⚽Match Thread vs. Bromley FC 04.03.23 [NL]

[Mark_Ross]

Me too, but his miss yesterday was an absolute shocker.

I hope it's included in the highlights.

Even the greatest scorers are Mr Sitter sometimes.

Hopeful CLE just needs a few games to get his sharpness & then he will be a big asset as per Bostock.

[nay123]

Yes although I am not sure my wife would agree that me getting up at 1am every Sunday morning then going back to bed for a few hours then getting up again is condusive to practical parenting. Still I will be back in the UK in a few weeks and get to go to a few games then whilst jet lagged. I can see the irony in that. Hopefully I will be at Wrexham for the big one if my mate can score a couple of tickets for my daughter and I.

Not much chance of that 800 tickets notts have 4000 season ticket holders and you can only have 1 ticket each 😞

[Glad2BeAPie]

You cant play 50 games a season though with hardly any changes.

Football is much faster now than it was years ago if you cant run you have no future.

But we don't do much running, certainly not enough to tire them out

[durhampie]

You cant play 50 games a season though with hardly any changes.

Football is much faster now than it was years ago if you cant run you have no future.

We used to play on pitches that were no more than a mud bath and sometimes even covered in snow. Also we had only 1 substitute and you could name the same eleven every game. I would have thought those conditions were more demanding that what we have today. the trainer came on on with a bucket and sponge and the player soon got up. Today they roll about as though they have broken both legs..

[queenslandpie]

Not much chance of that 800 tickets notts have 4000 season ticket holders and you can only have 1 ticket each ��

I have a plan for that!

[uysapie]

We used to play on pitches that were no more than a mud bath and sometimes even covered in snow. Also we had only 1 substitute and you could name the same eleven every game. I would have thought those conditions were more demanding that what we have today. the trainer came on on with a bucket and sponge and the player soon got up. Today they roll about as though they have broken both legs..

The balls were heavier, especially on mud baths. Jack Wheeler had a magic sponge!

[keldsyke]

We used to play on pitches that were no more than a mud bath and sometimes even covered in snow. Also we had only 1 substitute and you could name the same eleven every game. I would have thought those conditions were more demanding that what we have today. the trainer came on on with a bucket and sponge and the player soon got up. Today they roll about as though they have broken both legs..

Unfortunately what you’ve described is a reflection on modern society, I’m waiting for the time someone goes down rolling around because they’ve been offended!

[laddo]

When the pitches were mud baths, the balls were full of water and heavy and there was amazingly only one substitute the game was also a lot slower even at the top level.

[LaxtonLad]

We used to play on pitches that were no more than a mud bath and sometimes even covered in snow. Also we had only 1 substitute and you could name the same eleven every game. I would have thought those conditions were more demanding that what we have today. the trainer came on on with a bucket and sponge and the player soon got up. Today they roll about as though they have broken both legs..

Them was the days, Durham. Shirt number 9 was the centre forward no matter who wore it, shirts numbers 7 and 11 were wingers no matter who was inside them and just the sight of the trainer running on with his bucket of cold water in mid February was enough to raise the corpse and get him running away.

[since41]

Interesting about the balls being heavier they were only because the old leather soaked up water whereas modern balls don't I remember the lace was the worst thing esp heading.it as kid.

(1863 the newly formed English Football Association met to hammer out the laws of the game. No description of the ball was offered in the first set of rules. When the rules were revised in 1872 it was agreed that the ball “must be spherical with a circumference of 27 to 28 inches” (68.6 cm to 71.1 cm). That rule remains in today’s FIFA laws. Very little has ever been written about the ball, probably because it has remained very much the same over the years. The official size and weight of the ball was first fixed in 1872. It was changed ever so little in 1937 when the official weight was increased from 13-15 oz to 14-16 oz. The Encyclopedia of Association Football (first published in England in 1956) says as follows “According to the Laws of Football, the ball must be spherical with an outer casing of leather or other approved materials. The circumference shall not be more than 28 in., nor less than 27 in, while the weight at the start of the game must not be more that 16 oz., nor less than 14 oz.” The Laws of the Game as published in 2001 say exactly the same thing as to size and weight. What has changed drastically over the last 30 or so years is the material the ball is made of and the shape of the panels that make up the ball.)