Football before the internet

[poidy]

I started watching the albion in 94 at the goldstone. Now as your all aware football was a different game back then. I was too young at the age of ten to remember but im intrigued to know what and how we used to follow the Albion aside from matchdays. In the days before NSC and seagullsworld how did we keep in touch with the day to day runnings of the club. Was it simply reading the sport argus or teletext or did we just wait for the matchday programme to hear from our manager??

 

[Cian]

Teletext, Talksport and the club's premium rate phone line I'd presume (that last one wasn't available here)

 

[8ace]

Not sure if talksport was around then.

 

[Cian]

Not sure if talksport was around then.

Well, Talk Radio or whatever it was called originally - it still carried more UK sports news than other stations I could get here reliably.

 

[Taybha]

Tony Millard & sometimes Fred dineage would say and now our other clubs in the south after the i love pompey 10 mins

 

[8ace]

I first looked at the internet in 1995, BHAFC was the first thing I searched for but there was f*** all about us on there then. The next thing I search for I had more luck with, that was Pamela Anderson

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

When local radio started (late 60's) they were restricted, i believe, to 4 reports per game and radio brighton carried radio 1 or 2 on Sat so these reports would cut into the programme. i seem to rember having to listen to Whispering bob harris and his wierd music just to follow Albion.

On the TV you would get the HT and then the teleprinter with the full times. Apart from the local radio report, there would be the classified Argus on sat Evening.

 

[The Large One]

You had the Seagull Line, the Evening Argus (the Night Final eidtion would come out on Saturday at about 6pm with the match report - you'd have queues of people in the newsagent waiting for the copies to arrive), occasional update on Radio Brighton / Radio Sussex (I was taking part in the recording of a schools quiz when presenter Neil Coppendale announced that Jimmy Melia had been sacked), and if you wanted to know fixtures, huge great big billboard posters around the town announcing upcoming matches.

 

[desprateseagull]

'final score' on tv, occasional argus sport edition for big games.

 

[brakespear]

The Argus for me, plus you got to read what Spidey had been up to

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

Monday's Sydney Morning Herald .
Yep that's right , almost 2 days after
the match had been played .

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

And if wanted to read a match report on the game ,
you had to wait till Wednesday and buy British Soccer Weekly .
If you were fortunate it might run to 2 paragraphs rather than the usual 1 .

 

[RexCathedra]

In the Colonies, it was a score on BBC World Service's 15-minute-long list of every England and Scotland match (for the pools, I figure), occasional additional coverage only when BHA were in the First Division, agate-type results in the back of the sports sections of the big US Sunday papers, and then the UK Sunday papers in the university library on Wednesday. Occasional footy magazines bought from the Out-of-Town News in Harvard Square, or the like.

 

[adrian29uk]

I don't think we even had live matches on the radio in 94. All I remember was Tony Millard.
We are so lucky these days:-

1) Live matches anywhere in the world
1a) Highlights
2) Chat with other supporters online 24/7
3) Get the latest news 24/7
4) Watch the building of our new stadium with live snaps every 15 mins
5) Look at the past photos of the new stadium Brighton & Hove Albion. Falmer construction. Falmer stadium.

 

[severnside gull]

Living away from Brighton, I used to buy every sunday newspaper just to read the albion reports. Midweek matches would often get missed completely as the early prints of national papers were on the train to the midlands before the game was over - often had to work out midweek results by comparing the league tables when they were printed in thursday's papers for the pools forecasts.
I couldn't afford to go to as many matches as I can now and really felt separated from the club for a number of years especially during the grim years of the late nineties but ultimately it was the final season of abject decline and the trip to Hereford that brought me back into the fold rather than the internet.
I have to say that given the tendency of keyboard warriors to be more negative than positive and the ease with which the side can be supported from the sofa nowadays I wonder whether our successful campaigns to save the club and bring it home could have happened once cyber-supporting via the internet was fully realised

 

[Napper]

The argus and the phone line were the best. When teletext came along it was as good as the internet .....well it felt like that. I can rememeber as a kid being wowed at my aunties tv which had it.

Match day was programmes and fanzines. Mostly Gulls eye

 

[cjd]

When local radio started (late 60's) they were restricted, i believe, to 4 reports per game and radio brighton carried radio 1 or 2 on Sat so these reports would cut into the programme. i seem to rember having to listen to Whispering bob harris and his wierd music just to follow Albion.

On the TV you would get the HT and then the teleprinter with the full times. Apart from the local radio report, there would be the classified Argus on sat Evening.

I remember all that so well.................and if you were on holiday in Europe, you would have to wait 3 days for the English papers to arrive in the shops to check up on the scores.

 

[pasty]

When teletext came along it was as good as the internet .....well it felt like that. I can rememeber as a kid being wowed at my aunties tv which had it.

I used to sit there on Saturday afternoons when we were away from home eagerly awaiting each time page 3 of 5 or whatever came round.

And for Cup games, who can possibly forget the anticipation of watching a penalty shoot out on Teletext.

 

[Simster]

The SEAGULLS LINE 0898 etc etc

1) Put your pound in the public telephone
2) duh duh dah dah pom pom padmom pom pom padmom pom pom
* GOSBTS plays for 30 seconds*
3) Tony Millard: Hello and you've called the SEAGULLS line, for news on the Brighton and Hove Albion, every day, 24 hours a day. That's the SEAGULLS line and welcome.
Coming up, blah blah blah and droan blah blah
3) But first we start with the news of the last match where Albion were taking on Brentford and where it finished... *clink*

run out of money.

 

[DIFFBROOK]

The SEAGULLS LINE 0898 etc etc

1) Put your pound in the public telephone
2) duh duh dah dah pom pom padmom pom pom padmom pom pom
* GOSBTS plays for 30 seconds*
3) Tony Millard: Hello and you've called the SEAGULLS line, for news on the Brighton and Hove Albion, every day, 24 hours a day. That's the SEAGULLS line and welcome.
Coming up, blah blah blah and droan blah blah
3) But first we start with the news of the last match where Albion were taking on Brentford and where it finished... *clink*

run out of money.

Thats so true, although in my day it was a mixture of 10p and 2p coins, as the slots only took those coins......More often than not the thing was jammed.