Things You No longer see & Things you now do see At Football Matches

[XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn]

Copy & paste & Add 1 of each to Lists

Things You No longer see;

1. Kids with hats & scarves that were Knitted by Grandma .

Things you now do see:

1. People watching the game through a 4" screen whilst the real life size thing is happening right in front of them .

 

[Albert Ross]

1. Wooden rattles painted in club colours

2. Knobheads.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

1. Blokes standing in groups, all smoking.

2. Heavily sponsored bars selling expensive beer.

 

[Albert Ross]

1. Blokes standing in groups, all smoking.

2. Heavily sponsored bars selling expensive beer.

Wrong way round.

 

[Normoss_Rambler]

1. Bowler hatted bloke selling razor blades!

2. Electronic hoardings and scoreboards.

 

[Matesrates]

Owen Oyston

Simon Sadler

 

[Curryman]

1. Toilet rolls on pitch.
2, Flares on pitch.

 

[MartonBornandBred]

1. Adverts painted on roofs of stands which were there all season
2. Digital adverts around pitch changing every minute.

 

[Wizaard]

1. Half time scores linked to a letter of the alphabet listed in the programme.
2. Looking up scores on the Internet.

 

[Next Goal WIns]

1 - Fans wearing flares and tank tops
2 - Fans wearing Stone Island

 

[Wizaard]

1. Stewards in long white coats
2. Stewards in hi viz tabards.

 

[Chunkylad]

1. Fans lightly applauding the management team
2. Fans running down the steps to tell the manager to go feck himself

 

[Wizaard]

1. Applauding the opposition keeper
2. Chucking plastic bottles at the opposition keeper.

 

[Bluecabinboy]

1: Scarves tied round wrists.

2: People demanding top-level takeaway standard food in a 2hr window at a football game.

 

[20togo]

1. My Grandad
2. My Grandson

 

[Dave62]

1. A beach
2. A pitch

1. The Supporters Club building next to the South Stand
2. The Armfield

 

[1966_and_all_that]

1. Games being played with an orange ball in the snow.
2. Games called off after a bit of frost.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

1. Outside concrete toilets that stink of 10 year old, well matured piss.

2. Big screens

 

[LASHER]

Bloke in a bowler hat selling wilkinson Razor blades on Field st

 

[Happychap]

1.The Football League Review stapled inside the programme.
2. Sheepskin coats.

1. Players arriving at the ground wearing headphones.
2. Corners taken from outside the corner marking.

 

[Briggsy's-Shin-Pads]

1. Dogs

2. Women

(heartbreaking isn't it)

 

[Hockaday’s Quiff]

1. Half time scores linked to a letter of the alphabet listed in the programme.
2. Looking up scores on the Internet.

Scores on the internet…? Where are you sitting to get a signal??

 

[Sooty59]

Lots of matches & lighters used to light cigarettes. I noticed as a kid at my 1st night match.

Phones waved at night matches, by some

 

[Alf]

Eee we used th'ave to get up for football half an hour before we went to bed, matches were played in an old shoebox in the middle of the road, we had to eat gravel pies and be thankful... you try telling the kids of today that now, they won't believe you

 

[Wizaard]

Scores on the internet…? Where are you sitting to get a signal??

Away games

 

[TickerM1967]

1. Wagon Wheels
2. Scandalously priced Snickers Duo

 

[MartonBornandBred]

1. Raised bumper of grass alongside touch lines to keep ball in play.
2. Artificial grass so linesmen don’t wear out the touch line.

 

[Kingscoatkiwi]

Sheepskin coats for the managers
Players wearing snoods,gloves and sock’s worn over their knees (wtf)

 

[td53]

1: Short shorts
2: Gary Madine making long shorts into short shorts

 

[GTFsTwinBrother]

1. Wire fencing between the supporters and the pitch.

2. Women with too much botox/ plastic surgery.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Sheepskin coats for the managers
Players wearing snoods,gloves and sock’s worn over their knees (wtf)

And male sports bras....wtf?!

 

[Wizzerboy]

1. Proper physical matches with neither team giving an inch

2. Matches where players go down clutching their face if a defender looks at them nasty

 

[CAGU]

1. Wagon Wheels
2. Scandalously priced Snickers Duo

1. Big Wagon Wheels
2. Small Wagon Wheels!

 

[CAGU]

Goalies with flat cloth caps
Goalies in bright pink kit

 

[Graham berrys plastic bag]

1. Big Wagon Wheels
2. Small Wagon Wheels!

I thought it was just me

 

[Towerpower99]

Pipe smoke..loved the smell

100 yards of netting to separate fans….

 

[Graham berrys plastic bag]

The Nolan’s
Chicken biryani’s

 

[John Deary me]

The magic sponge
Loan players .

 

[dodgy_surname]

Subutteo broken players taking penalties
Flick to kick
Be careful where you kneel

 

[Next Goal WIns]

1 - Graham Berry
2 - Hipsters

 

[MartonBornandBred]

1. K.O’s strictly 3pm every Saturday.
2. K.O’s governed by Sky anytime they decide.

 

[clappers]

1. Nemotodes
2. Grow lamp lighting rigs

 

[Wizaard]

1: Scarves tied round wrists.

2: People demanding top-level takeaway standard food in a 2hr window at a football game.

1. Silk scarves tied round wrists
2. Half and half scarves. (Wrong)

 

[Gods honest truth]

Pigeon scarers

Vaping

 

[Tangerinenick]

1. Loads of kids clearly unaccompanied ( like I was).

2. Happy clappers

 

[BFCPaul]

Things You No longer see;

1. Steam coming off your piss in the outside loos

Things you now do see:

4 x 4's in the Players Car Park

 

[KhonKaenSeasider]

1. Rosettes

2. Friggin' half and half scarves

 

[BIG_BERTHA_3]

1.Shitty home made banners

2. Professionally made massive flags

 

[TommyHutch]

Things you don’t see:-
The half time scoreboard, lettered A to Z.
The guy outside selling rosettes and club badges.
Ball boys/girls on stools.
The guy inside the ground walking round the pitch selling pies and tea.
The warm up where players just had 3 or 4 minutes “kicking in”
Mud.
The lines being swept so that the game could go ahead in snow.
Orange footballs so that the game could go ahead in snow.

Things you do see:-
Pre match warm up lasting half an hour.
The Officials warming up - getting ready to make the same mistakes they always did (and always will - they’re human).
Games being called off because of frost or a sprinkling of snow.

Edit - sorry XBeds, I have so many I couldn’t choose.

 

[Curryman]

The obvious one that we have all missed.

Leather footballs

Highly coloured footballs.