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City on the BBC world service

One if my favourite games listening to City on the world service was the 5-1 in September 89. Stuck in a field in the middle of France on a very hot afternoon with an old transistor radio stuck to my ear. You only got the 2nd half commentary in those days but what a beautiful sound it was. Happy days.
 
Relied on this during my 18 months of travelling the US / Oz and NZ 91-92.

2 that stand out is beating Leeds 4-0 at home and celebrating but also assuming we'd handed the title to the rags to win it in 92 so a tinge of regret too..... how wrong we were!

2nd memory a bad one...... 2nd game of the season 92/93 City away at Boro and the reporter mentioning Lakey being carried off..... we'd all built our hopes up that he would be the player we all wanted him to be and that day.... at that moment we knew it was over :(
I was in a wooden cabin, in the middle of a kids camp in the middle of Pennsylvania.
Just wanted to go off for a walk and think about Lakey but had 6 kids buzzing around me asking for this and that so didn't get time out to get my thoughts together.

The most annoying thing is the show started at 3pm UK tine on the Saturday but at the 4pm mark it would be the news for 20 mins. Just no need for it. Most folk listening at that time would have been for the football not a revolution going on in Chad or wherever

So for 20 mins you were fucked not knowing what the latest score was until the immortal words "we welcome back listeners from the BBC world service..." were uttered....
 
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Relied on this during my 18 months of travelling the US / Oz and NZ 91-92.

2 that stand out is beating Leeds 4-0 at home and celebrating but also assuming we'd handed the title to the rags to win it in 92 so a tinge of regret too..... how wrong we were!

2nd memory a bad one...... 2nd game of the season 92/93 City away at Boro and the reporter mentioning Lakey being carried off..... we'd all built our hopes up that he would be the player we all wanted him to be and that day.... at that moment we knew it was over :(
I was in a wooden cabin, in the middle of a kids camp in the middle of Pennsylvania.
Just wanted to go off for a walk and think about Lakey but had 6 kids buzzing around me asking for this and that so didn't get time out to get my thoughts together.

The most annoying thing is the show started at 3pm UK tine on the Saturday but at the 4pm mark it would be the news for 20 mins. Just no need for it. Most folk listening at that time would have been for the football not a revolution going on in Chad or wherever

So for 20 mins you were fucked not knowing what the latest score was until the immortal words "we welcome back listeners from the BBC world service..." were uttered....
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Left Oz after working in Townsville for two years and did the route back through SE Asia, India and Africa..the SW radio and World Service were wonderful in 1990 and a time when the BBC was a decent Corporation. It was the music that I remember most.
 
When I lived in England if I was listening to the Saturday afternoon sports programme I enjoyed that moment every week when the announcer said "now we welcome listeners around the world to ..." Usually it was for the start of the second half of a match. I'd imagine folks in far-off outposts of empire tuning in to a crackling and static-filled commentary from foggy Middlesbrough or similar and getting sentimental about home while outside the restless natives were rioting in in the streets.

Now I can watch games live with a plate of bacon butties and get sentimental about home while still the restless natives ...
 
Berts Neck said:
Left Oz after working in Townsville for two years and did the route back through SE Asia, India and Africa..the SW radio and World Service were wonderful in 1990 and a time when the BBC was a decent Corporation. It was the music that I remember most.
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I worked at a kids activity camp near Bowral, NSW for 6 months. I could sometimes get the Sydney radio station SKY which simply broadcasted Radio 2 - if the wind was blowing from Sydney in my direction but mostly I relied on BBC World Service.
Over the Xmas period the camp hired a new chef and as we all went away for a few days over Xmas, the Chef turned up and then fucked off with most possessions and equipment we all had - including my double cassette stereo with SW (had my Smiths compilation tape in it as well the bastard!).

I pounded the streets of Sydney looking for a cassette player that had SW and none did. Finally I found one and the woman was delighted to tell me but then didn't understand when I said "no" because it was a Sharp brand......
I left the shop and spent ages thinking about it and went back in and bought it......
 
Berts Neck said:
Left Oz after working in Townsville for two years and did the route back through SE Asia, India and Africa..the SW radio and World Service were wonderful in 1990 and a time when the BBC was a decent Corporation. It was the music that I remember most.
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I thought the shipping forecast was making a comeback then.
 
Also when i was working in Europe in the 80s I would get radio 4 if the weather was favourable. The scores would crackle through and I would either celebrate or drown my sorrows. One tune I always remember waking up to after a session was the shipping forecast. Great memories of being an isolated City fan abroad
 
awest said:
Also when i was working in Europe in the 80s I would get radio 4 if the weather was favourable. The scores would crackle through and I would either celebrate or drown my sorrows. One tune I always remember waking up to after a session was the shipping forecast. Great memories of being an isolated City fan abroad
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Not actually City related, but what the heck. I remember when the Falklands was happening I was in Holland learning Dutch with the nuns in Zwijndrecht (ja, echt) and I used to pop out at lunchtime to sit in the car listening to the World Service news in the car radio. Happy days. Not the war obviously, or the nuns for that matter. But simpler times ....
 
halfcenturyup said:
Not actually City related, but what the heck. I remember when the Falklands was happening I was in Holland learning Dutch with the nuns in Zwijndrecht (ja, echt) and I used to pop out at lunchtime to sit in the car listening to the World Service news in the car radio. Happy days. Not the war obviously, or the nuns for that matter. But simpler times ....
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Dutch nuns? I think I’ve seen that film
 
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