Old Timey Football Thread

[Sutekh]

So they started weighting that as well to ensure the big names and clubs of football win that too surely if a bert smith from Paisley, playing at tier 10 or something, won it then that's because he's achieved something really memorable against players of his own standard not just because he happens to play for a billy big bollox club in a billy big bollox league. So much for inclusivity.

[Winston Biscuit]

Uwe Rosler signing for Man City



#differenttimes

[From Despair To Where?]

Interesting choice of t shirt.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Wtf

[Winston Biscuit]

The Football League was formed on this day in 1888 at The Royal Hotel in Manchester

[Winston Biscuit]

Newells Old Boys is named as such because an Englishman, Isaac Newell, went over and set up life for himself there and later on he opened a school, called Colegio Comercial Anglicano Argentino

When he opened it he designed a coat of arms with different symbols on, and which was which was half red, for England, and half black, for Germany, as his wife was German



As well as being the English teacher he was passionate about football and organised matches for the school. in the early 1900's some former pupils decided they wanted to create a club to go into the football league and so created a club exclusively for former staff and pupils of the school and in honour of Isaac Newell they called it Newells Old Boys. They came up with their own badge using the colours from the school coat of arms.

Their first ever match



Their rival is Rosario Central, which was set up a football team exclusively for the railway workers, and was named after the British company they worked for - The Central Argentine Railway

[bakerlou]

Hugo Sanchez 89/90 record goal scoring season for Real Madrid, where he scored 38 league goals, were all scored with a single touch

On discovering this week that RoI's manager Heimir Hallgrímsson is a qualified dentist, it seems only fair to point out that Hugo Sanchez also has a degree in Dentistry.

#facts

[Winston Biscuit]

Reading in Italy 1913, Attilio Fresia

http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/2013 ... resia.html

[Sutekh]

How not to match fix

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23240104

[stealthpapes]

In the second of my occasional old school footballers Christmas party photos - here's the Liverpool players Christmas party, 1990

That's David Burrows, fwiw.

Sure you could look much of this up but

one of Australians next to Ian Rush is Venison, think the other is Whelan
iirc, Shoot magazine told me that the Joker is Grobelaar
John Barnes is Dick Turpin, think that's Staunton next to him.
Big lad is likely Jan Molby.

Finally, there's the Anfield Comedy Club, which has had some rich moments of side-splittery. There was the time that a figure turned up to their fancy-dress party in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, with Steve McMahon on the door. "You can't come in like that. John Barnes is in there," said McMahon, in no way implying that the outfit would have been absolutely fine had Barnes not been at the club. "No," responded the KKK man, whipping off the hood, "he's in here."

Different party, right?

[Sanguine]

The second Aussie isn't Whelan. Ronnie is the devil on the left. I think it might be Gary Gillespie. Molby next to him as Julius Caesar. Mike Marsh is Aladdin on the front row. Chap behind David 'Adolf' Burrows is Nicky Tanner.

Not sure on front left. And the guy in glasses looks like McManaman, but the photo is too old to be him I think.

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McManaman's debut for Liverpool was that season.

Scottish players in that side? Nicol, Speedie, a very young Don Hutchison.

[stealthpapes]

Rosenthal was at Liverpool then as well. I guess he's at the bar dressed as Himmler.

[BRO_BOT]

The second Aussie isn't Whelan. Ronnie is the devil on the left. I think it might be Gary Gillespie. Molby next to him as Julius Caesar. Mike Marsh is Aladdin on the front row. Chap behind David 'Adolf' Burrows is Nicky Tanner.

Not sure on front left. And the guy in glasses looks like McManaman, but the photo is too old to be him I think.

Yeah, that's Macca and GG

[stealthpapes]

[stealthpapes]

The Village People realised they maybe had one or two surplus members.

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For a HT, as we're on 'football things that may have dated badly'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yajBDdKmk0s

What Aston Villa's 1995-96 squad liked for a night out

[Sanguine]

I know things change for a reason, but that's a great photo, and the left hand side of it would, these days, result in lengthy apologies.

[stealthpapes]

"I am sorry to all Danish Liverpool fans and I will never appropriate their way of life nor their manner of dress again"

[Sutekh]

God, wasn’t domestic 90s football largely a load of dreadful cobblers, easily the worst decade on the pitch.