Scarecrow Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Saturated TV coverage, The Internet, SKY, Football computer games, All seated stadium, Sunday Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday matchdays/nights, The East Stand, The South Stand, The DC Stand, Squad numbers, The SPL, The Premier Division, Food kiosks, Fanzines and added time.....it was great!! Â Feel free to add to list as there will be a lot more I have forgot. Â Fao Mods had a think about which forum to put it in and this one looked best from MFC perspective. Please move if you think otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamwell Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Oranges at half time, jumpers for goalposts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Home one week,away the next and sportscene/scotsport was the tv highlight of the weekend if a Motherwell game was covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decorator Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 running down to the horse shoe on the corner after the game and trying to see the results in the window before the bus tae viewpark came Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numpty Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Home one week,away the next and sportscene/scotsport was the tv highlight of the weekend if a Motherwell game was covered. And the main game got 20 minutes or more of highlights, not the 5 minutes you get nowadays. And sometimes that main game wasn't even a Premier League game, if there was a better First Division game on. Â Might I add: switching ends at half time, James Sanderson and Richard Park (before he was better known for being the Headmaster on Fame Academy), Chipmunk salt and vinegar crisps, and erra macaroon bars and spearmint chewing gum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ankles Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Shouting at the Macaroon/spearmint chewing gum seller to get tae feck out the road so you could see the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I remember fitba before our collective mental and physical faculties deserted us and standing suddenly became dangerous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_P Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 The Evening Times on a Saturday night with the scores and match reports.....of the first half!!! And the wee box on the back page LATE NEWS that had the odd second half goal squeezed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fal_Dosser Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 As a nipper, it was the big team at home one week, and the reserves at FP the next - excitedly waiting on the half time results at the reserves game to get an idea of how the big team were doing, and then watching Grandstand at tea time and sitting through the English results before finally getting to know whether the Dossers had won or not. Â And the Pink on a Saturday night for the first match report. Â Â MON RA DOSSERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadywellToi Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I remember fitba before our collective mental and physical faculties deserted us and standing suddenly became dangerous  Unfortunately we live in a world where the leaders and top earners are either Lawyers, Accountants or Bankers. We live in a blame, risk and litigation culture imported from the US.  If an alien was to look down at us from his little spaceship, I bet he couldn't understand why they were in the acendency opposed to Teachers, Nurses or Emergency Services.  While Hillsborough was horrible, the reaction of politicians fueled by media hype is why we've got what we have now. It still happens, anyone remember the Pandemic Swine Flu that was going to be nothing compared to the black death? Millions spent by politicians because of the media frenzy, hazard suits, masks, viles of antidote now sitting in warehouses with the use by dates fast approaching while nurses being laid off to make up for the shortfall in the budgets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcguru Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 ...seeing a guy walking past on the track escorted by 2 of Strathclyde Polis' finest...wae a dart sticking oot his heid and me thinking "hmmm ye don't see THAT every day" Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madscot Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 ...seeing a guy walking past on the track escorted by 2 of Strathclyde Polis' finest...wae a dart sticking oot his heid and me thinking "hmmm ye don't see THAT every day"Â The Well V Hivees mid 70s ? One of my first memories of going to see the well .Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLip69 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Before Tannoy announcements watching the guy put the half time scores in the wee slots at the end of the ground and if you didn't have a programme looking for somebody with one to find out what was Game A, Game B, etc. Â The freedom to decide right up until the last minute whether to go to the game or not and walking up to the park and paying in, for every match. Â Forget the Evening Times Pink, The Evening Citizen green was a far better paper. Â Deserted streets when a big match was on the telly, Cup Finals and Scotland v England and most places were like a ghost town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJC_MKI Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I remember football before the smoking ban was introduced. I'm not a smoker myself but I always thought the smell of fags and cigars floating through the stands on a cold, dark Saturday afternoon or midweek night added to the atmosphere of being at the football. Even nowadays when I'm walking past folk on the street who are smoking or standing outside a boozer next to some old guy puffing a cigar, the smell of it brings back my childhood memories of going to the games as that's the smell I always associated with it. It may be healthier without it, but I miss the passive smoking in fitba grounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 GAME A: 1-0 GAME B: 0-0 GAME C: 1:2  etc  EDIT: Ah shit, thelip60 got there first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickoza Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 running down to the horse shoe on the corner after the game and trying to see the results in the window before the bus tae viewpark came   Me tae!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcguru Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Mind gon doon the bing near the perimiter wall looking for the "toilet", asked an old jaicky "whaurs the bog mate?" Â "whit'd ye hink that wa's there fur son?" says he. Pishing against the wa' somehow seemed quite natural efter that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephmc1886 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Quality thread lol! Mind the ring pulls that u could snap in 2 and fire aboot? I just mastered them b4 they got fazed out for the jaggy lip ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casagolda Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 the back pass rule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 The Flemington Bar The Fir Park Yearbook The Texaco Cup Getting a lift o'er The Enclosure Players playing in frost and snow in trainers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSteelman Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Before Tannoy announcements watching the guy put the half time scores in the wee slots at the end of the ground and if you didn't have a programme looking for somebody with one to find out what was Game A, Game B, etc. The freedom to decide right up until the last minute whether to go to the game or not and walking up to the park and paying in, for every match.  Forget the Evening Times Pink, The Evening Citizen green was a far better paper.  Deserted streets when a big match was on the telly, Cup Finals and Scotland v England and most places were like a ghost town. They should bring that back, would certainly be an improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfcdez Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Standing at the cage when the East was still terracing , exchanging pleasantries wi the away fans on the other side . That wis atmosphere right there . Bring back standing , and bring back the cage ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Even more fun before the cage. It was just a few polis with their dogs keeping the mayhem at bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Wellfan 2k7 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 standing suddenly became dangerous I'm gonna just say this. You are more likely to cause an accident if seated than if you're Standing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
that hat Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Approaching Fir Park with those porthole windows and that Motherwell Football and Athletic Club sign. Being lifted over. Swapping ends at half time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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