Anyone remember the pink football paper

happy said:
I used to walk up Jetson Street with my dad to Sumners newsagents we'd buy the Pink and I was allowed to choose some sweets, I usually went for Glees but every now and then I'd go mad and get an Aztec Bar. We used to get a Mint Cracknel for mam and a Fry's Five Boys bar for my sis.
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Mint Cracknel!!!!!

Now THERE is the food of the Gods!
 
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I worked as a messenger boy at the Evening News after I left school in 1970, while I was waiting to go in the forces. If you were working on a Saturday, the plumb job was to work on the photo desk, because you got to go to the match with the photographer, walk in the main entrance go through the tunnel, and walk round the pitch. However, you had to leave just before kick-off and bring back the film roll with the pictures of the crowd for that photo they used to print with peoples heads circled, where you won a fiver if it was you.
 
gaudinhos stolen car said:
Remember the yellow van outside Maine Road well, it was there until at least the early 90's
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always the same spot, in the carpark between the north stand and main stand, with its back to the old little souvenier shop walk in one door out the other, fuck me them were the days, youngsters just don't know what they missed!
 
So in these days of wonderful modern day technology (mobiles, laptops, broadband, email etc) how long would it take an enterprising company to capture football scores and reports, edit them into something half-presentable, print them and distribute them throughout the city?

I find it hard to believe they'd do it any quicker than those heroes working on the Pink.

In view of some of the working practices in operation at the time, I find it all pretty remarkable.
 
I remember pitched battles in piccadily gardens on derby day. Lads all mostly had a pink in the back pocket - it was a thing for awhile.

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mackenzie said:
happy said:
I used to walk up Jetson Street with my dad to Sumners newsagents we'd buy the Pink and I was allowed to choose some sweets, I usually went for Glees but every now and then I'd go mad and get an Aztec Bar. We used to get a Mint Cracknel for mam and a Fry's Five Boys bar for my sis.
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Mint Cracknel!!!!!

Now THERE is the food of the Gods!
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Two bars in a pack, chocolate outside and lustrous green minty cracknel in the middle - was that them?

I'm off chocoate for Lent and the image makes me yearn for it
 
mammutly said:
Two bars in a pack, chocolate outside and lustrous green minty cracknel in the middle - was that them?

I'm off chocoate for Lent and the image makes me yearn for it
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YES!! That is them! All resting on a dark card thingy as you unravelled them.

Really nice choc and then minty cracky things when you licked the choc off (or bit it off....there were many ways).

I loved them.
 
mackenzie said:
mammutly said:
Two bars in a pack, chocolate outside and lustrous green minty cracknel in the middle - was that them?

I'm off chocoate for Lent and the image makes me yearn for it
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YES!! That is them! All resting on a dark card thingy as you unravelled them.

Really nice choc and then minty cracky things when you licked the choc off (or bit it off....there were many ways).

I loved them.
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Thanks for that.

I never thought giving up chocolate would be so hard!

;-)
 
bladdered said:
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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!
 
Remember Bigmal once asking me to buy a copy to check the days scores on the way to the game! lol
 
I had a paper round and used to deliver it in Failsworth, within 10 mins of the MEN van dropping them of at Ivells Newsagents. Was a quick short round with only bout 15 copies, one was to The Liberal club on Oldham rd, and I used to take a few extra copies for the regulars and made 5p on each one.. sometimes they even gave me a few pence more..!
 
denislawsbackheel said:
bladdered said:
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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!
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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.
 
Whitworth warrior said:
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.
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It's an urban myth that red twats don't care about little city but still join up to their websites.
 
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