Fantastic old pic of Greavsie from Holsten76 on gg

[Kyras]

That's a great pic :lol:

 

[Caboose]

Didn't realise Ray Parlour was around that long :wink:

 

[DC_Boy]

great pic - thanks LL - so pleased I saw JG at his peak before the jaundice hit him

 

[Rob]

Sorry guys, Just reminder to everyone that GettyImages are very protective over their intellectual property so please don't post any images from them or with their watermark on.

Cheers

 

[Bill_Oddie]

It really wasn't that long ago that players smoked heavily. Ten (okay, twelve) years ago, I was in the players lounge after most Brighton games and only 2 of them didn't smoke and all drank heavily within an hour or 90mins of the end of the game. Mind you, they did nearly lose their league status that year. :wink:

And it isn't just footballers, at the Malaysian Open a few weeks back, Nick Dougherty and Darren Clarke barely let a hole go by without lighting up. Made me have no end of respect for the cameramen and producers of the live golf coverage on the telly who obviously have to avoid catching them mid-puff.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

I'd rather see someone smoking than spitting and, as pointed out, cigarettes were promoted as healthy and good for you up until the 70's :shrug:

Flatters, stop being so gay :lol:

 

[Flatters]

I'd rather see someone smoking than spitting and, as pointed out, cigarettes were promoted as healthy and good for you up until the 70's :shrug:

Flatters, stop being so gay :lol:

You would say that though, wouldn't you... Smokey McSmokerson. :roll: :lol:

 

[llamafarmer]

Great pic!

I love the tea and fags :lol:

Smooth:
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/3133702

 

[TheChosenOne]

Great pic!

I love the tea and fags :lol:

Smooth:
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/3133702

As I said earlier Yul B looks peculiar.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

You would say that though, wouldn't you... Smokey McSmokerson. :roll: :lol:

:lol:

zokora-zokora-zokora... :up:

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Great pic!

I love the tea and fags :lol:

Smooth:
http://www.jamd.com/image/g/3133702

great pic - what's that, Connery, Brinner and Moore - who's the other dude? That's just pure class, all over that - what a group to wander into the conversation of :lol:

 

[cheeseman]

Here's Nat Lofthouse enjoying a lovely ciggie after the 1958 FA Cup Final:

 

[TheChosenOne]

Loving that Frankenstein stitch across the shoulder.

 

[Kendall]

Sorry guys, Just reminder to everyone that GettyImages are very protective over their intellectual property so please don't post any images from them or with their watermark on.

Cheers

Don't they have a 'royalty free' section? meaning the ones with their watermark are fine to distribute...

 

[cheeseman]

Loving that Frankenstein stitch across the shoulder.

Here's what was/is in there:

 

[liberty]

Cool pictures. Although lets face it, none of even the best players back then could compete in today's top level @ their peak playing careers.

 

[lily_lane]

I just don't like people who smoke (when they smoke), so for professional footballers to do it just makes it much worse.

But you're applying today's morals and health guidelines to a previous era. An era when most people did smoke and it was not seen as a problem at all, but an accepted part of life, if not a stylish pastime with added cache!

 

[lily_lane]

Smoking was promoted as being healthy and good for you, during WW1 & WW2 cigarettes were part of a soldiers rations.

These were proper fags, not girly ones with filters but stonking full strength tabs.
Only in the 50s and 60s people began to realise the health implications.

I would say the 70s myself. With those World in Action documentaries with a diseased lung in a jar. By then people who'd smoked for decades (my parents) were hooked so it was hard to be condemnatory.

 

[llamafarmer]

As I said earlier Yul B looks peculiar.

I saw your post about Yul Brinner, but only realised it was him in that pic after I posted the link :lol: I had no idea he was so short!

 

[lily_lane]

Billy Bremner lighting up after 1970 FA Cup Semi Final replay after beating Man Utd.





Highbury dressing room 1947 - Wally Barnes and Archie Macauley have a quick fag.

It really was the norm and smoking wasn't seen as harmful to health back then.

Great pics, thanks. :clap: Full of atmosphere, and the post match fluid intake seemed to consist of a cup of char or a bottle of beer! Hang the water or isotonic drinks! :wink: