[Football] Just when you thought modern football couldn't get any worse....

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I tuned in at exactly twenty past to try and miss the crap- if I knew where I could listen on the radio I would have done.

Monday lunch time 12.30. The rattle of the bag and the toffs at the FA. Bring it back.

I was still at school for the '83 cup run. Remember loads of kids gathering round a small radio waiting to hear the draw as the run went on.

Loads of dentist appointments when the cup final tickets went on sale. Can't remember who looked more sheepish in the queues outside the Goldstone - the kids skiving off school or our teachers!

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

This treatment of the FA Cup is part of the Beeb's strategy of hanging on to the crown jewels of sport broadcasting. The more of these they lose (golf, tennis, cricket)the more they have to celebrate what they've got left and popularise it in this fashion. Can't really blame them but it was sqirmavision.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Des, Jimmy Hill, Bob Wilson and Graham Kelly's stuttering and staring at the camera. We were SPOILED!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUpPC3umWw

 

[LlcoolJ]

Speaking of which.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4azyaaerVl4

 

[Hotchilidog]

It was crap but I imagine more people watched this draw than the last one, hopefully raising the interest in the competition

 

[TSB]

At least we didn't have to stare at a twitter account reporting a draw taking place in Beijing.

So it still beats that shower of shite. Plus I now know what a dormouse does for winter.

 

[darkwolf666]

At least we didn't have to stare at a twitter account reporting a draw taking place in Beijing.

So it still beats that shower of shite. Plus I now know what a dormouse does for winter.

And how to spell it... very educational the One Show!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

i have never seen that program before ... and no reason to again, it was dire - as is everything else on BBC1, no wonder I never watch it.

 

[pearl]

I'm still amazed that they managed to find someone to replace Christine Bleakley who looks exactly like Christine Bleakley.

I thought it was Christine Bleakley

 

[pearl]

I tuned in at exactly twenty past to try and miss the crap- if I knew where I could listen on the radio I would have done.

Monday lunch time 12.30. The rattle of the bag and the toffs at the FA. Bring it back.

yeah, I miss Choclate Chip

 

[WhingForPresident]

Oh god, they didn't do that lame shit where they have someone from each club wearing their team's shirt and make them ****ing shake hands with whoever they get drawn against?

I've only just gotten over the cringe-induced lockjaw I suffered from seeing that last year.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Oh god, they didn't do that lame shit where they have someone from each club wearing their team's shirt and make them ****ing shake hands with whoever they get drawn against?

I've only just gotten over the cringe-induced lockjaw I suffered from seeing that last year.

Oh, yes. Awful.

 

[el punal]

Does anyone remember the classic cock-up of a draw in the olden days. Again, only on the radio. It went something like this :

Northern accented intro "The herm team wull be drawn by Bert Millichip and awey team by Dr. Andrew Stephen." All proceeded well enough until,

"Noomber fourteen."

"Oldham Athletic - will play."

"Noomber six."

"Middlesbrough."

The draw continued . . . until

"Noomber nine."

"Middlesbrough."

"Will play . . . cough, cough, ah think we've a problem."

Bearing in mind this was all being relayed on the radio made it even funnier. I can only imagine the complete and utter pandemonium among the Lancaster Gate suits as they tried to recover their poise and continue with the draw.

As I say this did happen many years ago so the people involved may or may not have been involved, but trust me Middlesbrough were the team in question and so were numbers of 6 and 9.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Sitting in my car at lunchtime listening to the semi final draw in 1983
Us, Arsenal, Utd and Sheffield Wed

Banged me head on the roof

10 kids in the playground stop their break-time five a side and huddle round a single, small transistor radio smuggled into school solely for the purpose of hearing the 1983 FA Cup semi-final draw.

10 kids PRAYING for the Albion to be drawn against Wednesday to bring their Wembley dreams one step closer.

In my mind I can still hear that cheer of joy...

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

I was staggered at how they introduced Ruud Gullit, a guy who was a top-class player and manager in the same breath as that total bell-end and worst-ever Albion loan-signing Robbie "I'm too big to be here" Savage! Not worthy of sharing a stage with Gullit. Still, at least we got a winnable draw. Anti-Savage rant over. It's just that I still can't stand the sight of him!

 

[Eeyore]

Sitting in my car at lunchtime listening to the semi final draw in 1983
Us, Arsenal, Utd and Sheffield Wed

Banged me head on the roof

I was in a geography class at Stanley Deason. Took the radio in. I seem to remember Burnley or Sheffield Wednesday were number 5. Quite how I'm not sure.

 

[Nobby]

10 kids in the playground stop their break-time five a side and huddle round a single, small transistor radio smuggled into school solely for the purpose of hearing the 1983 FA Cup semi-final draw.

10 kids PRAYING for the Albion to be drawn against Wednesday to bring their Wembley dreams one step closer.

In my mind I can still hear that cheer of joy...

It was such a fantastic feeling knowing that we had avoided Utd and Arsenal. Just knew that we were going to Wembley.

 

[Triggaaar]

The female presenter called us “Hove Albion”