The MEN Pink

[dobingsdobber]

Pre mobile phones, pre the interweb. Sitting in the vault after the match, waiting for it to appear on the bar (a stack was delivered to the pub). Happy days.

Yep,rapidly followed by a bloke selling shellfish.Whenever he'd shout "prawns,cockles,mussels",my grandad used to reply "molluscs,bi-valves,gastropods".The fish man always shouted "fuck off" at him.

 

[Prater70]

Halcyon days of the Pink and Green. After reading the results from all four divisions and the Scottish as well, would move onto the local amateur Saturday matches also on the front page. Lancashire and Cheshire league, South Manchester and Wythenshawe, Chorlton League and the Boys club league and I think the Boys Brigade league. Seems everyone wanted to play in those days.

 

[Bluechipblue]

All those Grannies going mad at the front lol

You'd be going mad if there was some guy scrolling a football score ticker across your view of the wrestling.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Whatever happened to Peter Gardner….I remember he used to write the City books that came out in the late 60s early 70s

Didn't he use to travel to away games on the players till Howard Kendall banned him.
On the Pink we always used to check if Leslie Holt had had his letter printed as we lived on the Salford/Prestwich border. In those days they used to print full addresses with the letters and there was always talk that we would go and see where he lived but we never got round to it.
I also remember some of the other names that Mad Eyed Screamer mentioned and the journalists like Bryan Brett and Matt D'Arcy.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

The pink was another amazing childhood memory.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Didn't he use to travel to away games on the players till Howard Kendall banned him.
On the Pink we always used to check if Leslie Holt had had his letter printed as we lived on the Salford/Prestwich border. In those days they used to print full addresses with the letters and there was always talk that we would go and see where he lived but we never got round to it.
I also remember some of the other names that Mad Eyed Screamer mentioned and the journalists like Bryan Brett and Matt D'Arcy.

Bryan Brett came to a local supporters club meeting and I introduced myself to him as he edited the Pink Postbag. Told him I had many a fiver letter but the tenner letter always eluded me....
My next letter was the tenner letter ha ha ha
He was a great bloke (and not because of that incident!)

 

[Bill the Blue]

A cracking paper..

The news van screeching up outside the newsagents, side door sliding open, a bundle of football pinks deposited on the pavement, come rain or shine, tied together with string.

Gathered up and rushed into the shop, undone by the shop owner with a pocket penknife and dished out to a shop full of football fans, all with outstretched hands, one with the money to pay, the other to collect the pink..

Great days..!

 

[Blue and still suffering]

A cracking paper..

The news van screeching up outside the newsagents, side door sliding open, a bundle of football pinks deposited on the pavement, come rain or shine, tied together with string.

Gathered up and rushed into the shop, undone by the shop owner with a pocket penknife and dished out to a shop full of football fans, all with outstretched hands, one with the money to pay, the other to collect the pink..

Great days..!

As our newsagents was on a main road near a junction the van just slowed down. You didn't want to get in the way of a flying bubble of newspapers!

 

[Winchester]

You'd be going mad if there was some guy scrolling a football score ticker across your view of the wrestling.

No they were baying for blood

 

[Bluechipblue]

No they were baying for blood

I know. I should of put a 8- )