And the only way you could find out the latest scores from other games was to wait for the PA to read them out at half time and full time? Lol!!
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And the only way you could find out the latest scores from other games was to wait for the PA to read them out at half time and full time? Lol!!
I would often have to buy the football echo to find out how my bets had done.
Yep and I still miss the Football Echo.
Do you remember they would be delivered to your local newsagents late in the evening and some came around the pubs ( not sure if they were the dodgy ones ), there were so few though in the latter years you had to be on yer toes , I used to wait outside the top shops in Llanrumney ,so I didn't miss out , and on game days outside the newsagents by Askey's ,as they had the first batch most .
Wasn't the signing off Steve Thompson on the last Echo in 96 ,first printed 1919 .
Im blubbering now
Waiting for the pink echo to be delivered......
Remember one season down the City and the only song they played on the PA was Billy Paul’s “Let em in” it’s now being used on the post code lottery advert. Took me right back when I heard it!!
Last edited by William Treseder; 11-04-18 at 21:35. Reason: Spelling
Going back before that the record I seem to recall was always played was “If I Had a Hammer” by Trini Lopez. The records were played from Radio Ninian at the corner of the Grange End. I think the name of the person who ran it was Glyn Potter. Also the hospital broadcast commentaries were made there.
Tina Charles "I love to love" is the one I remember. Seemed to be the only record they had.
To me it seemed they always played Desmond Decker's The Israelites.
I remember hearing “Band of Gold “ when my dad first took me down as an 8 year old .at start of 70/71 season ....and Elvis Presley “The Wonder of You”..... I remember Radio Ninian, Golden Goal and I am sure they used to have boards on the walls around the pitch with the alphabet where they put the half time scores ? . You needed a programme so you could work out who was game A,B,C etc.....?
There was a supplement in the programme “ League Review”or something like that ?
Warm gravel?...you were lucky