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Dickie Davies RIP
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RIP0
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A fantastic broadcaster RIP0
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RIP part of my youth.0
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RIP Dickie. I remember he announced that a large group of Charlton fans had been arrested prior to the Blackpool away match in 1972. 😱0
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Bloody hooligansAcab said:RIP Dickie. I remember he announced that a large group of Charlton fans had been arrested prior to the Blackpool away match in 1972. 😱
RIP.0 -
Jackie Pallo, Mick McManus, Giant Haystacks, Big Daddy, Kendo Nagasaki et al - a million miles away from WWE!iaitch said:
Were you a grappling fan and dip back around 4 for live wrestling from Rochdale Town Hall or other exotic locations) presented by Kent Wallton?Pedro45 said:RIP. Was a Grandstand boy myself, but always dipped in to the other side for Saint and Greavsie, etc.
Very good presenter and as others have said part of the soundtrack to youth for some of us more matures members of CL.
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RIP Dickie, we were lucky as we had Dickie with World of Sport on ITV, and Frank Bough on Grandstand with the BBC.
I was mainly a Grandstand viewer until the wrestling came on, then I'd switch over, when not down The Valley of course.
Dickie was a great broadcaster, for me, in the same Ilk as the late great Brian Moore.1 -
Everyone remembers the wrestling, but what else did World of Sport show?0
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A wide variety of stuff - stock cars, waterskiing, ten pin bowling amongst other niche sports !!AFKABartram said:Everyone remembers the wrestling, but what else did World of Sport show?RIP Dickie - came across as a lovely man - what an innings, especially as he had a stroke in the 1990’s1 - Sponsored links:
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smooth as silk .. surely the model for Des Lynam ? .. R I P Dickie2
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The ITV 7 of course (horse racing for anyone puzzled) with the hat-tipping John Rickman.AFKABartram said:Everyone remembers the wrestling, but what else did World of Sport show?
Happy days.
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RIP, didn’t really he was that age!0
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They look very similar as well.Lincsaddick said:smooth as silk .. surely the model for Des Lynam ? .. R I P Dickie1 -
It was a very different area of sport looking back. Both channels having wall to wall sport on Saturday afternoon, the only opportunity to see many sports.Lordflashheart said:
A wide variety of stuff - stock cars, waterskiing, ten pin bowling amongst other niche sports !!AFKABartram said:Everyone remembers the wrestling, but what else did World of Sport show?RIP Dickie - came across as a lovely man - what an innings, especially as he had a stroke in the 1990’s0 -
ElfsborgAddick said:
They look very similar as well.Lincsaddick said:smooth as silk .. surely the model for Des Lynam ? .. R I P Dickie
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Bloody hell, I assumed he died years ago0
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RIP. Can't get the Half Man Half Biscuit song out of my head0
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Occasionally Scrambling and rarer still trials bike riding. Horse racing dominated both channels.AFKABartram said:Everyone remembers the wrestling, but what else did World of Sport show?0 -
All I remember is hours and hours of godawful wrestling and horse racing from the end of the world filmed through a misty camera.0
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No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.0
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Hal1x said:No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.Kendo Nagasaki.The other one I can remember clearly was Johny Kwango who used to head butt his opponents (well not really!).1
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You must have forgotten Les Kellett & the 'Royal Brothers' [tag team] comprising Bert Royal & Vic Faulknerbobmunro said:Hal1x said:No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.Kendo Nagasaki.The other one I can remember clearly was Johny Kwango who used to head butt his opponents (well not really!).1 -
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I seem to remember a Johnny Quango who used to wrap his opponents up in Red Tape...... I ffank uwe....bobmunro said:Hal1x said:No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.The other one I can remember clearly was Johny Kwango who used to head butt his opponents (well not really!).0 -
I remember them, and also Leon Harris (Brian Glover the actor).clive said:
You must have forgotten Les Kellett & the 'Royal Brothers' [tag team] comprising Bert Royal & Vic Faulknerbobmunro said:Hal1x said:No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.Kendo Nagasaki.The other one I can remember clearly was Johny Kwango who used to head butt his opponents (well not really!).
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They sometimes showed a 5 minute highlight tape of the Superbowl and also the Rose Bowl, a college football game played every New Year. Lots of what they showed was bargain basement stuff, probably distributed for free. Infamous parties at LWT, apparently.0
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and Billy Two Rivers, who, astonishingly was actually a Canadian Mohawk !!bobmunro said:Hal1x said:No thats not the one I saw, Mick McManus was in it, and some old bag in the front row kept trying to hit him with a brolly, oh and there was some wally in a mask pretending to be from Japan. It seemed to be on all day and EVERY week.Kendo Nagasaki.The other one I can remember clearly was Johny Kwango who used to head butt his opponents (well not really!).
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