Source: Liverpool_Echo
Dave Prentice: Photographic Memories of days when footballers dressed up
Dave Prentice: Photographic Memories of days when footballers dressed up[LNB]ASKING footballers to dress up for a photoshoot was a peculiarly '70s and '80s phenomenon. Even more peculiarly, there were never any shortage of volunteers - as the picture above underlines.[LNB]You can imagine the conversation now.[LNB]'Hello lads. I'm the snapper from the ECHO. Would you mind putting on these deerstalkers and suck on a briar pipe, while playing a game of Cluedo? What for? To promote this weekend's League Cup final, of course.[LNB]'No, it's alright lads. Just four of you will do.'[LNB]It was an image Dave Watson and Paul Holmes reprised a few years later - Holmes and Watson, you see.[LNB]Then there was Alan Kennedy dressing up as a caveman - his nickname was Barney Rubble.[LNB]Or Bruce Grobbelaar putting on a Crocodile Dundee outfit - because he hailed from Zimbabwe.[LNB]And the images often raised as many smiles as they did groans.[LNB]There was a time when footballers possessed a self deprecating sense of humour.[LNB]Not just in the dressing room amongst their mickey taking team-mates, but with the general public at large, too.[LNB]But in recent years players have become more pompous, more self important.[LNB]So full marks to Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and particularly Didi Hamann for their part in Dave Kirby's DVD 'Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World,' - the spoof 'mockumentary' about the events which took place at half-time in Istanbul.[LNB]The humour may be a little too dark, a little too ribald for some sensibilities - although surely not if you regularly attend football matches - but it was refreshing to see the Anfield trio sending themselves up.
