I can remember when going to games was the only way to have minute by minute knowledge of what was going on. How did we cope? Of course you could always ring 0482 211422 from a phone box every 15 minutes for updates.
To the person who designed the posters currently doing the rounds in places at least.... could you use the Boy wonder in the picture in his pram with a dunce bonnet and dummy with the words... 'I'll scream and scream until I'm sick'... and then under it put alienating generations of Hull City Supporters young and old...
I see your point, but they don't need the 'armchairs' do they ? I think it's a ridiculous decision but lets be honest towards the end of last season the commentary was turning stagnant . Burnys and Swanny sounded as pissed off as the rest of us sat at home listening, and personally I thought it made for a poor programme. The best bit was at the end of the game when DB quizzed McCann but even that made uncomfortable listening because it was obvious the relationship between DB and GM was shot and GM no longer had any answers. The plot had well and truly been lost. I hate all this streaming on line stuff and this decision will just piss a few more supporters off who haven't the means or know how to access all of this stuff. Tuning into RH when you couldn't get to a game was easy and you still felt a bit connected to the actual game. Now ? Its another reason for fans to chuck the towel in. A poor decision all round.
That is spot on. It was the telephone score service until the Sports Mail arrived in the shops. Unless of course you were lucky enough to actually be at the game, then it was still that queue at the newsagent waiting for the Sports Mail to read about it all again. Now, live commentary, live streaming.....up to the second reports......how easy we all come to take it for granted. Me ? I preferred the old days. You went to the game and you had an opinion and people listened, now you don't have to leave your armchair to be be an expert. Call me old fashioned.
Went to Sunderland in Terry Neill's days. A great win was watched by only 40 more than will be there today. Those back in Hull had no way of following what was happening, poor, deprived things.
Precisely. On a Sunday lunch time in the pub which was awash with Man Utd and Liverpool fans "supporters" on about "us" and "we" I used to ask if anyone who went to a game that weekend wanted to chat about what it was like. Used to get responses from Blades, Owls, Barnsley and Bradford City fans when they were in. And a Leeds fan who is a decent bloke despite that who went home and away. And a Huddersfield Rugby league fan who used to go to virtually every game. Very rare was there a response from the inadequate who latch onto a team they have no connection with and support from their armchairs or via the TV in the pub.
Remember some mid week away games when you sat waiting for a snippet at the end of the News on the telly for the score, and annoyingly sometimes they didn't have it. Remember the Chelsea FA Cup game in 1966, couldn't afford to go as a 10 year old, and no live commentary even for that. Few mates were playing football in the street and my mates mother rushed out of the front door and screamed 'WAGGYS EQUALISED!!!' Swear the whole street cheered. It was a newsflash on Grandstand.
I remember when I worked in Leeds being on a midweek night out in the city centre with another City fan and ringing 0482 211422 and finding out we had won 4-1 away at Portsmouth. We came out of the phone box jumping about and informing bemused passers by that they supported the wrong team. That lad bunked off school and hitch hiked from Brid to go to the 2nd FA Cup Replay against Portsmouth at Highfield Road with his older brother. They couldn't afford any other way as they had gone by train to the first replay at Fratton Park.
And this is why it is such a spectacularly half witted decision, made by someone who must be the thickest man in football administration. For the sake of a few extras tenners he alienates hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fans who will simply now never return to the KCOM when fans are allowed back in. This is a decision that simply has to be reversed, it is wrong headed in every conceivable way.
What's this 'football in the street ' you speak of? Was this something that occurred pre the 'No Ball Games' signs were put up?
On any given satdee, I can listen to Radio Lincoln. Radio Nottingham, Radio Sheffield, and Radio Norfolk, therefore the loss of city commentary, whilst a inconvenience and a blow, it isn't the end of the world. So come on you Gimps, you Florest, you Blunts, and you Budgies.
It was when kids played out from dusk to dawn instead of sitting glued to a screen all day. Which is why there was no obesity crisis like there is now despite fish and chips and dripping sandwiches being a staple. Simpler times. And happier ones, despite us poor deprived things being able to follow our team live on the radio.
