Does anybody remember the sports papers published on Saturday evening many years ago. They gave all the football results etc in the days when not everyone had a tv. As a child in West Yorks in the 50s I used to be sent up to the 'paper shop' to get the paper and there was always a queue. They were different colours and you could get either a' green 'un' or' a pink 'un' as we used to say. One was published by the Yorkshire Evening Post but I cant remember which colour that was or who published the other or what their proper titles were. Can anybody help please!?
I don't remember that, but I remember that the inside back page of the Daily Express on Saturday used to have a big list of all that day's fixtures, and we had to be very quiet at 5 pm when all the football results came onto Sports Report on the BBC Home Service, when my dad used to copy down the results as they were read on the radio. I never knew if he did the pools but I suspect not, but he always wrote down those results.
I can remember listening to the results on the radio but my Dad checked his pools when the paper arrived. Some times we had to wait out side a few minutes if the delivery was delayed. It sounds as if each area had their own version! Thanks.
Many of them, such as "Ireland's Saturday Night" only ceased publication very recently (in the case of ISN in 2008).
A sad, but I guess inevitable, loss
Thanks everyone! How things change and what uneventful things you remember from your past. I was just thinking about this at teatime after the football results which jogged my memory!
We used to have the Sports Argus Hopkirk...Or the pink 'un...Shame they stopped printing it really as it had all the local non league footie in it as well.
They printed it in Blue once when West Brom played Birmingham in the 1931 F A Cup Final ,thanks to my Grandad I've got a copy of that :-)
Evening micmak! I'm in Mirfield now but born and bred in Dewsbury (at one time I had to explain where that was but after events in the last few years everybody knows now) Where are you?