Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
I seem to recall that there was at one time an early Football Echo, which was sold with the results incomplete. A lot bought it though not for the Football League results but for the write ups on the previous week’s local league games, so not having the final scores didn’t matter. In fact a lot of local league players were in their pubs/clubs after their afternoon fixture watching the scores come in on the teleprinter anyway so finding out if your name was in there for last week’s goal(s) was more important than East Fife 4 Forfar5.
You’re right, there’d be the half times scores in the late news on the back page.