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Black and yellow theme to that picture there. :chadliwtf:
Well, there goes my conspiracy theory that the club releases fake leak photos just to test the waters and see if the support likes them.
:chadliblow:
...you mean from this:
...to this?
...yeah, I see what you mean!
exactly..........even before being told your team mates are Yaya Toure and Aguero instead of Joey Barton and Jonathan Macken - you are still going to feel more like your club means business in the kits they produce now.
Perhaps more importantly all the kids buying this shite around the world will think the same.
is there ANY correlation between us winning the league in this;
...the FA Cup in this;
...and fuck-all in these????
is there ANY correlation between us winning the league in this;
...the FA Cup in this;
...and fuck-all in these????
I think I had every Pony kit.
Ironically, looking back, I think there's more than one reason they had "pony" on the shirts
I even had the bright green Baardsen goalie top. Wanted to wear it as a kid at goodison vs spurs in Gladwys end. Dad wouldn't let me.
Can see why, looking back. lol.
yeah, i played RM otherwise (hence the Fox shirt ive previously mentioned).
broke my wrist in two places in a match, so stopped but prob shouldn't have
Sorry to hear that
I typed him a letter once after seeing him at a match. I remember it was on a typewriter, but it had a sort of word processing feature where you would finish a typed (on an LCD screen) document and it'd go crazy typing through the ribbon on the pages. I digress.
Anyway, I asked him why he ran down the wing on his own and crossed into the box to absolutely no one. lol. Never got a reply.
I once went to send Teddy a Match Magazine poster to sign, but got carried away and took literally every poster off the wall and into an envelope and asked him to sign.
None of them fucking cunts in the 90's ever replied to a letter. Shit team, shit players with shit attitudes.
But I'm totally over it
For a while I used to be nicknamed Zidane in footy. Used to be able to keepy up the length of a pitch.
My parents were shit and didn't encourage any of that a bean. I signed up for the local team and scored a hattrick in the 'trials' match, but they stuck me at left back. That's when I went to being in goal instead.
All seems trivial looking back. If I fertilise any wombs at any point, I'll make damn sure my kid has the best chance of being the next Hoddle*
*as a player, not a crazy manager/pundit
Pretty wild story dude. Interestingly enough, my parents rather adamantly opposed the "extent of my soccer" as well. Something about more focus on school yada yada buncha bullshit the fuck does a 15/16 year old care about all that bollocks.
And I'm with ya, looking back I'm gonna do everything I can to support the pursuits of any offspring, especially ones that can earn absolutely stupid money for just playing a game.
I said to the mrs before, it's no wonder England are shit at most sports, our schools and society do very little to support or educate any sports/fitness properly.
I mean, the US appear to be at least a little more "proud" of acheivement and what not...?
What was it like living under Queen Victoria's rule?
It was a Smith Corona, like this one... ahh memories
It used to have a delete button which had like a tippex style ribbon and would just try and blank what you'd typed (unless you had it in auto mode, which was just normal delete)
I think the difference that's caused the strengthening of the US in world football and the decline of England is the persistence of old stereotypes there in the UK. By my understanding, it's still very much seen as a "working-class game" there, and consequently as a direct deterrent from academia.
Here, the massive middle class was the first to advocate it, and it's moved outwards from there along with the growth in popularity. Erego, there just simply isn't the stigma here. If anything, it's actually associated with a positive stigma of the "intellectual athletes" that keeps lads away from the lower class sports such as American football and basketball, so parents are pushing their kids in the direction of it more and more. In fact, it's recently become the most played youth sport here in the States.
I agree with the majority of your post, but you're wrong in thinking that football is still a 'working class' game over here. Working class fans are leaving the game in droves. There is no connection anymore.