Anyone remember the pink football paper

[Harlaching Sky Blue]

Me and my brother would always go to the shop with my old man for this paper.

A pink, two sherberts, gladiators and baywatch. Saturday nights were mint!

Baywatch was very much a private affair when I was 16, not a member of family in sight (the padlocks on the door saw to that!!)

 

[levets]

i remember the pink, who remembers the "green"

The Green final was North Manchester.. Failsworth/Hollinwood. Published by Hirst, Kidd & Rennie... who also published the Oldham Chronicle<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:06 pm --<br /><br />

where the fook did you get that from?
Don't tell me you kept it!
I've got the MEN "Welcome to the new powerbase of world football" headline from September 2nd 2008 but that Pink is class!

thats actually my copy of that particular pink , its a pic i posted on here a few years ago thats been doing the rounds. My dad (god rest his soul ) kept it along with a lot of other city stuff, I came across it when we were sorting through his stuff when he passed away. He also Left me a copy of the cup winners cup final programme.

-- Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:59 am --

It's an urban myth by City reporters and fans that Law sent United down that day, they were already down well before that goal, sorry to burst that little bubble.

That is the line trotted out by most Rag fans of a certain age, who just refuse to believe city had anything to do with their relegation. If i remember correctly it was dependant on other results but to stand any chance of survival that day Utd needed to beat city which they failed to do and the other results didnt go their way either. A bit like when we battered stoke but still got relegated because of other results, unlike utd we did our bit that day but still suffered relegation.

He only neEds to read the headline... 'LAW SINKS REDS'

 

[CITY FOR LIFE]

There use to be a printing van outside maine road and you could pick up an early copy before the game, the inside pages were the same as the later ones but no results or tables.

 

[mullsy]

God I remember that big daft van opposite the ticket office at Maine Road , churning them out at the end of the game . Happy days .

 

[1_barry_conlon]

God I remember that big daft van opposite the ticket office at Maine Road , churning them out at the end of the game . Happy days .

Before you ran off for the 53??? :-)

 

[mullsy]

God I remember that big daft van opposite the ticket office at Maine Road , churning them out at the end of the game . Happy days .

Before you ran off for the 53??? :-)

Oh yes , steamy windows the lot all the way to Belle Vue , then I would get me a fish supper on the way home : )

 

[davymcfc]

yeh i used to get it when i was a kid.

 

[Sheikh Rattle n Roll]

Not read all the posts, so this may have been covered, but wasn't there a topless lady towards the back pages at some point in time?

I remember the van outside the ground near the ticket office and Stan Gibson's house and I still have vivid memories of it being at The Shay when we lost to Halifax in the Cup.

 

[Gary James]

I remember the van outside the ground near the ticket office and Stan Gibson's house and I still have vivid memories of it being at The Shay when we lost to Halifax in the Cup.

Halifax also had its own sporting paper as well back then. I think that stopped in about 1983 (not certain of its name & colour, something tells me it was the Halifax Green'Un but not 100%). It's amazing to think that most sporting towns had at least 1 sports paper. Halifax's was predominantly for the rugby, speedway and football, but over time these all died a little.

As Levets said above there was an Oldham Green as well. Bury had its own sports paper as well.

Manchester, because of its sporting size, had two Saturday night 'papers and many weekly sporting papers (like Athletic News in the first 40 years of football) were printed in Manchester (and owned by City's Chairman).

I posted this earlier, but maybe worth re-posting...

the green was the evening news football paper. the pink was the evening chronicle's. when the two papers merged they kept the chronicle's pink colour for the football edition, probably just as a sop though.

You're right that the Green was the MEN and the Pink the Chron, and the key thing to know about the difference between the 2 papers was that overall the Chronicle was City-biased and the MEN was utd-biased. The Chron had been owned by City's early 20th Century Chairman Sir Edward Hulton (whose family went on to own and develop most of the Withy Grove printing works).

As City dominated the local media, utd struck a deal with the MEN to set up an office at their Bank St ground and, from then on the MEN became utd's paper.

The Chron was more tabloid in its approach and was very popular with working class Mancunians, but it hit financial problems in the early 60s. As the MEN's Manchester Guardian (today's Guardian) was helping the MEN's profits, the MEN was in a stronger position and took over the Chron. The owners of the Chron by this time had decided to focus their energy on London based newspapers, and they had moved away from their Manchester roots.

City's early 60s struggles probably played a part in the Chron's struggles as well.

However, the Chron's Pink was much more popular than the MEN's Green and so the decision was taken to drop the MEN's Green and concentrate on the renamed MEN and Chronicle Pink. Eventually, the 'and Chronicle' was dropped altogether. I researched the full story for "Manchester A Football History" and there's much more to it.
Meant to add that the Chron had a circulation of 250,000 in 1961 when the MEN took it over. They published both papers until 1963, but the Chron was being run down throughout those 2 years.

The Pink ceased publication in 2006.