Before mobile phones.

[murciagull]

Before mobile phones and all the new technology available, on the occasions you couldn't get the match and were dragged round the shops, at about twenty to five, have you ever joined the small bunch of guys outside TV show rooms watching the vidiprinter for the Albion score?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

yes, yes i have

 

[Paxton Dazo]

no, no i havent.

 

[Titanic]

Yes, yes I have.

 

[Mackenzie]

Yes...also watched snooker, rugby, cricket, longingly through Currys window...

 

[Peteinblack]

Yes, and occasionally I still do (much to my wife's bemusement!)

 

[BensGrandad]

If I wasnt at The Goldstone I was at Woodside Road so used to rush home to listen to Sports Report and either me or dad would write the scores down as they said them and there was a deadly hush in the house until they had all finished so dad could check his pools. That was before people had TVs.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

I also remember watching the Ashes in Australia on Ceefax. So exciting waiting for the page to refresh only to see yet another dot ball.....

 

[Juan Albion]

Yes indeed I have, but I would also have been stopping at payphones to check on progress via the Seagull Line.

 

[Gazwag]

The old BBC printer use to be the best as it made it more exciting as it was slow, I can remember playing guess the team as each letter came up

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yes indeed. Radio Rentals in London Road

 

[Titanic]

Yes indeed I have, but I would also have been stopping at payphones to check on progress via the Seagull Line.

"You've called the Seagull Line on Brighton 8049, the number for Albion information, every day, 24 hours a day..."

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Before mobile phones and all the new technology available, on the occasions you couldn't get the match and were dragged round the shops, at about twenty to five, have you ever joined the small bunch of guys outside TV show rooms watching the vidiprinter for the Albion score?

Used to love doing that. Now just refresh the internet on my blackberry every five minutes or so when being dragged around the shops on a Saturday afternoon. It drives my wife bonkers.

 

[Napper]

"You've called the Seagull Line on Brighton 8049, the number for Albion information, every day, 24 hours a day..."

followed by several expensive minutes of information on what was coming up

 

[sully]

"You've called the Seagull Line on Brighton 8049, the number for Albion information, every day, 24 hours a day..."

At this point, my 10p always used to run out! :thud:

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I watched the Southampton v Spurs result come in when I was in the Gulf back in 1978

 

[BensGrandad]

To answer my own question regarding James Alexander Gordon taken from Wikepedia;

James Alexander Gordon is a radio broadcaster for BBC Radio Five Live. He brings the classified check of the football results every Saturday at 5 o'clock on Sports Report.

Gordon was born in Edinburgh in February 1936. [1] During his youth he was paralyzed with polio and he spent a large part of his childhood in hospital. [2] He worked in music publishing before joining the BBC in 1972, becoming an announcer and newsreader (mostly on Radio 2) until the early 1990s. In 1974 he followed in the footsteps of John Webster, reading the classified football results, first on Radio 2 and later on Five Live.

He has a distinguished voice and is known to pronounce "Wanderers", in the name of several football clubs, as "Wanderer-ers". He famously uses his inflection, as he pronounces the names of the clubs, to indicate whether a match ended in a home win, away win or draw. [3]

James Alexander Gordon also works freelance, recording voice-overs and commenting on company videos. [4]

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alexander_Gordon_(announcer)"

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

I'm just about old enough to remember when you pulled a bird in a club, you'd have to get a piece of paper and pen from behind the bar to get her number, then you'd have to brave ringing the landline and running the risk of her old man answering!

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Certainly have.
Also got bored at some shopping mall last year when out with the ladyfriend so left her in the shops and sat outside currys watching an England game (shows how bored I was!)

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

It was the 66 World cup when I 1st took an interest in footie. It was probably because my mum took us shopping and every TV shop had crowds outside watching the matches.

Couldn't help but be intrigued.