What was the point ? There are already loads of apps which give out live football scores. Even better nowadays as you can set games up with alerts.
BBC football page was 302 and ITV was 140. Remember many a Saturday flicking between Ceefax and Oracle watching the scores come in.
This really. I know people love a bit of nostalgia and ceefax was an important pre-cursor to what we have now but isn't the BBC Sport app just a much more useful and fit for purpose evolution of it? (at least for sports)
In the days before smartphones were commonplace, I used to have a pager on my belt with a little LCD dot matrix screen. I set it to goal updates and it would do a little buzz, then scroll the scoreline across the screen. I thought it was CUTTING EDGE at the time
I was one of them!
I think older NSCers are also forgetful. Football was 302 !10 years ago this week it left us for the final time.
Older NSC'ers will remember in the days before social media it was an oasis of information, with constant updates throughout the day, Page 312, general football news
Yep, l was probably there, head pressed agianst the glass. If l wasn't at the Goldstone or Withdean of course.
I think Ian was referring to the news in brief football page which was by far the best and most looked at page in my house.
True, but that was the main menu with all the headlines. The 'general football news' – I think it was tagged 'News in Brief" – was 312.
The general football info page, ie not the main stories, was 312, 301 was in the index, 302 was always the lead story.
