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

[daza_1973]

All the games played at 3pm Saturday, fa cup semis at neutral venues, impartial commentaries, non-scab six winning things regularly, refs who looked like old school masters not egocentric prematanned salesmen .....
Maybe if the euro super league had happened

 

[Rita_Poon]

Not seen the orange ball broken out to be able to see in snow conditions for a long time.

 

[Neiler]

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

Not that it has gone away completely, but managers in full suits on the touchline.

 

[Magus]

Basically, everything was better apart from the boot boys on the terraces.
Watch Big Match Revisited. It's all there, including studio interviews with players the day after the game.

Those gutter rats will be grandparents now - I wonder how they would feel if their grandkids were subjected to that behaviour.

 

[Rita_Poon]

@LostLegend

 

[BlueInNZ]

None of this referee leading out the teams nonsense. Home team out first to loud cheers, then the away team to booing and then the referee and lino's to wholehearted, panto-style booing. Know your place referee.

 

[paultheblue]

Getting pissed on in the terraces. Used to love trudging back home with my socks squelching.

I got to know the distinct aromas and flavours of all the people around me.

Great days

My first experience of all seaters was a night game at Coventry.
Where you had the privilage of sitting down while getting pissed on as they still didnt have a roof.

 

[Bluerover]

2-3-5. !!!

 

[EFCPaul]

Players having shots from outside the box. So many dirge teams trying to copy Pep and walk it in.

 

[davids]

Teams only wearing change strips in the event of a colour clash.

Referees and linesmen wearing black.

Right footed players playing right wing and left footed players playing left wing.

Cushions raining down from the HD equivalent of the Top Balcony after a poor EFC home performance (and boy, those cushion makers would be kept busy these days ).

Younger supporters who complain about booing after a poor home performance would totally freak out if they experienced the cushion pelting the school of science players got.

 

[msb]

Tackles, slide tackles, not every contact being a foul, yellow cards for nothing tackling.

It’s not a cry for the brutish 70s and 80s, more a plea for a contact sport.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Muddy footballpitches in winter.

 

[paultheblue]

No more loans to clubs in the same division.
Instant booking for shirt pulling. The nonsense that goes on at corners and long throws needs to stop

 

[msb]

Offside is offside. As Brian Clough said, if he isn’t interfering with play, why is he on the pitch.

Deliberate handball, not just an accidental brush.

Referees to control the match, not some faceless twit hundreds of miles away.