BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[arbitro]

30 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

My grandson is the same. I thought I knew a lot about football and players as his age. However with all the information available on the internet he would leave me trailing in his wake.

As you say Tyrone the internet is to today's generation what Shoot, Goal and Charles Buchan was to us. Newspapers were the nearest thing to real time information we had most of the time. I vividly remember when Rovers played away in midweek waiting up to watch News at Ten to get the result. Invariably it was right at the end of the programme too. Then the meat was out on the bones by Alf Thornton in the following days Evening Telegraph.

I used to buy the Rothmans Year Book every season and built up knowledge by poring over that. 

MOTD and The Big Match were other sources and the occasional live game on TV.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

As you say Tyrone the internet is to today's generation what Shoot, Goal and Charles Buchan was to us. Newspapers were the nearest thing to real time information we had most of the time. I vividly remember when Rovers played away in midweek waiting up to watch News at Ten to get the result. Invariably it was right at the end of the programme too. Then the meat was out on the bones by Alf Thornton in the following days Evening Telegraph.

I used to buy the Rothmans Year Book every season and built up knowledge by poring over that. 

MOTD and The Big Match were other sources and the occasional live game on TV.

I’ve still got the first 20 ish “ Rothmans “ . The first ( 1970-71 ? ) is in hardback and it’s worth a few quid these days.
Information was hard to come by back then especially if you didn’t live in the Blackburn area. Quite often I remember opening the paper and being surprised to see we’d played the night before ! The score Rovers 1 Workington 5 comes to mind !
My grandson’s grasp of what is out there on the internet is amazing. He never ceases to surprise me. My knowledge came from reading the print off “ The Last Sports “ on my way back to Rochdale on the bus. I could still tell you the first 11 of most 1st and 2nd divisions form the early 1960’s.

Edited yesterday at 11:59 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Upside Down]

9 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

. I could still tell you the first 11 of most 1st and 2nd divisions form the early 1960’s.

In the nicest way, you are not normal. Haha

Edited yesterday at 21:56 by Upside Down

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

8 hours ago, Upside Down said:

In the nicest way, you are not normal. Haha

That’s what Mrs Shoelaces says.