Your favourite other sports

That you would pay, or have paid to watch.

(obviously nothing tops football).

Mine are -

1. Horse racing. I’ve been to many courses & all the big festivals.

2. Cricket - I have been a member at both Middlesex & Surrey, and have seen Kent play at Canterbury. You can’t beat Test Cricket.

3. Snooker. Love it. Can’t beat at a trip to the Masters. Many happy memories. You can have a bet there, too.

 

1) Cricket.
2) Athletics
3) Female Volley Ball.

 

Golf. Used to play, and go to tournaments. Saw the great Arnold Palmer win at Troon in 1962 when they played the last 2 rounds on the Saturday. Telly makes it look too easy, same with other sports.

 

Rugby - almost as good as football much better social side and more of an experience when watching England Away. Trouble is it’s is overpriced amd hard to get tickets

Boxing - lost its pace in the 80s since Mayweather Amd the Klitckos took titles but fight night in vegas is unforgettable. Used to go to York Hall as a kid

Cricket / Athletics = Cricket ruined by sky and 20/20

athletics - worth watching but the bbc sold it out - not enough coverage to get passionate about

 

It’s a great shame (understatement) the sheer extent that the BBC has given up on elite men’s sport.

The recent Ryder Cup really brought it home. The BBC “coverage” was little short of pathetic.

 

Is golf a sport that you can only like if you play? I hate golf because I have no patience tried it and lose interest !!

 

It’s not a good live spectator sport.

 

Amazed to see that the Tour de France gets 2.5 billion views. I4 days of watching skinny steroid freaks with baboon arses riding up hills has no appeal to me.

I wouid love to see the world of sport return or grandstand- superb. Saturday afternoon viewing

 

Golf is incredible, when I hit my 5 I am aiming for the green, the pros aim for the hole! It's incredible.

 

We didn’t know it at the time, but how lucky we were back then.

12.15 on a Saturday - Grandstand with David Coleman & then Des Lynam (both titans) - Football Focus with Bob Wilson, live Five Nations rugby, or snooker, or golf , with some athletics and darts thrown in …then Final Score and the vide printer.

all gone …the BBC have spunked the lot.

 

Best placed on a short hole next to the green.

 

You haven’t made a hole in one for at least 10 years.

 

There must an audience for this still.

pot black was awesome.

So was bullseye even better was the shat prizes they gave

It’s a knockout was great imagine having Woolwich compete against some Swiss village

and the best of all was Superstars I still laugh at Kevin Keegan falling off his bike

 

They still show Bullseye every day on one of the satellite channels . It’s classic TV , it would never see the light of day these days. Jim Bowen fat shaming the women contestants who were a tad overweight, and making sexual innuendos at the 40 something men still living at home with their Mum.

“Here’s what you might have won”

“You get nothing for two in a bed”

“Super, smashing, marvellous”

“Innnnn One ….you've won the Teasmaid”

 

Jim Bowen to large female contestant “so Marjorie you went on a sponsored slim?” Yes Jim””

Jim “ how much do you owe” ?

classic tv

 

Pot Black was another fantastic programme.

It seems incredible now that one frame of smoker, albeit featuring all of the top players of that time, could command such an audience & a high profile.

 

@Typical part 2

do you remember Sportsnight at 1040pm on a Wednesday with Harry Carpenter ?

 

I always used to play Beckenham, it was THE most popular public course in the country in the 70's.

The 10th is a short par 4, probably around 220 yards, anyway, I shanked my tee shot and left myself with 170 yards to the green, out would almost certainly come a 7 iron, I middled it to perfection......................straight down the hole. I should have packed up playing after that!

Golf was always my game as playing.

As a spectator there is only one game and that is cricket, tbf I preferred it to football. I was a Surrey member for a number of years, from around '90 till things got silly and 20/20 came in I probably would attend 20 weekend fixtures a season. I have seen Surrey in Ireland and saw us win the Sunday League in '94 at Sophia Gardens against Glamorgan. I have also seen us in Australia for the 98 and 2002 series, went to South Africa in 99.

 

Snooker or Darts from the late 70's /1980's, though technically neither are sports.

The characters from those eras were far more 'real' than the robots of today.
And the showbiz element of modern darts feels so forced and fake.
The Crafty Cockney, Bobby George, Jockey Wilson... *** smoke so thick you couldn't see the audience. Beer you could smell even through the TV.
That was proper darts.

 

Yes of course I even rememberTony Gubba ? Definitely Steve Ridwr and Harry Carpenter- one of those iconic theme tunes as well