I'll take them off your hands. How much do you want for them?
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My old man has given me a big pile of Football Echos from the late 70s to try and flog on eBay.
Before I try and do that would any of the collectors/historians etc on here be interested in them?
I'll take them off your hands. How much do you want for them?
The Echo and Footbal Echo were my life for footy , used to wait for the late extra one .. and hunt down the pink .. halcyon times.
I'd love to have the last football Echo I'm sure Tommo was on the front scoring two ?? Happy to be corrected..
I’d be very interested in them.
My father was a violent drinker and drove my mother out of our home. We children were so terrified of him that we could not say to anyone that we would be happier to be with her as we were interviewed in the very house he was in at the time - and although she was granted access to us in the divorce proceedings he would interrogate us afterwards and make our lives a misery.
My solution was to visit her on alternate Saturday afternoons on the QT, buy a pink on the way home, devour the info regarding the match and pretend that I attended the game.
Very personal post, thanks for sharing. I am sorry you had that as part of your childhood.
It does also demonstrate perhaps why football has such an unfathomable hold over grown adults. We were talking about this in work the other day; it's one of the very few things that tie us to our childhoods, often as you say in emotional circumstances, not always positive. Certainly for me, whilst I got on with my father, the overwhelmingly majority of 'non practical' conversations between us were football related.
A more heart-wrenching story was when my cat kept squawking for me to follow her upstairs a couple of hours before City played Bolton.
I did so and she eventually gave birth to three kittens, whom I named after the scorers of the match I had to miss as a result. Wharton, Toshack and Clarke. When I met the latter gentleman I tried my best not to bore him with questions or remarks about the Real Madrid game that he scored in (and which he must have been bored to tears with) so I bored him with my story instead and how a kitten was named after him. I can't recall him staying awake though.