I'm from Consett and I remember playing an attacking role at a junior match at Chopwell,when their centre half bundled into me,grabbed my shirt and cleared the ball upfield...... and then told me if I tried to go past him again he'd break my leg! And,I had long hair......60's.....let's go!
As a lad he's actually alright and on other stuff generally fine. Life long lads fan, travelled all over the country when he was younger, plenty of great stories about matches from then. He's just negative about us now and has been for a good couple of years. To be fair it's not just us he's negative about, he's also negative about England. Personally I just ignore most of what he says now but he's an example that there's plenty out there and not all are trolls or mags on a wind up.
Well,he's not alone in being negative about England.! International football is a dogshit lottery. Not the first time the FA have awarded a longer term contract,not won anything, going into a tournament,to protect him being courted with a club side elsewhere hoping to secure his focus.
I remember the times when any contact except shoulder to shoulder was judged a foul. No pushing, pulling or wrestling with arms.
Yep,agree it's just about having fun. Let's go into these last three matches, attack,attack and attack....show our skills......let's entertain,we having very little to lose!Let’s enjoy the last three games, and crack on with an important summer. Shame losing Ballard for it bit gives someone else a shot. Imagine thinking we’d be dissapointed missing out on Europe when we left Wembley last year
Oh yeah, but that’s not to say they were all given. And there were some nasty tackles back in the day. We’d have been down to 9 men if the 73 cup final was by today’s standards!!
Embarrassing post. Lost the argument so try and be insulting instead then throw in some off brand 70s reference about homosexuality. Weird
I think it was Michael Oliver who re-refereed the 1970 FA cup Final and he would have sent off 11 players by today’s standards
If that's the one between Chelsea and Leeds I'd agree with him! I've only seen replays of it as it was before I was born, but bloody hell it was excessive even in those days. Body checks, hacks, head high challenges...you'd have been lucky to make it to half time with the game being called off due to not enough players if it was refereed today!I think it was Michael Oliver who re-refereed the 1970 FA cup Final and he would have sent off 11 players by today’s standards
Not sure that says anything - not all fouls lead to cards
Never saw the game. Did it appear biased or not. Ref normally decent but the sending off seemed harsh to me.
I was there and imo ref was a joke, the 2 handballs never even got a look at from var.
It was so embarrassing, that you gave it a like. Then your guilty conscience decided there was a homosexual content in there! Give your head a shake!
