League Ladders,remember them ?

[Leekbrookgull]

What ever happened to those league ladders that you use to get in a footy magazine at the start of the season,must have been down to the collapse in sales of such magazines ? Use to have a set,did you ?

 

[jharris]

I used to love them, used to get them free with Shoot or Match Weekly as a kid.
good days !!

 

[Gritt23]

Used to love mine, and I gleened so much info from the little snippets from the bottom of the tabs. Normally carried record win, record defeat and biggest attendance, I think.

What happened to them ..... the internet I guess. Maybe even Ceefax before that. Suddenly teh league tables were far more easily accessible.

 

[Was not Was]

As of not many seasons ago, they still did them in one of the kids' football magazines. But I have to say that my son was not prepared to spend the hours I used to, getting the teams in order. Information is much easier to come by these days!

 

[paulie]

My wife got some for my son recently - magnetised strips with a fold out template for the four leagues, plus all the top non-league sides to accomodate changes.

He's loved them and has spent Sunday morning changing the order.

Shoot were the originals, got some in the attic somewhere.

 

[Scarface]

I used to get them on Match. Stuck the thing up but then a few weeks later most of the shirts would have blown off and fallen down behind the chest of drawers it was hung over!

 

[New Carpet?]

I got given an up-to-date magnetic one for my birthday this year, covering all four English League divisions - it also had spare team names for all the Conference clubs and even a few completely blank ones if someone goes up from the Conference having been promoted the season before.

Even though I'm in my thirties, I loved it!

 

[tonymgc]

Yeah they were ace.
Only ever lasted till about the end of September when i'd get bored of it or when half the tabs where knocked out of it then subsiquently vaccumed up by mum.

 

[Tomnorthi]

Bit like this one in my room that hasnt been updated since before christmas

 

[NMH]

Bit like this one in my room that hasnt been updated since before christmas

Wow - orient really did do very bloody well, didn't they?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Why are Scunthorpe in 16th and 17th place ?

 

[Storer 68]

 

[Art Vs Science]

Bit like this one in my room that hasnt been updated since before christmas

I will be honest, i had you down as older than 11

 

[drew]

I think they first started to go out of fashion when the likes of the ZX80 and ZX81 were first introduced. After that, home computing snowballed and why waste time with a ladder when you can look at the BBC website and even play around with the predictor. Try that with a ladder!!!!!

 

[Albumen]

Just before my time. I remember lucky ladders though.

 

[kevo]

I loved the old cardboard 'Shoot!' ones. Learnt the names of all the grounds from reading the tabs. They sometimes used to fall out and get hoovered up by my mum tho!

 

[jharris]

why are Orient in Blue at the top of div 3 ??

 

[Theatre of Trees]

why are Orient in Blue at the top of div 3 ??

They used to play in blue, see http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Leyton_Orient/Leyton_Orient.htm and 1969-70 was the season they won Division Three where they went on to spend the next decade in the second tier.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Nostalgia overload here, league ladders on top of a subbuteo pitch.

 

[ofco8]

I bought my son a cloth set in Potters in The Lanes. He (and his sisters) love up dating the 4 Leagues each week. New teams can be bought for a couple of quid each so got to get Crawley and Wimbledon on order.
Other kids also love them so got a set for a nephew.