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Yellow Ball

Tommy Dowling
Tommy Dowling Posts: 385
in Other Football and Sports
Seems we'll be using the yellow ball from now until February. Not too sure about that, I prefer the white ones in individual club colurs we've got used to for the past few years.

Leave gimmicky 'it looks better in the dark' footies to the Premiership I say.

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    A bit of a gimmick - taken from the Premiership. If the pitch was white enough not to see a white ball, the match would be called off anyway. But a ball is a ball and we won on Saturday with it.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    edited November 2013
    Isn't the red bit still in the team colours, so for instance ipswich's ball will be yellow with blue? That would look alright, personally I've always liked the different balls for each team, Nike should do similar for the premiership
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,799
    The idea of the yellow match ball came from the Football League, it was dropped for a few years for the custom white balls, but its back this year.

    I quite like em, easier on the eye especially under floodlights
  • Tommy Dowling
    Tommy Dowling Posts: 385
    sam3110 said:

    Isn't the red bit still in the team colours, so for instance ipswich's ball will be yellow with blue? That would look alright, personally I've always liked the different balls for each team, Nike should do similar for the premiership

    No it seems they've dropped the club colours from the balls, all were the same as my picture in each league game over the weekend. Still at least they've chosen to use red and black which won't mean too much of a departure in our case!

  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,963
    Will work well for Watford!
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    When I saw the heading to this thread I thought it was for some Well Man Clinic information!
  • Suthers
    Suthers Posts: 64
    The yellow ball is indeed an idea that came from The Football League and more specifically from me when I was Marketing Executive of The League in the 90's. It was my suggestion to Mitre to give The League a point of difference from the Premier League in an attempt to boost sales of replica footballs by playing with a yellow ball throughout the winter months. This started as a trial but became very successful and has been used each season since.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,617
    Thought this was another thread about ailments.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    Yellow balls? .. probably jaundice
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,799
    It’s back for the first time since 2019


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  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    My personal favourite was the bright orange ball on the snow covered pitches
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Blucher said:
    My personal favourite was the bright orange ball on the snow covered pitches
    Definitely!
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Rothko said:
    It’s back for the first time since 2019


    That's cool I like it better than the white.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Classic.

  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,774
    Proper Classic

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  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    This old windblower wins it for me.  (Playground footie of course)😉


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    Off_it Posts: 28,835

  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    Off_it said:

    Classic! Loved that one as a kid!
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,782
    Stefco said:
    This old windblower wins it for me.  (Playground footie of course)😉


    I'd pay good money to see these balls used in a premier league match  :D
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited November 2023
    There are only two balls that I have ever cared about, and Im certainly not going to post a picture of them on this forum............again,
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,835
    Hal1x said:
    There are only two balls that I have ever cared about, and Im certainly not going to post a picture of them on this forum.
    You save those pictures for that other "forum" you frequent then?
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited November 2023
    Off_it said:
    Hal1x said:
    There are only two balls that I have ever cared about, and Im certainly not going to post a picture of them on this forum.
    You save those pictures for that other "forum" you frequent then?
    Ssshhhhh!!!
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,352
    2 points for a win?

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