How Footballs changed since the last Coronation

[Bennyand the Blades]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

 

[Snowflake]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

....but then the First World War broke out !!!!

 

[Roygbiv]

Last week when I was watching the last Coronation, I noted the Champions League the tune played as The Queen was crowned. Genuinely interested to see if it's used again

 

[Blade.com]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

My first footy boots. Stanley Mathew Top dogs. 6 wooden studs , nailed in . Every kid knew how to lace a footy and mend a puncture in the bladder.
If you got injured all they had was a " magic sponge" or in basic terms , ice cold water. Get that round yer nuts you where back on your feet in seconds .

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

I guess you were alive then when Wendy were last in the premier league…..

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

I guess you were alive then when Wendy were last in the premier league…..

Who were they ?

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Last week when I was watching the last Coronation, I noted the Champions League the tune played as The Queen was crowned. Genuinely interested to see if it's used again

Unfortunately due to British relevancy not being what it was during the 50s we are now in the euopra league so can only use that naff song

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

By coincidence, I have just described the first time I remember seeing the old leather ball dip and swerve - Terry Wharton scoring against United for Wolves, 60 years ago. Standing on the Kop, behind the goal, it was difficult to believe our eyes.

 

[Dalelane01]

I remember when a booking was quite rare and how often did we see a sending off how things have changed .i dont think we get any games without a clean sheet in this i mean games with no bookings cant remember the last one.how things have turned around in this regard .

 

[VM198]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

Memories Heh!!!!
Buggers don't they're born today.
Dubin !!!!!!!!!!!! Oooooooooooooooh.

 

[WalkelyFan]

My first footy boots. Stanley Mathew Top dogs. 6 wooden studs , nailed in . Every kid knew how to lace a footy and mend a puncture in the bladder.
If you got injured all they had was a " magic sponge" or in basic terms , ice cold water. Get that round yer nuts you where back on your feet in seconds .

Just a little add, you could only get Stanley Matthews boots from the Co-op.

 

[WalkelyFan]

Just a little add, you could only get Stanley Matthews boots from the Co-op. Nothing like as many sports shops of course.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Clearing out my garden hut I came across my old case ball lacer, and it brought back a lot of memories. For those who don't. know, it's like a screwdriver with a wooden handle and a flattened slightly curved end that looks like the top of a large bent darning needle.
After you had blown up the thick rubber balloon inside the leather case with your Bicycle pump using your special screw in brass connection, you would use it to refasten the lace...
Then you would Dubbin the leather outer casing and do the same for your boots,
Your Boots, the ones with the hard as steel raised leather toe caps and then check those nailed on leather studs.
There, wasn't any European cup back then or substitutes and if a player got injured, and couldn't run any more but could still stand up, they put him on the wing,
Oh!! and standing ........

My dad bought me my first pair of football boots in 1949 when I was picked to play for the school’s under elevens. Looking back , those boots were way ahead of their time .

They bore the name of Jesse Pye , the former Wolves and England centre forward and had much more resemblance to the modern boot than those almost universally worn at the time .

No bulbous steel toecap but a sleek , flat and slightly pointed one with a much lower heel than the traditional ones and shorter , flatter studs .

Apart from looking the dogs bollocks , the practical advantages of this design were such that it has always been a puzzle to me why so many professionals continued to use the old fashioned ones for many years after .

 

[Geordie Blade]

Last week when I was watching the last Coronation, I noted the Champions League the tune played as The Queen was crowned. Genuinely interested to see if it's used again

The coronation song is ‘Zadok the Priest’ (by Handel). The Champions League song is a commissioned sound-a-like, written in1992.

 

[broomhillblade]

No advertising logos or players' names on the shirts. No "away strip". If a change was needed, it was usually white shirts.
Players did not have a fixed number for the season. They wore the number according to where they played on the day.
A brass band played before the match and at half-time!

 

[Swannyblade]

Last week when I was watching the last Coronation, I noted the Champions League the tune played as The Queen was crowned. Genuinely interested to see if it's used again

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

We got replacement bladders for the caseys from Archers on Bramall Lane, which was opposite where the petrol station is now.

Every time one of our gang came back off summer holiday, they'd bring a plastic ball their Dad bought while away for kicking around on the beach. This would last 2 or 3 days 'til it went in one of the hawthorn hedges that were plentiful on the Gleadless Valley, where it would obviously bust. The thorn would come out, and we'd go in someone's house to heat up a spoon on the gas ring to melt the plastic around it to weld over the hole. That sometimes worked, but not for long.

Oh, and kids could actually just go out and play a game on any grassed areas. Sometimes 20 a-side. They didn't have to be 'taken to football practice' by parents....

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

...and football was called 'togger'.

 

[Blade.com]

We got replacement bladders for the caseys from Archers on Bramall Lane, which was opposite where the petrol station is now.

Every time one of our gang came back off summer holiday, they'd bring a plastic ball their Dad bought while away for kicking around on the beach. This would last 2 or 3 days 'til it went in one of the hawthorn hedges that were plentiful on the Gleadless Valley, where it would obviously bust. The thorn would come out, and we'd go in someone's house to heat up a spoon on the gas ring to melt the plastic around it to weld over the hole. That sometimes worked, but not for long.

Oh, and kids could actually just go out and play a game on any grassed areas. Sometimes 20 a-side. They didn't have to be 'taken to football practice' by parents....

Every holiday got a plastic football , 10 Bob floater as we called them.

 

[shorehamview]

Every holiday got a plastic football , 10 Bob floater as we called them.

When I was a kid they were the 99p newsagent's specials. Every hard kick got more swerve, rise, and dip on it than Robero Carlos could ever dream about, and very occasionally they went in the intended direction too.

 

[Dkc]

Main changes:

#Three points for a win introduced.

#Keeper handling from back pass outlawed.

#Play-offs introduced (previously top three got promoted)

#VAR introduced in top division.

#Subs allowed.

#Stadiums must be all-seater in top two divisions. Alcohol banned in view of pitch.

#Promotion and relegation to and from 4th tier introduced (as opposed to a vote)

#Regular European football introduced, with top teams in top flight and cup winners qualifying.

#Clubs take control of top division. It is renamed 'Premiership' then later 'Premier League'. All other divisions renamed as a result.

#Multiple games live on TV every week

Any more?

 

[Tickhill Blade]

We got replacement bladders for the caseys from Archers on Bramall Lane, which was opposite where the petrol station is now.

Every time one of our gang came back off summer holiday, they'd bring a plastic ball their Dad bought while away for kicking around on the beach. This would last 2 or 3 days 'til it went in one of the hawthorn hedges that were plentiful on the Gleadless Valley, where it would obviously bust. The thorn would come out, and we'd go in someone's house to heat up a spoon on the gas ring to melt the plastic around it to weld over the hole. That sometimes worked, but not for long.

Oh, and kids could actually just go out and play a game on any grassed areas. Sometimes 20 a-side. They didn't have to be 'taken to football practice' by parents....

 

[Revolution]

Main changes:

#Three points for a win introduced.

#Keeper handling from back pass outlawed.

#Play-offs introduced (previously top three got promoted)

#VAR introduced in top division.

#Subs allowed.

#Stadiums must be all-seater in top two divisions. Alcohol banned in view of pitch.

#Promotion and relegation to and from 4th tier introduced (as opposed to a vote)

#Regular European football introduced, with top teams in top flight and cup winners qualifying.

#Clubs take control of top division. It is renamed 'Premiership' then later 'Premier League'. All other divisions renamed as a result.

#Multiple games live on TV every week

Any more?

In 1953 it was:

• top 2 promoted from Division 2 to Division 1
• bottom 2 relegated from Division 2 to Division 3 North or South
• Champions of Division 3 North and South both promoted to Division 2

Division 4 (league 2 now) did not start until 1958. That was 4 up 4 down straight away, but the other divisions did not go 3 up 3 down until 1974.

 

[Geordie Blade]

In 1953 it was:

• top 2 promoted from Division 2 to Division 1
• bottom 2 relegated from Division 2 to Division 3 North or South
• Champions of Division 3 North and South both promoted to Division 2

Division 4 (league 2 now) did not start until 1958. That was 4 up 4 down straight away, but the other divisions did not go 3 up 3 down until 1974.

What happened if, say Plymouth and Bournemouth both got relegated from Division 2. Would they both go into Division 3 south, and another (Midlands) leave move from South to North? Were there ever disputes about which team would have to move (e.g. if one of the Divisions was notoriously tougher than the other)?

 

[Revolution]

What happened if, say Plymouth and Bournemouth both got relegated from Division 2. Would they both go into Division 3 south, and another (Midlands) leave move from South to North? Were there ever disputes about which team would have to move (e.g. if one of the Divisions was notoriously tougher than the other)?

They moved Midlands sides around. The likes of Shrewsbury, Port Vale and Mansfield were shifted around to maintain geographical balance.

I don’t know if it was commented on at the time, but Division 3 South was much the stronger. Their promoted teams often ended up in division one, which hardly ever happened for the Northern teams. Plus of thr teams that founded the leagues, nearly all of the south ones remain whilst many of the north ones are gone. Of course this is partly because when the divisions were formed all the best Northern sides were already in the league, whereas outside London there were very few southern teams.

 

[BladesOnToast]

They moved Midlands sides around. The likes of Shrewsbury, Port Vale and Mansfield were shifted around to maintain geographical balance.

I don’t know if it was commented on at the time, but Division 3 South was much the stronger. Their promoted teams often ended up in division one, which hardly ever happened for the Northern teams. Plus of thr teams that founded the leagues, nearly all of the south ones remain whilst many of the north ones are gone. Of course this is partly because when the divisions were formed all the best Northern sides were already in the league, whereas outside London there were very few southern teams.

The still happens in non league - National League North / South for example. The midlands town where I used to live was one of the inbetweenies. Could be travelling up to Spennymoor one season and down to Truro the next.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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Where's the cool kid on his Chopper bike?
Oh here he is

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Where's the cool kid on his Chopper bike?
Oh here he is
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I don't like posting pictures of choppers when I'm on the work laptop

 

[jim2007]

The thorn would come out, and we'd go in someone's house to heat up a spoon on the gas ring to melt the plastic around it to weld over the hole.

We had an old butter knife in the kitchen drawer whose sole purpose was doing just that. Only dad was allowed to do the melting.

Appropriate use for it as I don’t think I ate actual butter until I was in my twenties. Crappest marge in Woods market on Abbey Lane for us.

 

[Willie Carlin]

By coincidence, I have just described the first time I remember seeing the old leather ball dip and swerve - Terry Wharton scoring against United for Wolves, 60 years ago. Standing on the Kop, behind the goal, it was difficult to believe our eyes.

Old case balls varied in weight depending whether they were wet or not. A dry ball was quite light but not any were near todays balls.