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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Football did not boom in the 70's. It was the height of football hooliganism for a start. Also how did it boom when supporting your local club was going out of fashion, according to you? It was certainly true at City though, we lost three quarters of our home support in one season. There no was no live football on the telly in the 70's either, the only live game was the FA Cup Final. The national team was at an all time low too. The only boom was at the clubs who spent wisely and won every week of which we did neither.
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As you seem to be desperate for an argument. I said TV football was booming, along with armchair fans. More homes got a TV and then a colour one.

I also said that winning got you more money which generally meant you won more and got even more money which meant you won more.

All of which means by and large we are in agreement.
 
balkan tiger said:
As you seem to be desperate for an argument. I said TV football was booming, along with armchair fans. More homes got a TV and then a colour one.

I also said that winning got you more money which generally meant you won more and got even more money which meant you won more.

All of which means by and large we are in agreement.
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Simple questions. Did you actually go to a live game in the 70's?
Where you even alive then? People were getting television sets in the late 50's and in the 70's the only football on the telly was MOTD and half an hour of highlights on a Sunday afternoon.
its you picking the arguments, I'm just stating facts, I was there, I experienced it and lived through it.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Simple questions. Did you actually go to a live game in the 70's?
Where you even alive then? People were getting television sets in the late 50's and in the 70's the only football on the telly was MOTD and half an hour of highlights on a Sunday afternoon.
its you picking the arguments, I'm just stating facts, I was there, I experienced it and lived through it.
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Maybe was different depending on regions, but i remember Charity Shield games, European finals and Uefa Championship in Serbia being on LWT in the 1970s.
 
Heimdallr said:
Maybe was different depending on regions, but i remember Charity Shield games, European finals and Uefa Championship in Serbia being on LWT in the 1970s.
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There wasn’t much on though. No league games or FA Cup games.
 
balkan tiger said:
As you seem to be desperate for an argument. I said TV football was booming, along with armchair fans. More homes got a TV and then a colour one.

I also said that winning got you more money which generally meant you won more and got even more money which meant you won more.

All of which means by and large we are in agreement.
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TV football wasn’t booming. No league games, no Cup games. Hardly any more homes got a TV. TV ownership was 90% in 1970 and 94% in 1974. The biggest TV audience for a football match remains the WC Final in 1966 when only about 60-65% of homes had a TV.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Simple questions. Did you actually go to a live game in the 70's?
Where you even alive then? People were getting television sets in the late 50's and in the 70's the only football on the telly was MOTD and half an hour of highlights on a Sunday afternoon.
its you picking the arguments, I'm just stating facts, I was there, I experienced it and lived through it.
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Football in the 70's, live and on TV, held little interest for the masses. Sponsors were mainly local companies, and families daren't/wouldn't attend in person. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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Cityzen said:
TV football wasn’t booming. No league games, no Cup games. Hardly any more homes got a TV. TV ownership was 90% in 1970 and 94% in 1974. The biggest TV audience for a football match remains the WC Final in 1966 when only about 60-65% of homes had a TV.
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We still had a black&white in 74..

When he eventually got a coloured job it made no ****ing difference anyway due to my major issue with colours.:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Simple questions. Did you actually go to a live game in the 70's?
Where you even alive then? People were getting television sets in the late 50's and in the 70's the only football on the telly was MOTD and half an hour of highlights on a Sunday afternoon.
its you picking the arguments, I'm just stating facts, I was there, I experienced it and lived through it.
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Yes I did
Yes I was
As a better off than most on our council estate we got a colour telly in 1974ish. A special offer from redifussion for the Olympics.
It was in the 70s when people gave up on their local lower league club and started to follow the teams at the top of division 1.
 
Ric Glasgow said:
We still had a black&white in 74..

When he eventually got a coloured job it made no ****ing difference anyway due to my major issue with colours.:emoticon-0102-bigsm
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Got my first colour TV in 1974. Hadn’t been married long. First weekend we had it was when Abba won the Eurovision song contest. Massive 19” or 20” screen. <laugh> It was a bit of an extravagance which had my dad tutting about as he still had a black and white TV.
 
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balkan tiger said:
Yes I did
Yes I was
As a better off than most on our council estate we got a colour telly in 1974ish. A special offer from redifussion for the Olympics.
It was in the 70s when people gave up on their local lower league club and started to follow the teams at the top of division 1.
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Sad inadequates we’re already supporting other clubs, at least in Hull. As shown by how many Leeds supporters from Hull turned up when Leeds played Tottenham at BP when Leeds were banned from Elland Road and all the OPE Reds, Longhill Reds, Wingfield Reds etc turned up when we played Man Utd in the Watney Cup in 1970.
 
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Cityzen said:
Sad inadequates we’re already supporting other clubs, at least in Hull. As shown by how many Leeds supporters from Hull turned up when Leeds played Tottenham at BP when Leeds were banned from Elland Road and all the OPE Reds, Longhill Reds, Wingfield Reds etc turned up when we played Man Utd in the Watney Cup in 1970.
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We're not. :emoticon-0138-think


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