v please log in to view this image v Sunday Ashton Gate Stadium 12:00pm Well the fat lady sung and nothing happened in the transfer window-defiantly a time we should have added a striker to spearhead the attack. Every club apart from Leeds and Bristol City did not bring players in-Leeds being top and walking to the championship title. Big mistake by Bristol City and the owners and it does put into perspective their ambition for top flight football in Bristol. Sunday's game against a Swansea side that have not won a game in six losing five and drawing one. Bristol City with a impotent strikeforce this season are in my opinion doing very well to sit three points of 5th spot-WBA did a fantastic bit of business in getting Adam Armstrong on loan from Southampton this i believe will guarantee them a playoff place. If city want to maintain a push for promotion then they should be expected to beat Swansea who are in dire form. Let's hope Nahki Wells is kept in cotton wool for the remainder of the season-without him Bristol City would struggle I'm just glad we have enough points on the board to keep us away from the bottom three. City to win by two goals -always believe-you reds.
Come Sunday I'll most likely watch on Sky but can't say I look forward to the Paint Dry Derby. Sooner or later football will move on from the mind numbing possession game.
City havent been playing a possession game away from home !!!! At Cov every fourth pass was spanked and ****ed down the park!! ****e City. Liked Johnsons possession and pressing game then he got bored of it and put the non pressing Famara with a touch like a trampoline to lead the City by not trying very hard. Busy bees to bags of spuds not sure we have the former or latter now!!
It’s not just us, did you see Man City doing it v Arsenal on Sunday. Even the commentators were saying have a shot
Supcon...... I know I played in a different age but I said it last season and was told, 'get real RP', it's the modern game. I hate it with a vengeance.
I played and watched in almost the same age as you RP and I also hate tippy tappy, cross passing and backward, possession football, also I am told by my local confederates that I have to have an understanding of the modern game, I try but Big John, Garland ,Galley, Sharpey, Clive Whitehead, Cheeseley from our local history,the great George Best who I was whacko about and many others of that time clog my memory banks with sheer delight. I also have no great love for the modern game but it's all we've got.
the modern game is all about fairies and probably why so many get injured the days of "Norm bites your legs" . on muddy pitch's sometimes resulting in players looking like they had been mud wrestling.. that was real football. Players ran with the ball, yea they had a few tricks but basically it was "just get stuck in"!
The good old days are sadly missed by me and today's version just bores me like nothing other, perhaps with a cob with Love Island and all it's modernity pushed in our faces, and as far as a decent watch - forget it now. There is very little left of my memories because the pamper league would not allow it but watching a game at Huish Park, Yeovil put a much better slant on things (joke for the real oldies). At least it will never take away that day I spent at the Old Wembley Stadium seeing England win the World Cup (yes they did) and great meories at Ashton Gate in the old era when footballers were either tough or unemployed. The way the game is played today with as many players confronting the referee on as many occasions as possible, mainly over stupid obvious moans, and they don't get a card enough times for me, but in the olden days they would be shunted by the ref and you rarely saw those annoying confrontations which delay the game.
Muddy pitches, muddy players, orange balls when there was snow on the pitch and being instantly able to recognise any ground on tv by their goal nets, no garish kits with a hundred sponsors all over it Pitches in the 70s particularly were a great leveller and saw some of the greatest cup upsets of all time Colchester beating Leeds, Hereford beating Newcastle and Wimbledon and good old Dickie Guy saving a penalty at Elland Road and getting a 0-0 draw Magic I really miss those days
At the risk of sounding like a miserable old git, so do I. Tippy tappy is rather tedious, would much rather seeing Smudger haring down the wing and players not afraid to take their defender on. Oh well!!
I was no player me my first touch took the MITRE off the ball!! lot of eighties football was ****e. keepers banging it to two up top and their keeper banging it back at their two up top. proper. If BCFC played proper like Cambridge i would have walked away from it instead of doing 95% of home and away for years watching football that frankly wasn't all that as a City fan. The card game and cans on the choo choo home was more fun than the football half the time.
Players are the fittest they’ve ever been these days Diets are strictly controlled Pitches are immaculate year round due to modern grass technology Some teams even travel by air within the UK for away games, attendances are up in general, hospitality, for those who can afford it, is fantastic or so I’m told, a lot of stadiums are unrecognisable from 40/50 years ago, team motor coaches have unheard of luxuries onboard compared to the 60s, and 70s, Who would have ever thought that the top English league would be watched in hundreds of countries and beamed around d the world ? It was unthinkable back in the day Unfortunately, the only thing that’s spoiling it is the often tedious end product, and of course it’s largely caused by the obscene amount of money in the game these days, which has literally ruined it, and the influence of the likes of Sky and co who help dictate ridiculous kick off times and such like But it was good back in the day, and the product was true and genuine while it lasted
Posters remember Cooper buying Steve Johnson?? Muscles like a Greek statue, got nicknamed Rambo but could get injured by the zip on his tracksuit!!
I just don’t understand all the pissing about at the back - particularly when under pressure. It’s silly. I get it as a tactical move - when playing for a draw - or to tempt the opposition to commit forward so you can hit on the break, but NOT as a general playing style and ONLY if the passes are easy. If you have the ball at the back and there’s an opposition player bearing down on you, then safety first’ should be instinct and you put your bloody laces through it, not try and pass short - you will put your teammate under unnecessary pressure and risk conceding a goal. We used to call that a ‘hospital ball’ back in the day; passing a mate into trouble. ……. btw I was an awful defender - I played up front or attacking midfield, so REAL defenders may scoff at what I’ve just stated!!
this is not a racist comment .. simply an observation on the wider picture 1970' s v 2020's 70'S Average = 16,000 2020's average = 21,500 in that period the number of races / cultures and the general population has changed 1970's steady at around 54,500,000 today is 66,500,000 in 70's .............1 in every head of population was about 3,500 attended AG ... in todays world its 1 in 3, 100 however the number of white faces in the crowd back then was close to 99% today it is closer to 75%? sowe owe the increase in attendances to those that have emigrated to this country ... of the 12,000,000 increase in population .gov charts show that around +7 million are from other backgrounds. so generally speaking football crowds today would be a lot less without these other groups?
