Townsend and Gary Waddock look to be standing on blocks for some reason, presumably to keep the heights of the players in the back row uniform although John Sheridan is a step down.
It’s a bizzare photo really, the “stage” that the players in the middle and back rows are standing on appears to be made up of a combination of breeze blocks, blocks on their side, blocks on the flat and lengths of ply or mdf on top.
I don’t think I ever remember him playing in his slacks. That was usually the preserve of lads press ganged into playing junior football after Sunday Mass