Let's grow some balls
Jan122010noon
It's understandable when sporting fixtures are called off due to severe weather, but less understandable when the pitch is fit for play but the surrounding roads, pavements etc are not.
Take for example, Liverpool's fixture with Spurs at the weekend. The undersoil heating had done its job, meaning the pitch was ok, but access to Anfield was considered too treacherous for joe public to make it there.
This is the same public, the majority of whom had probably still managed to skate, ski, slide, trudge into work, who I'm sure would have been willing to do the same again to go and do something that they really wanted to do (as opposed to going to just battling to get into work).
There will be plenty of people who had travelled from overseas for such a big match, who still made it to Liverpool from far icier climes, but they would have been disappointed and left very much out of pocket. Could the club itself have not puts its hands in its pockets and bought some grit for the pavements surrounding the ground if pavement safety was that much of an issue?
These days, the mollycoddling that goes on is ridiculous. This game would have been on years ago - that is certain. And many more games would have been on if it were not for namby pamby pampered players who were scared of a bit of snow. Real footballers don't wear gloves, let alone tights.
I say, players need to grow some balls (preferably orange) and bring back games in the snow. You only have to see what a classic game was produced in the snow-hit Arsenal v Everton game to realise that football is an entertainment business and the public want to be entertained.
Look at this clip to see how it used to be done. This was when men were men and played with orange balls. Classic days indeed.
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roddymacp 'Gloves, tights, what about the clown who wears a scarf?' added 12th Jan 2010
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Simon_Doyle 'Who the hell wears a scarf Roddy? Name and shame. Name and shame.' added 12th Jan 2010
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Choco_ 'buffon?? or is it a neckwarmer.......either way.' added 12th Jan 2010
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Johnf 'Don't get me going on this one! Arsene Wenger was quoted in the Times on Saturday saying we need to get back to people taking individual responsibility and for some of the collective non responsibilty to be dumped. Agreed.' added 12th Jan 2010
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roddymacp 'Tevez wears a scarf on the pitch.' added 12th Jan 2010
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jamieB 'I remember in the late 1970's thinking how good it was that they still played in the winter. Fans clearing pitches, having snow ball fights in the tsands, different coloured balls and my favourite memory, Frank Worthington wearing tights. Sometimes they only cleared the lines and sometimes they sprayed them blue... Then something changed, they started wearing gloves. I remember Merson wearing Arsenal gloves and they sold out the next day, now it's just accepted - the base layer, the gloves and maybe the balaclava... Gone of the days of the short sleeved shirt and the high cut shorts - Kilcline would not have worn gloves, neither would Kenny Burns... Good point - we are soft as a nation aren't we? Too frightened to clear a pathfor an old lady in case we get sued - time to change it now me thinks. When the Krays were around...' added 12th Jan 2010
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Simon_Doyle 'I also heard that the Liverpool FC Museum was open for business on the same day that the match was called off.' added 13th Jan 2010
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RoadKillers 'liverpool is a museum after last nites defeat gainst Reading ' added 14th Jan 2010
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