Dorset_Cider Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Found this programme and wondered if anyone would care to spot the ball Clue, it is not in the Dolman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 I reckon you`ve got your thumb over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorset_Cider Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 You are smart Red Right Hand but obviously never got 'Spot The Ball' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 32 minutes ago, Dorset_Cider said: You are smart Red Right Hand but obviously never got 'Spot The Ball' The position of the ball as per the adjudicator will be in a completely different place to where the average football fan would think it should be!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorset_Cider Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Davefevs said: The position of the ball as per the adjudicator will be in a completely different place to where the average football fan would think it should be!! Boy this dude is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 27 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. Well spotted And very true.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 5 minutes ago, Dorset_Cider said: Boy this dude is good Funnily enough there was a programme about STB (something like Watchdog but in the early 80s) that showed how friggin’ impossible it was to win. Some investigator made a set of ‘John bull’ type stamps with a row of 10x10 crosses, and then systematically completed dozens of entries so that he had a cross covering every part of the photo. He even staggered the crosses to cover the ball being in between the first set of crosses. Dedication eh? Did he win? Did he 4%£k! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 45 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. Either that or we had a seat-throwing contest at the previous home game .............. "Happy days" ............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 1 hour ago, slartibartfast said: 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. You've not been to the Mem, slarti! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis what Crisis ? Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 2 hours ago, slartibartfast said: 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. Was that the year the cheeky gits came in the East End and stayed well beyond their welcome ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Crisis what Crisis ? said: Was that the year the cheeky gits came in the East End and stayed well beyond their welcome ?? Yes.......they were a surprisingly hard crew to shift, and we lost 4-0 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWSM Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Why did they change evening kick offs from 7.30 to 7.45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 27 minutes ago, MattWSM said: Why did they change evening kick offs from 7.30 to 7.45 So blokes could sneak out to the football unnoticed while the old lady was engrossed in a Stan & Hilda Ogden 'murial' story line on Coronation Street... (not that I would know anything about that, or plaster wall ducks for that matter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWSM Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 9 hours ago, WhistleHappy said: So blokes could sneak out to the football unnoticed while the old lady was engrossed in a Stan & Hilda Ogden 'murial' story line on Coronation Street... (not that I would know anything about that, or plaster wall ducks for that matter) Ok, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 12 hours ago, Davefevs said: Funnily enough there was a programme about STB (something like Watchdog but in the early 80s) that showed how friggin’ impossible it was to win. Some investigator made a set of ‘John bull’ type stamps with a row of 10x10 crosses, and then systematically completed dozens of entries so that he had a cross covering every part of the photo. He even staggered the crosses to cover the ball being in between the first set of crosses. Dedication eh? Did he win? Did he 4%£k! I think it was an edition of That's Life. Someone complained that they had put an x exactly where the ball was shown to be the following week when the result was revealed. When That's Life got in touch with the pools firm running STB they found the bloke's coupon and showed that the x had moved a couple of millimetres. It was explained that it must've got damp in the mail system and when paper gets soaked writing on it can move a little bit when it dries out. The original cross could be seen but faintly and the bolder cross next to it where it moved to was the entry that was accepted. It was also shown that the pools companies decided where the ball was to be located and it was never where the ball in the original picture was before being rendered invisible. They also displayed that sticking a pin into the photograph and listening for any deflation of air rarely worked because the pools companies examined the submitted coupons and if they spotted anything suspicious the coupon was thrown out because they didn't want their prize money won by pricks. All of this shattered my illusions as up until then I genuinely believed one had to spot where the ball was if it hadn't been rendered invisible. I used to judge the look on the players faces, angles, the likely path of the ball in such situations etc. Once I knew that this wasn't the case I realized it was a lottery and not a game of skill. Incidentally, I never heard of anyone submitting a pools coupon and saying that actually they had no draws from 10 but would've had 8 score draws had they done the numbers next to their selected ones. Then, because of heavy rain they won the jackpot because all the crosses had moved once their coupon dried out in Liverpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 13 hours ago, slartibartfast said: 1970 pic.................Terry Bush v Oxford. Notice the unfinished Dolman, never be allowed now. And the great Gerry Sharpe in the background! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 10 hours ago, slartibartfast said: Yes.......they were a surprisingly hard crew to shift, and we lost 4-0 ! Did they depart quickly just after, or around, halftime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 33 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said: Did they depart quickly just after, or around, halftime? Can't really remember..............I know the next year we were ready for them , they ran every where some scrambling over the gates at the Dolman end in a mad panic trying to escape, don't think they troubled us again ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 7 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: Can't really remember..............I know the next year we were ready for them , they ran every where some scrambling over the gates at the Dolman end in a mad panic trying to escape, don't think they troubled us again ! That’s what I remember, their escape towards the exits at the Dolman end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 13 hours ago, Davefevs said: Funnily enough there was a programme about STB (something like Watchdog but in the early 80s) that showed how friggin’ impossible it was to win. Some investigator made a set of ‘John bull’ type stamps with a row of 10x10 crosses, and then systematically completed dozens of entries so that he had a cross covering every part of the photo. He even staggered the crosses to cover the ball being in between the first set of crosses. Dedication eh? Did he win? Did he 4%£k! As a innocent youth I once entered a spot the ball contest. I was convinced I was going to win as, by chance, had an old newspaper photograph of the same match that was exactly the same as that used in the contest, BUT, showing the ball. I carefully placed my photograph on top of the one in the contest and marked the position on the ball to the nearest thousandth of an inch. During the wait until the results were announced I passed the time planning how I would spend the money. Did I win? You know the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calculus Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 14 hours ago, Red Right Hand said: I reckon you`ve got your thumb over it. It's a slow morning here so I thought I do a bit of Googling (if that's a word) and bingo: https://goo.gl/images/vRRJw4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Go on then, Spot The Ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis what Crisis ? Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Mate of mine won 'spot the ball' when he was at the GPO ( ....there's one for the teenagers....) and won an all expenses paid trip for two people to Anfield .We saw them beat Chelsea ....just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 14 hours ago, Davefevs said: Funnily enough there was a programme about STB (something like Watchdog but in the early 80s) that showed how friggin’ impossible it was to win. Some investigator made a set of ‘John bull’ type stamps with a row of 10x10 crosses, and then systematically completed dozens of entries so that he had a cross covering every part of the photo. He even staggered the crosses to cover the ball being in between the first set of crosses. Dedication eh? Did he win? Did he 4%£k! Yeah, remember seeing that programme Also recall those rubber stamps with loads of tiny X's on them for sale in newspaper ad's. ... Supposedly gave punters a better chance of winning if they just got within the approximate area of the ball... And for people who had better things to do with their time than marking hundreds of X's on a coupon with a biro.(I spent hours over the years doing just that, must add up to at least a couple of days of life I'll never get back … spot the mug! not to mention checking the previous weeks solution and thinking ''phew, that must've been close to a win'' ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 ...think someone may have dropped a bollock here.. Anyway go ahead Spot The Ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampy Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 spot the dog up in Westmorland is rather fine: https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/competitions/spot_the_dog_rules/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted October 15, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 @WhistleHappy I'm getting a bit concerned with your photo collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted October 15, 2018 Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 On 13/10/2018 at 23:32, slartibartfast said: Yes.......they were a surprisingly hard crew to shift, and we lost 4-0 ! Seem to remember we were 4 down by H/T with my Dad leaving the ground at that point!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_s Posted October 15, 2018 Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 I think I've got this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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