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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 18:56:12 GMT 1
(not that long ago...) they'd have played games in weather like this because it was all about making sure the pitch was playable, you could see the markings, the ball and the ground wasn't frozen underneath. And if needed, they'd get a more local referee in to cover any problems the officials had in getting to the ground.
Now in these PC days it's all about the risk assessment of a twisted ankle for Quentin whilst he was running to the ground just before kick off and he sues the club or the council for ten million...
Back then, Herbert would walk an hour in a near blizzard, slip and twist and wait till after the game to decide whether or not it was worth a trip to the nurse on monday or not...
Real shame we've gone soft...
Now where's that electric blanket... ;D ;D
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Post by sowerbyterrier on Feb 2, 2009 20:16:06 GMT 1
you went to work whatever the weather because you didn't get paid if you didn't!!!
people knew how to drive in snow!!!
Rant over!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 20:20:44 GMT 1
I'm coming back as a school teacher, lightweights when it comes to getting to work in't snow.
They'll be having an extra 3 days holiday this week.
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Post by malcolmbrown on Feb 2, 2009 20:21:27 GMT 1
I've been sky plussing those retro football games recently "Big Match Revisited" and it's been showing games from the winter of 1979 and they played even when the pitch was covered by snow. Ee, those were the days.  |
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Post by philex on Feb 2, 2009 21:12:10 GMT 1
I opened this thread thinking it was going to say "remember the days when we got the dregs in the transfer window?"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 21:19:03 GMT 1
I opened this thread thinking it was going to say "remember the days when we got the dregs in the transfer window?" ;D You'd only need to trawl back 6 or 7 pages of this messageboard and you'd probably be able to see some of our 'star buys'...  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 21:29:10 GMT 1
i saw the same one mally,class,ipswich v orient.can anyone remember noel brotherston of blackburn running us ragged on a cold winters night in the 80's,gliding round like he had crampons on to our plimsolls? he had that mad hairdo,bushy ginger,only scalped on the top
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