The View From.. The New Kit

[Billyblade]

This is the game I most associate with watching on teletext

View attachment 27775

Laying on settee ill; but feeling slightly better cos Blades were 3 up (if i remember correctly) after about 80 mins. Then in last 10 mins each time the page refreshed Middlesbrough had pulled a goal back - gutted.

I was there. We were all crammed in one corner. There was a "comedian" on at half time and seeing as the fans were mostly wearing the "day-glo" away shirt he kept wittily stating that we had loads of stewards in our end. Oh how we laughed.
After the game we went out into the terraced streets around Ayresome Park to try and find our coach amongst the myriad parked three abreast virtually touching each other in the road. All this whilst dodging the masonry barrage raining down between the coaches. Oh how we laughed.
On the way home the coaches took us through an estate that made the Chatsworth estate look like Dore. If you had had a window cleaning round you would have used a sander. Just before the coaches bumped across a grass verge onto the A66, there was one house with glass in the windows. There were loads of feral kids running about in the garden and jumping on the burned out Escort while throwing bricks etc. at the coaches. All this while their Special Brew drinking, mucky vest clad fat fuck of a Dad looked on with pride with his Waynetta Slob looking black-eyed bint at his side. Oh how we laughed. Well we did when we got back to Sheffield anyway

 

[segasonic]

Teletext was quality it was soccer Saturday in 8bit. Nowt finer than sitting there refreshing fuck out of it too keep upto date.names like Katchuro and Starbuck remember "watching" the 6-3 Luton game on teletext.

If we were in town on a Saturday afternoon and not at the match we'd always end up in a huddle outside Radio Rentals or Rumbelows to watch the FT scores come in, they always had Teletext scores on the tellies in the window. How times have changed. Nowadays you can gaze at your phone and walk into lamp posts.

 

[Whiston Blade]

This is the game I most associate with watching on teletext

View attachment 27775

Laying on settee ill; but feeling slightly better cos Blades were 3 up (if i remember correctly) after about 80 mins. Then in last 10 mins each time the page refreshed Middlesbrough had pulled a goal back - gutted.

We did quite well to say we had no fucker playing...

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I was there. We were all crammed in one corner. There was a "comedian" on at half time and seeing as the fans were mostly wearing the "day-glo" away shirt he kept wittily stating that we had loads of stewards in our end. Oh how we laughed.
After the game we went out into the terraced streets around Ayresome Park to try and find our coach amongst the myriad parked three abreast virtually touching each other in the road. All this whilst dodging the masonry barrage raining down between the coaches. Oh how we laughed.
On the way home the coaches took us through an estate that made the Chatsworth estate look like Dore. If you had had a window cleaning round you would have used a sander. Just before the coaches bumped across a grass verge onto the A66, there was one house with glass in the windows. There were loads of feral kids running about in the garden and jumping on the burned out Escort while throwing bricks etc. at the coaches. All this while their Special Brew drinking, mucky vest clad fat fuck of a Dad looked on with pride with his Waynetta Slob looking black-eyed bint at his side. Oh how we laughed. Well we did when we got back to Sheffield anyway

Can vouch for that. I was on the Borough kop with my then girlfriend who was from Billingham. She saved my life a few times as we scored and I couldn't keep my emotions fully in check.

 

[lingsbord]

If we were in town on a Saturday afternoon and not at the match we'd always end up in a huddle outside Radio Rentals or Rumbelows to watch the FT scores come in, they always had Teletext scores on the tellies in the window. How times have changed. Nowadays you can gaze at your phone and walk into lamp posts.

There was always some tosser who would come and change the channel while you were watching it!

I have bad memories of teletext football scores. I was in Coles watching teletext when, with safety almost guaranteed, Mark Stein scored, every other bugger scored, Hans Segers deliberately let the slowest ball in football history get underneath him as he fell on it like a feather, and we were relegated! I still get the hollow feeling in my stomach when I think about it.

 

[FriethBlade]

If I was our marketing manager Wilkinson Sword would have been our sponsor for the last decade, sack the lot of em !!!

 

[GaryHamsonsLeftBootLace]

Before the pigs start mocking Teletext Holidays, they should have a look at their accounts on Companies House (they now trade as EX THH Ltd). In 2016 they made £5.6m profit. Then they should take a look at their last pay packet and then see if they still feel like taking the piss.

 

[GaryHamsonsLeftBootLace]

Why Teletext Holidays still call themselves Teletext Holidays is beyond me.

Because the brand attracts sufficient customers to generate £5.6m profits. Change the name and they risk losing their loyal base.

 

[Cheets]

I was there. We were all crammed in one corner. There was a "comedian" on at half time and seeing as the fans were mostly wearing the "day-glo" away shirt he kept wittily stating that we had loads of stewards in our end. Oh how we laughed.
After the game we went out into the terraced streets around Ayresome Park to try and find our coach amongst the myriad parked three abreast virtually touching each other in the road. All this whilst dodging the masonry barrage raining down between the coaches. Oh how we laughed.
On the way home the coaches took us through an estate that made the Chatsworth estate look like Dore. If you had had a window cleaning round you would have used a sander. Just before the coaches bumped across a grass verge onto the A66, there was one house with glass in the windows. There were loads of feral kids running about in the garden and jumping on the burned out Escort while throwing bricks etc. at the coaches. All this while their Special Brew drinking, mucky vest clad fat fuck of a Dad looked on with pride with his Waynetta Slob looking black-eyed bint at his side. Oh how we laughed. Well we did when we got back to Sheffield anyway

Middlesbrough had just completed the long drawn-out sale of Gary Pallister to Man United, and when the tannoy-announcer/comic genius announced the half time draw he said something like "And the first prize is £XX,000 which is as much as Gary Pallister earns in an hour" (laughter)

Remember loads of young kids flicking Vs at our coaches after.

 

[DifferentClass]

Middlesbrough had just completed the long drawn-out sale of Gary Pallister to Man United, and when the tannoy-announcer/comic genius announced the half time draw he said something like "And the first prize is £XX,000 which is as much as Gary Pallister earns in an hour" (laughter)

Remember loads of young kids flicking Vs at our coaches after.

Soon we'll have players earning hundred million an hour

Glad to see some things never change with kids giving gestures at complete strangers on buses. Although most go for the American one-finger salute now...

 

[mattbianco1]

Teletext was quality it was soccer Saturday in 8bit. Nowt finer than sitting there refreshing fuck out of it too keep upto date.names like Katchuro and Starbuck remember "watching" the 6-3 Luton game on teletext.

Some kids will never understand

 

[FlamingLip]

Some kids will never understand

Best update experience for me was Southampton away (so'ton in la langue de teletext) in 91 (?).

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Football was on Ceefax page 301 I think. The league tables started on page 324. Funny how you remember stuff like this.

 

[bromtom]

Football was on Ceefax page 301 I think. The league tables started on page 324. Funny how you remember stuff like this.

Saturday tea time, check 325 to see where United were in the table.

I wonder if there's a ceefax archive like the waybackmachine. Would be a great modern history exhibit somewhere.

 

[bromtom]

https://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/bbc1/2000-01-03-0041.4/325.html

Or Shjff Std as we are here. Gotta love ceefax.

 

[ZoneManWilf]

Football was on Ceefax page 301 I think. The league tables started on page 324. Funny how you remember stuff like this.

302, sports headlines was 301

 

[moDtheGod]

302, sports headlines was 301

They brought in regional stuff later on too, page 390 for the South Yorkshire specific football news. I suppose that would have been late 1990s?

The memory that always comes straight to my mind with Teletext, is from the 1994/95 season. I was kicking a ball about with my piggy mate in his back garden and we would periodically run in to get the score updates, as you do. We were playing Bolton in the League Cup. They beat us 2-1 and my mate was winding me up, but I said we'd get them in the second leg.

It was at that point I learned about the weird format of the League Cup. There had been two legs in the previous round, but not this one. Damn.

 

[BushBlade]

They brought in regional stuff later on too, page 390 for the South Yorkshire specific football news. I suppose that would have been late 1990s?

The memory that always comes straight to my mind with Teletext, is from the 1994/95 season. I was kicking a ball about with my piggy mate in his back garden and we would periodically run in to get the score updates, as you do. We were playing Bolton in the League Cup. They beat us 2-1 and my mate was winding me up, but I said we'd get them in the second leg.

It was at that point I learned about the weird format of the League Cup. There had been two legs in the previous round, but not this one. Damn.

There's an apocryphal story that Overmars did the same when playing for Barca. He couldn't understand why his teammates were upset at losing the 'first leg' 2-1 away and said 'cheer up, we'll hammer them at home in the second leg'.

 

[jt64]

Saw someone walking round town the other week with a t-shirt featuring the guy off Bamboozle. Who knew these things existed? Then again, I do own a Chuckie Egg t-shirt

 

[I should coco]

There's an apocryphal story that Overmars did the same when playing for Barca. He couldn't understand why his teammates were upset at losing the 'first leg' 2-1 away and said 'cheer up, we'll hammer them at home in the second leg'.

Weren't Wendy going to thrash the Terriers in the third leg of the playoffs on a neutral ground? Surely there must be some reason whey they never tried to mount an attack in 210 minutes of football.

 

[BushBlade]

Weren't Wendy going to thrash the Terriers in the third leg of the playoffs on a neutral ground? Surely there must be some reason whey they never tried to mount an attack in 210 minutes of football.

It was tactical. It's what all them foreign managers do.

 

[Liverpool blade]

I was there. We were all crammed in one corner. There was a "comedian" on at half time and seeing as the fans were mostly wearing the "day-glo" away shirt he kept wittily stating that we had loads of stewards in our end. Oh how we laughed.
After the game we went out into the terraced streets around Ayresome Park to try and find our coach amongst the myriad parked three abreast virtually touching each other in the road. All this whilst dodging the masonry barrage raining down between the coaches. Oh how we laughed.
On the way home the coaches took us through an estate that made the Chatsworth estate look like Dore. If you had had a window cleaning round you would have used a sander. Just before the coaches bumped across a grass verge onto the A66, there was one house with glass in the windows. There were loads of feral kids running about in the garden and jumping on the burned out Escort while throwing bricks etc. at the coaches. All this while their Special Brew drinking, mucky vest clad fat fuck of a Dad looked on with pride with his Waynetta Slob looking black-eyed bint at his side. Oh how we laughed. Well we did when we got back to Sheffield anyway

I was also there that day, still pissed from the night before!!. It was an experience trying to find my coach as we dodged the masonry!. My mate narrowly avoided a half brick to his head!. Those bloody smoggies!!.

 

[bornablade]

For over six years in the late 1990's I worked and lived way down in the West Country and Ceefax in particular was my life line to keeping up to date with the scores at matches.

Must admit during the Adkins season some 15 years later watching the Blades on Ceefax was considerably more enjoyable.

 

[GVBlade]

Some comments from other fans from a new kit thread from another football forum...

"That's a pretty nice looking kit tbf

"

"Thought teletext was switched off years ago?!

"

"

"

"What's the back of the Sheffield United kit like?
If it's also striped then its a wonderful effort. If its just a big empty patch like Sunderlands then it's ruined."

"THATS how you do it adidas

"

"Marvellous"

"If I were a Sunderland fan I'd be fuming at adidas' respective efforts for them and Sheff U."

"What the fuck is teletext holidays? In 2017

Seriously! Great kit but fuck sake"

"Teletext as a sponsor is fucking great, now we just need Paints, Corned Beef, Health Promotions and various car accessory companies to get in on it as well

Fucking better than betting companies or some Chinese fuckers

"

"100%. At least its a bit unique, better than fucking Boylesports or Bet365 or whatever."

Can't seem to get my Ceefax to work

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

https://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/bbc1/2000-01-03-0041.4/325.html

Or Shjff Std as we are here. Gotta love ceefax.

Stockpots. And poor old rixham don't even get a first letter never mind an I instead of an e. Mottm

 

[WhiteHawk]

On another forum I go on, not sure which team he supports, Spurs I think.

"That's actually really nice, not a fan of teletext holidays as a sponsor but the font is awesome"