tokyo_fox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Hopefully I got the number right! It is of course very very sad that I remember it but I seem to remember paying a huge premium service charge (well my parents paid it anyway!) to dial this number and listen to a bad quality and slowly spoken report of the latest club news!! Sounds absolutely ridiculous in this day and age!!!
MPH Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Think it started out as 0898 121185. It was something like 50 a minute I think. Used to ring it every week. Mum got well annoyed!
tokyo_fox Posted 27 February 2014 Author Posted 27 February 2014 So did it become an 0891 number? Now I think about it I do remember it being an 0898 number but I'm sure there were far worse (better??!!) numbers starting with that that we could have been dialling up!!
MPH Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Yeah, early 90s it became 0891, I think... any idea when it dissapeared?
tokyo_fox Posted 27 February 2014 Author Posted 27 February 2014 No idea!! I don't ever recall hearing of it again after the Pleat-era but it may have ended way before (or even after) that for all I know!!
CKB Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Remember it well, my Mum wasn't very amused with the phone bill though!I still remember finding out about Kamark signing for us via it haha
Leicester_Numan Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 , I rang that a few times, clubcall and teletext were the best news sources we had
Filbert_Ross Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I remember once seeing it say on teletext we were gonna sign Georgie Kinkladze, that was the only time I rang up, me and my dad sat next to the phone with it on loud speaker. (He never signed)
Bayfox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I remember being at a wedding reception once and being asked by the groom to ring it. So there I am all suited up in a hotel reception listening to ads and bullshit transfer rumours linking us with davor suker or whoever. Just waiting for the match report. Just feeding pounds into this pay phone. To this day I can't remember who we played or the result.
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I tried some of the other numbers too,,, the number ending 01 was actually Gillingham's and that is how I found out that they played st Priestfield
tokyo_fox Posted 27 February 2014 Author Posted 27 February 2014 I think there may even have been an official Leicester city clubcall card which I used to carry round with me as a child which may explain why I (kind of) remember the phone number! For the record I was teaching some kids phone number stuff the other day when that old number popped into my head and took me back down memory lane
Rocket-Ron Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Me and a friend phoned Leeds clubcall once at his parents house. I think they actually sped Howard Wilkinson's voice up!
Vlad the Fox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I remember the adds for it on teletext, 'Leicester sign striker', I'd then eagerly await that nights Mercury, then the next nights for nothing. Cheating, conning bastard.
Vlad the Fox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I remember the adds for it on teletext, 'Leicester sign striker', I'd then eagerly await that nights Mercury, then the next nights for nothing. Cheating, conning bastard.
Filbert_Ross Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Teletext- LEICESTER SIGN ENGLAND STAR Turned out to be Steve Howey.
tokyo_fox Posted 27 February 2014 Author Posted 27 February 2014 wow, i just checked wikipedia and it seems (unbelievably) that ClubCall still exists though of course its evolved to become a "leading sports website and international mobile content provider." It started in 1986 and in 1991 was sold to Ladbrokes and then some other sh*t happened which is of very little interest to anyone!! Hard to believe this service was ever the best option out there for City news!!
foxoffderby Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 Used it a lot during the Brian Little era. What was with that annoying buzzing noise in the background? That and teletext were the only ways to get transfer gossip
lancyclaret Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I used the ClubCall number more to find out the latest cricket scores when I was out and about travelling by train. I used payphones which were supposed to be cheaper than mobiles. It proved very expensive and a bit of a con. I'd ring up the Lancashire club call and they'd describe the weather (always raining in Manchester) and state of the pitch then the way the batsmen had been dismissed before giving the latest score:(. I was feeding in 50p, 20p, 10p pieces by the pocketful and sometimes ran out of change before they gave the latest score after about 4/5 minutes. Total rip-off but I did not have internet in those days and you could only see Ceefax/Teletext from home or the office.
inckley fox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 This is weird. As soon as I saw this thread I could picture, quite precisely, what Clubcall said the last time I called it. It was in August or September 1990, Simon Morgan was in the process of leaving the club and he was interviewed, and David Pleat was quite possibly going to be offered a new contract. I think we'd just beaten Bristol Rovers 3-2. Billy Davies' debut for us. After that my father banned me from using it. He used to point at the phone bill and shout at me for calling the number without permission. A year or so later he was waving the bill at me again, this time because I'd been calling a mate who lived out of town. When he showed me the bill I pointed out to him that somebody or other had made three calls in one week to Clubcall. "I wanted to know whether we were going to sell Kitson," he said. Apparently Little said a million wouldn't buy his left bootlace.
Karljohn Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 It was 33p a minute, I remember running up 45 quid over the quarter on the phone, mum went crazy. 15 quid a month on Leicester bloody city?! I think I still owe her for it.
Vlad the Fox Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 I bet some parents spent more on their kids club call addiction than they did season tickets.
Saxondale Posted 27 February 2014 Posted 27 February 2014 If I'd have rang Clubcall my folks would have battered me! You lot were either from rich families and/or had soft-as-shite parents!
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