5 live no longer doing classified results service

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

I thought it was
East Fife 4 Forfar 5

I was a bit quick with my typing....

 

[blueparrot]

Pfft. This just doest have a place in modern coverage. Back in the day you had to know when this was on and tune in to find your teams score. If your were following a lower league club and you missed you would have to get the paper the next day. Then teletext came along and you had a solution so this became a relic.

I remember working abroad during the eighties tuning into world service to try and find our result. Of course it nearly always faded out at the crucial time. Chance gone it could take a day or two to find our result. Of course more often than not we’d lost :)

 

[RobinHood]

Match postponed.

The pools panel predict home win.

What a blast from the past.

That pools panel was dodgier than the current VAR officials.

 

[metalblue]

I remember working abroad during the eighties tuning into world service to try and find our result. Of course it nearly always faded out at the crucial time. Chance gone it could take a day or two to find our result. Of course more often than not we’d lost :)

Or on the very rare occasion they did us on commentary they’d switch the commentary off at 80 mins to go talk about tomato farming in the desert or some such benign nonsense. No wonder we still leave 10 mins before the end ;)

 

[metalblue]

Pfft. This just doest have a place in modern coverage. Back in the day you had to know when this was on and tune in to find your teams score. If your were following a lower league club and you missed you would have to get the paper the next day. Then teletext came along and you had a solution so this became a relic.

If this is what your modern world looks like, you can keep it.

 

[Blue Mist]

Maybe TalkSPORT will take up the reins.

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[Alan Harper's Tash]

Hedgehog Gutter Brushes if you don't mind.

My sincere apologies. I’ve not listened to them for a few years now. My memory isn’t what it once was.

 

[bluethrunthru]

This feels wrong this. It’s just part of Saturday to me… since we got good and have kickoff times all over the place it’s not quite the same but I used to enjoy tuning in on the way back from a game.

BBC Radio 5 Live drops classified football results

The traditional reading out of the football results at 5pm on a Saturday is axed by BBC Radio.

www.bbc.co.uk

Its what happens when all the BBC haters cheer Dorries and her like on to cut the cash - something has to go.
Its always the typical human reaction then - yes I knew something was going to happen but I never thought it would affect me. To keep covering live matches with a license fee freeze in 10% inflation the money has to come from somewhere - we can all just enjoy hearing more live matches involving the rags and dippers

 

[bluethrunthru]

Never the same when James Alexander Gordon stopped reading the scores out

well we'd need a weekly seance to continue that public service lol

 

[metalblue]

Its what happens when all the BBC haters cheer Dorries and her like on to cut the cash - something has to go.
Its always the typical human reaction then - yes I knew something was going to happen but I never thought it would affect me. To keep covering live matches with a license fee freeze in 10% inflation the money has to come from somewhere - we can all just enjoy hearing more live matches involving the rags and dippers

They could have just cut the news instead. It’s nowt but depressing shit anyways