It sounds awful now, but it wasn't meant unkindly, I'm sure. Pleat's Luton team featured many more black players than most from the era. Black people in the 50s and 60s would often describe themselves as 'coloured'. My dad used to employ a number of black guys and I found a stack of applications from them recently. More often than not they describe themselves as 'a young coloured man who is interested in business' or words to that effect.
@@mattylamb9194 Maybe the pace of players' *minds is quicker:* tactics, regrouping, passing, possession and creativity build up -- instead of the constant headless tennis of kick, punt, hope and chase.
@@eddyvideostar - well, I grew up watching football late eighties and early nineties. Different times. Nowadays players minds are overfilled with tactics and safety-first mentalities ingrained into them by coaches, 90% of whom are keen to ape the dominant Barca and Spain sides if the mid noughties. Who in my opinion played extremely boring football. Nothing exciting about watching twenty plus consecutive sideways and/or backward passes
Shows how ridiculous the whole thing is that nowadays the word coloured is viewed as racist and discriminatory but it’s perfectly acceptable to use the term “people of colour” which is the literal dictionary definition of coloured if using it as an adjective. Woke brigade have gone so far up their own backsides in trying to find offence they contradict themselves constantly
1:29:35 - Weak goalkeeping by Bailey on Cotter's Winner. Totally watching the player not wanting to get hurt. What a difference Schmeichel made 5 years later.
Man Utd struggled for goalies before Peter Schmeichel for some time didn't they? Bailey, Chris Turner, Jim Leighton, Les Sealey. None of these covered themselves in glory for long
MU are in 2024 exactly where this UTd team were in 86. They can go a goal up, at difficult grounds, but u know the result wont be a win. Replace Robson with Bruno, an inneffective Olsen with Antony, Bailey with Onana, its the same quality or not, throughout. Frustrating then, frustrating now.
