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    Things you don't see much in the modern game

    Player-managers.

    Certainly not the vogue for Premiership sides, are there exceptions in the top tiers of other European Leagues? Was Vialli the last in the PL? And who was the last to win a trophy, Dalglish?

    I'm not sure what the situation is like in the other divisions. I'm sure I used to see many more of them when I was growing up. They seemed to become less obvious around the same time the 110 bus stopped stopping at the bus stop near my house. I'm tempted to do some sort of correlation exercise.

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    Things you don't see much in the modern game

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    Really good shin-hacking drop-balls.

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      #3
      Things you don't see much in the modern game

      Fans scrawling team changes on the back of their matchday programme.

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        Things you don't see much in the modern game

        I don't think there are any at the moment in the Football League. Last season there were three in the PL&FL - Gareth Southgate, Jim Magilton and Darren Ferguson - but they elected not to pick themselves.

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          #5
          Things you don't see much in the modern game

          All-English CL finals.

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            #6
            Things you don't see much in the modern game

            beards and headbands.

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              #7
              Things you don't see much in the modern game

              Defenders taking goalkicks (not including when the keeper is injured).

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                Things you don't see much in the modern game

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                At all. The half-time score board - you needed the programme to relate the scores to the games. The tension could be excrutiating as the old bloke hanging them up dawdled along, paused, had a fag, continued ... I'm talking Elm Park here.

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                  Things you don't see much in the modern game

                  Nigel Clough, strangely, is still registered as a player for Burton Albion and has his own squad number. He doesn't pick himself any more.

                  Anyway: animals getting on the pitch (presumably Premier League clubs now have trained marksmen who shoot all animals before they get in the view of the television cameras, lest they detract from the spectacle), shirts without sponsors (I saw someone wearing sponsorless shirts the other day, but I can't remember for the life of me who it was - it looked a bit strange, I thought) and people on the pitch with microphones.

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                    #10
                    Things you don't see much in the modern game

                    Refs in black. Wasn't this done so that they seemed less of a remote and unapproachable figure?

                    The result has just been that they just look silly and players don't fear them, they fear the players. They should go back to black - preferrably with evil mask and spikes and stuff - to let players know "don't fuck with me, worthless human". Like that Collina guy.

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                      #11
                      Things you don't see much in the modern game

                      Ropey Scottish goalkeepers.

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                        #12
                        Things you don't see much in the modern game

                        white dog shit.

                        oh, wait..

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                          #13
                          Things you don't see much in the modern game

                          Short shorts.

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                            #14
                            Things you don't see much in the modern game

                            Ropey Brazilian goalkeepers.

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                              #15
                              Things you don't see much in the modern game

                              Keepers picking up backpasses. Obviously.

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                                #16
                                Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                Goalkeepers not wearing gloves.

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                                  #17
                                  Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                  Conrinthian Values

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                                    #18
                                    Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                    Players managing to go through a whole half of fooball without drinking copious amounts of sports drinks every time play halts.

                                    Managers smoking in the dugout.

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                                      Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                      Brylcreem.

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                                        #20
                                        Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                        Goalkeepers bouncing the ball every few seconds before booting it.

                                        Physios running on to the pitch with a bucket of water and "magic" sponge.

                                        Quick throw-ins taken about 3 or 4 yards behind the line.

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                                          #21
                                          Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                          Player managers is a great observation, I can't think of any in top level Portuguese football. The last prominent one I can think of in English football, who actually played, is Andy Hessenthaler at Gillingham.

                                          Do you think they receive two pay-cheques for each job?

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                                            #22
                                            Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                            Goalkeeper's shorts and socks that match the rest of the team, or has that been outlawed?

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                                              #23
                                              Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                              twohundredpercent wrote:
                                              Anyway: animals getting on the pitch (presumably Premier League clubs now have trained marksmen who shoot all animals before they get in the view of the television cameras, lest they detract from the spectacle)

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                                                #24
                                                Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                                Arsenal winning trophies

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                                                  #25
                                                  Things you don't see much in the modern game

                                                  toilet rolls streaming onto the really really muddy pitch.

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