Ban the Knitwear

[SwissBlade]

With the impending visit of Premiership overpaid so called superstars Aston Villa this weekend, we can expect Cold weather seeing as its January, Pires, Young etc - Its fair to assume that there will be a number of their big time charlies in Gloves, hats, scarves, snoods and maybe even tights,

At United we've spent many years relying on the tempo and the way that we play to keep the players warm. Its not like it'll be -10, it'll probably be between -2 to 8oC Max. Not too cold then, just a bit fresh.

The timing is right to get behind a ban on ANY player wearing gloves on the pitch, surely they're a fire risk or something.

Lets berate any player wearing gloves for anything other than goalkeeping!

 

[ListerBlade]

agreed. UTB!!

 

[shorehamview]

It's fair enough for a player from exotic parts to wrap up warm in the cold English winter. Adebayor for example is from Africa. it's nice and warm there, so he can expect a little leeway. But Ashley Young? What exotic foreign climes does he hail from? Why, the tropical paradise that is Stevenage. so he can get his gloves and scarf off pronto, the big jessie.

 

[S64 Blade]

I don't care if they wear them or not. It's up to them. It's not as though it is affecting the game in any way.

 

[SwissBlade]

It's fair enough for a player from exotic parts to wrap up warm in the cold English winter. Adebayor for example is from Africa. it's nice and warm there, so he can expect a little leeway. But Ashley Young? What exotic foreign climes does he hail from? Why, the tropical paradise that is Stevenage. so he can get his gloves and scarf off pronto, the big jessie.

I disagree SV, we've all played football in the winter and seriously it doesn't get that cold in Blighty - ever.

If players are getting cold necks then they really aren't running around enough. I'd expect players from sunnier climbs to run around even more.

I bet Adebayor and Toure weren't cold on the training pitch at Man City the other day.

A few years back it was only when teams travelled to Eastern Europe that we saw gloves and hats. Fair enough, it gets cold there. But not in England.

A couple of years ago I was working in Kazakhstan, In the winter the Ural river froze on top and the locals would sit out on the frozen river ice fishing (drill a hole in the ice and stick the line in to the water below). They'd sit out there for hours, the temperature was anything from -10 to -30 in winter and with a wind chill it could get well below that. Most of the time there were guys out on the river with little more than Jeans, Leather jackets and a wooly hat to keep them warm. Rarely with gloves on. They keep their hands warm with Vodka!

Thats cold!

I don't care if they wear them or not. It's up to them. It's not as though it is affecting the game in any way.

But it does affect the game, it affects the way that some players play. They don't pull their weight the same.

Oh and while were at it, lets get a ban on players wearing Short sleeve shirts over the top of a long sleeve under shirt (vest). Just wear a long sleeve shirt!

 

[shorehamview]

Tony Adams said in his autobiography that when he was at Arsenal the captain decided whether the team wore long sleeves or short sleeves. The players had to put up with whatever the captain chose. He said that often the choice in winter was short sleeved shirts just to wind up the foreign players who preferred long sleeves.

 

[sitwell]

Fannies the lot of them , when I played nobody would ever even think about wearing gloves. Sleeves up and at em.

 

[SwissBlade]

Tony Adams said in his autobiography that when he was at Arsenal the captain decided whether the team wore long sleeves or short sleeves. The players had to put up with whatever the captain chose. He said that often the choice in winter was short sleeved shirts just to wind up the foreign players who preferred long sleeves.

And I bet Adams had a bottle of vodka at halftime too just to take the edge off the coldness

 

[broomhillblade]

Jimmy Hagan would not have put up with snoods and gloves. When he was manager of West Brom, on a cold December morning in 1963, the team captain, Don Howe, and other players refused to train unless they were allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms. Hagan, mindful of the fact that the team had to play their matches in shorts, said they could warm-up in tracksuits but they had to train in shorts from the appointed time that training started. The team went on strike.
Peace was soon restored but Howe left the club a few months later. Typically, when the incident blew up, Hagan refused to make any public comment. Whatever he had to say was done in private. Don Howe, later in his career as Arsenal manager, admitted to Jimmy that he now saw things differently and that he would have done the same in his position as manager.

 

[JohnDenver]

Jimmy Hagan would not have put up with snoods and gloves. When he was manager of West Brom, on a cold December morning in 1963, the team captain, Don Howe, and other players refused to train unless they were allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms. Hagan, mindful of the fact that the team had to play their matches in shorts, said they could warm-up in tracksuits but they had to train in shorts from the appointed time that training started. The team went on strike.
Peace was soon restored but Howe left the club a few months later. Typically, when the incident blew up, Hagan refused to make any public comment. Whatever he had to say was done in private. Don Howe, later in his career as Arsenal manager, admitted to Jimmy that he now saw things differently and that he would have done the same in his position as manager.

The team went on strike because they weren't allowed to wear trackie bottoms?

Sounds like not much has changed in 40 years after all...

 

[S64 Blade]

But it does affect the game, it affects the way that some players play. They don't pull their weight the same.

What you mean like Tezev? Or Nasri? Or in Villa's case - Ashley Young, arguably their best player.

I can't see why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist about it.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Oh and while were at it, lets get a ban on players wearing Short sleeve shirts over the top of a long sleeve under shirt (vest). Just wear a long sleeve shirt!

So you're not a Kozzy fan then?

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

[QUOTE=SwissBlade;300901 Its fair to assume that there will be a number of their big time charlies in Gloves, hats, scarves, snoods and maybe even tights,

What you wear at the match is upto you, but not the tights mate surely?

 

[SwissBlade]

What you wear at the match is upto you, but not the tights mate surely?

What you mean like Tezev? Or Nasri? Or in Villa's case - Ashley Young, arguably their best player.

I can't see why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist about it.

I think some of you just aren't taking this campaign seriously enough

And yes I mean like Tevez, Nasri and Ashley Young. Just think how good these players could be without the poncy winter woolys

So you're not a Kozzy fan then?

Things have gone to his head. Warnock said to him, "You've got to be good to wear them boots Kozzy"... The same doesn't apply to long sleeves under short sleeves

 

[Stafford Blade]

Usually I don't agree with this snood, gloves and god knows what else bollocks but at times this winter it has been bloody cold.

anyway, we had our own glove wearing "johnny foreigner" in ndlovu. Who was a great asset to the side until the clocks went back and was pretty average until it warmed up again mid march!

it's all John Barnes's fault, the big tight wearing puff!

 

[muttsnuts]

Usually I don't agree with this snood, gloves and god knows what else bollocks but at times this winter it has been bloody cold.

anyway, we had our own glove wearing "johnny foreigner" in ndlovu. Who was a great asset to the side until the clocks went back and was pretty average until it warmed up again mid march!

it's all John Barnes's fault, the big tight wearing puff!

Christ what would they wear if they were playing on pitch 9 at concord park?

 

[Stafford Blade]

Christ what would they wear if they were playing on pitch 9 at concord park?

having played at concord before i would recommend flippers and a snorkel. we once played there and they could have hosted the european bog snorkelling championships on that pitch.

although you might look a bit of a twat in flippers and snorkel on the new 3g pitch!

 

[muttsnuts]

having played at concord before i would recommend flippers and a snorkel. we once played there and they could have hosted the european bog snorkelling championships on that pitch.

although you might look a bit of a twat in flippers and snorkel on the new 3g pitch!

We once pretended to get lost in traffic so we missed the kick off when we saw the weather one sunday morning

 

[Stafford Blade]

We once pretended to get lost in traffic so we missed the kick off when we saw the weather one sunday morning

You should have said you'd all been carjacked - an entirely believable excuse around those parts!!

we once played a game there when the whole pitch was ankle deep in water. the ref deemed it playable, we all got the impression he got the game on so he could buy some dope with his fee!

 

[muttsnuts]

You should have said you'd all been carjacked - an entirely believable excuse around those parts!!

we once played a game there when the whole pitch was ankle deep in water. the ref deemed it playable, we all got the impression he got the game on so he could buy some dope with his fee!

Happy days!!! I could go on all night with stories from weekend football. Anybody else with funny stories, seeing as it is a bit quiet on here tonight?

 

[Stafford Blade]

Happy days!!! I could go on all night with stories from weekend football. Anybody else with funny stories, seeing as it is a bit quiet on here tonight?

a mate of mine once told me about a game where the ref couldn't find his cards when he was leaving the house. 10 minutes into the game a lad went straight through the back of someone. So the ref told him he was booking him and brandished a cheese slice!!

 

[sothall blade]

Christ what would they wear if they were playing on pitch 9 at concord park?

fuckin hell,i remember playing on them pitches when i were at shiregreen school,we had to walk there in winter in the snow then play in a blizzard,ah them were the days

 

[MunXy]

few years ago i played sunday footy, our home pitch was at graves park, we played a few games in deep snow, typhoons (as only graves can give) and one occaision rain so heavy we couldnt see nets from center circle...ahh memories.
btw the cheese slice is classic LMFAO.

MunXy

 

[muttsnuts]

few years ago i played sunday footy, our home pitch was at graves park, we played a few games in deep snow, typhoons (as only graves can give) and one occaision rain so heavy we couldnt see nets from center circle...ahh memories.
btw the cheese slice is classic LMFAO.

MunXy

Ever play at lodgemoor (dale dyke playing fields i think) it used to snow there in june. Another venue to 'get lost in traffic' im afraid.

 

[Bert]

Bert can remember watching a game in Ecclesfield Park in the late 60's, a player broke his leg so they called an ambulance and in due course a new fangled estate car ambulance turned up. They put the player on the stretcher and put him in the car but they did not push him in far enough.
The ambulance man slammed the back door down........right on his leg.

 

[sitwell]

I remember playing at the YEB which became the Midland Bank ground up Whirlow in about 1978 and the ref lost a contact lens in the penalty area. 22 grown men in football kits plus the 'crowd' of 3 searching on hands and knees in the box. He couldn't find it ,got the face on and called the game off. They cost loads in those days apparently.

 

[bricktop]

My footballing days came to an end at the tender age of 18. It wasn't even in a sunday game, it was during pre-season training. A complete fucking prick with a liking for a reputatuon for being a hard man, decided to show off a bit and hit me with a hard tackle, so i hit him with one back. He then went barmy and told me he would break my fucking legs, which he did 5 minutes later when he went in on me two footed, leaving me with a broken leg, torn cruciate ligaments and a haematoma on my thigh which effectively meant me packing up playing the game i loved at 18.

 

[Revolution]

we once played a game there when the whole pitch was ankle deep in water. the ref deemed it playable, we all got the impression he got the game on so he could buy some dope with his fee!

About 10 years ago I played in a game on a similar pitch. It had rained for days and the pitch was like a WWI trench. The worst bit was a huge impassible puddle extending from the edge of the 6 yard box to the edge of the "D". We kicked off with 8 men to the opposition's 11 but it was still 0-0 at half time as we chose to defend the deep end - we just put people down the wings, and in front of the puddle to stop long shots, and there was no way through. 2 of our number showed up at half time and we won 1-0. I will never understand why the ref started the game at all.

Last season I played in a cup quarter final that was abandoned with 8 minutes to go due to a spectacular thunderstorm when we were winning 2-0. Luckily, the league decided to award us the match in any event.

 

[muttsnuts]

My footballing days came to an end at the tender age of 18. It wasn't even in a sunday game, it was during pre-season training. A complete fucking prick with a liking for a reputatuon for being a hard man, decided to show off a bit and hit me with a hard tackle, so i hit him with one back. He then went barmy and told me he would break my fucking legs, which he did 5 minutes later when he went in on me two footed, leaving me with a broken leg, torn cruciate ligaments and a haematoma on my thigh which effectively meant me packing up playing the game i loved at 18.

The bastard.

 

[WhiteHawk]

My footballing days came to an end at the tender age of 18. It wasn't even in a sunday game, it was during pre-season training. A complete fucking prick with a liking for a reputatuon for being a hard man, decided to show off a bit and hit me with a hard tackle, so i hit him with one back. He then went barmy and told me he would break my fucking legs, which he did 5 minutes later when he went in on me two footed, leaving me with a broken leg, torn cruciate ligaments and a haematoma on my thigh which effectively meant me packing up playing the game i loved at 18.

What a bastard. Have you seen the guy since?