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Originally posted by lambers View Post
I'm surprised by that too. I remember some years ago (I'm thinking early 2000s, but possibly late 90s) that ITV broadcast the full 120 minutes in colour. So the footage must surely be around somewhere.
The broadcast will be in black and white, but additional colour footage from the day will be added.
This includes The Queen greeting the football teams on the big day.
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Originally posted by Uncle Ethan View PostI have been spectacularly wrong on many issues related to football but my peak wrongness was thinking banning the backpass was an overreaction to 1990. It was indeed the best rule change of my lifetime, so far.
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haha, god yeah. It's actually difficult to work out what is the primary driver for the ball being in the air so much. Is it because the pitch is a rutted swamp, is it because the ball can't be cynically fouled as it makes its way up the pitch, or is it because it gives the forward a decent chance to hit the defender first as opposed to standing there waiting for the ball to be played into their feet.
I wonder to what extent is this driven by the general across the board collapse in incidents of violence in society as a whole?
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I think some of it has to do with players being considered expensive assets rather than indentured servants. When you're paying players a lot of money you want them on the pitch as much as possible.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
I used to think that the backpass rule was the best thing to ever happen to football. But Having spent a lot of my time working my way through the stockpile of 70's and 80's football on Youtube, I've started to come around to thinking that the banning of the tackle from behind was even better. I'm also seeing a lot of the merits for automatic yellow cards for "tactical fouls."
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Originally posted by Uncle Ethan View Post
Fair points all. I think you've mentioned it previously, but aside from rule changes the most significant development in football in recent times has been the standard of pitches, presumably through the use of various emerging technologies in undersoil heating, grass/hybrid combos etc.
I think if you add all of these things together you begin to see why everyone was so impressed by maradona. None of this seemed to matter to him. He was able to do what he did even though the pitch was a rutted swamp, opponents could just scythe him down, and when he got past you, you could have another go at chopping him down from behind. He was basically the wing walker of the 1980's.
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- Jul 2016
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I'm currently re reading a book I got as a gift a few years ago, The Heyday of the Footbal Annual, and by coincidence it's reached the 1966 World Cup. There's a great quote from the brilliantly named Kenneth Wolstenhome's boy's book of the World Cup that says that the organisers were worried that the attendance at Brazil v Bulgaria would be affected by the Orange Order parade in Southport the same day. It also says that St James Park was unavailable because Newcastle council couldn't guarantee the lease. The author claims that after the final, Geoff Hurst went home and washed his car but I've seen photos in Nobby Stiles autobiography that shows that up for a lie.
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