[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]that's exactly how I remember The Valley looked like, when I was a kid.
sadly this is how i remeber it mate as a kid.. sneaking over the fences and kicking around the empty stadium, got pics of me smiling at selhurst at my first game..little did i know..
[cite]Posted By: adamtheaddick[/cite]Found this not sure who the lad is but nice hair do and there is a figure down the front in white could he be the man.. have spent days searching but founf nowt as of yet.
That bloke down the front is (I think) the man in charge of the half time scores board at the front of the terrace. He used to update match a,b,c,d,e,f etc etc
When people try to tell me that electronic scoreboards are better then the old card hung up one at a time on the letter you had to check in the programme I tell..
Too damn right.
Not much sense of anticipation with the electonic versions though is there? Instant gratification isn't always best young man...
At my age instant gratification is defo the thing to go for ; - )
For suspense and tension nothing can beat the tele-printer bobbing up and down to spell out the scores one slow letter at a time.
it used to make a tapping noise and spell the team letter by letter not just naming them, My saturdays were so good back then just got back from the 2nd footie match of the saturday over at Eltham Park south (i think) after playing the first game at charlton park.
The smell of thick mud and the moist evening air still in my hooter even though i had just bathed at home and me mum had made me crumpets with butter settling down to the vidi printer waiting for the addicks result from some far flung nthn town like watford
[cite]Posted By: nth london addick[/cite]thats not the tele Vidi printer
it used to make a tapping noise and spell the team letter by letter not just naming them, My saturdays were so good back then just got back from the 2nd footie match of the saturday over at Eltham Park south (i think) after playing the first game at charlton park.
The smell of thick mud and the moist evening air still in my hooter even though i had just bathed at home and me mum had made me crumpets with butter settling down to the vidi printer waiting for the addicks result from some far flung nthn town like watford
the best way to find out the results was to follow someone away from the ground who had a small radio to his ear, and wait for the music and "it's five o'clock and here are the football results with james alexander gordon".
all this had to be done while trying not to look like a stalker. this was usually succesfull as about 50 other like-minded people seemed to be walking at exactly the same pace as you.
Heard a story, perhaps on the Danny Baker show, of a bloke who made up a tape of false results in the style of Sports Report and played it on his cassette machine as he left the ground and walked back to his car. Had a whole load of people listening and believing.
i listend to that 606 March, was really funny blokes would be crying at hearing the results, imagine if u heard ure team had taken a pasting and went and got smashed only to wake yup the next day and see you won classic.. he does have some good gems does old danny baker..
Any real football fan can share in the funny stuff he does but too many JCL have been forced fed "I blame the ref but the managers got to go" rubbish so don't get it.
[cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]the best way to find out the results was to follow someone away from the ground who had a small radio to his ear, and wait forthemusic and "it's five o'clock and here are the football results with james alexander gordon".
all this had to be done while trying not to look like a stalker. this was usually succesfull as about 50 other like-minded people seemed to be walking at exactly the same pace as you.
LMAO there's me thinking it was just me and the grandad who did that. I still adore that music as it brings back so many memories...
[cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]the best way to find out the results was to follow someone away from the ground who had a small radio to his ear, and wait forthemusic and "it's five o'clock and here are the football results with james alexander gordon".
all this had to be done while trying not to look like a stalker. this was usually succesfull as about 50 other like-minded people seemed to be walking at exactly the same pace as you.
Me as well. LOL. Why was it in those days you could leave the ground, walk to the car and still get in it before James Alexander Gordon started his stuff. Now it's about 20 past 5 when I get in the car.
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sadly this is how i remeber it mate as a kid.. sneaking over the fences and kicking around the empty stadium, got pics of me smiling at selhurst at my first game..little did i know..
At my age instant gratification is defo the thing to go for ; - )
For suspense and tension nothing can beat the tele-printer bobbing up and down to spell out the scores one slow letter at a time.
Adam, find a photo please ; - )
Mind you, you could have picked a pic that didn't show Plymouth winning ........(!)
But at least they were in the rightful place, Division 3.
;o)
it used to make a tapping noise and spell the team letter by letter not just naming them, My saturdays were so good back then just got back from the 2nd footie match of the saturday over at Eltham Park south (i think) after playing the first game at charlton park.
The smell of thick mud and the moist evening air still in my hooter even though i had just bathed at home and me mum had made me crumpets with butter settling down to the vidi printer waiting for the addicks result from some far flung nthn town like watford
Yeah, that's rubbish Adam,
That's a vidi-printer
i want the vidi printer back
vidi printer
Anyway, Palace lost, the Beeb probably didn't even know we existed ......nothing new there then.
;o)
Im not the messiah DA9...honest im not....
No, that's Parkinsella .........
;o)
No, He's just a very naughty boy..........
all this had to be done while trying not to look like a stalker. this was usually succesfull as about 50 other like-minded people seemed to be walking at exactly the same pace as you.
Can't manage a picture, but how about reviving the memory through the World of Sound?
"Ro'tid peanuts. Tanner a bag"
"Luton town 0 Millwall 2" "Exelent......"
Any real football fan can share in the funny stuff he does but too many JCL have been forced fed "I blame the ref but the managers got to go" rubbish so don't get it.
Their loss
LMAO there's me thinking it was just me and the grandad who did that. I still adore that music as it brings back so many memories...
Me as well. LOL. Why was it in those days you could leave the ground, walk to the car and still get in it before James Alexander Gordon started his stuff. Now it's about 20 past 5 when I get in the car.