Missing the Green Un

[stringer]

No Way!

I'll go have a look

Sorry, it's every Friday not Thursday!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Used to have all the fishing match results, along with adverts for Don Baits of Mexborough.

Maggots

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

My dad was driving up city road one Saturday evening with me and my older sister (she was about 12ish at the time)
He pulled up outside the newsagents gave her the money and sent her in for a copy of the Green 'Un.
She got back to the car empty handed, embarrassed and a little upset saying, "He didn't know what I meant daddy"
Turns out she went in and asked for a green one.
"A green what?" asked the newsagent, at which point it all got a tad confusing!!

On another point, what about those away games in the Greater Manchester area where you could pick up a copy of "The Pink" their local equivalent after the game.

 

[1973Blade]

My dad was driving up city road one Saturday evening with me and my older sister (she was about 12ish at the time)
He pulled up outside the newsagents gave her the money and sent her in for a copy of the Green 'Un.
She got back to the car empty handed, embarrassed and a little upset saying, "He didn't know what I meant daddy"
Turns out she went in and asked for a green one.
"A green what?" asked the newsagent, at which point it all got a tad confusing!!

On another point, what about those away games in the Greater Manchester area where you could pick up a copy of "The Pink" their local equivalent after the game.

Have any local Saturday night sport papers survived?

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Have any local Saturday night sport papers survived?

Apparently, Hull had their copy of th 'Green 'Un' too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_sports_paper

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I see. Photo seems to be from the 1970s. My dad used to park his car in the old side streets off Bramall Lane. Still dont remember this newsagent

Believe me it was there. I grew up on Alderson Place.

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

On the Play store it's called Sheffield Green'Un Football if you're searching for it

 

[mattbianco1]

No small talk in your house, straight to business.

None at all. He'd then give me a back hander and say "I'm reading it first you little prick" before sitting down in 'his chair'

 

[Max.]

This was my Green Un shop on Bramall Lane.
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That'was my newsagent. Griffiths, Alderson place..lived on there for twenty years...

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Not living in the Steel City any longer I had no idea that the Green 'un was no longer published... sign of the times for print media unfortunately

Likewise, I wasn't aware – though not at all surprised, as you say a sign of the times. My uncle got me a subscription for a year to the Green 'Un – used to be delivered every Tuesday. In the pre-internet days it was a vital source of United news for me – particularly after my parents banned me from calling the Bladesline.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

That'was my newsagent. Griffiths, Alderson place..lived on there for twenty years...

Then we might know each other in that case.
I don't know when the shop was called Griffiths , but in that picture it was owned by Keith & Eunace Wooton. I'm guessing the picture dates from about 1975.

 

[Davie Blade]

Great thread,
from piggy scores going up in front of the cricket pavilion, to letters to the Green Un , how things have changed.

I'll never forget a comment one of my adolescent blades mates made when a certain blades dodgy defender came off the away team bus.
It got reported next week in the Green Un with a story about blades 'fans' affecting the morale and confidence of the players
That etched immortal comment was
''Barlow, ..................What thar doin ere? ''

 

[Silent Blade]

Great thread,
from piggy scores going up in front of the cricket pavilion, to letters to the Green Un , how things have changed.

I'll never forget a comment one of my adolescent blades mates made when a certain blades dodgy defender came off the away team bus.
It got reported next week in the Green Un with a story about blades 'fans' affecting the morale and confidence of the players
That etched immortal comment was
''Barlow, ..................What thar doin ere? ''

Oxford in January 1971. Peter Howard said your mate said a rude word. True or not?