Latest scores pre-internet days.

[OnlyOneCity]

On Sunday, the scores from Everton and Leeds will be known immediately due to internet access. Remember when we relied on someone in the ground having a radio. During the City V Oxford match when West Brom were playing at Bristol Rovers, suddenly, there would be excitement in a part of the ground, the fans would be jumping up and down and all sorts of rumours filtered to those without access. E.g. Rovers had scored, West Brom had missed a penalty, Rovers were down to 10 men. It was like a Mexican Wave going round the ground. On t.v the following day, it showed the West Brom fans jumping up and down at Rovers as they thought Oxford had scored. All very exciting but so tense! Come on City!

[adejo92]

Glad some one gets signal.  I still have to rely on waiting for the scores to be shown at half time.

[phoneticerror]

1 minute ago, adejo92 said:

Glad some one gets signal.  I still have to rely on waiting for the scores to be shown at half time.

Same. I’m literally back in the old days when at the KP,

 

I’ve tried Three, O2 and Vodafone. I assume anybody who gets signal must be on EE?

[Guest Lako42]

I've got more chance of getting the scores on teletext than internet at the KP

Edited 24 May 2023 by Lako42

[shailen]

EE seems to work well at the ground. We'll be kept well informed of scores elsewhere. 

[Guest Lako42]

I might become one of the weirdos that we get down there and have a little radio and earphones. 

 

I might also knit a filbert fox teddy 

[Tuna]

Teletext!

[StanSP]

14 minutes ago, phoneticerror said:

Same. I’m literally back in the old days when at the KP,

 

I’ve tried Three, O2 and Vodafone. I assume anybody who gets signal must be on EE?

Yep. 

[KrefelderFox666]

I would prefer not to know any other scores until our game is done and dusted. Focus on us getting the win. If we do, then we can check if it was enough.

[SK3Blue]

Used to get the odd latest score flash at Filbert Street on the old East Stand scoreboard but it was very rare. 

 

In my early teens I often found Radio Leicester would give preference to the Tigers and Bleddyn Jones commentary if City were away and languishing in the bottom half of what is now known as the Championship. Neville Foulger was the main commentary guy I think.

 

Also relied on Ceefax, and if I wanted to know the non league scores, it was a trip down to an off licence for me which sold copies of the Sports Argus hot off the press, and available from about 7pm. 

[Hamilton Fox]

29 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

I've got more chance of getting the scores on teletext than internet at the KP

I’m pretty sure during a tour of the KP the guy said there is something they do to turn off / scramble the internet connection. Can anyone confirm this as it was a few years ago for me

[Wymsey]

14 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Teletext!

Bring it back..

 

[Golden Fox]

53 minutes ago, OnlyOneCity said:

On Sunday, the scores from Everton and Leeds will be known immediately due to internet access. Remember when we relied on someone in the ground having a radio. During the City V Oxford match when West Brom were playing at Bristol Rovers, suddenly, there would be excitement in a part of the ground, the fans would be jumping up and down and all sorts of rumours filtered to those without access. E.g. Rovers had scored, West Brom had missed a penalty, Rovers were down to 10 men. It was like a Mexican Wave going round the ground. On t.v the following day, it showed the West Brom fans jumping up and down at Rovers as they thought Oxford had scored. All very exciting but so tense! Come on City!

Still happens...

 

I was at Cambridge a couple of weeks ago.

 

This was the scene after the final whistle when Cambridge had done what they needed, & MK Dons were drawing, but 1 goal in that game would have sent Cambridge down - phones out everywhere:

 

I had BBC page up, but that was lagging behind the chap next to me who had an EFL site up & then another side of the ground erupted in a cheer and everyone ran onto the pitch from there - so even in this day & age everyone gets information at different times.

 

Hoping for some deja vu - win at home & hope other teams don't win to stay up... 

[Ricey]

VAR takes the edge of this. News of a goal will filter through but you can never be sure if it will stand.

[Rob Clarke]

I remember the only way to get the latest or final scores was if someone had a small transistor radio and you would strain to listen. There used to be a chap selling Leicester Mercurys at the corner of the exit by the double decker who shouted "All the halves" (meaning the half time scores) but you already knew these as the half times had been posted on the alphabet plates on the wall surrounding the pitch. We used to get down to the local newsagents on Saturday teatimes to buy the Sports Mercury (fondly known as The Buff because of its yellowish colour), which had a match report of City's match by Billy King/Jimmy Martin. There was always a much bigger queue if the City had won!

[Spudulike]

I sit a couple of rows in front of the boxes so will be getting reaction from there. Otherwise, the woman behind me gets a good signal as she's always giving out score flashes. 

 

I was in the Double-Decker for the Oxford match and had no clue what was going on in Bristol. Probably the best way in these circumstances. Total focus has to be on our match as without a win it doesn't matter what's going on elsewhere, obviously. 

[Leicesterpool]

Remember like 2002 time, coming home from Nuneaton Borough game passing through a market and stopping to listen to one of the market stalls radio to listen to the football scores being read out. Just shows unless you were at the game, you probably wouldn't know the score till you got home. Now even at low level non league you get the latest scores. But nightmare at the KP. Interesting at stamford bridge, stadium wifi.

[KrefelderFox666]

Let's hope we don't have a Schalke 2001 moment.

[Bilsthorpe Blue]

4 minutes ago, Rob Clarke said:

I remember the only way to get the latest or final scores was if someone had a small transistor radio and you would strain to listen. There used to be a chap selling Leicester Mercurys at the corner of the exit by the double decker who shouted "All the halves" (meaning the half time scores) but you already knew these as the half times had been posted on the alphabet plates on the wall surrounding the pitch. We used to get down to the local newsagents on Saturday teatimes to buy the Sports Mercury (fondly known as The Buff because of its yellowish colour), which had a match report of City's match by Billy King/Jimmy Martin. There was always a much bigger queue if the City had won!

Also my dad never drove me through the underpass in case he got stuck in traffic and lost radio signal and missed all the full time scores and the FA Cup draw that used to be on at around 5pm the day of the previous round in the good old days when all the matches were played at the same time

[Foxxed]

46 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Bring it back..

 

[Qwerty]

Final Score on TV, 4.45pm Saturday - watching the scores appearing at the bottom of the screen - had to be near a TV at that time

[Gazza M]

CEEFAX Page 302 - Football. 

Grandstand final score.

Radio Leicester. 

Score flash at Filbo. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

My grandad used to listen to the radio whilst working the door at Barwell Bowling Club. When there was a goal he'd call us. 

 

"We're losing 1-0" was the usual opener  

[HybridFox]

I never get signal although weirdly did up in the Gods at St James Park. Lost it as soon as I came down though 

Edited 24 May 2023 by HybridFox

[The Year Of The Fox]

Ceefax 302

 

I believe the PL table was page 324