If I missed the results on the teleprinter I would watch the classified results but hide our score and that of our opponent with a newspaper, gradually revealing the match score. As I attended most home matches, I would only do this if we were playing away.
Say our opponent had scored 3, you more or less knew we had lost the game but occasionally it would reveal a 3-4 away win for us, the feeling of elation I can still remember to this day.