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Eggs66

Eggs66

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It may have been touched on in other threads (sorry I haven't caught up with everything) but I did want to say how brilliant it was watching football again.

I watched 3 games back to back and there was pace, passion, goals and refs allowing proper tackles. Little dissent, no rolling around and no 5 minute pauses whilst VAR worked out if someone's elbow was closer to the goal than someone's toe. And we probably got about 70-75 minutes of actual football instead of the average 50-55 mins in the Prem last season.

I watched 10 mins of the Charity Shield - and yes the footballers on show may be better...but all the shite that goes with it I will not miss this year.
 
Eggs66 said:
It may have been touched on in other threads (sorry I haven't caught up with everything) but I did want to say how brilliant it was watching football again.

I watched 3 games back to back and there was pace, passion, goals and refs allowing proper tackles. Little dissent, no rolling around and no 5 minute pauses whilst VAR worked out if someone's elbow was closer to the goal than someone's toe. And we probably got about 70-75 minutes of actual football instead of the average 50-55 mins in the Prem last season.

I watched 10 mins of the Charity Shield - and yes the footballers on show may be better...but all the shite that goes with it I will not miss this year.
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Totally agree, Premier League is just corrupt. I hate it
 
Eggs66 said:
It may have been touched on in other threads (sorry I haven't caught up with everything) but I did want to say how brilliant it was watching football again.

I watched 3 games back to back and there was pace, passion, goals and refs allowing proper tackles. Little dissent, no rolling around and no 5 minute pauses whilst VAR worked out if someone's elbow was closer to the goal than someone's toe. And we probably got about 70-75 minutes of actual football instead of the average 50-55 mins in the Prem last season.

I watched 10 mins of the Charity Shield - and yes the footballers on show may be better...but all the shite that goes with it I will not miss this year.
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Absolutely spot on re the rolling about injured. Did the same, watching a few minutes of the Community Shield between the Championship games and whilst I knew the rolling about went on I didnt know how much of it related to trying to influence sodding Stockley Park.
 
The young upns strictly adhere to the rules nowadays, yesterdays refs used their heads
Seeing incidents.......... thats why today overtimes are silly remember one ref
at filbo saying to a player " if you want to play stop falling on your arse and get on with it"
Ps thats when l could hear
 
Eggs66 said:
It may have been touched on in other threads (sorry I haven't caught up with everything) but I did want to say how brilliant it was watching football again.

I watched 3 games back to back and there was pace, passion, goals and refs allowing proper tackles. Little dissent, no rolling around and no 5 minute pauses whilst VAR worked out if someone's elbow was closer to the goal than someone's toe. And we probably got about 70-75 minutes of actual football instead of the average 50-55 mins in the Prem last season.

I watched 10 mins of the Charity Shield - and yes the footballers on show may be better...but all the shite that goes with it I will not miss this year.
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So why are we fighting tooth and nail to get back into it?
 
Because each club is a business, certainly at our level, and our owners want to be in the big league where the money is.

Also where the chance to win trophies is.

Finally where the chance to get into Europe again is.

Unless something exceptional happens in a cup competition.
 
What I noticed was - when a defender is under pressure facing their own goal in the Prem they throw themselves to the ground and automatically get a free kick.
On Saturday it happened twice in first 10 minutes and ref just ignored it. Didn’t happen again .
 
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The one, the only Roger ‘he’s one of our own’ Kirkpatrick. Did anyone ever hear him speak? He was very posh! Refereed this derby with fun.

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Things to note from that match for our younger viewers.

1). Colour tv had only come out the previous year!
2) Stepney not sent off despite stopping a clear goal
3). Mike Doyle, who scored the second has a grandson who’s with Man City now. ( not our Doyle)
4). The brown stuff on the pitch is mud. Best strolled through that mud easily and controlled the ball despite that probably having mud on it too
5). RK showing how to ref a match. Wonderful character
 
First transmission I saw on a colour telly was a Lancashire v Gloucestershire one day game from Old Trafford.No “pyjamas” on view both teams in traditional whites. Jackie Bond was Lancashire captain and the first one to initiate spin bowling as a viable tactic in limited overs cricket. He eventually moved to Notts.
 
borebage53 said:
First transmission I saw on a colour telly was a Lancashire v Gloucestershire one day game from Old Trafford.No “pyjamas” on view both teams in traditional whites. Jackie Bond was Lancashire captain and the first one to initiate spin bowling as a viable tactic in limited overs cricket. He eventually moved to Notts.
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Watching sport in colour when it first came out was quite breathtaking. Pot Black was I believe the first sport to be televised in colour. Watching Wimbledon was quite unbelievable. I couldn’t get my head round how green the grass was, a bit like as a kid when you’d turn up at FS for the first game of the season and the WHOLE pitch was green until winter set in!
 
LGFOX said:
Things to note from that match for our younger viewers.

1). Colour tv had only come out the previous year!
2) Stepney not sent off despite stopping a clear goal
3). Mike Doyle, who scored the second has a grandson who’s with Man City now. ( not our Doyle)
4). The brown stuff on the pitch is mud. Best strolled through that mud easily and controlled the ball despite that probably having mud on it too
5). RK showing how to ref a match. Wonderful character
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And how about Frannie Lee's penalty - despatched into the top corner at pace from a circle of whitewash on a flat patch of mud. Talk about putting your laces through it!
 
LGFOX said:
Watching sport in colour when it first came out was quite breathtaking. Pot Black was I believe the first sport to be televised in colour. Watching Wimbledon was quite unbelievable. I couldn’t get my head round how green the grass was, a bit like as a kid when you’d turn up at FS for the first game of the season and the WHOLE pitch was green until winter set in!
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And for those of you watching in black and white the green ball is the one behind the brown!
 
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