Seventies footie ....

[jazz_pilgrim]

Although Bernie has stipulated that this is a strictly for entertainment only, I thought I would take a chance and talk about footie, including a bit about my team, Chelsea. If you saw how they crashed out to the mighty Viking FK in the first round of the UEFA Cup, then you would know that that was NOT entertainment!! :x :x

My question to you footie fans is ... Do you think that Seventies footie was better than today's multi-million pound footie??

Take my team, Chelsea - a very good example, who had a great run of success in the early Seventies, and had a another run at the end of the Nineties... Which Chelsea team did I prefer? The Seventies one, definitely. And I think most of my mates would agree too . Why? The only foreign players they had in those days were mainly Scottish and they played coz they wanted to play for Chelsea rather than the money ....They seemed more committed and up for it than nowadays ...

In the Seventies there seemed to be a lot more characters in the game than there is nowadays... Stan Bowles, hard man Norman Hunter, George Best, Bobby Moore, and of course the flamboyant Charlie George ....Unfortunately my brother was and is a gooner (Arsenal supporter) .. :(

It always seems to me from my memories as a boy that the FA Cup meant a lot more than it does these days - today it has been devalued ....

Maybe today the facilites are much better (unrecognisable) from the Seventies, but a surge down the terraces was part of the fun, wasn't it???

How would the fantastic Leeds United team of 1971 fared against today's Arsenal??

Anybody else got any thoughts??

:)

[QUINNY]

Jazz: Today's team would win, without a shadow of a doubt. They're fitter, tactically more aware and hey they'd be playing under today's rules. No room for hard men there.
As for Football - What's all the fuss about. It's only a game. Rugby and Cricket are the true Englishman's sports dear chap. :lol:
Looks like the ashes will stay in the antipodes. :cry:

[jazz_pilgrim]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Jazz: Today's team would win, without a shadow of a doubt. They're fitter, tactically more aware and hey they'd be playing under today's rules. No room for hard men there.:

You're probably right. And also, half of the Seventies team would commit fouls that they could get away with then but couldn't now due to changes in refereeing, so they would be sent off .... :cry:

Originally Posted by QUINNY

As for Football - What's all the fuss about. It's only a game.
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I always loved Bill Shankly of Liverpool's famous quote. For the benefit of those that don't know it, when asked if football was a matter of life and death, he said famously, "No. It's more important than that!"

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Rugby and Cricket are the true Englishman's sports dear chap. :lol:
Looks like the ashes will stay in the antipodes. :cry:

I love cricket and have started watching my son play rugger ...

So you don't think England will knock up 600 in their first innings and bowl the Aussies out cheaply in the second then?? Hmm - me neither ... It's gonna be a real pasting, m'thinks :(

[QUINNY]

I'm lucky, I only live about a mile or so away from Hampshire's Rose Bowl. Unfortunately the one local Hampshire player, who we'd see in our local pub, has now left 'cos the pitch is far from being ideal due to its 'newness'. Still, Ed Giddins is coming as I believe is Shane Warne again, so hopefully we'll get back up to the first division next year.
What with the Rose Bowl and Southampton's new St. Mary's stadium, cricket and football fans are now very lucky to have such superb facilities within the Southampton area.

[Bernie]

Jazz,

Sports is fine. Go for it!

[SandraDee]

I like the 70's football 'cos the shorts were so skimpy! Am I alone on this one?!

[markydefad]

Jeff once remarked that if anyone wanted to talk shit about us on the site, all they need to do is put it in one of these "sports" posts; we'd never see it. Just a helpful hint. :lol:

[SandraDee]

Thanks!

[Funky Dude]

Now which type of footy are we talking about, soccer or rugby (with egg shaped balls)?

Anyhow I'm not much of a footy fan, but I don't think Australian footy has changed that much over the years. Although I find footy games pretty boring to watch on TV, but when the teams start having a blue with each other they really start fighting and it's hilarious :lol: and fun to watch. Also in the 70's in Australia was the beginning of the television promotion of Ockerism with footy and beer and meat pies. It's like you have you're stereotypical Australian ocker with a beer gut, wearing an old black extra large shearer's singlet, stubby footy shorts with stripes down the sides and thongs and living on cans beer and meat pies and watching the footy on TV and swearing his head off when his favourite team loses :lol: :lol: :lol: , yobbo's love their footy. Then from this in the 70's came the comic "Footrot Flats" featuring 'Wal' who fit's that ocker description and he love's his footy :lol: .

Anyhow we have 3 types of footy in Australia, Rugbly League, Rugby Union, and AFL (Australian Football League). Believe it or not in 1979 there was a TV ad on advertising AFL footy on TV and there was this football theme song called "Up There Cazaley" and it was a HUGE hit and lots of Aussies wanted this song on record so the artist 'Mike Brady' who sung this song released it on 45 and it sold tens of thousands of copies around Australia, which shows how much we love our footy :lol: :lol: . And this song made the Australian top 10 on the Australian TV pop show "Countdown" and they even made a video clip which was clips of footy games dating from the 1950s in B&W to the late 1970s in colour. Also if you think this is funny, there was also a Cricket theme song that hit the charts a year earlier called "Come On Aussie Come On" and was also on Countdown, this song was sung by 'Mojo Band' and there was a video clip of it which is a bunch of clips of games of cricket. Along with cricket came our shit-boring cricket commentator 'Richie Benaud'.

Footy of today hasn't changed a lot in Australia, the footy players still get into the occasional punch up, and have fun getting pissed down at the local pubs like a bunch of yobbos. There was also this funny story about a footy team going on a private passenger plane from A-B (forgot the destination) several years back. Well anyhow they were getting so pissed on beer that they pissed in the aisle of the plane, imaging the poor pilot when he takes the plane down, all of the piss would run down the the cockpit :lol: :lol: :lol: . Another funny footy story that happened recently was when some dickhead offloaded slabs of beer into a river, so this footy team heard about this and went to the river without any diving gear at all running in and searching for the dumped beer cans, and whatever they pull out they drink, they love their beer :lol: :lol: :lol: . I watched this on TV, they must have gotten most of the cans out and had a pissup party afterwards. Another funny footy story was early this year there was this Rugby League player who jams his fingers up other footy players bums in the games (for what reason I don't know) but I guess it's to throw the other team off, anyhow some news reporter took a photo of this bloke as he was doing his dirty work and that bloke in action was on the front page of a lot of the Australian news papers :lol: :lol: :lol: . What happened to him, well he's suspended for X amount of time for his behaviour, I guess he would have smelly fingers too :lol: .

Footy has played a huge role in Australian sporting culture. We have a TV show called 'The Footy Show' which is about football and comedy stuff, and on our Pay TV we have 3 Fox Sports channels called "The Fox Footy Channel" which is Australian footy 24 hours a day (imagine that) :lol: , that would keep the yobbos away from the pub and on the couch with their beer and pies in front of the TV hehehe :lol: :lol: :lol: . There's not a day over here where you don't hear something about footy.

[DanceMan]

Marky....you are so right....but maybe if they added photos with those skimpy shorts that Steely was referring to.....

wellllllll........... :)

[SandraDee]

Another funny footy story was early this year there was this Rugby League player who jams his fingers up other footy players bums in the games (for what reason I don't know) but I guess it's to throw the other team off, anyhow some news reporter took a photo of this bloke as he was doing his dirty work and that bloke in action was on the front page of a lot of the Australian news papers


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This has reminded me about Australian Rules Football that sometimes gets shown on UK TV. Now those are THE skimpiest kits I've ever seen. You can almost tell what religion the players are! (I'm becoming such a lech in my old age!)
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[Outsider]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

I'm lucky, I only live about a mile or so away from Hampshire's Rose Bowl.

Los Angeles has a stadium called the Rose Bowl (you may know it from the American football college game held there every New Years Day, which is also called the Rose Bowl). In fact, the Los Angeles Galaxy, the soccer (oops, I meant football, sorry) team that played there (they're moving to a new stadium next year) won a championship this year. :evil: