WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST?

[alan ball]

Since the working mans game has been taken from our clutches by the demons from SKY, what do you miss about the way football used to be opposed to the old format. For me, I miss the 3pm Saturday kick offs and then you knew exactly where you stood until all this stupid disruption when games were re arranged to suit the armchair supporter
I hate Sky and wish they would go to hell

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

yeah the faffing around with fixtures is a right pain tbh, especially the early games.

 

[ijjysmith]

Have to say I don't mind Sky (the company not the awful awful pundits etc...)

If it wasn't them it'd be someone else.

Whether that's good or bad.

For a fan living what feels like a million miles away we have to rely on TV to see anything.

 

[joe harper]

yeah the faffing around with fixtures is a right pain tbh, especially the early games.

i miss my wedge haircut

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Standing at games.

OK I am too young (28) to have experienced it (have experienced it here in Germany and it is ace), but know for a fact it was absolutely immmense.

 

[willo30]

FA Cup final kick off times and replays.

Bring back the replays for the semis and final.

 

[Neiler]

Forza G.A.A.

 

[Clint Planet]

For me, I miss the 3pm Saturday kick offs

..and waiting that hour or less for the Pink (or the Green or something in other towns somertimes) to find out about how everyone else had done.

And I miss standing on the Street End, even if it was sometimes only three quarters full. Happy, happy times.

 

[Clint Planet]

Waking up that first Saturday of the season in August and hoping that we might win the League. Can't do that anymore.

 

[ijjysmith]

I miss semi finals at neutral venues other than Wembley.

Villa Park and Elland Road especially.

 

[BoysInBlue]

Proper season ticket books, as opposed to a plastic card.
The team running out to Z-Cars AND running straight over to applaud the fans, as opposed to lining up for the 'Fair Play Handshake', whilst the 'Fair Play Handshake Theme Music' plays.
Referees wearing no other coloured kit other than black.
The fans chanting 'Who's the @&$%£!! in the black?!' after a questionable decision.
Goalies only wearing green.
The Programme Shop that used to be at the back of the old Park End (where the Fanzone is now).
The old Souvenir shop on Goodison Road, converted into offices as part of the stand now.

 

[TGW89]

I miss

- Not continually playing the Goodison derby first for no apparent reason (last time 2002)
- The champions not always getting an easy start to the season (last time ???)
- The fixture computer not giving us a "month of death" every season (last time ???)
- The second game of a season being midweek (last time 2009)
- Easter monday Prem matches (last time 2007)
- The park end scoreboard (covered by a Chang logo in 2011, but out with the old and all that....)

 

[TGW89]

I also miss the original theme for MNF



Skip to 0:36 - it doesn't get more corny or american than that.

 

[BlueLlama]

Wearing the new kit on the last day of the season

 

[BoysInBlue]

Elton Welsby & 'The Match' on ITV, back when there used to be 10 games a season shown live!



And when they used to show the weekend's goals in a 5 minute segment at the end of the live match:



Saint & Greavsie (used to love that show as a kid) - December 1989, first interview with Howard Kendall as the new Man City manager (touting him as the next England manager):