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What is this hole in the socks thing meant to achieve?

My lads are in to the grip socks trend at the minute which involves cutting the end of your socks off and replacing them with another sock with grips on it.

Absolute bollocks.

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1 minute ago, gonzo said:

What is this hole in the socks thing meant to achieve?

My lads are in to the grip socks trend at the minute which involves cutting the end of your socks off and replacing them with another sock with grips on it.

Absolute bollocks.

It's apparently supposed to free the calf muscles a bit

I think the cutting off of the bottom of the sock thing is so they don't end up with a thick sock on their foot

Basically, it's to get rid of the feeling of wearing football socks whilst still wearing them

A kind of street football thing

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11 minutes ago, gonzo said:

What is this hole in the socks thing meant to achieve?

My lads are in to the grip socks trend at the minute which involves cutting the end of your socks off and replacing them with another sock with grips on it.

Absolute bollocks.

My understanding is that some modern players have Grealish sized calfs. Put a pair of shin pads in there and their socks are just to uncomfortable. 

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47 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

We've had the snotty patch of Vicks. Now it seems to be slashing the calf section of your socks. Next?

Remember the snood faze? Ffs

Tights. I remember a player called Kieth Weller playing for Leicester in the 70s wearing a pair. John Barnes too. You get the odd one doing it now but it never really took hold.

This one really gets on my wick. Socks pulled up above the knee like they are St. Trinian's schoolgirls. What is the fucking point of that?

 

 

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2 hours ago, bolty58 said:

We've had the snotty patch of Vicks. Now it seems to be slashing the calf section of your socks. Next?

Rainbow armbands 

Rainbow laces 

Taking the knee 

I can hear the foam coming from your mouth 1000s of miles away 

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13 minutes ago, L/H White said:

Rainbow armbands 

Rainbow laces 

Taking the knee 

I can hear the foam coming from your mouth 1000s of miles away 

I thought the same, but apparently he’s in Europe. Probably wearing his chainmail onesie in Spain. Sorry, Gibraltar.

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In the 70's, at a Bolton Schoolboys match at Bromwich St., coached by the sweariest man in football, Charlie Wright.

It was bloody cold & two lads turned out with trackie bottoms on & shorts over them, plus gloves.

Fckg Hell. I still cringe thinking about CW's reaction. It did include phrases like "if you find it too fckg cold fckg fck off & don't fckg bother coming fckg back" & lots of descriptions about their virility & probable gayness & their relationship with tjeir mothers, sisters & dogs that would be questionable today.

 

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3 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

In the 70's, at a Bolton Schoolboys match at Bromwich St., coached by the sweariest man in football, Charlie Wright.

It was bloody cold & two lads turned out with trackie bottoms on & shorts over them, plus gloves.

Fckg Hell. I still cringe thinking about CW's reaction. It did include phrases like "if you find it too fckg cold fckg fck off & don't fckg bother coming fckg back" & lots of descriptions about their virility & probable gayness & their relationship with tjeir mothers, sisters & dogs that would be questionable today.

 

We've got a couple with those little ankle socks, Fk me... you're playing on the side of WINTER Hill not at the San Siro 

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1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

In the 70's, at a Bolton Schoolboys match at Bromwich St., coached by the sweariest man in football, Charlie Wright.

It was bloody cold & two lads turned out with trackie bottoms on & shorts over them, plus gloves.

Fckg Hell. I still cringe thinking about CW's reaction. It did include phrases like "if you find it too fckg cold fckg fck off & don't fckg bother coming fckg back" & lots of descriptions about their virility & probable gayness & their relationship with tjeir mothers, sisters & dogs that would be questionable today.

 

But do you not perform better when you're not freezing? 

 

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6 minutes ago, Zico said:

But do you not perform better when you're not freezing? 

 

No one dislikes the cold more than me. But when I was playing football in Baltic conditions I didn't feel it too much. Box 2 box engine room, that's me. 

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20 minutes ago, Underpants said:

No one dislikes the cold more than me. But when I was playing football in Baltic conditions I didn't feel it too much. Box 2 box engine room, that's me. 

I was a goal keeper so I was all about the layers in winter

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1 hour ago, Zico said:

But do you not perform better when you're not freezing?

As Mr. Wright pointed out ... you fckg play better when your fckg moving and when you're fckg moving you get fckg warm.

 

Or wtte.

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3 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

In the 70's, at a Bolton Schoolboys match at Bromwich St., coached by the sweariest man in football, Charlie Wright.

It was bloody cold & two lads turned out with trackie bottoms on & shorts over them, plus gloves.

Fckg Hell. I still cringe thinking about CW's reaction. It did include phrases like "if you find it too fckg cold fckg fck off & don't fckg bother coming fckg back" & lots of descriptions about their virility & probable gayness & their relationship with tjeir mothers, sisters & dogs that would be questionable today.

 

When Neil Lennon first came he stopped player wearing wooly hats for training I think. There was a video on the WanderersTv of the day.

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1 hour ago, Zico said:

But do you not perform better when you're not freezing? 

 

I hated it when you blocked a casey with your inner thigh/ bell end leathered at you from a yard away in the snow. Fucking stung.

Not too hot, not too cold - there is definitely a perfect temperature for playing footie.

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7 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

I hated it when you blocked a casey with your inner thigh/ bell end leathered at you from a yard away in the snow. Fucking stung.

Not too hot, not too cold - there is definitely a perfect temperature for playing footie.

Well that would get you nowhere. The weather is what it is, wet, dry, windy, sunny, cold, hot ... you may enjoy some more than others but you have to put up with it.

If I had an opponent who clearly didn't fancy it I'd be all ever them.

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11 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

I hated it when you blocked a casey with your inner thigh/ bell end leathered at you from a yard away in the snow. Fucking stung.

Not too hot, not too cold - there is definitely a perfect temperature for playing footie.

Worst thing about that was your mates taking the piss.

I caught one like that on Walkers one time and the bloke who did it came over, put his arm round my shoulder and wispered 'rub it lad, we know it hurts'.

 

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1 hour ago, Zico said:

I was a goal keeper so I was all about the layers in winter

I was a keeper as well

Got called a poof for wearing gloves :D 

They were my dad’s old cricket gloves. Them from the 60s with knobbly spikes on the back cos the tightarse wouldn’t buy me proper keepers gloves

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9 hours ago, L/H White said:

Rainbow armbands 

Rainbow laces 

Taking the knee 

I can hear the foam coming from your mouth 1000s of miles away 

Nay laddie. Not foam, it's bile. Surely even you orange warrior types are over all of that virtue signalling bollocks by now?

Not even 2,000 miles matey. Watching the Euro's in a much better time zone.

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9 hours ago, Jol_BWFC said:

I thought the same, but apparently he’s in Europe. Probably wearing his chainmail onesie in Spain. Sorry, Gibraltar.

Only 'thought'? I would have said 'deduced'.

You should be a detective. Picking up on impossibly vague clues like "My (still EU) UK passport was stamped crossing into Gibraltar yesterday". Does the CID know about you?

You S & M types need to stop fantasising about blokes in chainmail. It's not healthy but rainbow tendencies must be hard to shake.

I will be back in Gib for an event on the glorious 12th. No chainmail, junk mail or e-mail.

Meant to add, bumped into a fellow Wanderer from the Chorley area is some random supermarket the other day. He commented (favourably) on the BWFC tatt. Apparently "a good mate of Matty off Wanderersways" . There's more than one I think?

 

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