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Post by HTC on Feb 21, 2024 17:28:05 GMT
that's the sort of goal we'd be disappointed to concede today, let alone a top flight team.
I can't really see any desire to return to the ploughed field years when we shared with Sale either.
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Post by scfc73 on Feb 21, 2024 17:29:30 GMT
That's brilliant & I remember many a game played on pitches like that. Can you imagine some of today's pampered premier league players having to contend with a pitch like that Oh man, that's not brilliant! Okay, maybe in the way that an episode of It's a Knockout was brilliant, but that's hilariously awful. You can't think that's better than today, surely? đ No of course not, I think today's bowling green pitches & players so finely tuned that they spend half the season out injured at the slightest twinge is far superior to what went before & yes let's bring back It's a knockout (minus Stuart Hall). Seriously though it does highlight the craft of modern groundsmen particularly our own. Our pitch has been nothing short of superb for a good while now, credit to those involved in keeping it that way. I remember renting a VHS tape of a game at E.P. in the 80's & the tape was almost unwatchable due to the glare from the floodlights reflecting off the mud patches & puddles on the pitch!
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Feb 21, 2024 19:02:06 GMT
I agree that most stuff is better than it was decades ago, but light shows and the sort detract from it. All that guff at Wembley was dire. Players waiting for the DJ to finish to kick off the second half and a showy stadium announcer. I donât think kids care about it either. Itâs all very American, and while Iâm not someone who automatically dismisses everything American I really donât think it works in football. If I go to an Ice Hockey arena and thereâs a big light show with loud music itâs part of what Iâm there for. Football is a very different beast. I get the American argument, and I agree that trying to force something culturally on us, who have our own football culture, is wrong, and arguably a worrying development. But to me, this is more a developmental advance on pre-match tannoy music, half time penalty competitions and the like, which we've had for ages, rather than, to take a particularly American example, all singing a communal song at a particular point in the game. Fair point about the stuff at Wembley. I do take issue with the kids bit, though. I've taken kids to the Etihad and they love the pre-match build up. Tbh, it's not so much the lightshow (which is amazing), but the whole 20 minutes or so which builds up to a frenzy as the teams emerge. It's not explicit in that they would particularly point to any one thing in the build-up that they like, but it's clearly part of the whole, and as I say, they love it. Maybe youâre right on the kids thing. I can only really go off what I was like as a kid and I found EP a lot more interesting than Old Trafford or Maine Road - despite them having more a show even back then.
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Post by timberwolf on Feb 22, 2024 9:50:18 GMT
I get the American argument, and I agree that trying to force something culturally on us, who have our own football culture, is wrong, and arguably a worrying development. But to me, this is more a developmental advance on pre-match tannoy music, half time penalty competitions and the like, which we've had for ages, rather than, to take a particularly American example, all singing a communal song at a particular point in the game. Fair point about the stuff at Wembley. I do take issue with the kids bit, though. I've taken kids to the Etihad and they love the pre-match build up. Tbh, it's not so much the lightshow (which is amazing), but the whole 20 minutes or so which builds up to a frenzy as the teams emerge. It's not explicit in that they would particularly point to any one thing in the build-up that they like, but it's clearly part of the whole, and as I say, they love it. Maybe youâre right on the kids thing. I can only really go off what I was like as a kid and I found EP a lot more interesting than Old Trafford or Maine Road - despite them having more a show even back then. So we lose our culture for the sake of kids who will quickly grow out of that stage. Seems every man and his dog are allowed cultures but us.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Feb 22, 2024 9:52:38 GMT
Maybe youâre right on the kids thing. I can only really go off what I was like as a kid and I found EP a lot more interesting than Old Trafford or Maine Road - despite them having more a show even back then. So we lose our culture for the sake of kids who will quickly grow out of that stage. Seems every man and his dog are allowed cultures but us. I donât think thatâs what I said at all
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Post by timberwolf on Feb 22, 2024 10:09:50 GMT
So we lose our culture for the sake of kids who will quickly grow out of that stage. Seems every man and his dog are allowed cultures but us. I donât think thatâs what I said at all Sorry, i was just too lazy when i posted thats all.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Feb 22, 2024 18:43:23 GMT
I get the American argument, and I agree that trying to force something culturally on us, who have our own football culture, is wrong, and arguably a worrying development. But to me, this is more a developmental advance on pre-match tannoy music, half time penalty competitions and the like, which we've had for ages, rather than, to take a particularly American example, all singing a communal song at a particular point in the game. Fair point about the stuff at Wembley. I do take issue with the kids bit, though. I've taken kids to the Etihad and they love the pre-match build up. Tbh, it's not so much the lightshow (which is amazing), but the whole 20 minutes or so which builds up to a frenzy as the teams emerge. It's not explicit in that they would particularly point to any one thing in the build-up that they like, but it's clearly part of the whole, and as I say, they love it. Maybe youâre right on the kids thing. I can only really go off what I was like as a kid and I found EP a lot more interesting than Old Trafford or Maine Road - despite them having more a show even back then. Did away fans get the âGene Kellyâ stand at Maine Road, or am I getting confused with the temporary end the Commonwealth Stadium had for the Games? Whichever it was, being a spectator on the back of it was definitely the most âinterestingâ experience Iâve had at a sports groundâŚ
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Feb 22, 2024 19:25:15 GMT
I'm sure it was for home fans when we went (aside from a few hardy County fans who snuck in)
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Post by Nik on Feb 29, 2024 11:54:56 GMT
Not Premier League anymore but newsworthy
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Feb 29, 2024 13:51:21 GMT
If his second spell at Old Trafford is anything to go by, it definitely wasn't performance-enhancing drugs
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Post by Count de Stockport on Feb 29, 2024 13:57:10 GMT
Those forehead creases. I didn't realise Pogh'ba was Klingon
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Post by runtothehills on Feb 29, 2024 14:05:12 GMT
Another wasted talent, Rashford should be looking at how he has turned out
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Post by herbiedumplings on Feb 29, 2024 15:22:04 GMT
Those forehead creases. I didn't realise Pogh'ba was Klingon I thought he was thinking to himself âBut I just really really like tuna fish and runny eggs!â
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Mar 4, 2024 20:46:16 GMT
Arsenal last 3 away PL games...
West Ham 0 Arsenal 6 Burnley 0 Arsenal 5
Currently.. Sheff U 0 Arsenal 5
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Post by desmond on Mar 4, 2024 20:52:58 GMT
Arsenal last 3 away PL games...
West Ham 0 Arsenal 6 Burnley 0 Arsenal 5
Currently.. Sheff U 0 Arsenal 5 Brilliant first half from them. And sure the commentator said the Xg was only 1.8 !
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