I'm thinking they might have done. I think if you had the first ten seconds of each half you could claim for a nil-nil draw and get a reduced amount. There was certainly something like that. The reason I didn't win the Escort was that I couldn't afford a bob a goal so I never joined the club. There were only about 750 members. I think City must have scored about sixty goals that season which would have been £3. That was a huge amount for me at that time. Programmes were sixpence (2.5 pence for you youngsters) LP's (What were they?) were about £1.50 (30 shillings for us oldies). I got my first season pass shortly afterwards. It was for the South Stand seats and it cost less than £20. When I first started drinking, beer was 12-15p a pint, depending on whether you could stomach Hull Brewery or not. I couldn't. I remember vividly the smell from the brewery.
I was in the bob a goal club. An LP was an expensive purchase in those days, like paying about £30 now. Wasn't mad on Hull brewery but a pub near me in Brid used to sell a fantastic pint of it. Thatbpub and the one that is now a Chinese at Dunswell were the last 2 Hull brewery pubs to have hand pumps. When it finally went on to electric it never tasted as goof.
My first season pass was 5 quid I think which was South Stand Terrace with a 10p transfer into the seats. Given the impressive punch ups I saw below me that was 10p well spent for a young whippersnapper like me.
I keep two Golden Goal tickets in my wallet, (along with a train ticket from Hull (Paragon) to Boothferry Park) they're both from May 3rd 1986, v Brighton, and the first prize then was £50. City won 2-0, but as usual I didn't! The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
If there was a first half goal, two 'dolly birds' in orange plastic gear came out at half time to the centre circle with the goal time on a board. If there was a winner, he would clamber over the railings and walk across the muddy pitch with a cheesy grin to the lasses in the middle, who would then escort him off to get his winnings.
There were also some stewards in black coats who crawled along the side of the perimeter fence at half time putting in the scores of the other matches at half time. It was only any use if you had a programme to tell you which games letters ABCDE etc represented.
Thing was in those days was the amount of programmes that had been thrown away at the end of the match, Bunkers/South Stand was littered with the things. Saved me having to buy one, wasn't bothered about the half time scores I collected football programmes in those days.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202333912239?_trksid=p2471758.m4704 Blimey, someone's keen, Actually two people are keen. I had no idea tickets from the 70s were so collected. Remember that pre season friendly and "It's time for you to run" booming out from Kempton with 15 mins to go. Enough to send a few scuttling out of Bunkers. Managed to gingerly negotiate North Rd and Boothferry Rd without getting battered or run. Could it be that MUFC's season in div 2 in 74/75 is the most interesting for their collectors?
I had winning goldengoal ticket in either 66 or 67,match against Cardiff, City won 1: 0 goal by Wagstaff who also missed a sitter which got the biggest cheer from me because I pocketed the 100 guid afew weeks later I was 2 seconds off.
In those days RL was played on a Saturday at 3pm so the so the last two letters had wider spaces to accomodate the scores of the two rugby teams.
It looks like building has finally finished on the sacred land once known as Boothferry Park, in future years youngsters will think that H.C.A.F.C have always been at the KCom Stadium. Mind you, in certain respects they will be correct as the KCom sits directly on land that also used to be home to Hull City previous to B.P. and the Yorkshire cricket team.
I remember going to see Trueman Close Boycs play there What happened to Hull CC who used to play in the Yorkshire league i think.
I never followed cricket Southern, but I do believe that Yorkshire's wicket keeper in those days hailed from Hull, Jimmy Binks? The only Yorkshire match I went to ran into 3 days, I fell asleep on the 3rd day, but City used to train at the Circle but not on the cricket pitch. If you walked around the cricket area there was a small hill and behind the hill a full sized football pitch, the old City ground maybe. One day the Circle groundsman came over to me, he had seen me collecting autographs, he told me to go over to the cricket pavilion where 2 guys were sat in the sun, so off I went. One was this Jimmy Binks, the other, and no I didn't know, was Sir Len Hutton, still got their autographs.
Yeah that's the old City ground and you can still see the retaining wall at the south end of the site. From the KCOM walkway (now blocked off most of the time by ****s) in winter you can see the outline of the terrace steps and a tree or two have taken root on the open end. Shame the corporation have done nowt to commemorate this historic local site ( I include the Circle cricket ground in that) with a blue plaque. But then again in an important recent national referendum when 67% of Hull voters expressed their preference, our council has continued to ignore the electorate's views on the issue. Perhaps they are too busy rooting out the nonces in their ranks ?
The supporters trust have the ‘A.R.T’ project which is a campaign to recognise the original site. Some background and updates on the website - http://hullcitysupporterstrust.com/anlaby-road-football-project/
