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The answer to ballboys is (I think) the start of the 1958-59 season. Several of the first set are still about so hopefully one or two of them may be on PASOTI. Certainly no earlier than 1987-58.oddball":3iukgcd7 said:
I was at that game. My recollections are from before rather than after the game. I recall that the Colchester manager Phil Parkinson made it clear to the Press that he would not allow his team to form a guard of honour for Argyle as they entered the field of play.GreensOnScreen":9pmot0pr said:
GreensOnScreen":1igqeytx said:
Thank you.
Strange how things such as and some of the others posted here are suddenly common practice in an almost unnoticed way.
Looking ahead where will the players enter the playing area from next season
When was the tunnel on the Mayflower first used? I have seen photos of players entering from the corner from between the Barn Park & Mayflower but no idea when the current changing rooms were introduced.
The back of goal nets are generally rectangular rather than triangular now - when did that change? Can only think of a few grounds (Scunthorpe?) where they still have a triangular net.
Balham_Green":l3zv9hph said:
For me its because its just another time wasting activity. Get the ball from the left hand corner flag, dribble it over the the right hand edge of the 6 yard box, stamp the ground a few times, rub your hand on the towel, kick the upright a few times, move the ball slightly and then finally kick it.
Slightly related, when did the 6 second rule for ball in hand come in and when was it abolished?
Pilgrim Pete was introduced in the 94/95 season although his constime was all black back then. I think he upgraded around 1999
I don't know about running onto the pitch, but the first ballboys actually appeared in 1932. I suspect there was then a gap before memory man's recollection in 1958.memory man":2ms9yrgp said:
From chapter 14 of GoS's History of Argyle:
Another innovation introduced by Archie Ballard at this time was for youngsters from the Ballard Institute to act as 'mascot ball boys' (also referred to as 'goal-boys'). Six of his charges were dressed in uniforms in Argyle colours to "stand at intervals around the playing pitch to fetch the ball when it passes out of play".
[http://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/argylehistory.asp?era=1930-1934]
My father was a Ballard boy in the early 30s and did say that he had been a ball-boy but I regretfully never ascertained how often he did it. I suspect dozens of boys were given the chance to do it, rather than just a select few, but this is just a guess on my part in view of the aims of the Ballard Institute.
Tom Cobbley":246d052c said:
… and when you walked behind the stand before the game and the dressing rooms vented out there