I remember when football was a full contact sport. Not the game for delicate flowers it is now.

Yes, and all creativity and skill was clogged out of the game by licensed thugs, leaving us trailing miserably behind the rest of the footballing world.

 

Quote from: Steeleye on 18 May 2014, 05:18:41 AM
I remember when football was a full contact sport. Not the game for delicate flowers it is now.

Oh, the halcyon days of watching characters with such marvellously evocative names such as 'Chopper' Harris and Norman 'Bites Yer Legs' Hunter.

Quote from: Hertsblue on 18 May 2014, 09:11:57 AM
Yes, and all creativity and skill was clogged out of the game by licensed thugs, leaving us trailing miserably behind the rest of the footballing world.

They might have been licensed thugs but at least they were honest licensed thugs, most of them were rock-hard, no-nonsense tacklers and you knew what you were going up against. Unfortunately, since then and with with the massive influx of foreign players -who have influenced some of the home grown talent, it must be said- the sneakiness, underhandedness and blatant cheating that goes on in matches is reprehensible. If being honest means that we were left behind then it is a sad indictment on the game and it must be up to the sports governing bodies like the FA and FIFA to sort it out.

Sorry, rant over.

...and breathe...

Have not watched the FA cup final for about a decade and don't miss it at all. Was at a swimming gala watching my daughter yesterday much more interesting. I'd actually prefer the news to talk about archaeology rather than football.

Quote from: NTM on 18 May 2014, 09:49:14 AM
Have not watched the FA cup final for about a decade and don't miss it at all. Was at a swimming gala watching my daughter yesterday much more interesting. I'd actually prefer the news to talk about archaeology rather than football.

Careful, you may be suffering from intelligence!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 May 2014, 09:52:21 AM
Careful, you may be suffering from intelligence!

That's an instant ban on here.

IanS 

Quote from: NTM on 18 May 2014, 09:49:14 AM
Have not watched the FA cup final for about a decade and don't miss it at all. Was at a swimming gala watching my daughter yesterday much more interesting. I'd actually prefer the news to talk about archaeology rather than football.

As an ex-archaeologist i heartily agree.

Or ANY topic of value.  Why don't we hear, 'and now over to Jeff for the science news', or, 'and now here's Jenny with the latest developments in philosophical remodernism'.?

Quote from: Luddite on 18 May 2014, 11:42:15 AM

As an ex-archaeologist i heartily agree.

Or ANY topic of value.  Why don't we hear, 'and now over to Jeff for the science news', or, 'and now here's Jenny with the latest developments in philosophical remodernism'.?

Possibly because the mass of their viewers are more interested in the results of the latest insipid "reality" show or gossip about the latest famous-for-fifteen-minutes "celebrity".

No one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the great British public. Public school educated particularly.

IanS