The Manchester getting smashed up in the early 90s when we played Blackpool remember blokes in the ground with pocket fulls of coins from the fruit machines I was about 13-14 at the time
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Ahhh memories.
As a nipper , used to listen to him and write the results down in the paper for me dad , cause he was deaf.
All the papers listed the fixtures , along with the tables in descending order…
English League div 1.
Ditto 2
Ditto 3
Ditto 4
Scottish league div 1
Ditto 2.
I used to think if we come bottom of div 4, we’d be relegated to the Scottish league.
And me dad said "that’s right son "
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I think it was the Express and Dingle that had the fixture list printed so you could fill in the scores. Woe betide if you talked whilst Grandad was listening to Len Martin reading the results and the Pools summary.
Also remember listening avidly to the FA cup draws on the radio on Monday lunchtimes.
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The announcer used to say " We are now going live over to Lancaster Gate." The then HQ of the FA.
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Yes that’s the one eat them up yum
Remember leaving Fellows Park & whilst walking from the game, listening to feint strains of the sports report theme & trying to catch results from other games, from cars who were driving past. Even tapping car windows & asking em for a score or two. Anyone walking from the game with a radio on loud would have throngs of fans around them.
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Also the gate between the street end and cow shed at Fellows Park, with a copper always stood on it, wooden framed gate with chicken wire in it.
Starting eleven, being actually numbered 1-11
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Welcome to UTS… 
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… and therefore you knowing what position they’d be playing in by the number on their shirt.
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Not necessarily.
I remember Mike Cecere once wore number 5 while playing up front
Nah! He was obviously playing as a centre half ■■■ forward in the style of Dion Dublin. 
That was when Miggsa persuaded the doormen that it was better for them to let HIM control the many fans entering the pub, because he told them that if THEY try to do it all hell would break loose, and after agreeing, he promptly went round taking the backs off the fruit machines and emptying them 
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2-points for a win, 1-point for a draw
This might be se season, we wish it still was😳
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And two up two down (not the Peter Kay version 
) with no playoffs.
Season was often over by February
Anyone remember this? One season in the early 70’s, it always got played at half time.
Whenever I hear it, I’m back at a night match a Fellows Park.
No recollection of that at all.
That was the false number 5 system. Don’t tell Clarke, he’ll be using it next week.
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I remember when I used to help my gran on a Friday evening collect the Littlewoods and Vernon football coupons from various houses and then await my uncle at her house who came to collect the coupons and cash, when all the monies were totalled up and everything tallied up he worked out our commission, then we started collecting Spot the ball coupons, Christ it used to be covered in crosses, then they produced a rubber stamp that had crosses already embossed ( can’t remember how many was on the stamp ) think the local evening paper also did something similar called Mark the Ball.
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