We’re all Bournemouth, aren’t we?

Bournemouth and Boscombe FC was one of the great football club names of my youth along with Brighton and Hove Albion and Third Lannark
 
mickyhoss said:
Bournemouth and Boscombe FC was one of the great football club names of my youth along with Brighton and Hove Albion and Third Lannark
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And Bradford Park Avenue and ‘Heart Of Midlothian’. Those full names take me straight back to Len Martin reading out the classified check in the early sixties. It used to annoy me even then as a little kid that you could tell what the final result was just from the sing song way he used to read out the home team and its score.
 
channys6thswan said:
And Bradford Park Avenue and ‘Heart Of Midlothian’. Those full names take me straight back to Len Martin reading out the classified check in the early sixties. It used to annoy me even then as a little kid that you could tell what the final result was just from the sing song way he used to read out the home team and its score.
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Another Subbuteo favourite which was always read out on Grandstand final score was East Stirlingshire with the shire pronounced as shire as in shire horse
 
Some of the Scottish names are amazing.
Queen of the South! Love it. A good quiz is knowing which town these clubs represent. East Fife, St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Albion Rovers. Wonderful names.
 
Tow Law Town FC
Crook Town AFC
Horden Colliery Welfare FC ( now Horden Community Welfare Football Club)
 
LGFOX said:
Some of the Scottish names are amazing.
Queen of the South! Love it. A good quiz is knowing which town these clubs represent. East Fife, St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Albion Rovers. Wonderful names.
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Dancing on the streets of Rath tonight.

Kirkaldy?
 
channys6thswan said:
And Bradford Park Avenue and ‘Heart Of Midlothian’. Those full names take me straight back to Len Martin reading out the classified check in the early sixties. It used to annoy me even then as a little kid that you could tell what the final result was just from the sing song way he used to read out the home team and its score.
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I have a very clear memory of my eight-year-old self being thrilled beyond all comprehension when I first saw a Leicester score figure followed by the word in brackets on the vidiprinter: Leicester 6 (SIX) Carlisle 0. My world changed at that moment.
 
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LGFOX said:
Some of the Scottish names are amazing.
Queen of the South! Love it. A good quiz is knowing which town these clubs represent. East Fife, St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Albion Rovers. Wonderful names.
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East Fife played Albion yesterday.

Guess who they play next week?

Yep...Forfar!
 
Wessy Boy said:
East Fife played Albion yesterday.

Guess who they play next week?

Yep...Forfar!
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Yes and if the results would have been different that match would have meant a fight off for the play off position.
Didn’t the famous score line nearly happen a few years ago?
 
ClaphamFox said:
I have a very clear memory of my eight-year-old self being thrilled beyond all comprehension when I first saw a Leicester score figure followed by the word in brackets on the vidiprinter: Leicester 6 (six) Carlisle 0. My world changed at that moment.
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6-0 scorelines have that kind of effect. The day we lost 6-0 to the Smoggies in 1990, I happened to be living in the States. After I’d got the final score off the World Service, I went out to get some groceries. I was still caught up in shouting dog’s abuse at Pleat Out when I crashed my car into the back of a stationary truck at the bottom of our road. It cost me almost $3000 to fix the damage, which on the International Pleat Scale of Mayhem was nothing.
 
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channys6thswan said:
6-0 scorelines have that kind of effect. The day we lost 6-0 to the Smoggies in 1990, I happened to be living in the States. After I’d got the final score off the World Service, I went out to get some groceries. I was still caught up in shouting dog’s abuse at Pleat Out when I crashed my car into the back of a stationary truck at the bottom of our road. It cost me almost $3000 to fix the damage.
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As per my 'Spirit of Radio' feature in The Roof Fanzine, my first teleprinter bracketed score was Leeds Utd 7 [SEVEN] Southampton 0
 
mickyhoss said:
As per my 'Spirit of Radio' feature in The Roof Fanzine, my first teleprinter bracketed score was Leeds Utd 7 [SEVEN] Southampton 0
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Watching the highlights of that game on MOTD was the first and only time I could fully appreciate the beauty in that Dirty Leeds side.
 
channys6thswan said:
And Bradford Park Avenue and ‘Heart Of Midlothian’. Those full names take me straight back to Len Martin reading out the classified check in the early sixties. It used to annoy me even then as a little kid that you could tell what the final result was just from the sing song way he used to read out the home team and its score.































But before he came on there was the teleprinter and you didn't know the outcome because they didn't give score updates on Grandstand in the early days.
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ClaphamFox said:
I have a very clear memory of my eight-year-old self being thrilled beyond all comprehension when I first saw a Leicester score figure followed by the word in brackets on the vidiprinter: Leicester 6 (SIX) Carlisle 0. My world changed at that moment.
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82/3 Lineker and Lynex hat trick each as I recall?
 
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