Getting dragged around some shopping precinct as a kid, I'd always clock a rumbelows or a Dixons to loiter around at 4:45 for final score. Invariably it was 1 1 v Hull, Leicester, Tranmere or Hull.
Good old bad old MW.
One of my most random, but wonderful Wolves memories was being dragged round merry hill one Saturday as wolves were away at palace, mid 90s.
I think that was a line from the 2 Ronnies and was East Fife 4 Forfar so far 5
There’s a great little interview with him hereJames Alexander Gordon hasn't done it since 2013 (read the scores that is
BBC News - BBC Radio 5 Live drops classified football results
BBC Radio 5 Live drops classified football results
The traditional reading out of the football results at 5pm on a Saturday is axed by BBC Radio.www.bbc.co.uk
I've said before on here I think, but I was travelling in Spain when the season started one year. We nipped over to Gibraltar to find the score and found a copy of the Monday edition of the Sun. I went to look inside to see if my team, who were at the lowest of ebbs would get a score recorded, never mind a match report. Then realised we were the main back page headline 'YOU SCUM'.
It was around before then without the 'so far'.
Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it but they read the FT results out on talksport. It may be a little casual compared to the BBC coverage which I find quite stuffy and boring in any case.I have just found out that another tradition is in the bin, the reading of the classified football results on Radio 5 at the start of sports report. Apparently since the BBC now have commentary on the 5.30 Premier League game there is not enough time according to them to fit them in. This is because we all need to have an EPL match report on the few games that are actually played at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. The fact is, it is so the BBC can tug their forelock to Pep, Jurgen, whoever is in charge at Manure this week, Captain Scarlett at Arsenal or other big six managers, while not forgetting Frank Lampard.
Now I get that younger people will be saying " Move on Abe Simpson "
This decision is the second kick in the gonads the BBC has dealt to fans of non Premier clubs this summer. Apparently they were offered the chance to show the football league highlights at a " Mate's Rates " price of just over £500,000 yet said no it was too high and then they proceeded to outbid the commercial networks to cover the Champions League at a fee far in excess of the money they could have had the football league package for.
If the BBC are short of time to fit the English, Scottish and Conference League results in I have a suggestion, read out the football results then any interviews that cannot be heard before 5.30 can be aired at the end of that match, as for me they can get rid of that outdated offering 6-0-6 where ' Tony from Croydon who is a life long Manure who has actually only ever been to Superstore at Old Trafford is questioning the team selection ! ' I would think more people would prefer the football results to Robbie Savage's inane blethering.
So the reading of the football results on Sports Report passes into history and joins the Express and Star and Argus " Pinks ", Shoot ! magazine with it's league ladder, Subbuteo and Striker, The Big Match or Star Soccer, Saint and Greavsie, Bob Wilson's Football Focus, FA Cup Final day with all that entailed, including a 3pm kick off and the yearly England v Scotland game. Programs have already gone for some teams as well.
I imagine if that fine footballing man Mr Alf Garnett was alive today he would light up his pipe and vent one of his catchphrases upon hearing the scrapping of the results service " Bloody BBC ! "
You will hear it on ‘final score’ on BBC1.
) Clearly all the ex-pats living there like Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John and Rod Stewart must have had something to do with it.
Think you'll enjoy this Twitter thread:I have just found out that another tradition is in the bin, the reading of the classified football results on Radio 5 at the start of sports report. Apparently since the BBC now have commentary on the 5.30 Premier League game there is not enough time according to them to fit them in. This is because we all need to have an EPL match report on the few games that are actually played at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. The fact is, it is so the BBC can tug their forelock to Pep, Jurgen, whoever is in charge at Manure this week, Captain Scarlett at Arsenal or other big six managers, while not forgetting Frank Lampard.
Now I get that younger people will be saying " Move on Abe Simpson "
This decision is the second kick in the gonads the BBC has dealt to fans of non Premier clubs this summer. Apparently they were offered the chance to show the football league highlights at a " Mate's Rates " price of just over £500,000 yet said no it was too high and then they proceeded to outbid the commercial networks to cover the Champions League at a fee far in excess of the money they could have had the football league package for.
If the BBC are short of time to fit the English, Scottish and Conference League results in I have a suggestion, read out the football results then any interviews that cannot be heard before 5.30 can be aired at the end of that match, as for me they can get rid of that outdated offering 6-0-6 where ' Tony from Croydon who is a life long Manure who has actually only ever been to Superstore at Old Trafford is questioning the team selection ! ' I would think more people would prefer the football results to Robbie Savage's inane blethering.
So the reading of the football results on Sports Report passes into history and joins the Express and Star and Argus " Pinks ", Shoot ! magazine with it's league ladder, Subbuteo and Striker, The Big Match or Star Soccer, Saint and Greavsie, Bob Wilson's Football Focus, FA Cup Final day with all that entailed, including a 3pm kick off and the yearly England v Scotland game. Programs have already gone for some teams as well.
I imagine if that fine footballing man Mr Alf Garnett was alive today he would light up his pipe and vent one of his catchphrases upon hearing the scrapping of the results service " Bloody BBC ! "
It's never happened
That's quite some overreaction
Scarborough game by any chance?
Talk about an eclectic mixture of islands....
True.... The reported origin of the comment...
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Indeed it is! We actually lived in Freeport on Grand Bahama - Sir Jack’s creation!
Most had a rough idea of which teams we had picked as draws and to hear if telephone claims were required for 23 or more points !!!!Just stating facts my friendAre you a professional nitpicker or just an enlightened amateur?
Just asking.
Well I wasn't. It was just a throw away quip. Learn a bit of discretion my friend as I could quote other instances of your lack of it as this is not the only example from you.Just stating facts my friend
Blimey. "Lack of discretion..." on a football forum..mmm.
**** off. Sporting Star!
Your post on 30 July is another example. If you understand the sentiment, the total accuracy is not a matter of life and death.
Of course it is
£££££££ - next question....
