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Footballing Myths

jd1981

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Football is no different to history and myths tend to become believed as the gospel.

Examples being:
Scotland fans England were very lucky to win the 1966 World Cup because Hurst 2nd goal never crossed the line.
Firstly that’ll be always open to conjecture, secondly people conveniently ignore the free kick West Germany were given that lead to the equaliser. Even by today’s standards it would be considered a very soft decision.

From fans of other clubs, I remember going to Molineux in the 80’s when only 1 stand was open.
Ok which game was this? From May 85- August 92 we dropped to 2 open stands.

Man Utd would have won the league in 58 if it hadn’t been for the Munich disaster. No they wouldn’t wolves were 4 points clear at the time when it was 2 points for a win and proceeded to go on an excellent run regardless of how good Man Utd were they wouldn’t have been caught.

Arsenal have never been relegated, yes they have in 1912/13 season.

The over inflated size of London clubs, West Ham and Spurs in particular. Two clubs that have decent cup records but only 2 league titles between them and both of them belong to Spurs.

Wimbledon beating Liverpool in the 88 cup final was a huge shock. Yes that Liverpool side were excellent but Wimbledon came 7th that year. It was a shock but nothing in comparison to Sunderland beating Leeds in 73.

Italia 90 was a great World Cup, no it was crap teams reliant on set pieces and penalties to win matches in the knockout rounds. Only really West Germany who played some decent stuff.

Also Euro 96 was a great spectacle, goal average per game was less than 2 and the knockouts were dreadful. In particular France v Netherlands at anfield.

Roberto Baggio’s penalty miss cost Italy the World Cup in 94. Actually they were already down in the shootout and even if he’d scored they’d probably have still lost.

Soccer is an annoying word invented by Americans to term football. Not it’s not it originates from England.

Bryan Robsons goal after 24 seconds in Spain 82 was the fastest ever World Cup goal at the time. No Valev Masek and Ernst Lehner scored quicker goals at earlier tournaments.
 
To be fair when we had 2 stands open one of them was so far away it may as well have been one.
 
Wembley is great day out, says who?
Pubs are rammed 5 hours before kick off as are the fan areas, if you get a carry out from the Sainsbury’s or coop on Wembley way there’s no toilet facilities unless you que for ages in the fan area. Food is extortionate and getting away at the end takes forever.
 
Newcastle fans are fanatical and deserve better, firstly there’s just a lot of them any fan of any club who devotes a lot of money and time is classed as fanatical and is just as deserving of success.
 
Newcastle fans are fanatical and deserve better, firstly there’s just a lot of them any fan of any club who devotes a lot of money and time is classed as fanatical and is just as deserving of success.
Yeah I remember the 1989/90 season. They came down chasing a play off place and bought between 1500-2000. A couple of weeks later Sunderland turned up in a similar scenario and packed the place out.
 
Seth Johnson went to speak to Leeds about a transfer from Derby and his agent said "we'll hold out for £30k a week". Peter Ridsdale opens the meeting and says "we can't budge beyond £50k a week, hope that is ok".

Not even remotely true :D
 
West Brom have always played good attacking football. That’s from their fans, just to point out some of their managers in the past 25 years. Dennis Smith, Gary Megson, Tony Pulis, Sam Allardyce.
They’re basically holding that judgement from a period in the late 70’s early 80’s
 
That Wolves fans booed Bully in the FA Cup game against Notlob.
We’d thrown the kitchen sink at them and missed chance after chance. Howls of derision at not scoring against a shit side rather than anything else. Those fuckers that clapped Notlob off just because the Scousers did the week before should hold their heads in shame too - they were crap (wasn’t it a Wolves fan who scored their goal just to run more salt into the wounds of the day?)
 
Seth Johnson went to speak to Leeds about a transfer from Derby and his agent said "we'll hold out for £30k a week". Peter Ridsdale opens the meeting and says "we can't budge beyond £50k a week, hope that is ok".

Not even remotely true :D
I'm sure he went in looking for £15k and they offered £30k

Edit. A modicum of research has proven me to be talking shit
 
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Seth Johnson went to speak to Leeds about a transfer from Derby and his agent said "we'll hold out for £30k a week". Peter Ridsdale opens the meeting and says "we can't budge beyond £50k a week, hope that is ok".

Not even remotely true :D
Johnson only wanted £20k and weekly access to see Risdale's fish tank?
 
That Wolves fans booed Bully in the FA Cup game against Notlob.
We’d thrown the kitchen sink at them and missed chance after chance. Howls of derision at not scoring against a shit side rather than anything else. Those fuckers that clapped Notlob off just because the Scousers did the week before should hold their heads in shame too - they were crap (wasn’t it a Wolves fan who scored their goal just to run more salt into the wounds of the day?)
Fans by me booed him. So not a myth.
 
Football was so much better before the premier league came along.
Sorry I never look back at football just before the PL started and think it was much better.
Stadiums were decrepit, crowds were far lower standards were lower and tv coverage the less said about ITV big match the better apart from Brian Moore.
 
That Wolves fans booed Bully in the FA Cup game against Notlob.
We’d thrown the kitchen sink at them and missed chance after chance. Howls of derision at not scoring against a shit side rather than anything else. Those fuckers that clapped Notlob off just because the Scousers did the week before should hold their heads in shame too - they were crap (wasn’t it a Wolves fan who scored their goal just to run more salt into the wounds of the day?)
That was Midland's Today's or Central News' fault, showed a Bull miss (he did have a mare that day) followed by the booing from another point which they amplified.

I'll add Lineker and Bully.
Lescott and the Johnsons
Stephen Ward and Mick's daughter
Simon Osborn and footballer
 
Football was so much better before the premier league came along.
Sorry I never look back at football just before the PL started and think it was much better.
Stadiums were decrepit, crowds were far lower standards were lower and tv coverage the less said about ITV big match the better apart from Brian Moore.
Depends what you mean by better. It was more equitable in the 70s and early 80s
 
Depends what you mean by better. It was more equitable in the 70s and early 80s
Talking about standards and facilities fact is football had to re evaluate itself when it did
 
Liverpool are everyone's second team
 
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