Things that don't happen nowadays (13 Viewers)

[JulianDarbyFTW]

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?

 

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[Finham]

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

 

[Martin180]

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

The Liverpool 1980s model

 

[Calista]

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.

 

[Calista]

It would be a straight red nowadays, but back then it was called 'letting them know you are there'

 

[Finham]

It would be a straight red nowadays, but back then it was called 'letting them know you are there'

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!!!"

 

[Tommy Tommy hutch]

St John's ambulance men running on with a stretcher like a pair of vultures any time someone went down

 

[clint van damme]

Controlling the ball with the inside of your thigh

 

[Esoterica]

A nice normal pair of black football boots with a nice normal pair of uncut football socks inside them!

 

[skybluetony176]

Jumpers for goalposts, marvellous.

 

[Covcraig@bury]

News paper as shin pads

 

[djr8369]

Gooalkeepers having beer bellies that spill out when they dive.

 

[The Nomad]

Players signing on a Friday night or Saturday morning and going straight into the team on a Saturday afternoon. Now they need about a month to 'get up to speed'.

 

[DawlishSkyBlue]

City players on the piss in town. Robbie Keane in Ikon, Micky Quinn in Pink Parrott, Dave Bennett everywhere

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

Goalkeepers who don’t wear gloves.

 

[LastGarrison]

The starting lineup wears shirt numbers 1-11.

 

[Sbarcher]

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

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

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.

 

[harvey098]

Wingers kicking the ball one side of the defender and running round the other side. In fact - wingers.

 

[stgeorge1966]

The 5pm tweet

 

[Sbarcher]

Little blue invalid cars trundling along the touch line.

 

[Winny the Bish]

City players on the piss in town. Robbie Keane in Ikon, Micky Quinn in Pink Parrott, Dave Bennett everywhere

Michael Doyle in Leamington making girls queue up to kiss him

 

[rob9872]

Kicking the ball forwards on a kick off with two players at the centre.

 

[edgy]

Broken Metatarsals.

Disappeared as quickly as they appeared.

 

[mmttww]

Stadium announcer telling someone to contact the nearest Steward as their wife has gone in to labour.

 

[Speedie's Head]

Playing ManU at Old Trafford and beating them. Nothing like doing the Coronation Street song against a background of silence.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

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).

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

You don’t see players with Greg Downs style hair

 

[rhino1002]

Man selling pies from a warm box at the perimeter of the pitch

 

[SkyBlueSam01]

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

 

[Samo]

White dog shit

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

The Pink.

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

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)

 

[rhino1002]

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)

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

 

[BodicoteSkyBlue]

An orange football during the winter. Or even the pitch markings a different colour. I’m sure I’ve seen them coloured blue in winter before.