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footballs best period for you

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mine,

late 60s early 70s.

great players playing on crap pitches and getting paid sensible money.

best,moore,charltons,bell,marsh the list is endless.

stadiums were proper mainly standing with vast crowds and cheap to watch.

great days/times.

the best club side i have ever seen live was the brilliant leeds team of this period.

remember when they thrashed saints 7 0 and played "ole" football,following tuesday travelled to forest and won 6 1 then on the saturday crushed man utd 5 1.

watched them at stamford bridge with leeds playing stuff i had never seen before and cantering to a 5 2 win.
 
Early 90s. Just a bit of international flair, affordable prices, players you could relate to, managers with style. An era when Newcastle could go from the bottom of the second to the top of the first in a couple of years without needing an Arab to bankroll it.

Shame about what it all led to, really.
 
Early 90s. Just a bit of international flair, affordable prices, players you could relate to, managers with style. An era when Newcastle could go from the bottom of the second to the top of the first in a couple of years without needing an Arab to bankroll it.

Shame about what it all led to, really.


Amen to that, the top tier of English football has become boringly predictable over the past 10-15 years, and the money. whilst attracting a higher calibre of player to these shores, has had a detremental effect on the chances for home grown talent emerging.

I think that sometimes, your favourite era iswhen you first start watching football, so for me it would be the late 80's
 
If anyone has any memories of the Spurs double winning team of the early 1960's I'd be interested to hear them. They were a far cry from the current crop at White Hart Lane I'd suggest.
 
Dave Smiths team of 80-81 !!

I feel I missed the best era, which I reckon was the late 50's early 60's. No one team dominated, the games were attack orientated (lining up 235 certainly helped), grounds were full and things were unpredictable . Teams would win one of the xmas games by several goals and the return fixture a day or two later they would lose by a similar score.

And Jimmy Greaves ...
 
I think that sometimes, your favourite era iswhen you first start watching football, so for me it would be the late 80's

In order to aid my work and cut out the thousands of mistakes that litter my articles, I've been buying old Rothamns annuals off the internet over the last 18 months. I've now got every single one from the last 20 years, they look lovely on the book case.

Anyway, they all have a day by day diary in the front for the season just gone, so I've been able to read from 1988 to present day and it's absolutely amazing. Plastic pitches, Million Pound Players, hooligans, Liverpool winning stuff. The 80s were really weird, I'd forgotten all about them.
 
I view football history through Southend-tinted spectacles and on that basis now is as good as time as any.
Though I wouldn't have minded being around in late 40s/early 50s - in 49/50 we finished 3rd in 3rd div south with an average crowd of just under 14000. The following season our first 3 home crowds were 18000, 20000 and 18000
I started attending Southend games from 72/73 season and have always regretted missing out on the 71/72 promotion campaign - the last six home crowds that season were 12000, 15000, 13000, 13000, 17000 and 15000.
(All stats from the admirable SUFC Database website)
 
I love the unpredictable nature of football, the excitement of what may come, the anticipation of impending joy or disappointment and not knowing whether the post match drink will be celebratory, commiseratory, or making up for a lost 90 minutes.

So for me, the most exciting period of football is the period yet to come - figuring out how to sneak a look at the scores during my step-sister's wedding on Saturday, or the massive home matches next week. Hell, even figuring out if I can get away with going to the Essex Senior cup game Monday after next - that's my favourite period of football...
 
I love the unpredictable nature of football, the excitement of what may come, the anticipation of impending joy or disappointment and not knowing whether the post match drink will be celebratory, commiseratory, or making up for a lost 90 minutes.

So for me, the most exciting period of football is the period yet to come - figuring out how to sneak a look at the scores during my step-sister's wedding on Saturday, or the massive home matches next week. Hell, even figuring out if I can get away with going to the Essex Senior cup game Monday after next - that's my favourite period of football...

Completely agree.
 
mine,

late 60s early 70s.

great players playing on crap pitches and getting paid sensible money.

best,moore,charltons,bell,marsh the list is endless.

stadiums were proper mainly standing with vast crowds and cheap to watch.

great days/times.

the best club side i have ever seen live was the brilliant leeds team of this period.

remember when they thrashed saints 7 0 and played "ole" football,following tuesday travelled to forest and won 6 1 then on the saturday crushed man utd 5 1.

watched them at stamford bridge with leeds playing stuff i had never seen before and cantering to a 5 2 win.

Agreed but that great Leeds team came unstuck at Layer Road, what a day that was :)
 
the 80s were my fave footy times(as mentioned above) thats when I started going a lot at a young age, Im not a great fan of the modern footy experience, its all a bit frilly and plastic, dont get me wrong I would never stop buying my season ticket, thats just what I do every year out of love for the club, but so many things have changed, standing, classic silly songs, surging, cheap tickets, players with ridiculous hairstyles, short shorts. The only thing I dont miss from the 80s is the aggro that used to go on, I not sure I would take my son to millwall away when he was ten(old den) like my dad did
 
did you go mate?

if memory serves me correct? layer had 16,000 colchester were 3 0 up and held on to win 3 2 in one of the great cup shocks.


Sorry for the late reply GB, yes I was there with my younger brother and my dad, you are correct 16K no segregation around 12K Colchester 4K Leeds, never seen so many northeners cry in my life :)

That time was great for me proper football in proper grounds, or perhaps it was just the fact I was an 18 year old in 1971!

Check this youtube video out for some great Leeds seventies moments, it also includes our last goal scored by the late great Dave Simmons.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pINaiPyI6xU
 
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