Ah yes had peter Bonetti gloves too, use to cycle my chopper to the park,back in the days you didn't have to padlock your bikes up,.happy days

Just seeing the stuff on goalkeeping gloves. As a boy in 70scI never wore gloves on hard pitches which was pretty normal (goalies spat on their hands!). Only in real wet weather, used to wear Peter Bonetti very thin green gloves. I would say first used gloves in all matches around 79 and only did in honesty because it started being a norm

Yes Alan those classic old goalkeeper gloves were the stuff of legend. Got a pair for Christmas one year and wore them all day even through Christmas dinner. I remember looking at the “new fangled” ones when they came out and looked like sausage fingers how on Earth can anyone hold a football in those? But having spent plenty of time as a “proper keeper hasn’t turned up” keeper they’re very good. Get them a little bit wet and they grip like mad.

If you're not interested in in economic philosophy please skip this post. Sorry if this article offends anyone but I agree with many of the points: [Link]

Spit - is that what you meant when you wrote “It's OK for some to say something but not others”…? PS: I don’t deliver Green Party leaflets.

Alan - good link, very interesting - I do wonder why the goalie in the OTD photo wasn’t wearing gloves though…

A4e should stick to delivering the green party leaflets in south east london:-)

A4e, goalkeeper gloves, I had some as a primary school pupil which would have been 8, so that would have been in 1974. They had those nobbly bits of rubber that you saw on table tennis bats sewn on cotton gloves. So would imagine they would have been copied from before then. And in looking for a picture, the yellow 70s were like the ones I had, I came across this site about the history of GK gloves The History of Soccer Goalie Gloves | Storelli [Link]

“I wear Lotto trainers, my roof was fixed by Paul Strank, I buy all my records at Cherry Red, I play Football Manager for 8 hours a day in between my multimillion dollar business deals, I donate tens of thousands to War Child every month, I wear Antony Morata suits and Christophe Duchamp watches whilst slurping Taittinger and Plough Lane ale…” - it’s a new Champagne song everyone…

Bring back Kentish

Spit - several of us engage him, others consider him a troll which is their right. Nobody is likely to ban him unless he ignores the main WUP rule. He doesn't seem to get upset by robust responses although discussions do seem to get abandoned if the couner arguments made are strong.

Galty - you might be missing a point. Money fails to buy a player who always fits into a team. Often it is a team of misfits, who do better than the most skilled players around. They have something to prove.

JG - The problem is that you seem to think money is THE token by which succes is measured, even though your Olympian activities might suggest differently. Most of us see money as just one token and also embrace the concept of enough money. In terms of club success, of course money is important but your approach mirrors Koppel, except he should have argued we should all go and support Chelsea or Real Madrid rather than Fulham.

Yeah I pay £35 for a match ticket, reason i only do 3 matches this season. And not a fan of the new ground.. Galty adds something else to WUP, hounding out posters cause you don't agree with them,just adds to the wup bore. It's OK for some to say something but not others.

Laurence - your friend doesn't have to sit in a Central West Stand seat. What on earth is wrong with the East stand? But the problem isn't necessarily the £38 for a Central West stand seat (although for the best seat in the house - I happen to think it is still ludicrously cheap) - the issue lies with the average price paid after allowing for Season ticket discounts, over 66s & unwaged bursaries, and overly discounted children & family tickets. You could argue that because of all of these bursaries your friend is actually having to pay more - which causes him not to come and the seat being taken by someone on a subsidy who brings their own thermos of tea and dunking biscuits. You can't buck the market.

I’ve met Galty. Shared a taxi at Hartlepool a few seasons back alongside another Dons fan after a train got delayed or cancelled or something. Couldn’t pick him out in a line up though and I don’t think he was a Wup poster at the time. Personally I don’t have a problem with his posts or suggestions. Doesn’t mean I agree or disagree with them. This place is at its best when there are different viewpoints and ideas bouncing around.

Money is not a dirty word - it is simply a token by which success is measured. It’s the equivalent of Points on the League Table and without money there can be little or no success or progress on the pitch. They go hand in hand. As a fan I want to see progress on the pitch and I want to be entertained – which is somewhat dictated by our playing budget. I’m definitely prepared to pay more to achieve that (and I make no apologies for voicing that) – some of you clearly aren’t. At half time yesterday I suspect most Wimbledon fans would have willingly handed over an additional £10 each if we thought that it would have significantly (if not definitely) increased our chances of winning.

do we charge enough on a match day? I was chatting with an AFCW supporter at Sutton yesterday, and he told me, since he does not have a season ticket he has to pay £38 for a central west stand match day ticket**. I checked his point this morning, and confirmed correct. So unsure where Galty comes up with his supposedly low figures? Perhaps he is not comparing like for like?

6MDM: I’m a fan who for 37 out of the last 42 years has travelled home and away to over 80% of fixtures – for much of that time travelling from either North Wales or Italy (spending at least £10K pa on travel); I’m a fan who pays the full (non-bursary) price for my ticket; I’m a fan who always purchases food and drink within the ground to support the Club; I’m a fan who goes out of his way to utilise the Club’s business affiliates; I’m a fan who regularly pays for family and friends to attend matches – thereby introducing a number of new fans to the Club; I’m a fan shareholder; I’m a fan who has historically used his businesses to regularly sponsor the Club; I’m a fan who has regularly used any business acumen (I don’t have any football acumen – so can’t help there) I might have, to provide constructive ideas to help the Club move forwards financially (many of which have been wholly or partially taken up). But - I hadn’t realised that I needed to apply for your permission to support the Club.

Morning all. SW19 on yesterday now up - [Link]

What year did goalkeepers start wearing gloves, presumably it was after 1975…?

Looking at the stats from yesterday - we will play like that and win as often as we lose - especially against a side with poorer strikers. Like idea of playing Foyo & Nkeng just behind Bugiel up top - maybe on Monday?

OTD - state of the PL pitch! Suppose that was fairly normal in those days!

Does this WIJG chap actually attend matches? Has anyone on here met him? Just wondering what he's like in real life, as opposed to his rather odd online persona.

THD ~ possibly same match?