One thing

Dad always had a flask of soup for half time, Oxtail or Bovril most likely.

More competitive leagues when the league was a lot less predictable.

comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 10 hours, 47 minutes ago
More competitive leagues when the league was a lot less predictable.
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Well said. Can you imagine a team like Ipswich almost winning the league these days? I know Leicester a few years back broke the big 4/6 stranglehold but that was exceptional.

comment by LIW Rad a %#@% and so is Orta (U8453)
posted 13 hours, 37 minutes ago
Atmosphere for me.

Women, too many kids and seating have killed it.

Not saying that it shouldnt have happened but it as.

I do think people look back with rose tainted glasses though.

Probably an unpopular opinion but sky saved football in this country.

Grounds were mostly half empty, death traps, toilets were just walls. Fans just went to get away from going shopping with the wife.

Pitches were like potato fields, standard of football was garbage and players were poor on the whole.

Unless you lived within west yorkshire, you couldnt listen on radio, you barely saw us away unless you went because hardly any TV.

People have been saying how football will go bust for last 20 years.

And despite the amount of things people can do these days, Football as never been as popular. Crowds are over double compared to late 80s.

I do miss every game being 3pm, and I think the money should be more evenly spread.

But blame the clubs not sky
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Atmosphere? I think there's an element of rose-tinted spectacles there as well. Could be good, but all too often terrible. Loud yes, but toxic a lot of the time. If more women and kids have reduced that, then it's a good thing in my view. Just my take on things from memories of that time of course.

Everything else I think you're generally spot on with (I wonder how good/bad the players would be given modern coaching/development, as well as pitches?).

Atmosphere? I think there's an element of rose-tinted spectacles there as well.

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I started watching leeds in promotion season, aged 9 in 1989/90.

Atmosphere was incredible.

Dont know what it was like before, but not rose tainted

comment by LIW Rad a %#@% and so is Orta (U8453)
posted 23 minutes ago
Atmosphere? I think there's an element of rose-tinted spectacles there as well.

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I started watching leeds in promotion season, aged 9 in 1989/90.

Atmosphere was incredible.

Dont know what it was like before, but not rose tainted
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I'm an older f4rt ... so my recollections more around late 70's/early-mid 80s. 89/90 i was living the dream in holland .... so not at ER that much around that period, so fair play I respect your take on it then.

Going to the match with my dad. He wasn't a massive football fan but I pleaded with him to take me to see Leeds, which he did on several occasions. We lived in Brighouse and the closest town is Elland. So I thought the stadium was on the Elland Road that ran along the top of our street and that it was just a few minutes away. The first time my dad relented and took me to the match it was vs Liverpool in (I think) 1969, and it involved two or three different buses, so I was a bit shocked to find Leeds weren't exactly my local team, explaining why most of my schoolmates supported nearby Huddersfield or Halifax Town. But the magic we experienced stood in the packed kop was like nothing I'd ever felt, and I was hooked. A couple of years later I was going to home and away matches with my mates, but the most special memories are of those few times I stood in the stands with Dad.

comment by VOF - Have a nice day y'all ... (U17124)
posted 3 hours, 9 minutes ago
comment by LIW Rad a %#@% and so is Orta (U8453)
posted 23 minutes ago
Atmosphere? I think there's an element of rose-tinted spectacles there as well.

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I started watching leeds in promotion season, aged 9 in 1989/90.

Atmosphere was incredible.

Dont know what it was like before, but not rose tainted
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I'm an older f4rt ... so my recollections more around late 70's/early-mid 80s. 89/90 i was living the dream in holland .... so not at ER that much around that period, so fair play I respect your take on it then.


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Recently saw an interview with Eddie Gray…he said the atmosphere now is the best it has ever been.

The music….Grandstand, Sports Report etc. In fact a lot of the old BBC sports music.

First game Leeds V Liverpool, April 1981. 0-0 🫣