You used to have to phone a number for news and rumours? I caught the arse end of Ceefax but phoning a phone number for news and rumours is so alien to me. Mad how fast things change.
Brilliant. I'm 22 so as I say, I just about caught the end of Ceefax. I used to love going though the transfer rumours and the live scores. I remember that anticipation as you waited for the pages to move around on the timer until it reached City, only for us to be linked to an absolute dud or see that we're getting another beating.There was a bit of a crossover actually. There was a page on Ceefax, can't remember the number, I'm sure some other blues will, that gave you the ClubCall headlines. It was the pre-internet version of the Transfer Forum I suppose! It would give you a headline next to your clubs name with transfer speculation. I always used to check that out, but never phoned up because I'd have been thrown out of the house!
The closest I came to ringing was when we were linked with David Platt. He was England captain at the time and playing for Juventus. There was rumours at the time that he was a boyhood City fan, but that, and seemingly the speculation, turned out to be bollocks!
me too.got bollocked many times for using the works phone to call
me too.
it used to have live commentary on a sat too,or was that just away games?
Anyway it was a nightmare when we beat plymouth 6-2 at their place, spent a fortune, and every time i rang CC the scoreline had changed. didn,t know weather i was coming or going.crazy.
That was a fucking nightmare, especially getting info for away games, they usually had the next home game(s) first - irrelevant to a S/T holder - so by the time they got to away ticket info the bill was through the roof!I'm sure they used to do a ticket information line as well 10 minutes listening to crap before they actually told you what you needed to know ,but you had to ring it because the oticket office never answered the phone
great story that mate, i was at the game,in the original maine road family stand,couldn,t believe my eyes...think the 10-1 match was just before the plymouth 6-2..we could not stop scoring for that brief,ever so exciting period of fantasy football...er..down in the old second division.Most of us of a certain age got a bollocking at some point for calling clubcall, especially in our house as soon as itemised bills came in, there used to be an inquisition over any number my mum didnt claim as being her, my old man would want to know who was responsible for whatever number was over his 50p limit, he couldnt understand why anyone would need to be on the phone that long. He always used to ask things like "and you calling that number, did it make Wayne Biggins sign for us any quicker?" and this young lad never had a response.
I wasnt at Maine road for the 10-1 against Huddersfield, I remember there was a family celebration that day, the house infected with rags, I wasnt allowed the radio on as it was antisocial, so was restricted to Ceefax/Teletext in the background, with the sound off the telly. I was told in no uncertain terms by my dad not to go off calling clubcall on the sly for score updates. It was as good as you got from Ceefax updates, nice regular goals to make it 4-0 at halftime, amongst the usual rag sneering my brother and uncle were quite chipper saying we'll have 10 by the end of that one, well Ceefax originally used to go off 5-10 mins from the end of the game, you had to go to full time results (I wasnt even allowed the vidi printer for updates) and it stopped updating at 6-0 to City, job done. Whilst sitting waiting for the final score to come through only watching Ceefax and not being really involved in the family bash, the rags went into their usual bollocks of talking us down. So the celebration when 10 came up was something to behold, the rags having to endure us all giving them shit, after there had been a few comments about us never scoring 10 who did we think we were.
Kids today dont know they are born.