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Author: | Bovine Juice [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:35 pm ] |
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This is not an opportunity to post pictures of your team celebrating victory over their rivals, etc. General interest must be assured. Everton players relaxing after training in 1938... |
Author: | milchman [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:08 pm ] |
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A few street football images More at: http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2012/ ... ck-it.html |
Author: | SPT [ Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:47 pm ] |
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Vintage in that it's from when Lens were any good. |
Author: | milchman [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:08 pm ] |
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Author: | Bovine Juice [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:22 pm ] |
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Look at the woman's expression and hair, second right... |
Author: | milchman [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:17 pm ] |
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Author: | milchman [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:26 pm ] |
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Author: | milchman [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:34 pm ] |
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I don't actually know who these two are. Any ideas? The writing around the stand roof would appear not to be in English. |
Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:40 pm ] |
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That looks like a young Stalin just down the hill from the two scrapping for the ball... |
Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:45 pm ] |
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In the first FA Cup final football kits hadn't been invented yet. So the players had to strip down to their underwear for sport like we did at school. Victorian underwear was long johns obviously. |
Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:49 pm ] |
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But by the time of the first Word Cup, temperatures were often so cold that only a nice warm jumper would do. Here's the winning Uruguay team. |
Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:53 pm ] |
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It was during the first football league season that winners Preston North End perfected the tidy looking official team portrait in 1888. N.B. The players were ill* that day so they had to send their dads along instead. * Probably with consumpsion |
Author: | KevW [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:57 pm ] |
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Football referees are a recent introduction. Before that they used umpires on high stools like in tennis, as this seemed the traditional thing to do. It was also the umpire's job to take a photo of the winning team from the top of his chair, as displayed here with Real Madrid and the European Cup in 1956. |
Author: | Bovine Juice [ Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:29 pm ] |
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Ok not vintage but still a classic: |
Author: | milchman [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:49 am ] |
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Author: | Bovine Juice [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:15 am ] |
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Me neither. Kev, sort it out! |
Author: | KevW [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:42 am ] |
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Has that worked? I could see it fine on my computer. |
Author: | Bovine Juice [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:42 pm ] |
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Author: | Thee SPC [ Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:50 pm ] |
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Author: | Bovine Juice [ Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:00 pm ] |
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Now that is a classic! And if we ever forget just how good Maradona was, we just need that photo to remind us. |
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