The last time we played Birmingham

[cambridgeshire canary 6,720]

Let's hope for a similar scoreline tonight. Oh, Skipp, Buendia and Vrancic.. What I would not give for us to still have them

 

Edited August 9, 2022 by cambridgeshire canary

[Satriales 651]

We played some fairly decent football that night considering how awful the pitch was.

[rock bus 852]

Glad to see our defending was just as awful then as now!! Pity we havent got the forward players or style to make up for it!

[Capt. Pants 4,234]

Putting us 10 pts clear in February!

Some lovely one touch football, makes you weep really.

[cambridgeshire canary 6,720]

31 minutes ago, Satriales said:

We played some fairly decent football that night considering how awful the pitch was.

Pffft, go back 40 years and look at the ptches then. Modern footballers don't know how good they got it 😉

[Greavsy 2,415]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/18/former-lionesses-gillian-coulthard-carol-thomas-recall-first-womens-euros-1984

Interesting article about the match that picture was taken at. 

interesting to compare to the recent womens euros. 

“Not many people knew the 1984 competition was going on,” says Coultard, who remembers when her club, Doncaster Belles, used car headlights for floodlights. “I would say there were probably less than 2,000, maybe less than 1,000, at the game. In today’s world, the game wouldn’t have even been played because the pitch was waterlogged. It was like playing on a beach.

“Things were very, very different. We were playing with a size four football and we only played 70 minutes. There was probably one man and his dog in terms of reporters from England.