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posted 01-05-2008 13:14

 
Player managers is a great observation, I can't think of any in top level Portuguese football. The last prominent one I can think of in English football, who actually played, is Andy Hessenthaler at Gillingham.

Do you think they receive two pay-cheques for each job?
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posted 01-05-2008 13:24

 
Goalkeeper's shorts and socks that match the rest of the team, or has that been outlawed?
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posted 01-05-2008 13:25

 
twohundredpercent wrote:
QUOTE:
Anyway: animals getting on the pitch (presumably Premier League clubs now have trained marksmen who shoot all animals before they get in the view of the television cameras, lest they detract from the spectacle)


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posted 01-05-2008 13:58

 
Arsenal winning trophies
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posted 01-05-2008 14:34

 
toilet rolls streaming onto the really really muddy pitch.
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posted 01-05-2008 15:32

 
Short fat bald blokes with buckets and sponges.
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posted 01-05-2008 15:35

 
Proper black boots, players with their socks around their ankles.
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posted 01-05-2008 18:54

 
Goal celebrations involving nothing more than a manly handshake.
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posted 01-05-2008 19:21

 
Bald wingers, cigar smoke, men on the terraces wearing suits, trophies being won by teams you wouldn't expect, all of the above.

Oh, fuck this. Basically, everything I used to like about football.
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posted 01-05-2008 19:32

 
players with an honest to god personality off the pitch. at least at the higher levels of the game.
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posted 01-05-2008 22:18

 
The missus and I actually managed to score seats next to a couple of cigar-smoking locals at Denmark-Bulgaria in Euro 2004. It wasn't quite as good as you'd expect it to be.
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posted 02-05-2008 02:16

 
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posted 02-05-2008 02:16

 
Goalkeepers without gloves.

Fans with scarves tied round their wrists
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#21188
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posted 02-05-2008 05:52

 
Small, thin, lightly built spectators....
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posted 02-05-2008 05:53

 
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The missus and I actually managed to score seats next to a couple of cigar-smoking locals at Denmark-Bulgaria in Euro 2004

Come and watch a game in Spain if you like the stink of cheap cigars. Approximately 77% of fans smoke them. Well, all right, maybe not, but sometimes it feels like it. *Coughs*
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Last Edit: 02-05-2008 05:53 By Ant van Oviedo.
 
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posted 02-05-2008 08:25

 
TV commentators yelping with stunned delight when someone scores from a direct free kick
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