Topic: Footballing traditions

[bowlingcrofty]

What football traditions do you love or did you used to love before the past few years?

Mine used to be watching the scores on teletext, sat there staring at a screen for ages 'howay man flick to the next page we might have scored'

[SteveMc]

What football traditions do you love or did you used to love before the past few years?

Mine used to be watching the scores on teletext, sat there staring at a screen for ages 'howay man flick to the next page we might have scored'

Loved teletext me.  Soccer Saturday et al are great - but I regret that they've taken away the mystique of teletext

[Jill]

What football traditions do you love or did you used to love before the past few years?

Mine used to be watching the scores on teletext, sat there staring at a screen for ages 'howay man flick to the next page we might have scored'

Me dad getting the Pink as well.

[Dave]

Remember when tellys started coming out that let you manually change the teletext page instead of having to wait for it? Mind-boggling stuff.

We used to watch the scores come in whilst in town shopping; going into Dixons around full time and getting text up on the display TVs was class. Had to find the right zappers first though.

[Fenham Mag]

Used to check the rumours column on BBC teletext before going to school, eventually realised it was a load of s***.

[bowlingcrofty]

Used to check the rumours column on BBC teletext before going to school, eventually realised it was a load of s***.

Page 338. Loved it.

Another classic was waiting for Football Focus on grandstand.

Always used to love cup final day when they got the captains of the teams to introduce the players for the TV pre game.

[Cajun]

Used to check the rumours column on BBC teletext before going to school, eventually realised it was a load of s***.

I used to, and this is f***ing pathetic, wake up at all hours of the morning (3am, 5am yeah whatever!) and check the transfer rumours page to see if it had been updated.

For anyone who doesn't remember it used to be changed for that mornings news then updated with a few more at some point.

[Skeletor]

Fantasy football done via phone/teletext and being a sad c*** who watched other people changing their teams.

[Dave]

Used to check the rumours column on BBC teletext before going to school, eventually realised it was a load of s***.

I used to, and this is f***ing pathetic, wake up at all hours of the morning (3am, 5am yeah whatever!) and check the transfer rumours page to see if it had been updated.

For anyone who doesn't remember it used to be changed for that mornings news then updated with a few more at some point.

Yes!

[Sifu]

What football traditions do you love or did you used to love before the past few years?

Mine used to be watching the scores on teletext, sat there staring at a screen for ages 'howay man flick to the next page we might have scored'

One thing I always used to do after coming home from school was check page 390, Regional Sport, to keep up to date on the NUFC news.

[Cajun]

Minus the typos obviously 

[bowlingcrofty]

It was a dream when page 515 on teletext itv appeared which had the mag and talkofthetyne features on the club specific pages!

[Dave]

Saved By The Bell Intro - 1989 (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

No reason, was looking at other old stuff and it made me laugh.

[SteveMc]

Fookin hell.  Just remembered I used to watch (and derive enjoyment from) Saint and Greavsie

[Wullie]

I used to like doing the Bamboozle sports quiz on C4 text with the Reveal button.

[SteveMc]

I used to like doing the Bamboozle sports quiz on C4 text with the Reveal button.

Bamboozle, aye

[Disco]

Probably still done but scraves out the window on away journeys
Used to be crackers for a 312 on ceefax too
Foreign players being complete unknowns
Foreign teams being complete unknowns
Bukta
Pony

[Mistle17]

Valuing the FA Cup.

[SteveMc]

Probably still done but scraves out the window on away journeys
Used to be crackers for a 312 on ceefax too
Foreign players being complete unknowns
Foreign teams being complete unknowns
Bukta
Pony

Get arrested these days for hanging your scraves out of the window

[OzzieMandias]

I miss the Saturday afternoon results coming up on the teleprinter at the end of Grandstand, the print head laboriously tapping out every character. "H-a-m-i-l-t-o-n  A-c-a-d-e-m-i-c-a-l-s  1..."

And then Dr Who.

[SteveMc]

I miss the Saturday afternoon results coming up on the teleprinter at the end of Grandstand, the print head laboriously tapping out every character. "H-a-m-i-l-t-o-n  A-c-a-d-e-m-i-c-a-l-s  1..."

And then Dr Who.

And trhe scores were genuinenly a surprise.  We've got it too easy these days

[SteveMc]

Having to buy the paper to see transfer news

[OzzieMandias]

Hell, I even miss the pre-internet, pre-mobile phone days of finding myself in some remote f***ing corner of European civilization scouring barely comprehensible local newspapers for a sports section that would tell me whether we'd won or not.

[SteveMc]

More than once I had to phone those wretched premium rate phone numbers to find out how we'd got on.  It was s*** and expensive, but i miss it...

[Lorry In Boat]

Listening to the scores on Radio Newcastle, late 70's/early 80's. Whenever one of the north east big three scored, they played a clip that
screamed ' IT'S A GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL '. Cue 10 seconds of tension to find out whether we had scored.