Davefevs Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, CyderInACan said: I used to like the transfers in the packets of Bazooka Joe bubblegum you could get at the newsagents at Belland Drive How many zillion did you have to eat to get a Swiss Army Knife? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 2 minutes ago, Davefevs said: How many zillion did you have to eat to get a Swiss Army Knife? I’m still going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 6 minutes ago, CyderInACan said: I’m still going I've got one never found a use for it. Give up the gum or at least give up after you have blown (non smut) a large one that has exploded over your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoPal Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 By Tele-text of course good sir .. twas the fasion of the late, lost, missed and very gone 80's (image below is most likely from the 90's though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Always BBC Ceefax for me. I Was a swap-shop kid not Tiz-Waz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 woops. BBC were first to air their version of teletext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianconeri Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 7 hours ago, New Dazzler said: Their was a sort of rumour mill, again mainly the Evening Post, so you often knew that the club were after certain players even if the move did not come to fruition. I remember reports (back in the late 70s top flight days) of us trying to sign the likes of Alan Gowling (Newcastle), Derek Hales (Charlton) and a Yugoslav player with the great name of Slobodan Antic. I'm sure we were after an Icelandic player as well, but can't remember his name, good chance his surname was Magnússon though! One thing we never got to know was any great detail of why players did not sign for us, such as dodgy medicals, personal terms, clubs not agreeing fee, etc. Antic played and scored in friendly (Plymouth away?) but we couldn’t get a work permit so the transfer couldn’t happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 16 minutes ago, reddoh said: woops. BBC were first to air their version of teletext Ceefax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 38 minutes ago, LocoPal said: By Tele-text of course good sir .. twas the fasion of the late, lost, missed and very gone 80's (image below is most likely from the 90's though) When I first moved out here we had no internet, teletext, mobile phones or UK TV. Our only source was hammering refresh on the Bloomberg terminal in the office. BSPF7 if memory serves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 minute ago, pillred said: Ceefax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext I thought the BBC created but according to Wiki it was invented by Philips which was why I erased my original post and on the second edit added the bit about the BBC. sometimes life just pulls your pants down and makes one look an arsehole (me not you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 I remember when we signed Bobby Kellard, it was in the EP stop press at the bottom of the page along with late racing results. Quite a shock, no previous........and our record fee 35k (1968) ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpexile Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 7 hours ago, Major Isewater said: It was easier in the past because clubs " owned " the players and they were bought and sold as it suited them . The Chairmen of the two clubs involved discussed a deal,agreed a price and Roy of the Rovers became Roy of the Rangers with no say in whether he stayed or went . Also, this could take place at any time, no transfer windows to worry about then . The balance of power has shifted to the players by and large and now it's much more difficult to push deals through with the agent s using whatever means possible to get a bigger commission , Ah, the good old days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldstandrobin Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 7 hours ago, pillred said: Ceefax. Blimey, when I was young, only posh people in Stoke Bishop had TV's. We had to go down Bemmy and look in Radio Rentals shop window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider hoss rules Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 13 hours ago, Major Isewater said: I can , and so can my ex boss who paid the telephone bill ! Team Talk on an 0898 number, coinciding with the first version of a car phone (look it up kids - British Telecom Ruby) did not make my boss a happy bunny when the bill landed on the door mat ......... he made me pay it back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 I remember Ceefax, Teletext and Clubcall just about- TeamTalk too! The latter 2 weren't cheap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 spent many a happy afternoon trawling through teletext looking for a bargain holiday, if you saw something you liked and didn't pause it you had to wait 20 mins for it to come round again happy days!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red panda Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 As a student miles away from Bristol in the 1980s, sometimes I would find out about new players when a strange name appeared as a scorer in the classified results section of whatever newspaper I could get my hands on. Attending a convenient away match and buying a programme was also an excellent way of getting up to date with new(ish) arrivals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Yep used to be clubcall for me got many a telling off from my old man when the phone bill arrived! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDziek Posted July 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Some great stuff on here. Crazy to think nowadays that you might have had to wait until the following day to find out how City had got on (and winning 7-4 away mind!). Simpler times when information was at a premium. None of this Twitter nonsense when someone with one follower posts transfer news! imagine the fanfare now if we were to sign a Norman Hunter or Joe Royle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, SuperDziek said: Some great stuff on here. Crazy to think nowadays that you might have had to wait until the following day to find out how City had got on (and winning 7-4 away mind!). Simpler times when information was at a premium. None of this Twitter nonsense when someone with one follower posts transfer news! imagine the fanfare now if we were to sign a Norman Hunter or Joe Royle! They're both too old now . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo1 Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 14 hours ago, cidered abroad said: We heard about new signings only after they happened. Maybe the odd one or two knew by being ITK but it was of course the Evening Post, Evening World and WDP that gave us the glad tidings. It was even worse for away evening games in the 1950's. BBC main TV news was at 9pm so matches had not finished by then. Occasionally the results would be given on ITV at end of Ten O'Clock news but not always. If you were out of earshot to radio or TV when these evening results were given, you did not find out the result until WDP the next morning. I always remember one particular result as the ITV man gabbled the results at a hell of a rate with about one and half seconds to give scores of each match. So one of our biggest away wins ever, came and went so fast that I didn't know if my ears were playing me tricks or not. Barnsley 4 Bristol 7! Can still remember sat listening to the Redifusion wireless for this result. It followed an opening day home 6 - 1 win against Rotherham when we scored after 10 seconds. The following Saturday me and my mates were at the Pool, W-S-M, Tropicana in newer money, and gathered around a new fangled transistor radio at 5 o clock expectantly awaiting the result, particularly as we had already scored 13 goals in the first two games of the season. As usual with City we were let down by a 4-1 loss. 1958/59 season bags of goals at both ends if you care to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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