Old trends in football you’d like to see making a comeback

[Super Kevin sheedy]

The special train to away matches

 

[kev]

Corner kicks, the ball goes in the quadrant not outside, that's why it's drawn on the pitch !

This annoys me far more than it should.
What great difference do they think it makes? Is it really so advantageous to be two inches nearer the goal area?

 

[klingklang]

This annoys me far more than it should.
What great difference do they think it makes? Is it really so advantageous to be two inches nearer the goal area?

It's not about any advantage, the thread is about old trends and as I'm considered old seeing as i started watching/playing football in the 60's, the ball was always put in the quadrant when I was young. Apologies for annoying you so much !

 

[kev]

It's not about any advantage, the thread is about old trends and as I'm considered old seeing as i started watching/playing football in the 60's, the ball was always put in the quadrant when I was young. Apologies for annoying you so much !

It wasn't your post that annoyed me. I meant that it annoys me when players do this.

 

[klingklang]

It wasn't your post that annoyed me. I meant that it annoys me when players do this.

Sorry mate, my mistake

 

[cronullasharks]

Champions League
UEFA Cup
Cup winners Cup
Intertoto

 

[paultheblue]

Replays in the cup
SF at neutral grounds
Cup draw on a Monday 12am on the radio
One substitute
only highlights of matches on tv
Cushions in the main to be launched at full time on a bad performance
Maximum wage of 10x average worki g wage.
No transfer windows
All starting 11s should have a minimum of 3 players born within 30 miles of the ground

 

[RobYoung]

Goal stanchions!
Not the crap, bland universal goal nets we all have now.
Wembley, Highbury, White Hart Lane, Old Trafford etc. instantly recognisable and unique because of their goal nets.
The Dell, Baseball Ground, Roker Park... all different shapes.
FA Cup Finals lost something when they took out those brilliant big green stanchions at Wembley for Euro'96.

Now they all look the same.

 

[OlDirtyBluenose]

Proper tackles and players getting straight back up unless they'd broke something.

 

[davids]

Football League versus The Rest of the World

 

[davids]

Proper tackles and players getting straight back up unless they'd broke something.

Goalkeepers who play on with a fractured skull.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

The things I miss all come back to the same point; there is too much football with too little peril.

Get knocked out of one competition despite playing an infinite number of group games... and you drop into another competition.

Football needs peril, lose and you're out. Group stages for club competitions are a dire concept.

European Championships 16 teams, World Cup 32. At least one moody, underscouted Eastern European in both and a tactically naive but joyful African team in the latter.

Unrelated, but local sponsors - builder's merchants, hardware supplies, taxi firms

 

[Magus]

Don't know if it has already been mentioned, but has the foul throw rule been amended or removed? I was watching a game on telly recently and every throw would have been a foul throw in my playing days ( 1960s - mid 1980s).

 

[Benicetoourboys]

All out attack.

Remember 2nd halves at Goodison wave after wave of attacking football towards the Gwladys, I miss that kind of football.

 

[bazza86]

The smell of 'dubbin' on leather football boots and liniment oil.....