Arrested in the 85th minute.

[A Load of Squit 6,260]

Are they allowed to bring a sub on to replace him?

 

[Midlands Yellow 4,714]

Thankfully the video clears up any ambiguity.

[Bigbrenn 88]

Was it in the old Roy if the Rovers where they used to have a ' what would the ref do next? If so, can't remember this one coming up.

[Trevor Hockey's Beard 613]

The Biopic will be called "From Goal to Gaol."

[Paul101 196]

17 hours ago, Bigbrenn said:

Was it in the old Roy if the Rovers where they used to have a ' what would the ref do next? If so, can't remember this one coming up.

prefered Tuff on the Track as  Alf? lead the police around the county cross country course to win it

[Old Shuck 300]

18 hours ago, Bigbrenn said:

Was it in the old Roy if the Rovers where they used to have a ' what would the ref do next? If so, can't remember this one coming up.

Shoot! magazine had a weekly feature called You Are The Ref.

Scenarios shown in diagrams, you had to provide the answer as to what the ref should do.

Thus dog on the pitch, crossbar breaks, ball bursts, centre half's shirt is ripped etc etc.

Got that magazine every week for years. Is there a half decent weekly football magazine out there these days....which isn't focused entirely on the big names, clubs and leagues?

[Midlands Yellow 4,714]

29 minutes ago, Old Shuck said:

Shoot! magazine had a weekly feature called You Are The Ref.

Scenarios shown in diagrams, you had to provide the answer as to what the ref should do.

Thus dog on the pitch, crossbar breaks, ball bursts, centre half's shirt is ripped etc etc.

Got that magazine every week for years. Is there a half decent weekly football magazine out there these days....which isn't focused entirely on the big names, clubs and leagues?

Roy of the Rovers? Match wasn’t a bad magazine too.

[Hairy Canary 773]

48 minutes ago, Old Shuck said:

Shoot! magazine had a weekly feature called You Are The Ref.

Scenarios shown in diagrams, you had to provide the answer as to what the ref should do.

Thus dog on the pitch, crossbar breaks, ball bursts, centre half's shirt is ripped etc etc.

Got that magazine every week for years. Is there a half decent weekly football magazine out there these days....which isn't focused entirely on the big names, clubs and leagues?

WSC (when Saturday Comes) is still around. There are articles about clubs right through the levels and things that "ordinary" fans talk about. The big clubs too but very much in the minority 

[Old Shuck 300]

2 minutes ago, Hairy Canary said:

WSC (when Saturday Comes) is still around. There are articles about clubs right through the levels and things that "ordinary" fans talk about. The big clubs too but very much in the minority 

I'll give WSC another go. I used to like 90 Minutes which was a weekly in the mid 90's. Paul Hawksbee, who I believe is on TalkSport, was the editor.

442 was good in its very early days but soon became footballs equivalent of Cosmopolitan ( 'We go inside Messi's house' etc).

[canarybubbles 2,211]

4 hours ago, Old Shuck said:

Shoot! magazine had a weekly feature called You Are The Ref.

Scenarios shown in diagrams, you had to provide the answer as to what the ref should do.

Thus dog on the pitch, crossbar breaks, ball bursts, centre half's shirt is ripped etc etc.

Got that magazine every week for years. Is there a half decent weekly football magazine out there these days....which isn't focused entirely on the big names, clubs and leagues?

I think it was also Shoot that gave away at the start of each season a fold-out diagram of all four football leagues which had little slots in it, plus 92 markers, one for each club in the club's colours, the idea being that each week you could slot each club into its place at 5pm each Saturday and keep up to date with every team's position in all four leagues.

I used to play for hours with those tables, throwing dice and moving teams up and down the tables. Needless to say, we tended to win. I was the VAR of my day, always able to find a reason for disallowing a scoreline I didn't like.

Coverage of football has become one-dimensional in many ways.  

Edited September 9, 2024 by canarybubbles

[Old Shuck 300]

25 minutes ago, canarybubbles said:

I think it was also Shoot that gave away at the start of each season a fold-out diagram of all four football leagues which had little slots in it, plus 92 markers, one for each club in the club's colours, the idea being that each week you could slot each club into its place at 5pm each Saturday and keep up to date with every team's position in all four leagues.

I used to play for hours with those tables, throwing dice and moving teams up and down the tables. Needless to say, we tended to win. I was the VAR of my day, always able to find a reason for disallowing a scoreline I didn't like.

Coverage of football has become one-dimensional in many ways.  

I loved Shoot! There hasn't been a football magazine to touch it for me, not on a weekly basis anyway.

They had the same 'star writers' every week-Alan Ball was one, Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner. Focus was a Shoot! 'thing', much copied since-players were asked 'Most Difficult Opponent' (Frank Worthington famously put 'my ex-wife'), 'Favourite Food' (invariably steak and chips) and 'Favourite Musicians' - lots of room for George Benson as I recall, dressing rooms must have been full of his laid back pop at the time.

And yes, the famous League Ladders- I'd take out all the teams and put them back at random for every season over a period of time, somehow Norwich still always ended up being relegated!

[Graham Paddons Beard 2,886]

Roy of the Rovers first appeared in Tiger Magazine. 

I used to get Scorcher and Score every week with such classic characters as Nipper Lawrence, Billy's Boots and (I think) Hot Shot Hamish. 

From memory it then merged with Tiger and became Tiger and Scorcher so I was introduced to Roy Race (of the Rovers fame) 

I then moved onto Shoot and used to put all of the pullout photos on my bedroom wall regardless of team or player (but drew the line at ITFC players) 

For some reasons I can remember Bob Latchford with a hideous ,but fashionable, perm. 

 

[Graham Paddons Beard 2,886]

6 hours ago, Old Shuck said:

. Paul Hawksbee, who I believe is on TalkSport, was the editor.

 

Hawksbee and Jacobs . I listen to the podcast nearly every day. It s the only decent thing on TalkSh1te. 

[Lord Horn (again) 154]

7 hours ago, Hairy Canary said:

WSC (when Saturday Comes) is still around. There are articles about clubs right through the levels and things that "ordinary" fans talk about. The big clubs too but very much in the minority 

Just started subscribing again to WSC after giving up in the early 2000s - very impressed and great coverage of football across the board.

[Robert N. LiM 6,442]

Just now, Lord Horn (again) said:

Just started subscribing again to WSC after giving up in the early 2000s - very impressed and great coverage of football across the board.

Haven't read it for ages but it must be good to survive in the current marketplace for print magazines.

This post is just an excuse to link again to WSC's review of Lovejoy on Football, one of the best articles ever written about anything. 

https://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/no-love-no-joy/

[FenwayFrank 2,718]

5 hours ago, canarybubbles said:

I think it was also Shoot that gave away at the start of each season a fold-out diagram of all four football leagues which had little slots in it, plus 92 markers, one for each club in the club's colours, the idea being that each week you could slot each club into its place at 5pm each Saturday and keep up to date with every team's position in all four leagues

You can still get them if you hunt around online

[Robert N. LiM 6,442]

4 minutes ago, FenwayFrank said:

You can still get them if you hunt around online

@Yobocop

[Yobocop 1,474]

2 hours ago, Robert N. LiM said:

@Yobocop

Accidental Brent 

[Ernie Wise 119]

Showing my age, my favourite football mags were Charlie Buchan’s football monthly and Soccer Star which was a statistic lover’s heaven!

[andyc24_uk 79]

On 09/09/2024 at 20:04, canarybubbles said:

I think it was also Shoot that gave away at the start of each season a fold-out diagram of all four football leagues which had little slots in it, plus 92 markers, one for each club in the club's colours, the idea being that each week you could slot each club into its place at 5pm each Saturday and keep up to date with every team's position in all four leagues.

I used to play for hours with those tables, throwing dice and moving teams up and down the tables. Needless to say, we tended to win. I was the VAR of my day, always able to find a reason for disallowing a scoreline I didn't like.

Coverage of football has become one-dimensional in many ways.  

Haha I thought it was just me who did that! Glad to discover I'm not the only weird one 😛 Fun times.