I used to stand in Dixons watching Ceefax refresh minute by minute.
So exciting
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I used to have a giggle when they upgraded the teleprinter to a screen - and added the teleprinter noise!
(as they do in many computer-based film scenes )
I used to stand in Dixons watching Ceefax refresh minute by minute.
So exciting
How times change. Reading posts about Ceefax and the like, I can remember for many a long day walking down to the bottom of my village, going into the red telephone box and phoning the Bluebirds' Club at Ninian Park and hoping someone would answer and tell me the score. Memories.
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Not the teleprinter, but the more modern videprinter showing a six spelled out.Screen Shot 2020-10-22 at 3.49.28 PM.jpg
No brackets for Walsall who scored 6 (six)
https://youtu.be/Bgf2SBhlDCA
It was when I couldn't see the results as quickly on the vidiprinter as my mates, that i went to the opticians for an eye test.
The optician said I was the first person to ever be that precise as to how I knew my eyesight had deteriorated.
On Ceefax, if there was only one game, they'd double the size of the lettering, which somehow made reading Cardiff 0 Hayes 0 twice as painful (though not as painful as being there, I expect).
Forfar 4 (four) East Fife 5 (five)
It was always a nerve racking afternoon following your team in the 70s especially away. Your heart would race when the printer put D2 (we were mostly in this league) then the club we were playing, then you would hope for a 0 or 1, then Cardiff City then finally City’s score. If you missed this it could be going for the pink Football Echo to find out at about 6.30pm. The yoof have no idea what we went through.
I loved the way you could tell whether you'd won lost or draw before the score was announced, just by the way the announcer said the team names
Luton Town 7 (seven) Cardiff City 1
Cardiff City 2 Cambridge United 7 (seven)
...was at both games..joy
My first away game, I stood on the opposite end to you and was in the ground at some ridiculous hour like quarter past one. About half an hour later, I saw a group of City fans wander on to the Hammersmith End and start singing "we have taken over" - I can vouch for the fact they did not move from their spot near the middle of the stand right up until the crowd became too big to make them out, but, as the goals were going in, it was obvious that there were still quite large groups of City fans still there.
As for who scored, I've not looked it up, but I'm fairly sure Toshack got two, Brian Clark got one and I think Barrie Jones did as well - not so sure about who got the other one, but I have a feeling it may have been Les Lea.
See Barrie Jones got a couple. He was a lovely footballer to watch. Shame a broken leg ended his career. In one of my very rare away trips, he was the best player on the pitch against a Derby side that were promoted that season, with the likes of Kevin Hector and John O'Hare in their line-up. He smacked the bar with a 30 yarder and caused Derby problems every time he had the ball.