I was going to say he looked quite calm considering the defender was trying to crush his head. Footballers woz mean in them days.
Wasn’t the sudden crash in gates around 1968. Don’t know why, my guess is match of the day starting and more telly ownership (Well rental from Granada, Redifusion or DER. Something else unfathomable to the young: renting a TV set).
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Also just remember tellies with a coin slot like an electric meter.
I used to rent a colour tv and VHS video recorder for my bedroom from Claridges in Walsall Wood, i think it was a Telefunken? 
Shinton made his debut before a bumper home attendance of 3,808 in Mar72 and made his final home appearance in front of 4,071 in Feb74.
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Getting your piccy in the papers was a big thing in those days (hence the suite and ties). With all that terracing, the glory hunters could move around to keep in line with the camera man. Rest of the ground was nearly empty.
One of my mate’s family had a rental. It actually had a remote control, which was a novelty back then,
The remote control on my video recorder had to be plugged into the recorder and had a long lead
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I don’t think I ever saw one of those. Talking of remotes, there were some dreadful TV ones (probably early nineties) with various overlays for teletext features. Aah, teletext…
I was trying to find a picture, but no luck. I did find a Teletext museum. You all really needed to know that, didn’t you. Don’t thank me all at once.
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Seriously 
One factor in the fall in gates was the prevalence of football hooliganism.The late sixties were when that epidemic really started. Put that together with increased prosperity with more things to do and as you say increased TV coverage football became less popular for a decade or more.
Of course. If you could get your mug into shot from all four sides in the same game, you were the stuff of legend.
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Yes. We had a rental too and our first video had a remote control on a lead. Radio Rentals were keen to point out the difference between a remote control -wire and a radio control - no wire. This was our first video. Though we’d arrived when we got this.
About 1986.
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There used to be a video rental shop in Brownhills owned by an old chap called Ray, he used to have all the banned videos under the counter, and when he got to know you he would offer things like
Cannibal Holocaust and i spit on your grave
I think the very first film we hired was The Wanderers, and they used to have video nights at the Swan on Pelsall rd in Brownhills, were we were treated to titles such as Blazing Saddles and Debbie Does Dallas and the Warriors
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Gates in all four divisions went in 1966-7 when we were on the crest of a wave after winning the world cup. Walsall’s average gate increased even more for 1967-8 thanks to us leading the 3rd Division from October to around the end of January but in true Walsall style we threw it all away and finished around 7th / 8th. The following season of 1968-9 gates fell significantly again.
Carlos the Jackal at Fellows Park. Who’d a thunk it???
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My first encounter with a VHS ( or was it Betamax?) was in The Littleton Arms in the early Eighties . The landlord played a dodgy copy of The Exorcist.
We did use to have huge video players on the TV trolley at school though!
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I’m sure you are on here somewhere partaking of afternoon tea.
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Did he pay Lounge prices or Bar prices?
