Showing posts with label little ones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label little ones. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Southampton FC


At The Dell, Southampton used to have the littlest of Little Ones.



Little Ones may not be your cup of tea, but you could look at this goal and know immediately it was Southampton.

Now at St Mary's, the goalnets are boxes made of trampoline like everybody else's.



But spy the fancy red and white tubing, and the obvious decision to let the nets hang loose, and, in their own way, the St Mary's nets might be thought as distinctive as the old ones at The Dell. A goal scored into them is certainly more aesthetically pleasing.

Bristol Rovers


Trawling youtube for examples of Little Ones, I came across these amazing Wembley lookalikes at Bristol Rovers, circa 1974.



After Euro '76, they cleared the snow off the lines and traded the full stanchions for a pair of Continental 'D's.



The goalnets at Memorial Stadium in 2010 may be boxes, but they aren't made of trampoline.