Football was better in the old days because.....

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  1. Dys

    Dyson Well-Known Member

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    Martin Bullock played for us. And we were good when I started watching us. And Neil Redfearn. And playing football with a tennis ball under East Stand. And I met Lee Butler when I was 5 etc etc.
     
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    Not wrong. In a 1970s FA Cup final programme i've got it was advertising an England match coming up and the top of the range tickets for an adult were 10.50.
     
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    Used to look forward to the Chronicle on a Friday so you could get news about BFC, often was the first you knew that we'd signed a player.
     
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  4. Mrs

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    Re: Same reason for me

    Better than the penny floaters they play with now.
     
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  5. Gordon Owen

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    The FA Cup days meant something and l looked forward to a good 5th Round tie with the top teams rather than the league games.

    Everton (h)
    Oldham (a)
    Man City (a)
     
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  6. Mrs

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    The build up to the final on tv, Its a knockout between the fans and other competitions more about the fans and the occasion, with the last hour before kick off devoted to the game.
     
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    You could try counting the number of orange NCB Donkey Jackets in front of you.

    The foot stamping roar on the wooden floor from the Brewery Stand. Watching idiots put their cig stubs down knot holes.
     
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    Re: You could try counting the number of orange NCB Donkey Jackets in front of you.

    Can remember a big hole in the flooring reight in corner near away end, nowt round it to say it were dangerous or anything. Nowadays they would close probably half the stand.
     
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  9. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    Trying to nick bus ticket rolls on the way to the match so that they could be thrown on when we scored.
     
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    Going to games confident that we'd score!
     
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    And bog rolls. Why don't we do that anymore?
     
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    Cheating wasn't such a big part of the game. Players were hard.
     
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    Or those Izal toilet rolls before this posh stuff came in.

    Never sorted the wiping arse thing have they, it was either sliding all over place or now its finger through paper, in the sh it whichever way, or is that just me.
     
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    If you was stood in the middle of the Brewery stand you could see the players at the top of the tunnel just before "Fanfare for the common man" started to play. Used to send a shivver down my spine as a youngster that.
     
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    Standing
    Better atmosphere
    Football Specials
    No internet
    Only live games were England matches and the Cup final
    Moving to the other end of the ground at half-time
    No internet
    We'd never been in the top flight.
    And that dad thing....and mi grandad.
     
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    There was no internet

    You had a grumble on the way home, in the boozer Saturday night and Monday morning at work. Then done.

    These days we've got to read every ******* in depth analysis of every ******* aspect of everything that is slightly wrong every ******* day.

    **** off.
     
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  17. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    "Not wanting to get promoted"

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  18. Micky Finn

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    Re: "Not wanting to get promoted"

    Thi dunt want ter goo up....
     
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    Re: "Not wanting to get promoted"

    Precisely.

    And getting the Green-un for all the results and tables on the way out to the pub for - then having black ink marks all over without knowing it.
     
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    Re: "Not wanting to get promoted"

    Watching away games on ceefax, no SSN with regular updates. A band that played on Radio Sheff in the hope that one of the local teams scored.
     
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