All Our Yesterdays

[summerisle]

Mexico World Cup. State of those shorts. lol

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

The Arbroath team that beat Bon Accord 36-0.

 

[summerisle]

Distinct lack of H&S at Tannadice's half built stand, 1960s.

 

[summerisle]

And a telly

 

[LEONARD]

Anyone remember the tea at Goodison in the 1960's?

Steri-milk and sugar (no option) straight from WW2 era urns.

 

[summerisle]

1940, soldiers on leave.

 

[canuck]

Anybody ever play this ?

SOCCERAMA – THE BEST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED


“The best game I’ve ever played” is a remarkable endorsement for any man to make. But when the man making the claim is Alan Ball four years after lifting the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy with England you start to sit up and take notice. The game Ball is promoting is Soccerama, a board game released in the early 1970s. I was lucky enough to pick one up for a few quid at my local charity shop.


Soccerama

The box screams a myriad of game-play options to the unsuspecting gamer; Four Divisions! Promotion! Relegation! Transfer Deals! Thankfully for the avid board-gamer this game was released before agents were commonplace in football. Therefore Soccerama doesn’t suffer from the same difficulties as recent Football manager computer games. It’s Alan Ball’s smiling grin that adorns the box (the caption proudly displaying the words: EVERTON & ENGLAND) and the claim “The family football game with a difference” – though the difference isn’t particularly clear at any point whilst playing the game.


Soccerama – The best game Alan Ball has ever played

Despite being released in the early 1970s in an era of football that was supposedly pure as the driven snow (or Alan Ball’s boots?), the game is centred around the accumulation of wealth. Like Monopoly, each player is given a wad of fake paper cash to spend, but rather than constructing an empire of green houses and red hotels the gamer accumulates star player cards in order to reign victorious. These star players helps the player to propel themselves up the leagues from lowly Division Four to the epoch of the pyramid, The First Division Championship, FA Cup and European competition.

friend owned the game we used to play a fair bit of it

 

[summerisle]

Bet this didn't take three hours : 1938 World Cup draw.

 

[LEONARD]

1966 World Cup. Goodison Park, Lev Yashin and a few comrades.

 

[summerisle]

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1966 World Cup. Goodison Park, Lev Yashin and a few comrades.

More goalkeepers should wear black.

 

[edge]

*memo to EFC

Sure we had something like that on the end of the old parkend bullens rd side?

 

[summerisle]

These prices.

 

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[summerisle]

Great goal.