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A very good piece about how we used to find out footy results in the 80's and 90's. I remember sitting through pages and pages of Ceefax and Teletext. These young un's don't know they are born!
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Still crazy to me that we can livestream Morecambe, if I didn't watch Morecambe you used to have no idea of the score. I remember it was exciting when we used to come through on the videprinter on Soccer Saturday, at least it was live updates!

tim-sanchez wrote:Still crazy to me that we can livestream Morecambe, if I didn't watch Morecambe you used to have no idea of the score. I remember it was exciting when we used to come through on the videprinter on Soccer Saturday, at least it was live updates!

If you were luckily enough to find out the score via teletext or Ceefax and wanted to know a bit about the match you were forced to phone the “Shrimps Clubcall” a premium recorded message match report at 50p a minute it usually started with
Hi my names Jim Harvey and I’d like to thank you for phoning the shrimps clubcall
You then got a brief match report usually from Quinny , phoning from a public phone box , total cost of about a £5
Happy Days

Going back to the late 60s and 70s, the scores came up on the teleprinter on TV but for Morecambe's away matches you had to nip round to the newsagents at about half five to buy a copy of the Football Pink paper. Although not wholly accurate, it did a remarkable job in getting all the results printed and distributed within an hour of full time.

Yes Martin,got mine from Swashes newsagents on West end road!

Martin wrote:Going back to the late 60s and 70s, the scores came up on the teleprinter on TV but for Morecambe's away matches you had to nip round to the newsagents at about half five to buy a copy of the Football Pink paper. Although not wholly accurate, it did a remarkable job in getting all the results printed and distributed within an hour of full time.

Remember it well. Stood outside Lancaster Rd newsagents waiting for the van to come tearing up to the shop just before 6 on a Saturday. One of the assembled throng outside the shop had to grab a bundle of pinks from the back of the van and take them into the shop before the van shot off to the next drop.It’s virtually 50 years ago now but I seem to remember there were match reports but many only up to half time so it could go to print. Final match scores were printed later in a column on the front. It was a life line for the non league scores back then and the only way to find out how we’d done when playing away.

I collected mine from the corner newsagents near the smithy on Poulton Road. A guy used to wait for the van and it hardly stopped before they virtually threw the bundle into his arms!

I used a newsagents on Bare Lane. Tense times waiting for the van to arrive

In the NPL days a chap used to sell the Lancashire Evening Post in the ground just after half time and in the stop press were all the First Division (top division) half-time football scores. Unless you were standing near someone who had taken a radio to the match it was the only way to find out the scores.

So many memories of waiting outside John Martin's Newsagent in Torrisholme for the delivery of the Football Pink on a Saturday night. Loved the specific section on non league which kept us informed of what was happening in the world of non league in the area and beyond.

It was sometimes a scramble who would retrieve the bundle of Pinks after the van driver had literally thrown them out of his van.

If my memory serves me well the report of our game was carried out by Dick Quick with the Visitor's report on the Wednesday was by John Morrell.

Happy memories....

50's and 60's waiting with the seller at the Euston rd. bus station, our result was usually in the stop press section.

I remember 'Shoot' magazine used to have a 'free' cardboard gift each season. A 'ladder' with cardboard slots and the name of each First Division club. Each week, you could move the teams up & down the ladder, depending upon their league position. I used to turn them around and write the names of Northern Premier League clubs on the back and colour them in (like the First Division clubs on the other side were coloured depending upon their strip).

I'd usually get bored after a few weeks, with Morecambe never much higher than fifth from bottom! We'd then turn the tiles back the correct way and use it in our Subbuteo league instead!

I was in the same class as Sharon Gallagher, who sadly died more than ten years ago. Her dad was of course Sean. While well known at Morecambe FC, for much of the time I was at Morecambe High school, he was the Lancaster City manager. With Lancaster then the bigger/more successful club in the area, 'bragging rights' were almost always Sharon's. The late 70's & 80's were crap!

[quote="Keith"]I remember 'Shoot' magazine used to have a 'free' cardboard gift each season. A 'ladder' with cardboard slots and the name of each First Division club. Each week, you could move the teams up & down the ladder, depending upon their league position. I used to turn them around and write the names of Northern Premier League clubs on the back and colour them in (like the First Division clubs on the other side were coloured depending upon their strip).

I used to do the very same thing, I'd forgot about them

Anyone remember those big metal numbers used for showing the latest half time scores at grounds ?
When we were really bored we would put a “1” before the “0” to make it look like we were winning 10-0 instead of the usual dull 0-0. Well, we thought as kids it was funny !

SimplyRed MFC wrote:Anyone remember those big metal numbers used for showing the latest half time scores at grounds ?
When we were really bored we would put a “1” before the “0” to make it look like we were winning 10-0 instead of the usual dull 0-0. Well, we thought as kids it was funny !

Can remember doing that sort of thing at Woodhill Lane Cricket matches! The real scorer who was in a room at the top of the pavilion used to go bonkers!

hhhmm 80s

Ceefax for the latest scores(booking family holidays too)

Saint & Greavsie (before Soccer AM)

Stuart Hall on the radio on a Saturday with all the final scores

Footballers wore short shorts like Hot Pants.

Admission prices were cheap as chips, in comparison with the average wage

It was a Working Man's game no Snowflakes,but in a,lot of ways its improved and for the right reasons like stamping out racism(bullying)

FA Cup was magical back then, it was like the Grand National we only had 3 Television channels so every household almost had it on.

Andy D wrote:hhhmm 80s

Ceefax for the latest scores(booking family holidays too)

Saint & Greavsie (before Soccer AM)

Stuart Hall on the radio on a Saturday with all the final scores

Footballers wore short shorts like Hot Pants.

Admission prices were cheap as chips, in comparison with the average wage

It was a Working Man's game no Snowflakes,but in a,lot of ways its improved and for the right reasons like stamping out racism(bullying)

FA Cup was magical back then, it was like the Grand National we only had 3 Television channels so every household almost had it on.

FA cup final was huge. My first final I saw on TV was Preston v West Brom in 1954 and I watched every final for years after that.

Back in the early 90s you didn't get Morecambe's results in the full classified checks on Final Score but they used to pop up on the vidiprinter if you kept a keen eye open.

Remember my Dad making a big thing of seeing them on the full classified check the first season in the GM Vauxhall Conference. We played Woking that season and we all cheered when 'Morecambe - 4' came along on the bottom of the screen, soon to be followed by a disappointing 'Woking - 5'

Junior Hunter hat trick in that one for Woking, absolutely brilliant game of football!!!

Not quite 80s, but memories of Ceefax/teletext come flooding back!!

Freez wrote:Junior Hunter hat trick in that one for Woking, absolutely brilliant game of football!!!

I thought he scored 4! Was that the game that Clive Walker had his penalty saved by Craig Mawson? The only time in his career he missed a pen! Could be wrong was a while ago!