Things we miss in Football 2

The Saturday results Edition

Right up until the end of my university days, the final act of a Football Saturday was often to pick up a copy of the regional results papers. They held that curious mixture of reports detailing seemingly minute by minute, the action of the first peroid of the game, followed by the necessarily briefest of goal or perhaps sending-off details for the 2nd half. Pity the poor local reporter faced with his deadline and a flurry of late goals, fights, or a pitch invasion that might well render the copy already submitted unrepresentative or worse just plain wrong.

In the 60’s and 70’s staying out too late playing football and missing Len Martin guiding you gently through Grandstand's Classified Results was not a problem - 10p or so on the way home got you all you needed to know about the days events.

They were made obsolete when mobile phones could provide goal alerts, and all the results of the day would be heard as you left the ground. Sadly who needs a late edition for the results when you could even watch the goals on a miniature LCD screen. But to football supporters of a certain age, nothing will really feel the same as as Norwich’s Pink Un’ and the call of “’owd Citee ge’ on?” from a shopper as you made your way to the bus-stop. Sheffield and Ipswich were green Un’s, Newcastle was The Pink – but all of them had their place in our Saturdays