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The Little Things You Love About Football
« on: June 26, 2022, 09:26:12 pm »
We've got a positive sibling for the general 'things that annoy you' thread so here's one for the football thread.

- Walking past a pub football match taking place on a local pitch and stopping to watch for 5 minutes
- Walking down into town over Everton Brow on a sunny day after a win
- Becoming engrossed in a random tournament group stage game involving two nations you've no connection to
- Pre-2000s, when the ball stuck in the stanchion after a top corner screamer
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2022, 09:27:40 pm »
Winning the early kick-off on a Saturday and then knowing you can just relax and enjoy the rest of weekends matches.

Jurgen Klopp.

Last minute winners.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2022, 09:34:41 pm »
A ball hitting a corner flag and staying in.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2022, 09:36:04 pm »


Pottering about in the ancient backroads of now-familiar competitions.  Absolute heaven.  Who were ‘Panthers’?
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Old Etonians   5–5   Darwen   13 February 1879
Nottingham Forest   2–1   Oxford University   25 February 1879
Edit: ohhh it’s all too much, that year they managed to winnow it down to three quarter-finals so one of the semis had to be a bye.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2022, 09:43:50 pm »
When a player does something that makes your jaw drop

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2022, 09:46:12 pm »


Pottering about in the ancient backroads of now-familiar competitions.  Absolute heaven.Edit: ohhh it’s all too much, that year they managed to winnow it down to three quarter-finals so one of the semis had to be a bye.

That's great. I saw a list a while back of all the clubs to have appeared in the top division and Darwen were in it. I happened to say that to the bloke who tweeted it and Darwens official account  replied to me. I now look out for their results.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2022, 10:49:56 pm »
I love a proper celebration. This one is a classic



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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2022, 10:56:02 pm »
I love a proper celebration. This one is a classic



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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2022, 11:07:54 pm »
It's Maxi, he can celebrate however the fuck he likes...

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez thumbs down the ring for me.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2022, 11:10:11 pm »
Games at 3 O'clock on a fucking Saturday at home.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2022, 11:12:49 pm »
Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez thumbs down the ring for me.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2022, 11:24:17 pm »
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2022, 12:25:21 am »
Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez thumbs down the ring for me.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2022, 02:45:02 am »
Pickford’s arms

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2022, 03:02:05 am »
Going on a holiday and watching a football match as a neutral. Passion of the local crowd. Like an Istanbul derby between Fenerbache and Galatasaray.


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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2022, 07:53:24 am »
Love it when your team wins the coin toss at the start of the game. Just feels like you've already got a small advantage as you've already won something.

I also never tire of coming up the steps in any part of Anfield and seeing the pitch. When I stop and actually think about it it gives me goosebumps.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2022, 11:01:01 am »
Loads of goalkeeper related stuff:

- Outfielders having to play in goal (the best argument against 5 subs for me)
- Much rarer, but even better: goalkeepers having to play outfield (David James and Pepe Reina are the two examples I can think of)
- Goalkeepers wearing a hat
- Defenders taking goal kicks (was it City's goalkeeper who lost his bottle against us this year?)

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2022, 02:02:47 pm »


Pottering about in the ancient backroads of now-familiar competitions.  Absolute heaven.  Who were ‘Panthers’?Edit: ohhh it’s all too much, that year they managed to winnow it down to three quarter-finals so one of the semis had to be a bye.

Aah. The Wednesbury Strollers, volunteered to a man when Kitchener called and all died in the great push to move Haig’s drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.

And why were all those games shown in the first list played in 1878.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2022, 02:15:34 pm »
Diving headers. They're that rare these days, I almost get emotional when somebody scores one.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2022, 02:20:11 pm »
Your goalie collecting the final ball into the box and falling to the ground on it when you're defending a one goal lead

Makes my heart all warm that  :champ
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2022, 02:34:18 pm »
A goalmouth scramble
The keeper coming up for a corner/set piece late on
A lobbed goal

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2022, 02:36:51 pm »
Toe pokes, when they go well they're majestic when the go wrong they're funny

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2022, 02:58:25 pm »
Never happens nowadays, but pitches like plowed fields, with players caked in mud.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2022, 03:00:53 pm »
People in the crowd getting boinked in the face by a missed shot.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2022, 03:04:47 pm »
Celebrations which wouldn't look out of place during a Floor routine at the Olympics. Unfortunately a rare sight it seems nowadays.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2022, 03:10:34 pm »
A goalmouth scramble
The keeper coming up for a corner/set piece late on
A lobbed goal
A lost art form.  You'd think with so many sweeper 'keepers there'd be more potential for lobs than ever but I can only remember Salah's against Edison in recent years.  Rooney was always good value for a lobbed goal and Alonso bagged some stunners for us.  But, yeah, definitely a great thing about football  :thumbup

Another bit of football I love to see is a player hurdling a sliding challenge.  It's very Roy of the Rovers  ;D

Never happens nowadays, but pitches like plowed fields, with players caked in mud.
Newport County rolled with it for a few seasons but sadly then improved the drainage.  I remember even League Two clubs complaining about the state of their pitch.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2022, 06:31:52 pm »
Loads of goalkeeper related stuff:

- Outfielders having to play in goal (the best argument against 5 subs for me)
- Much rarer, but even better: goalkeepers having to play outfield (David James and Pepe Reina are the two examples I can think of)
- Goalkeepers wearing a hat
- Defenders taking goal kicks (was it City's goalkeeper who lost his bottle against us this year?)

Goalkeepers in tracksuits. Don't see too many but I take a shine to those who buck the trend.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2022, 07:11:38 pm »
Not that we see it much these days, but snow covered pitches and the orange ball.

Also, the screamer from outside the box that hits the underside of the bar before going in.

Opposition players looking in awe at the Kop in full flow.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2022, 07:11:39 pm »
Watching footy abroad and hearing them curse at players in the local language, beautiful ;D

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2022, 08:10:22 pm »
The 0.5sec gap between a goal being scored and an away end erupting.

Personal favourite on this one was Suarez against Sunderland away from a throw-in. Sheer disbelief, joy and unbridled live in the moment stuff when nothing else matters but now. 
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2022, 08:16:27 pm »
...and knock-off/pun names for Sunday league and workplace teams.
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« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2022, 08:37:42 pm »
Going absolutely mad with people you've never met before, all in raptures over the same thing at the same time.
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« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2022, 09:33:47 pm »
Watching some random game and seeing someone who’s going to be a top player for the first time.  You can tell immediately, I don’t even know what it is - something about the way they move is just somehow different from everyone around them.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #33 on: June 27, 2022, 09:47:14 pm »
...and knock-off/pun names for Sunday league and workplace teams.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #34 on: June 27, 2022, 10:21:22 pm »
The 0.5sec gap between a goal being scored and an away end erupting.


I love that.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #35 on: June 27, 2022, 10:39:51 pm »
Going absolutely mad with people you've never met before, all in raptures over the same thing at the same time.
Yep. Adult males who've never met before in their lives hugging each other in unbridled joy when a really important goal goes in.
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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #36 on: June 28, 2022, 09:09:01 am »
Goalkeepers in tracksuits. Don't see too many but I take a shine to those who buck the trend.
You still see this, and all sorts of other goalkeeping shenanigans in non league. Bonkers goalies are one of the main attractions.

Another one is goalkeepers in short sleeves. They always look like nutters.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #37 on: June 28, 2022, 12:18:53 pm »
You still see this, and all sorts of other goalkeeping shenanigans in non league. Bonkers goalies are one of the main attractions.

Another one is goalkeepers in short sleeves. They always look like nutters.

Wonder if there are still some keepers who dont wear gloves? Used to see that a lot years ago.

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Re: The Little Things You Love About Football
« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2022, 12:22:54 pm »
The sound of the net when a shot lands in the corner.

Also the sound of 40,000 people going yeahhhh at once when we score must be the best sound on earth.
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« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2022, 12:26:28 pm »
Not that we see it much these days, but snow covered pitches and the orange ball.

Remember watching one of the last of those in the German cup. Bremen (who were good in those days, probably 20 years ago) played some lower division site on a pitch of compacted snow. Orange ball, and players on 3 inch studs. Bremen moaned like mad about injury risk and insurance etc (they still won afaik). Never saw a game like that again.
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