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Post by aghast on Jun 4, 2019 9:11:26 GMT
Always amazed how the 'Pink-Un and Green-'Un were printed and for sale by 6pm Sats.All the National results too.No Social media so we devoured these publications for news of things like a new stadium.!!! 1958 and got a bus back from Eastville to Totterdown to do my paper round.Had to leave well before the end but in the winter we kicked off early with no floodlights.Remember Peter Hooper starring when we stuffed Liverpool 4-0 I think. They printed that thing so fast the ink was still wet. It was like having the internet in 1972.
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Post by bradfordmeyerbiggs on Jun 4, 2019 9:26:04 GMT
Underneath it says that Gerry Francis will be leaving Rovers to manage QPR.
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Post by rememberhalifax on Jun 4, 2019 10:03:20 GMT
Ah appy days,that print room must have been one mad place to work in them days, i lived in a tiny village way out of town and we still had Green Un by 6-6.30!which i used to deliver round the village,it even had local league scores in as well! on subject of nostalgia i am re- reading 'an away game every week ' for the umteenth time , great football book,i can smell the gas as it drifted over Eastville and surrounding areas as most of Bristol queued to get tickets for the Newcastle cup replay (1/4 final)to be played on a weds afternoon in the early 1950s, a little before my time ,but only just!but my older brother was there though,any one on here go?if you haven't read the book its a brilliant read!
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Post by station on Jun 4, 2019 15:56:53 GMT
If you look back at those attendances via the Sunday newspapers it makes remarkable reading if you pick the right decade, we regularly had gates of 20-30k.
100,000 mostly standing on terracing at Wembley - those were the days.
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Post by warehamgas on Jun 4, 2019 16:29:13 GMT
Ah appy days,that print room must have been one mad place to work in them days, i lived in a tiny village way out of town and we still had Green Un by 6-6.30!which i used to deliver round the village,it even had local league scores in as well! on subject of nostalgia i am re- reading 'an away game every week ' for the umteenth time , great football book,i can smell the gas as it drifted over Eastville and surrounding areas as most of Bristol queued to get tickets for the Newcastle cup replay (1/4 final)to be played on a weds afternoon in the early 1950s, a little before my time ,but only just!but my older brother was there though,any one on here go?if you haven't read the book its a brilliant read! And it would arrive in Taunton by 7.30. I was always sure that some copies would be on the same train as me from TM after a match. Seem to remember I caught a 6.30ish train after the match in early 70s. UTG!
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