Old Timey Football Thread

[Winston Biscuit]

Colourised video of Glentoran Vs Cliftonville from 1897

https://youtu.be/hUJVaH7AP4I?si=ZZNpg8qBC6llAYT0

[stealthpapes]

really interesting It Was What It Was podcast this morning which is on the 84/85 season and the violence going on at games. Lots of incidents I didn't know about, as behaviour at matches really deteriorated. The end of season includes the Bradford fire and Heysal.

That season also had Birmingham vs Leeds, same day, lad on his first game gets killed as a wall gave way and horses on the pitch, and, in a FA cup replay iirc, the fighting on the pitch riot of Luton vs Millwall.

[Winston Biscuit]

Today is 100 years to the day that the modern offside law was brought in!

Ive mentioned it before on here as its one of my favourite english football history moments. changing it from 3 oppo players needed fo to be onside, to 2, and heralding a number of seasons of chaotic defences and record breaking seasons of goals, with Dixie Dean one of the biggest beneficiaries.

Good episode today from the It Was What It Was podcast

[bakerlou]

Today is 100 years to the day that the modern offside law was brought in!

Ive mentioned it before on here as its one of my favourite english football history moments. changing it from 3 oppo players needed fo to be onside, to 2, and heralding a number of seasons of chaotic defences and record breaking seasons of goals, with Dixie Dean one of the biggest beneficiaries.

Good episode today from the It Was What It Was podcast

Dixie Dean's record of 60 goals in a season (in 27/28) bettered George Camsell's record of 59 the season before.

Just to assess how impactful that change in the offside law was, the previous record until Camsell broke it was 44.

[Winston Biscuit]

Was looking at the history of the transfer record and then delving more into some of them

The first £100 player only happened because Villa were found to have 'illegally poached' West Brom's star goalscorer Willie Groves, and so the FA ordered them to pay a fine of £100 to West Brom.

From the start of organised football all record transfers were between British clubs until 1932 when River Plate more than doubled the record to sign Bernabé Ferreyra from cross city rivals Tigre. Ferreyra was a prolific goalscorer for them, won titles there and has gone down as one of their greatest ever players. It was also such a large amount of money that the record wasn't broken for another 17 years.

Since 1951, English clubs have only broken the world record twice. Shearer in 1996 and Pogba in 2016

[Sutekh]

And if anyone was wondering, the current world record (in fact both the top 2 highest value) transfer is held by Paris Saint Germain spending €222m (£200m) on Neymar in 2017. Makes the €180m (£163m) they then spent on Mbappe a year later look a bargain.

Record British transfer is £116m by Liverpool for Florian Wirtz (presuming he passes his medical), just ahead of the £115m paid by Chelsea for Moses Caicedo (still the record between British clubs).

[Winston Biscuit]

And if anyone was wondering, the current world record (in fact both the top 2 highest value) transfer is held by Paris Saint Germain spending €222m (£200m) on Neymar in 2017. Makes the €180m (£163m) they then spent on Mbappe a year later look a bargain.

Record British transfer is £116m by Liverpool for Florian Wirtz (presuming he passes his medical), just ahead of the £115m paid by Chelsea for Moses Caicedo (still the record between British clubs).

what is the record is debatable though I guess. basic amount vs add ons, how much of the add on gets paid, exchange rate at the time etc.