect I quite liked in League One as remember Ben Hamer / John Sullivan chatting with fans at an away game when they were taking in turns to do their warm up drills
    Why ?
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    edited February 2020
    Hopping on the bus to the ground and finding yourself sitting next to the star centre forward (ok maybe I'm not quite that old 😀).
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,028
    3pm kick offs.

    Semi finals at neutral venues.

    Terracing.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,219
      Do they ever use a brown ball nowadays?
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    The Big Match - with Brian Moore
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,959
    Singing 'You're going to get your F...… Heads kicked in'
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    charltonbob said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Having the players jump up to the side of the East Stand and sign autographs

    Chris Powell | Simon Royce just two that I remember doing it from years ago - Now they have to indicate to the kids that they can only do it after the game when I'm sure most parents want to just head off home

    Was the one aspect I quite liked in League One as remember Ben Hamer / John Sullivan chatting with fans at an away game when they were taking in turns to do their warm up drills
    Why ?
    Guess cos they've been told to focus on their warm ups etc.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    bobmunro said:
    The Big Match - with Brian Moore
    Brian Moore was a real class act. And despite being a Gill, I always felt he had a soft spot for Charlton. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Being able to drink on the terraces.  Better for those that like a drink and those that don't, because the half time rush wasn't as intense.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    edited February 2020
    Gazetta Football Italia on Channel 4.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    Waiting for The Mercury to be delivered so you could find out the "latest" news
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    Ringing Clubcall to find out the latest score in an away game and spending a fiver before they mentioned it .....
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,959
    Going away in the FA Cup no matter where the fixture was.
  • robinofottershaw
    robinofottershaw Posts: 1,921
    “Peanuts tanner-a-bag”.
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Half times being displayed by the man in the white coat with the box of numbers, about ten minutes before the end of the match. 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,994
    Being on holiday abroad in Spain as a child and having to wait until the next afternoon after the game for the English newspapers to hit the shelves so i could find out the football results.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    FA Cup being as important as the league.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Saint and Greavsie
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,457
    Drop balls.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    edited February 2020
    Being chased around a bleak northern town. It was the only exercise some of us got.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Throwing my cap in the air when a goal is scored
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    edited February 2020
    Cerise and orange flags for the linesmen (who were called linesmen and not assistant referees/linos)
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    Before the big screen we had a girl wearing a sash that walked around the edge of the pitch displaying the raffle numbers. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited February 2020
    Picking up a news paper and finding out transfers that way - not 3 days before it happens.  

    transfers being able to happen up until the old deadline day (think it was towards the end of March)

    Only one game being on live tv each week.

    Games being played in pissing rain and thick mud. I remember a game at Upton Park circa 88 it pissed down and there were puddles all over the pitch - some tackles that were practically GBH we’re flying in. 

    Old style grounds - St Andrews, Ayresome Park, Roker Park etc etc. 

    Football was so much better in the 80’s.

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