Rockape wrote:Phil71 wrote:Yeah that season sealed it for me too.
Been hooked ever since.
One thing I didn't mention about that photo is they all have their socks down, with no shin pads. And it was a lot more physical then.
Yeah I remember playing with socks around my ankles.....it felt so much lighter and you never seemed to get bad injuries for some reason. Okay the odd stud in the shin, but that was not considered much in those days!
I remember playing a school match on a park pitch that had a big tractor tyre furrow through the middle of it. The weather had turned and it was absolutely freezing cold. The ground had frozen. Those ridges sticking up out of the ground were like rock hard blades.
"Shut your mouth and get on with it boy."