'Memries' New Year / Old Headlines

[JohnDenver]

Just moved house and stumbled across a few Green'Uns and Stars I kept, mostly as a youngster.

You might notice a theme.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I was always amazed at how soon after full-time the Green'Un was for sale in the newsagents.

 

[Silent Blade]

I was always amazed at how soon after full-time the Green'Un was for sale in the newsagents.

Usually ready for selling at 5.30pm. After playing football (between 1979 and 1983) at Concord Park I would catch the bus to town then go straight to High street to buy the Green Un before catching my bus to Dronfield

 

[Blade82]

Nice one JD!

Ah the days of venting your anger with a strongly worded letter to the green un. Now you can take a pop at the chairman on Facebook.

 

[Bladepicker]

I remember getting back from the Lane as a youngster, having tea then, if we had won rushing to the newsagents at the bottom of Chippinghouse Road to see if they had the green uns yet. Waiting until they were in then walking home reading the front page and tables on the back.

The rest of my Saturday night was then read the United match report, read the double page United news, read the letters, read the Cricket bit if it was early season or towards the end then read the other local match reports.

I'd then spend the next hour or so studying every result, scorer, attendance and league table. Telling my dad where a team had scored last minute equilisers or there had been crazy high scoring games.

Very, very geeky but back then you could have asked me on the Sunday about any match that took place in the football league the day before and I would have given you the score, the scorers and a ball park attendance!

However if we lost I would wait for my old man to bring one back with him from the club on a Saturday night and couldn't face reading it until Sunday tea time - at which point the above ritual would be repeated.

I know times have moved on and it is great that we have things as instant and reactive as forums like this and social media, however a small part of me is sad that it has been consigned to the history books.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I remember getting back from the Lane as a youngster, having tea then, if we had won rushing to the newsagents at the bottom of Chippinghouse Road to see if they had the green uns yet. Waiting until they were in then walking home reading the front page and tables on the back.

The rest of my Saturday night was then read the United match report, read the double page United news, read the letters, read the Cricket bit if it was early season or towards the end then read the other local match reports.

I'd then spend the next hour or so studying every result, scorer, attendance and league table. Telling my dad where a team had scored last minute equilisers or there had been crazy high scoring games.

Very, very geeky but back then you could have asked me on the Sunday about any match that took place in the football league the day before and I would have given you the score, the scorers and a ball park attendance!

However if we lost I would wait for my old man to bring one back with him from the club on a Saturday night and couldn't face reading it until Sunday tea time - at which point the above ritual would be repeated.

I know times have moved on and it is great that we have things as instant and reactive as forums like this and social media, however a small part of me is sad that it has been consigned to the history books.

Nice write-up, that, Bladepicker.

 

[blade too long]

theres the problem
information is too great these days
the devils in the detail and the reality is football games are 20% entertainment and 80% waiting for entertainment
every item is logged detailed and you get minute by minute text of games
we get every boring bit shown up
When young there was only MOTD or the big match and you got edited highlights only
all games looked good as you only saw the best bits.
This Christmas I was forced to suffer manchester united 0 chelsea 0 and leicester 0 man city 0


and we still complain about what see , that lot cost a billion quid between them and were utter dog shit
Happier days in the days before outright coverage as you saw much less dross , now we get 7 days a week of football with that Europa garbage on thursday nights too
We just get way too much football

 

[judge]

This Christmas I was forced to suffer manchester united 0 chelsea 0 and leicester 0 man city 0

sounds like a reyt game