R.I.P Joe Elwood
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2024 12:19 pm
Passed away Yesterday
R.I.P Joe
R.I.P Joe
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It was a different world back then . I remember a Man City V West Ham game in which Jimmy Greaves played and the pitch was just a mud pat . RIP Joe .Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:00 pm Good grief, the state of that pitch. How was that game ever allowed to be played?
RIP Joe
By far the worst league ground, at that time, was the Racecoarse Ground of Derby County.RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:35 pmIt was a different world back then . I remember a Man City V West Ham game in which Jimmy Greaves played and the pitch was just a mud pat . RIP Joe .Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:00 pm Good grief, the state of that pitch. How was that game ever allowed to be played?
RIP Joe
Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:26 pmBy far the worst league ground, at that time, was the Racecourse Ground of Derby County.RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:35 pmIt was a different world back then . I remember a Man City V West Ham game in which Jimmy Greaves played and the pitch was just a mud pat . RIP Joe .Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:00 pm Good grief, the state of that pitch. How was that game ever allowed to be played?
RIP Joe
That was all ploughed up by about November.
Because the boots were actual boots and the players a lot tougher than today's breed.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:00 pm Good grief, the state of that pitch. How was that game ever allowed to be played?
RIP Joe
Yeah, sorry about that, l'm beginning to turn into Joe Biden
This match took place on 20 Feb 1965, so back in those day at that time of the year, well many football pitches in the UK were in much the same condition and back in the 50s and 60s all being played with a heavy muddy and often misshapen ''Dubbin ball'' that came with a crudely laced up opening to a rubber tube where you blew the ball up, from memory I think the tube had to be folded over to stop the rubber bladder from leaking out air then bound up with some string !Well head that ball and get the leather lace across your forehead and a get a ringing head and sometimes a cut forehead, little wonder that so many of the older players ended up with brain injuries when they got older. One very muddy pitch many years ago was the now gone ''Derby County Baseball ground'' which was often featured on match of the day when Brian Clough was their manager ! Yes well remember when I changed from playing boys football with the smaller football to mens football, I could barely kick that heavy rain sodden big football more than 20 yards, it was like kicking a lead weight about.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:00 pm Good grief, the state of that pitch. How was that game ever allowed to be played?
RIP Joe
Funny, I did not see your earlier comment about the baseball ground and just mentioned it from my memory of those times in my previous comment !