This week’s Twohundredpercent podcast is a little later than usual, but we trust that it will be considered worth the effort because our subject is another on the architecture of football: goal posts and goal nets. As if to prove our grumpy descent into middle age, I make the bold claim that they’re not as good as they used to be, and set out to attempt to explain why, when football is more obsessed with becoming a spectacle than ever before, it is failing to do so in one extremely important respect, while Edward Carter sits and rolls his eyes. As ever, you can download the Twohundredpercent podcast by right-clicking and saving here, you can stream it through the link below or you can subscribe to this series on Itunes by clicking here.
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Another excellent show as ever. My favourite design was the one used at Wembley, first seen in the 1939 Cup final and, for the last time on FA Cup Final Day, in 96 when Cantona scored against Liverpool. They did get one more outing before Euro 96, on 18 May for an England v Hungary friendly, Darren Anderton scoring the final goal in a 3-0 victory. Then the Eurocrat bureaucrats made us change to the box style and a little bit of football died for me!
Thanks, Andrew 🙂
If I’d been able to carry that podcast on for another two hours or so, I’d have mentioned an FA Cup replay between Wolves and Crystal Palace in 1995 when one goal went in off the crossbar and another in off the stanchion, which made a very satisfying “crunch” sound upon contact. You don’t get that any more, I don’t think.
I have heard, that Middlesboro had goals of different depths due to space issues at Ayresome Park, all it would take is some You Tubing to check, but as yet I haven’t found time.
I see you use the conventional use of the word ‘stanchion’ as opposed to Jimmy Hill’s ‘stunchion’.
Already looking forward to the Sponsor show.
Greetings chaps…
Once again, a fine podcast indeed. Allow me to contribute a few notes on the subject of goalposts:
1) When it comes to shallow nets, West Ham must surely be up there with Southampton, at least where the 1970s are concerned. Google any match from that period and you’ll see what I mean.
2) Where striped goalposts are concerned, I did once write about these ones from Malta: http://thefootballattic.blogspot.co.nz/2015/06/the-football-attic-podcast-24-50gfse-50.html Striped goalposts on a dusty grassless pitch must surely make for one of the starkest footballing sights you’ll ever see!
3) That Chelsea v Charlton match: was it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Kt1vjOxT0
4) You didn’t mention the most pathetic of all goal frames which were those used during the 1994 World Cup Finals. That short horizontal stick which was supposed to hold the back of the net out from behind the cross bar… not very good was it?
Anyway, all these are but minor observations. In the shadow of sausage goalposts and their ilk, nothing really matters all that much.
C.