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riffraff said:
I remember being in Corfu when Ashursts new XI did McMenemys Southampton at Roker first game of the season. The Scouse dj used to write the div 1 and old firm scores on a blackboard outside the beach bar after ringing home at ten past 5. Anyone who supported a non div 1 team had to have their request for it in by midnight on Friday neet or he wouldn’t ask his da when he rang. His da had to write all the scores down from grandstand or summit.
There’d be a mob outside the bar waiting for him returning from the hotel phone box. He wouldn’t tell anyone and everyone had to wait until he’d chalked it up on the board. The tension was unreal. Far far better than the instant gratification of today WiFi n Bluetooth world.
Everyone then went on the lash so it suited the bar to be doing it.
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That's great. I remember such times. Though immediacy was sometimes to be found in some countries where you might find a bar that would have a short wave radio perched on a table, bar or shelf. This would be used to get the second half commentary of whatever match Radio 2 (I think it was then) would be broadcasting, via BBC World Service, including rattling off all the scores from the games as they were happening.

Great, lashed up times, although without the bone deep tension of a bloke with a lump of chalk! I think I'd have passed out waiting for him mesell. Impossible to for the younguns noe to believe that such isolation was commonplace. Of course. if you wanted to rely on the paper for the scores you'd have to wait until Monday, when the Sunday papers would arrive!
 
OzzyMac said:
Wonder if this article in March piqued their curiosity...

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that's a great article

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rowley2 said:
That's great. I remember such times. Though immediacy was sometimes to be found in some countries where you might find a bar that would have a short wave radio perched on a table, bar or shelf. This would be used to get the second half commentary of whatever match Radio 2 (I think it was then) would be broadcasting, via BBC World Service, including rattling off all the scores from the games as they were happening.

Great, lashed up times, although without the bone deep tension of a bloke with a lump of chalk! I think I'd have passed out waiting for him mesell. Impossible to for the younguns noe to believe that such isolation was commonplace. Of course. if you wanted to rely on the paper for the scores you'd have to wait until Monday, when the Sunday papers would arrive!
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Totaly different times. I am not that old really but I remember going out one night midweek on a date with my now wife. We played Exeter away in the league cup and I was therefore not listening to the radio so I had no idea what the score had been. The highlights were on Sportsnight I think about midnight and I watched it as if it were live when I got home. The tension was terrible, especially when we went 2-0 down!!

I also remember trying to get the result of one game from the clubcall line. They kept you on for about 10 mins before telling you the score, so they could charge whatever it was per minute. When teletext arrived it was a game changer!! Remember when my kids were very young sitting watching the TV on mix, so she could watch the soaps and I had the football scores. Must have done her head in.

These days I can watch our games live on my phone when on holiday anywhere in the world and have done that in Florida, Kaula Lumpur and New York as well as numerous places in Europe. These young uns don't know they are born ;)
 
OzzyMac said:
I picked that up as well.

Thought that the article was interesting as the site is owned by Dow Jones and is possibly the type of website our new owners would look at occasionally.
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Yes it was quite interesting but most articles tick the same boxes:

Double relegation
Lots of fans 😎
Shite team
Decent trophy haul (in the past)
Northern industrial working class ships coal etc.
Potential
Facilities
Etc.
 
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