Might have been better served putting these on the existing match thread instead of the local rag thread ?
I noticed today the paper copy is now £2.15, it'll soon be on the RIP thread. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
£2.15 for a Hull Daily Mail? That can't be right surely? My father in law still has one delivered every day. The mad bas**rd
It's only recently that I've stopped buying it, not because of the price but the content, or lack of. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I buy a paper some weekdays but they're extortionate at the weekend...The good lady used to nip out on a Sunday morning and get me 2 or 3,not anymore,they're approaching £3 a paper !!! We used to have the old rusty nail in the wall in the outside Cludgie with square cuts of newspapers hanging on it...Cheaper to buy Andrex quilted now
northern trains has two or three offers each year in conjunction with various newspapers. basically you get a voucher in a paper and need two vouchers to allow you to travel anywhere on northern trains for a day for £10 (or £17.50 for a weekend or £7.50 for a sunday). i first took advantage of these offers in late 2019 when the hdm was reasonably priced, but more recently i've noticed the stupid prices of the hdm. the most recent one it was cheaper to get a couple of copies of a national rag than than the hdm, so i chose the cheapest one running the offer. a slight concern is that it's meant to be a day out on the railway but it usually involves a large increase in travel by foot. i walked 12 miles on the latest day out.
That's probably a win for him...In that , you can choose your friends, but not your family!! Joking aside, Did anyone see Chief Suspect No1. on Channel 5, the 'Hull flasher..'
The Green Sports Mail ceased production years ago, possibly early 80's? I worked on it when I first left school, until I realised I had to work Saturdays and miss City. No-one advised me that if I knuckled down I could have still seen City, but with the reporter who was Brian Taylor in those days and got paid! Although the wages for me as a copy boy were only £5.50 a week. I got one chance to be in the press box and it was for a night game. I had to meet Brian outside the ticket office at the front of Boothferry Park and go from there, but having to catch two buses from North Hull to get there and across tea time I arrived a few minutes late and he'd gone. They never asked me again. Malcolm Richardson was the main man behind the production of the Green Mail and he worked on it all week. He was particularly good with the amateur football reports and leagues, local darts and pigeon racing and he was a font of local knowledge. He kept drawers full of hand written note books on previous Hull City games, teams, scorers, times of goals, attendances etc, which I found out to my peril when, i think as a punishment, he had me re-writing or it could have been updating his note books going back several years, all by hand in biro. One Saturday when I was still working on it I was in charge of the teleprinter and my job was to take the football results down quickly, edit them and give them to the lino operators to print in the paper, speed was of the essence. One match was delayed, from memory it was York City v Hartlepool United, division four, the last result on the coupon. I waited and waited, eagerly to get it in the paper so i could get off home. It still never came through, so I made the score up thinking no-one would notice, it was only York after all, who's interested in them in Hull? So I penciled in 1-1, gave it to the lino operator, got my coat and toddled off home not giving it a second thought. Monday morning, Jack Fluck the sports editor, called me to his desk in front of all the other seasoned newspaper men who were all watching above their reading glasses. He asked who did the football results on Saturday afternoon? The York Hartlepool game? Was it me? He was an old school boss, and I froze in front him, stammering my excuses. He said he'd had a very angry phone call saying someone had checked their pools coupon and thought they had eight score draws, gone out that night to celebrate and spent a fortune only to find out the following morning that York had won 1-0 and he hadn't won the jackpot at all. I still do not know to this day if it was an office wind up or not but it sure did put me in my place. But I did get my Saturdays off from then on........and was 'let go' when i reached 18.
The Green Mail was a local sporting bible. Full of facts and information on all local sports, you even got to see your own name in print every now and again.
Good story Littlewoods,Vernons or Zetters? I remember I got 8 score draws on Zetters years ago(it was cheaper to use Zetters for permutation purposes but the prize fund reflected that)...Anyway,there were quite a lot of draws that week and as a result the payout was pretty low. The cheque duly arrived for £240 a couple of weeks later... Fortune knocks but once,but misfortune has much more patience. (Ric,still looking for that pot to p!ss in,Cumbernauld)
The green mail ran at least to the late 90's as our fanzines were afforded columns in it, Tiger Rag, see above, in it in 1996 & 97.
Great stuff T.T. When I first emigrated to Canada, my old man would bundle up a months worth of Green Sports Mail and ship them over to me by sea mail so I received them 2 or 3 weeks later. Having lived in Hessle, when not at City for a weekend match, I used to watch the local team Kingburn Athletic who played home fixtures on the recca opposite Darleys on Boothferry Road, Hessle. Was always with great anticipation watching for results from the local football leagues of which I recall there were a number of leagues with many divisions. Opposite our house (opposite Park Lane on Beverley Road in Hessle, lived a fella called Jack Davis (or Davies) who was the football photography for Hull City at the time. His daughter was a pal of my sister, so I got to chat to him often about City during the 60's and up to '72 when I bailed out of the UK. Did you ever meet him when you worked at the HDM offices way back then ?
