Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 The game not being televised got me to thinking about how it used to be. You had 3 options 1 - Go to the game 2 - Listen to it on the radio (if it was on) 3 - Wait for the evening's highlights avoiding the finding out the score. Pre Internet and 24 hour news and Sports channels, it wasn't THAT hard to do. Memorably it formed the basis for this classic 'Likely Lads''No Hiding Place' https://youtu.be/D6_igisgS3s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Only live games when I started were FA Cup final (then Scottish), Scotland v England, European Cup final and some internationals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Albert Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 For those too far to pick up Radio Scotland 4. watching the score "live" on teletext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Only live games when I started were FA Cup final (then Scottish), Scotland v England, European Cup final and some internationals. FA Cup Final wasn't shown because the Scottish Cup Final was played the same day. Extra time and the replay was shown in 1970 Chelsea v Leeds. The Scottish Cup Final wasn't shown live regularly until the 1980s. The only 2 'live' games shown regularly were Scotland v England European Cup final (if there was no game in Scotland taking place). Rangers Cup Winners Cup win in 1972 wasn't shown live because Scotland were playing Wales the same night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Oh and their fans behaved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 For those too far to pick up Radio Scotland 4. watching the score "live" on teletext How could I forget! Especially bad if your match was on page 7 of 11 and you'd be on page 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 When Magic Got his hat trick at Ibrox Gordon's Mum recorded it on the TV. And posted it down to London. We all went round his house during the week to watch it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobboM Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Does anyone remember the Premium Rate lines that you could phone to get an update from matches? We got an invite to the Ladbrokes box at Celtic Park for a midweek fixture through my mate's cousin. Ladbrokes were behind the Premium Rate phoneline updates and it worked like this. The "commentator" would phone in his match update after major incidents and provide a brief summary. We would all have to sit quietly while he did this short 30 second update. Here's the thing though, he was also doing the commentary for other matches that were going on and he did that by checking the Teletext on the tv in the back of the box and then phoning in an update on that match when the score changed. Unsuspecting punters would be phoning their premium rate lines for an update about a match where all they were getting was slower than Teletext.Hearts lost 1 nil to a late Andy Paton goal and LondonHearts records an attendance of under 17k, crap game, we wuz robbed! and you can have that match report for free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Beni of Gorgie Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 The game not being televised got me to thinking about how it used to be. You had 3 options 1 - Go to the game 2 - Listen to it on the radio (if it was on) 3 - Wait for the evening's highlights avoiding the finding out the score. Pre Internet and 24 hour news and Sports channels, it wasn't THAT hard to do. Memorably it formed the basis for this classic 'Likely Lads' 'No Hiding Place' https://youtu.be/D6_igisgS3s We may be of a similar mind. I have been thinking about all of your same points since Sunday. Classic twist to the tale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Beni of Gorgie Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 FA Cup Final wasn't shown because the Scottish Cup Final was played the same day. Extra time and the replay was shown in 1970 Chelsea v Leeds. The Scottish Cup Final wasn't shown live regularly until the 1980s. The only 2 'live' games shown regularly were Scotland v England European Cup final (if there was no game in Scotland taking place). Rangers Cup Winners Cup win in 1972 wasn't shown live because Scotland were playing Wales the same night I'd wager 1977 every Scottish Cup Final since then. Replays only got highlights though the classic of 1979 the second replay got zero coverage not even radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Of course 90% plus of live games are on pay tv days of 20 million in UK watching a game on tv are over (for now at least) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I'd wager 1977 every Scottish Cup Final since then. Replays only got highlights though the classic of 1979 the second replay got zero coverage not even radio I recall 1976 being last final NOT live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Clark Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Oh and their fans behaved Where do you access all the cuttings? They are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts007 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 so if there are no streams kicking around and sport scene show highlights that night will anyone avoid the score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 so if there are no streams kicking around and sport scene show highlights that night will anyone avoid the score? Couldn't handle that scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts007 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 The Real Maroonblood, on 09 Feb 2016 - 7:41 PM, said:The Real Maroonblood, on 09 Feb 2016 - 7:41 PM, said:Couldn't handle that scenario. done it years ago and more recently ( sure it was last season) when alba showed a whole rerun of one of our games at 5 or 5.30pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Beni of Gorgie Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Couldn't handle that scenario.I would need to be sectioned. It is going to be unbearable as it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 so if there are no streams kicking around and sport scene show highlights that night will anyone avoid the score? you will probably find out at the start of sportscene anyway by pats reaction before they play the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts007 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Viper, on 09 Feb 2016 - 7:46 PM, said:you will probably find out at the start of sportscene anyway by pats reaction before they play the game exactly you would need to miss the intro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey1874 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Earlier on Sportsound said they would be covering both Kilmarnock v Rangers and Hibs v Hearts hedging their bets on live commentary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts Heritage Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Where do you access all the cuttings? They are fantastic. http://londonhearts.com/scores/images/hnews/yearlist.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts007 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Mikey1874, on 09 Feb 2016 - 7:51 PM, said: Earlier on Sportsound said they would be covering both Kilmarnock v Rangers and Hibs v Hearts hedging their bets on live commentary or open all mics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftBack Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 so if there are no streams kicking around and sport scene show highlights that night will anyone avoid the score?Great question! Of course like others I have done exactly that in the past but now with so many temptations I dont think I could be that strong. You would have to lock yourself away in a room with no communication from anything or anyone. Just checked sky planner and BBC are showing Holby at 1030 although that could change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Remember the Chelsea v Leeds replay 1970. Brother was for Leeds...me Chelsea....ended in a fight.....great days ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skacelsson Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Ceefax was always my go to score checker Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SectionDJambo Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 We used to go to the top of the hill at Carfraemill with a black and white tv, connected to a car battery to watch the FA Cup final. Carry out and sitting outside in the sunshine watching the game. There used to be organised trips by social clubs, around here,to pubs in the borders every year to see the games. A live game in Scotland was a major event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister T Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 The game not being televised got me to thinking about how it used to be. You had 3 options 1 - Go to the game 2 - Listen to it on the radio (if it was on) 3 - Wait for the evening's highlights avoiding the finding out the score. Pre Internet and 24 hour news and Sports channels, it wasn't THAT hard to do. Memorably it formed the basis for this classic 'Likely Lads' 'No Hiding Place' https://youtu.be/D6_igisgS3s Radio? Pocket Hitachi transistor surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 The game not being televised got me to thinking about how it used to be. You had 3 options 1 - Go to the game 2 - Listen to it on the radio (if it was on) 3 - Wait for the evening's highlights avoiding the finding out the score. Pre Internet and 24 hour news and Sports channels, it wasn't THAT hard to do. Memorably it formed the basis for this classic 'Likely Lads' 'No Hiding Place' https://youtu.be/D6_igisgS3s Or, if you happened to be resident on campus in California you went to the library on a Tuesday to find Monday's edition of The Times showing Saturday's results with bugger all of a match description. The only live footage I saw in my time there was the Bradford fire and Heysel shambles - both due to their newsworthiness rather than any sporting content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego10 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Until certainly the latter part of the 80s,live radio commentary only started from the 40th minute of games for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Spent quite a bit of time abroad as a student in the 1970s. If you missed the results on the World Service on Saturday, you had to wait until Monday's sports papers, which usually carried the Scottish results. Or you could phone home at enormous expense if you were really desperate for the result, which I frequently was. I remember charging around like a madman when I picked up a fuzzy World Service results programme that informed me we had beaten Hibs 2-1 at Easter Road - our only competitive away win over them in that decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstone Wonder Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I remember "watching" a Scottish Cop quarter-final penalty shoot-out between Morton and Motherwell on teletext! Was great fun! Think it was the year Motherwell won the cup so 1993. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy2 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I remember "watching" a Scottish Cop quarter-final penalty shoot-out between Morton and Motherwell on teletext! Was great fun! Think it was the year Motherwell won the cup so 1993. 1991 it was and they did beat Morton 5-4 on pens in the quarters. That was some final, possibly the best game I've seen in Scotland not involving Hearts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessjambo Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Waiting to buy The Pink to find out the score Or Watching the results coming in, amongst a group of other saddos, who never spoke to one another, outside a Telly shop like Radio Rentals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martoon Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Until certainly the latter part of the 80s,live radio commentary only started from the 40th minute of games for some reason. Sportsound had a long standing contract to start commentary at 1540. It lasted into the nineties. There was a game v. Celtic, January 1997, iirc, that I couldn't attend. Don't recall why, but the kick off was delayed at least 40 minutes and because of that Sportsound were able to provide commentary of the entire match. We lost 1-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessjambo Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Spent quite a bit of time abroad as a student in the 1970s. If you missed the results on the World Service on Saturday, you had to wait until Monday's sports papers, which usually carried the Scottish results. Or you could phone home at enormous expense if you were really desperate for the result, which I frequently was. I remember charging around like a madman when I picked up a fuzzy World Service results programme that informed me we had beaten Hibs 2-1 at Easter Road - our only competitive away win over them in that decade. I was there! O'connor and McQuade I think. Went to my (Leith !) school on Monday a very rare and happy Jambo. Got an absolute kicking but didn't feel a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstone Wonder Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 1991 it was and they did beat Morton 5-4 on pens in the quarters. That was some final, possibly the best game I've seen in Scotland not involving Hearts.I was actually at the final in the Dundee Utd end. You're correct of course. I think the Huns beat Aberdeen at Parkhead in '93. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstone Wonder Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Waiting to buy The Pink to find out the score Or Watching the results coming in, amongst a group of other saddos, who never spoke to one another, outside a Telly shop like Radio Rentals. This! Punching the air in Princes Street when a Hearts away victory came in on Final Score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_hmfc Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 How could I forget! Especially bad if your match was on page 7 of 11 and you'd be on page 8. Horrific. It was always about 10mins behind match play as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macros Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I remember with Ceefax you could keep on the same page and press one of the buttons on the remote which allowed you to watch Grandstand and the page number would appear in the corner of the screen if there was any changes in the scorelines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Tarts 1874 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 This classic Likely Lads is on Drama channel right now, some quality non pc stuff in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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