Fans join Tony Incenzo in revealing a list of what they miss in football

Football fans join Tony Incenzo in revealing a list of what they miss in football, with the Twitter thread getting over 200,000 views.

Tony Incenzo, a TV/Radio football reporter put out a tweet, only to be left blown away by the response it ended up getting within 24 hours of posting.

He wrote:
What I miss in football:
~ FA Cup Final being a national event
~ Home International Championships
~ FA Cup multiple replays
~ Teams like Forest, Derby, Ipswich & QPR having a chance of winning the title
~ Huge heaving terraces
~ Proper wingers
~ Proper tackles
~ Maverick players

What I miss in football:

~ FA Cup Final being a national event
~ Home International Championships
~ FA Cup multiple replays
~ Teams like Forest, Derby, Ipswich & QPR having a chance of winning the title
~ Huge heaving terraces
~ Proper wingers
~ Proper tackles
~ Maverick players

— Tony Incenzo TV/Radio football reporter 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 (@TonyIncenzo) October 31, 2024

Thank you to everyone for all your wonderful responses on this thread which is heading towards 200,000 views https://t.co/s24RCiHgfg

— Tony Incenzo TV/Radio football reporter 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 (@TonyIncenzo) November 1, 2024

As mentioned, football fans join Tony Incenzo in revealing a list of what they miss in football, get ready to feel all nostalgic…

@NormandeBruin:
Muddy pitches
Snow and orange balls
Not needing a ticket
Saturdays at 3pm
The Football Pink
Silk scarves
Not sitting in the same seat every week
Being affordable
Deciding an hour before kick off that you’ll go
Players coming out the tunnel, jumping to head an imaginary ball!

@K6HolteEnd: Semi finals at neutral grounds

@martingoodman: Each ground having their own style of nets. You’d recognise a ground by it’s nets. Now they’ll all generic box nets. Sad.

@shoza11:
• Admiral football kits
• FA Cup semi final played at neutral grounds
• Brian Moore / John Motson
• Swapping football cards at school
• Affordable kits, games, travel, for fans
• Goals from distance

@NormandeBruin:
Players interviewed in shirts and ties
Terrible haircuts
Cup final songs
No ‘Can I have your shirt’ cardboard banners
Dogs getting in & running on the pitch
Police on little stools on the cinder track
Ball hitting the stand roof & bits of rust falling off
Rosettes
Awful smells

@jpbaker:
– Transfers out of nowhere
– Players you’ve bought not on YouTube
– Makita tournament or similar
– Players looking knackered at 75 minutes
– Commentators on games in Eastern Europe sounding like they’re underground
– Awful pitches
– Combovers

@Stew2205:
– 10 mins for Half Time
– Wagon Wheels at snack bar
– Only wearing away kit when a proper colour clash
– No 1-11 only

@MagnayJohn: Wearing 1-11 , not falling over and rolling around at slightest touch. Terraces, big away allocations, playing at 3 on a Saturday! Winning the cup was more important than coming fourth. Local businessmen as chairman,

@john_halpin:
League cup 2nd round being home and away legs,
Wales Admiral kit ,
Lots of top Scottish players ,
Regional tv showing local games,
World Cup and Euro matches always in midweek,
Shoot League ladders ,
Collecting panini stickers ,
Those squared shaped goal posts at Hampden Park

@AlanReeves2:
GK kicking it long
Tackles
Not everything being a foul and a booking
Good referees
Grandstand
3pm kick offs
Watching results in the window of Dixon’s

@1980MLL: I caught the smell of fried onions the other day & it made me recall football in the late 80s / early 90s, ie my formative years. Completely different experience to now. Crowds were full of characters & it felt more, I dunno, earthy. Now it feels like an event without much soul.

@KevinOxford:
Games on Saturday 3pm and Wednesday 7:30pm.
Players only going down when injured.
Keepers under 6 foot tall.

@PhilJones33: Agree & I’d add players being well paid but not living in distant gated mansions. I miss FA Cup 3rd round day (a Saturday!) being a big event. I miss commentary of Brian Moore, Motty & Barry Davies. I miss shirts with just the club badge & muddy pitches & imperfect stadiums.

@paulconnor23: Wembley should have always stayed just for internationals and Cup finals instead of money grabbing FA committee clawing back the bad management of the rebuild project . It has no magic for me now .

@Ngonge69JOHN: I remember a time when a ref got the book out, it was a big thing. Commentators got excited. Sendings off were for GBH or murder. Now, basic defined offences carry a guaranteed yellow card and the celebrity refs can’t wait to brandish them. Oh, for Roger Kirkpatrick…

@SuperLeedsUtd5: I miss more open divisions and a genuine aspiration that a team like Oxford United and Wimbledon could rise through the levels and win silverware. I miss all teams actually taking the FA Cup seriously rather than playing kids- Leeds as guilty as any for this. I miss proper bovril

@Wrighty2902:
Stuart Surridge footballs.
Your midfielders being able to do everything and not be labelled as DCM, no 6, pivots etc.
Games actually finishing at 4.45 (or earlier).
Crowding round the bloke who brought his transistor to find out the half time scores.
Page 312 on Ceefax.

@Rothwelian: Also… A European Cup featuring only the winners of European leagues when teams like Forest, Malmö, Steau, Red Star etc could make the final.. 🙆‍♂️⚽

@johnny_bailey:
Fa cup draw on Monday dinnertime. Semis at Vila park etc.
25% away allocations in the fa cup without the police sticking their beak in.
Kits lasting two seasons.
Turning up to watch a game without having to be a member and buying tickets weeks in advance.

@EveRay1: And also half time scoreboards, and twenty people peering over the shoulder of someone with a programme to see which games the letters related to.

@nickhancock741: Most missed is the FA Cup Final TV schedule starting breakfast time and going right through til after the match.

@Betracingnation: I miss the standing terraces.. More recently. I miss songs for players which we don’t have anymore & of course the drum. 🙂 On a serious note, I used to love the FA Cup, which has lost all his tradition.

@BrontenanaJames: Brian Moore’s commentary, knowing Europe’s geography because of the European Cup, Refs not all from greater Manchester pretending they support Altrincham, Everton being good, having to be elected into the league, Kevin Keegan, 3pm Saturday KO

@cliveroth: The Saturday scores (including the reserve leagues) on the teleprinter

@dale_63: 100% Love when footballers could actually Tackle a player won the ball and the other player wouldn’t roll around like they’ve been shot, One Sub, Bring back the backpass keeper could collect Bounce it 20 or 30 times and the biggest one no VAR 👍🏼

@sizetenandahalf: And… gathering around the radio at school for an FA Cup draw, listening to Sports Report on a strangers transistor radio when walking away from a ground, spontaneously going to a random match without aggro of getting a ticket in advance, waggon wheels….

@JamesWi886: Miss proper defenders too that weren’t to be messed with. Mike Doyle, Dave Watson, Kenny Burns, Larry Lloyd, Gordon McQueen. And Centre forwards that gave them as good as they got, Bob Latchford, Joe Jordan, Andy Gray, Cyrille Regis etc 👌

@OhDunnoWho:
~ Nets that trap the ball when a goal is scored
~ Distinctive-looking stadiums
~ Teams lining up without mascots standing in front of them
~ Predominantly white footballs (all-year round)
~ Crowds’ goal cheers not drowned out by “Seven Nation Army” etc.

@DaveCoo10857011:
Just turning up and paying on the door
Standing wherever you want
A decent programme not the advertising brochure you get now.
People like Brian Clough and other mavericks

@MikeWard2911: You forgot pitches that were more mud than grass and playing on snow covered pitches with the lines swept clear and an orange football 😁

@BetterCallMeBob:
Proper old school goal stanchions!
Arduous and systematical back passes to a gleeful keeper in green knitted gloves allowed to smother the ball like a wet cat.
Quagmire heaps that require a can can dancer’s swing to hoof it clear
Foul throws!
Basic football strips!!
Old refs