Lovebitesandeveryfing
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’Fraid not. Maybe I'm slow, maybe it's Sunday morning.
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City fan' letter in "Radio Times"
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’Fraid not. Maybe I'm slow, maybe it's Sunday morning.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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It's not really that big a story though. Leicester winning the league, yes that's a story, a brilliant one too. But yes they will appeal to the bigger market I guess.
It's entirely about clicks and markets.
Mind you, I prefer to put fans like this: “fans”. Because someone in Singapore or Baton Rouge who goes around wearing a Liverpool top and maybe looks at clips from time to time on their mobile phone I barely consider a fan. Of any club. Still less a supporter.
Kippaxpete
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Hey, I was one of those Grammar School kids! As you can tell by my superior spelling ability.Only grammer school toffs watched Swap Shop. Anyone over 15 watched Tiswas.
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Kippaxpete
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I was one of the poor saps who invested in a top-loading Betamax machine at the time. Superior picture quality and more compact cassettes but eventually edged out by the marketing behemoth behind VCR. I still have some of the tapes! God knows what's on them.I had one of the first VCR's, It was not very successful. It recorded programmes I did not to watch and played them back when I was out.
Possibly tapes of when the Scum were able to win games.I was one of the poor saps who invested in a top-loading Betamax machine at the time. Superior picture quality and more compact cassettes but eventually edged out by the marketing behemoth behind VCR. I still have some of the tapes! God knows what's on them.
I noted with pleasure that a letter appeared in the letters page of the current Radio Times, pointing out that in 2020 the BBC had broadcast a documentary called "Liverpool FC: the 30-year wait", about the club's "first (and so far only) PL title."
He goes on "I eagerly await "Four from Five", a similar documentary about Pep Guardiola and Manchester City's four Premier League titles in five years. I'm not holding my breath........."
from Stewart Tray, Manchester.
Well said, Mr Tray. Nice to see something in print about the preferences of the BBC and its programme-makers.
I wonder if he is a Bluemooner? He sounds like he could be one of our posters But even if not,
perhaps a few more people will begin to realise how opinion is influenced in favour of some and against others.
This is all very surprising! The lovely Colin, aka PrestwichBlue, alerted me to this on Twitter yesterday and I thought, well, I'll swoop in and say hi to everyone.
This is me. Okay, it's not exactly me, it is my dad. He does not have a smartphone or a computer. No interest in technology at all! So when he's annoyed about something and wants to write a letter in, it's muggins here who has to be dictated to like a secretary :-D
I think he was quite shocked to see it printed tbh! He's had a million letters printed in his life, all over the place (NME in the 70s, Mojo and Uncut in recent decades) but he didn't think the RT would fancy it. He was thrilled it went in and is deeply tickled by the existence of this thread, which I told him about yesterday, just after I explained what a message board/forum is!
Anyway, we are, obviously, blues going back a LONG time. I'm 45 and went to my first match in 1988. He's 71 (won't thank me for mentioning it!) and went to his first match in 1960. His dad, Eli, went to THE first match at Maine Road in 1923 (Eli was born here, but his fam were not; we're Eastern European Jews, on both sides). So we have had blues in our family for almost 100 years. Which is mad! Dad had a season ticket from 1977-95, also (he couldn't before then, he had a Sat job at Burtons on Deansgate, if any of you are old enough to remember that).
I moved to London 22 years ago nearly, so I see all the away games (when I can get tix, which tbh is irritatingly not often these days). We go to one home match per year, he likes to just do one now. I'm also sometimes on the great Ste Tudor's 93.20 podcast if you wish to seek that out!
Lots of love to all the blues
CTID
Liz
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Exactly - I wasn’t that old ;-)Only grammer school toffs watched Swap Shop. Anyone over 15 watched Tiswas.
stan bowles
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What are video recorders?
Were you referencing this sketch by any chance ?
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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This is all very surprising! The lovely Colin, aka PrestwichBlue, alerted me to this on Twitter yesterday and I thought, well, I'll swoop in and say hi to everyone.
This is me. Okay, it's not exactly me, it is my dad. He does not have a smartphone or a computer. No interest in technology at all! So when he's annoyed about something and wants to write a letter in, it's muggins here who has to be dictated to like a secretary :-D
I think he was quite shocked to see it printed tbh! He's had a million letters printed in his life, all over the place (NME in the 70s, Mojo and Uncut in recent decades) but he didn't think the RT would fancy it. He was thrilled it went in and is deeply tickled by the existence of this thread, which I told him about yesterday, just after I explained what a message board/forum is!
Anyway, we are, obviously, blues going back a LONG time. I'm 45 and went to my first match in 1988. He's 71 (won't thank me for mentioning it!) and went to his first match in 1960. His dad, Eli, went to THE first match at Maine Road in 1923 (Eli was born here, but his fam were not; we're Eastern European Jews, on both sides). So we have had blues in our family for almost 100 years. Which is mad! Dad had a season ticket from 1977-95, also (he couldn't before then, he had a Sat job at Burtons on Deansgate, if any of you are old enough to remember that).
I moved to London 22 years ago nearly, so I see all the away games (when I can get tix, which tbh is irritatingly not often these days). We go to one home match per year, he likes to just do one now. I'm also sometimes on the great Ste Tudor's 93.20 podcast if you wish to seek that out!
Lots of love to all the blues
CTID
Liz
Your family doesn't go back to Hyde Road? JCLs!
That's quite a pedigree.
I'm quite curious about your dad having a letter printed in NME. Can he remember what it was about? In about 1971, I had a letter printed in Melody Maker. I remember buying my usual copy of it — I bought it every week, religiously, for about five years — and looking at the letters page, which I always did, I saw my own missive. I was acutely embarrassed to see that it was given pride of place on that page. They used to pick out one letter, put a black border round it, and put it right at the top. I'm glad I was alone, because I'm pretty sure I went beet red. I just didn't for one second think that it would be printed.
What was it about? Wishbone Ash. I was a huge, huge fan in those days. Saw them four or five times over a two-year period.
Good on your dad for writing to the Radio Times, by the way. I'm by no means certain that all the good readers of the RT are even very clear what Manchester City is, other than being a town in the north-west of England. Some of them, surely, must have been perplexed.