Things that don't happen nowadays (2 Viewers)

JulianDarbyFTW

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Apropos of nothing, I was wondering why don't you hear about footballers swallowing their tongue nowadays - it seemed to be quite a big thing in the 90s. And then I wondered what else used to be a regular occurence in football that you don't hear much about these days - there's the more obvious ones like defenders becoming makeshift strikers or outfield players having to play in goal, but are there other things you can think of?
 

Finham

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Back passes that get picked up, followed by a roll out to the defender, then a back-pass that gets picked up, etc.
 

Calista

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Fullbacks carrying out a horrifying first-minute assault with a bone-crunching flying tackle that almost dumps the opposition winger into the crowd, and nobody batting an eyelid because it's the normal way to start every game.
 

Finham

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It would be a straight red nowadays, but back then it was called 'letting them know you are there' :LOL:
Remember when commentators would say in an astonished tone-after what would now be a straight red-"Oh, the referee's shown him a yellow card!!!"
 

Sbarcher

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The Bovril man with his sky blue tin on his back.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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Goalkeepers wearing hats when the sun is blinding them (watching Ben Wilson holding his hand up to shield his eyes in games used to annoy me - put a fecking cap on son, problem solved), Was convinced he'd end up conceding as a result of losing sight of the flight of the ball.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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People crowding around the only person who had bought a programme to find out the half time scores as it just used to say on the scoreboard match an and the score(for our younger people).
 

SkyBlueSam01

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Apropos of nothing, I was wondering why don't you hear about footballers swallowing their tongue nowadays - it seemed to be quite a big thing in the 90s. And then I wondered what else used to be a regular occurence in football that you don't hear much about these days - there's the more obvious ones like defenders becoming makeshift strikers or outfield players having to play in goal, but are there other things you can think of?

Its actually a complete myth that you can swallow your tongue so thats that one explained 🤓
 

SkyBlueSoul

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The starting lineup wears shirt numbers 1-11.
Unsurprisingly Sean Dyche and Burnley were the last to do it in the Premier League a couple of years ago, even in their correct positions. (Well, correct for 4-4-2. Don't think we'd see even him playing a 2-3-5)

Mail Sport on Twitter: Burnley's starting XI today wear 1 ...
 

rhino1002

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Unsurprisingly Sean Dyche and Burnley were the last to do it in the Premier League a couple of years ago, even in their correct positions. (Well, correct for 4-4-2. Don't think we'd see even him playing a 2-3-5)

Mail Sport on Twitter: Burnley's starting XI today wear 1 ...'s starting XI today wear 1 ...
Interestingly the last premier league team to play with 11 English players in their line up lost 4-1 to Coventry City in 1999 and it was ASTON ViLLA
 

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