- 21. Arsenal, Bedford Town and 1956 FA Cup third round
- (January 2016)
- ... of age, Arsenal v Bedford Town on January 7, 1956 was both our first FA Cup game and our first game in which floodlights were used. But it was not our first visit to Highbury. Four months earlier we ...
- Created on 07 January 2016
- 22. The Life And Times Of Herbert Chapman
- (Managers)
- ... than the directors, pick the team, who imagined the role of floodlights in games and numbers on shirts, who adapted quickest tactically to changes in the rules of football in the way he balanced attack ...
- Created on 12 February 2014
- 23. Weekly Howl 03-08-12
- (2012)
- ... rip to Belarus but I think the reason is simple. Some bulbs in the floodlights at Anfield need repairing. It's a task for a tall lad on the end of a ladder. Andy's insurance policy includes cover for acciden ...
- Created on 03 August 2012
- 24. A football ramble
- (Fan culture)
- ... teenage starlet Luka Modric. We were too busy studying the odd design of the floodlights. The obsessive gene required to embark on this adventure in the first place means that choosing the next destin ...
- Created on 01 May 2012
- 25. Plastic fantastic
- (Organisation & structure)
- ... ton of sand on the surface. The glare of the floodlights and the composition of this "beach" combined to give the impression that the pitch had been lit from beneath. That night, Boundary Park must have ...
- Created on 01 May 2012
- 26. Untimely endings
- (Governing bodies)
- ... n battle. After the teams failed to appear for the second half, supporters were asked to evacuate the stadium due to an electrical fire in one of the floodlights. The game was abandoned and rearranged f ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 27. Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Hull City 0
- (Match of the month)
- ... then, to my young eyes, it was a veritable Humberside Xanadu, wreathed in the alluring odour of fried onions, a mass plumage of hats and scarves, the floodlights towering with Wellesian awe like giganti ...
- Created on 21 December 2011
- 28. Gateshead 1 Cambridge United 1
- (Match of the month)
- ... nd blue shirt saunter from the Metro station towards the floodlights through the Playmobil-neat-and-tidy St James' Village estate. A group of visitors from the south-east, meanwhile, do their bit for regiona ...
- Created on 01 November 2011
- 29. Pick and mix
- (Non-League)
- ... thing new for Scarborians however. In 1969 they donated their floodlights to Tamworth when about to erect new ones. The latter's Lamb Ground still boasts them today. Furthermore, those floodlights were ...
- Created on 21 October 2011
- 30. Shady practises
- (Managers)
- ... afternoon as I watched a Conference match at Forest Green's inappropriately named ground, The Lawn. At just after four it was getting dark. As the floodlights came out to play, my dependably disobedien ...
- Created on 21 September 2011
- 31. That empty feeling
- (Grounds)
- ... administration and was sentenced to three years in jail in 2005 for tax evasion). The club’s former ground, Feethams, was old-football: terraces at both ends, floodlights in each corner and smack-ban ...
- Created on 21 May 2011
- 32. Stuck in the stiffs
- (Youth football)
- ... playing on a midweek afternoon, though, they save the cost of floodlights but guarantee a pitiful attendance. The FA wants young players to be rehearsing for the professional game by playing weekly matches, ...
- Created on 21 May 2011
- 33. Olympic dreams
- (Non-League)
- ... could end up in your back garden is the kind of thing that makes you divert the walk to the corner shop, just so you can admire the floodlights peeking up from behind the fence. In my case this ground ...
- Created on 21 November 2010
- 34. Ripping it up
- (Clubs)
- ... At this point, United chairman Steven Thompson let loose with both barrels. United, a club not known to be swimming in a lake of cash, had spent thousands on replacing ageing seats and floodlights at Tannadice ...
- Created on 21 October 2010
- 35. European Union
- (Europe)
- ... of Juventus. They were accused of fixing a game between Como and Sampdoria but the charges came to nothing. At Eupen, much work remains to be done on the stadium – undersoil heating and floodlights have ...
- Created on 21 September 2010
- 36. Chesterfield 1 Hereford United 2
- (Match of the month)
- ... ancient echo in the floodlighting department. Chesterfield were the last of the then current League clubs to install permanent floodlights (in 1967), an absolutely killer fact I have known for decades ...
- Created on 21 May 2010
- 37. The joy of nets
- (Miscellaneous)
- ... that my memory has embellished some details – it was a misty afternoon and small droplets of water hung from the knots glinting in the floodlights like the tiniest diamonds. Seventeen years later I scored ...
- Created on 21 February 2010
- 38. Weekly Howl 23-10-09
- (2009)
- ... had picked his spot by aiming away from Shilton's torso which was luminous under the floodlights. Shilton reverted to wearing green and trunkloads of unsold white shirts must have been shipped back ...
- Created on 28 October 2009
- 39. Weekly Howl 09-10-09
- (2009)
- ... first club in Turkey to install floodlights – but a religious epiphany is a much more striking message. And a leather football's religious epiphany is criminally underused in 20th-century sporting ...
- Created on 14 October 2009
- 40. Weekly Howl 14-08-09
- (2009)
- ... to help the players to pick each other out under the floodlights. Buy this shirt and hundreds of others at Classic Football Shirts --- from Mike Smith "Ian Goddard's story about Ally McCoist ...
- Created on 20 August 2009
