The Pink!

[Bill]

there was always a queue waiting for the van. was unmissable back then.

 

[Chi-town blues]

This thread title is misleading.

 

[xgorton]

Always on sale in Blackpool.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

They used to send photographers to Maine Road/O.T. and Swinton R.L. or Salford every Saturday to take pictures of the crowd, and if they put a circle round your face in the photo you won a guinea.

 

[lloydy]

Sorry for the late reply as I’m here in Tasmania what with the time zones and Xmas etc
I do remember the van drivers having drop offs at Victoria & Piccadilly stations for various trains so honestly don’t know how far the Pinks reach was

Not fuckin Tasmania!

 

[Shirley]

My mum used to airmail me a rolled up copy each week when I lived in Zambia in the late 70's, other than the BBC sport on SW radio it was the only way to keep in touch in them days.

As a bonus she would tape a digital watch inside which the locals were fascinated by a would pay a good price for, sweet memories.

 

[give & go]

all the reds outside shop when they won wating for the van when they won
no fucking sign of em if they lost

remember one headline " reds in 5 goal thriller " they had got beat 4- 1

 

[i kne albert davy]

We were talking about the pink on the way up to Newcastle I reckoned there was a topless miss pink on page 3 for a while nobody else seemed to remember it, can any other perv confirm it or was it just wishful thinking on my part.

 

[Bluebee2]

We were talking about the pink on the way up to Newcastle I reckoned there was a topless miss pink on page 3 for a while nobody else seemed to remember it, can any other perv confirm it or was it just wishful thinking on my part.

Wishful thinking mate, I read the pink for years and never seen and topless ladies

 

[yerwot?]

no way was there a topless miss pink. Back in the day nearly everyone did the pools, trying for 8 draws, jackpot was £75,000, doesnt seem much now but then it would have bought 20-odd houses, and the pink was the first to have the results, followed by the Empire later in the evening, sold by blokes shouting out round the streets. After a home game we would walk back down Yew Tree road and wait outside the paper-shop for the van to drop off the rolled up bundle of pinks, a good win and they would be sold out by 6 o.c. a thumping loss and there would still be some on Sunday morning.
There was a "green un" for a while published by the Evening Chronicle but they disappeared when the parent company went bust.