Things dying from the modern game

[anton66]

Players socks around their ankles.
People losing shoes in the crowd.

 

[LEONARD]

Kicking off at 3-00 pm on a Saturday.

 

[Khalekan]

On a serious note
Pensioners going the match
Cos it's too expensive!!!!!

Same with young blokes as well.

There is a demographic time bomb ticking under the EPL.

I think the average age of spectators is in the mid 40s.

I recall a time when even during periods of unemployment the only thing one had to worry about was a few bob for transport and a few beers before the game.

The last thing you had to think about was the price of admission......it was very cheap before the Premier League came into being.

But if they price young men out of the matchgoing habit, which they are, they are going to have a problem replacing the older fan as he withers away and dies.

Or joins me and the rest of the walking dead in the Bullens

 

[Alan Whittle]

Scoreboards with a key in the programme to find out the half time scores.
Linesman's flags- one was "cerise" and one was yellow.
Rosettes

 

[The Cowboy]

Not as much as before though. Wasn't too long ago that any team who thought they were stealing a win would run the clock down. For all the games I watched over the last year or so, haven't come across it that much

Requires a certain set of events though. Otherwise you'd see it every game that's got one side winning with 5 mins to go.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I kinds miss seeing two players taking the kick off

I know it's not exactly old school like

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Not dying because it's been dead for years but fans helping to clear the pitch of snow and the teams playing with an orange ball.

Me being able to afford to go the match regularly. Even when I was skint it was a reasonable amount to borrow.

 

[Seathestars]

Hammers being thrown at Chelsea fans from the main stand.

The boys in the Paddock and Bullens giving it large.

Bring back the good old days.

 

[Lune1878]

What happened to them religious nuts who used to wander outside the ground before games. The one's holding the 'repent your sins' boards.

 

[Seathestars]

What happened to them religious nuts who used to wander outside the ground before games. The one's holding the 'repent your sins' boards.

I grew out of that mate, now the devil has a hold of me.

 

[Jacob]

The old corpy buses being used as "Football Specials" ... dropping off at the end of Priory Road by all the coaches from N Wales parked up there. Used to love getting them with my schoolmate Blues - meeting up where they started off by Old Swan Tech....and even better when the hungover conductor couldn't be arsed coming upstairs wading through the ciggie smoke to collect the fares !