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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jun 11, 2022 13:27:00 GMT 1
The pink paper. Changing where you stand at half time. Saint & Greavsie before the game.
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Post by drewden on Jun 11, 2022 13:27:44 GMT 1
Toilet rolls all over the goalmouth, imagine leaving the house to go to the match, have I got everything, damn forgot the toilet rolls.
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Post by Marshleeds on Jun 11, 2022 13:31:58 GMT 1
The pink paper. Changing where you stand at half time. Saint & Greavsie before the game. Still amazes me now looking back to relatively primitive technology times how they could be selling a newspaper with that days results in within hours of the match finishing, often when you hadn’t even been home yet after attending the same match!
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Post by artysid on Jun 11, 2022 13:43:47 GMT 1
...Having the Australian football results in all the national newspapers every summer And on the Summer Football Pools Coupon! Football Pools Man coming to the house every Thursday night and my Dad allowing me to do one line out of the three he did in total. Never did get that big win but dreamt of getting the 8 from 10 score draws every weekend. Don't forget the "Spot the Ball" competition in the local rag.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2022 13:46:32 GMT 1
Players immediately walking off at the final whistle like they had somewhere urgent to go, regardless of the result. No applauding the fans, waving, chucking shirts at kids or laps of honour, etc Just walking straight off, shaking hands with whichever opponent happened to be near you. They did and it involved ![1888](//storage2.proboards.com/2448479/images/GohkCu1dMo6QfAf5Nq8p.gif) They still do, which is, apparently, disrespectful to fans.
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Post by sabailand on Jun 11, 2022 14:10:35 GMT 1
Bored kids running up and down the terrace playing tig and doing tipple-overs on the crush barriers.
Hooligan corner (every ground had one) where a certain few used to congregate.
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Post by Tinpot on Jun 11, 2022 14:13:00 GMT 1
Air horns.
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Jun 11, 2022 14:21:44 GMT 1
And on the Summer Football Pools Coupon! Football Pools Man coming to the house every Thursday night and my Dad allowing me to do one line out of the three he did in total. Never did get that big win but dreamt of getting the 8 from 10 score draws every weekend. Don't forget the "Spot the Ball" competition in the local rag. They still have a similar thing in the Westmorland Gazette in the lakes, only its Spot the Dog. They have a picture of a load of sheep in a field with the dog removed. You have to put a cross where you think the dog's nose would have been. www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/competitions/spot_the_dog_rules/
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Post by Marshleeds on Jun 11, 2022 14:26:26 GMT 1
Often bald and bandy legged referees looking about 70 years old.
And still challenge any football fan not to laugh out loud on the rare occasions when the ref fell over, akin to not being able to resist cheering when a glass was dropped in a Pub or shouting “sack the juggler” mistakenly believing you were the first to ever say it.
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 14:31:15 GMT 1
Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedAttachment DeletedProper old traditional grounds - Apex design tin / asbestos type roofs - an odd one like the barrel shape of The Cowshed - Traditionally style floodlight pylons that you could see for miles getting bigger n’ bigger as you walked from the pub to the match - open away end for the visiting support to get soaked while Town fans were dry - The thing of utter beauty - Leeds Road !
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Post by sabailand on Jun 11, 2022 14:36:06 GMT 1
... akin to not being able to resist cheering when a glass was dropped in a Pub or shouting “sack the juggler” mistakenly believing you were the first to ever say it. Cringeworthy in the extreme every time it happens. ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2022 14:43:15 GMT 1
Checking the scores on Teletext.
News and transfer rumours from 0898 numbers.
The Town email group (Dyce?), later a Yahoo group.
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 14:44:42 GMT 1
Blue disabled vehicles parked around the touchine. In abundance at Burnley and Coventry
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 14:45:57 GMT 1
The pink paper. Changing where you stand at half time. Saint & Greavsie before the game. Still amazes me now looking back to relatively primitive technology times how they could be selling a newspaper with that days results in within hours of the match finishing, often when you hadn’t even been home yet after attending the same match! The reports were about 1500 words on the first half and one sentence for the second
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 14:46:53 GMT 1
Checking the scores on Teletext. News and transfer rumours from 0898 numbers. The Town email group (Dyce?), later a Yahoo group. That all seems recent to me.
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 14:48:34 GMT 1
Jeez oh - brilliant pic this... Crazy times but lovely - NORTHAMPTON in the top Division ! - Bury in the second top tier.. and countless teams no longer in The Football League - Hartlepool called Hartlepools - Workington ?? - not sure what happened to them as pyramids only started around 1987 (ish) if ma memory is correct... And Scotland - Well Third Lanark (must be before 1967 I think) and some teams lost to The League there with the recent adoptation of the pyramids there like East Stirlingshire, Berwick Rangers, Brechin City and last season Cowdenbeath... This thread is truly beautiful for nostalgic loving anoraks like Westie 👍
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 14:49:36 GMT 1
Often bald and bandy legged referees looking about 70 years old. And still challenge any football fan not to laugh out loud on the rare occasions when the ref fell over, akin to not being able to resist cheering when a glass was dropped in a Pub or shouting “sack the juggler” mistakenly believing you were the first to ever say it. Those refs usually came with a combover hairdo. Their job description often schoolmaster at a minor public school.
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Jun 11, 2022 14:56:03 GMT 1
Football specials.
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 14:58:27 GMT 1
Concrete dug out Manager, Trainer and sub sat in it.
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 14:58:30 GMT 1
Most games on a saturday finishing between 4.45 and 4.50. And the dulcet tones of James Alexander Gordon reading out the football scores. The BBC Grandstand video printer - they always put a big score in with the number written in brackets ! ******* Huddersfield Town 7 (seven) v Port Vale 1 ********
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 15:05:45 GMT 1
And the dulcet tones of James Alexander Gordon reading out the football scores. The BBC Grandstand video printer - they always put a big score in with the number written in brackets ! ******* Huddersfield Town 7 (seven) v Port Vale 1 ******** It was the tele printer earlier. Sam Leitch on Football Preview before it changed to Focus and Bob Wilson Jimmy Hill presenting and analysing on MotD After running the line in the afternoon 3 games on MotD on an FA Cup weekend instead of the usual 2
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Jun 11, 2022 15:09:01 GMT 1
"You are the ref "
Now modified as "you are the var operative "
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Post by 28901 on Jun 11, 2022 15:11:46 GMT 1
"You are the ref " Now modified as "you are the var operative " Somebody far tech clever than me should do a spoof version using the Forest play off.
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Post by Captainslapper on Jun 11, 2022 15:16:42 GMT 1
Long sleeved shirts.. No one seems to have those now. All short sleeves with those lycra things underneath.
Every player wearing black boots... except maybe Alan Ball.
Goalies wearing green and the same shorts and socks as the rest of the team.
Silky wingers not wearing shin pads.
That awkward moment when you get in the ground only to see someone is standing where you stand, leaning on your bit of stanchion... like they dont know thats your spot.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Jun 11, 2022 15:18:10 GMT 1
Unless you bought a programme, all the half time scores were put on a board but with letters, not teams, so you had no clue what games were what.
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 15:32:28 GMT 1
The BBC Grandstand video printer - they always put a big score in with the number written in brackets ! ******* Huddersfield Town 7 (seven) v Port Vale 1 ******** It was the tele printer earlier. Sam Leitch on Football Preview before it changed to Focus and Bob WilsonJimmy Hill presenting and analysing on MotD After running the line in the afternoon 3 games on MotD on an FA Cup weekend instead of the usual 2 Always loved this (and Saint & Greavsie) ! Seen little of Town on it so any feature was always such a lovely bounty and nice treat indeed... One thing I loved was The FA cup previews where they done a decent in depth analysis of the ‘minnows’ against Division 1 (Premier League) teams and you’d see these quaint little community club grounds with lots of hills, roads, factories, cemeteries, trains whizzing by on the nearby tracks - unusual and things you’d not normally see on the TV at grounds like say from inside Leeds Road.. I fondly remember them doing this for Altrichman v Liverpool - I’d have been around ten at the time.. no idea where Altrichman was or what League they were in as The Conference type clubs got little or no publicity then - I think Altrichman got a draw and a lucrative replay at Anfield vs a Liverpool team that were the Creme de la Crem of Europe at the time - the absolute beauty of football and The FA cup.. Out for our own five a side match then in for the second half live of the featured Rugby League Match and patiently wait for... FOOTBALL LATEST : Huddersfield Town 1 v Leeds United 0 Aaah Jeez the beautiful memories - Got The Bay City Rollers on Alexa - Time for a Lager n’ Lime and a big dram of whisky me thinks !!!
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Post by sabailand on Jun 11, 2022 15:35:50 GMT 1
Unless you bought a programme, all the half time scores were put on a board but with letters, not teams, so you had no clue what games were what. And it was often well into the second half before you knew them all. ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png)
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 15:44:05 GMT 1
People going to a footy ground (not stadium ! ) to watch a match and not play on their mobile phones...
Though I’m being a little hypocritical here as I’ve used mine to check how Town’s relegation rivals were fairing...(quite often in my visits ! )
And also a little naughty with the first sentence - as I very much appreciate the feedback live from Town’s match if I’m not in the pub (the week before visiting ma elderly maw) and can’t break in to the match on The iPad !
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Jun 11, 2022 15:49:51 GMT 1
Not sure if this ever happened in football but definitely did at Fartown back in the day . Teamsheets with "trialist' or "an other" written on them . Basically you could be watching a game not knowing who was playing on the wing etc
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Post by westislandterrier on Jun 11, 2022 16:01:42 GMT 1
When football players were men and not bloody ❄️ snowflakes ❄️ and were not frightened or afraid to play the game even if meant getting their balls shrivelled in the freezing snow ! Oh - and I must give a big shout to the great Leeds Road groundsman Raymond Chappell for managing to get the match in the picture below played in such conditions... PS.. Looks like the away fans are such weather ‘blouses’ as some of today’s players - What on earth did the need the two cops there for - at least the players had the footy to keep them warm ! Attachment Deleted
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