The MEN Pink

[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 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!

Woe betide if you got in the way of delaying the masses finding out that Carlisle had lost 2-1 at home to Leyton Orient..!

 

[eyalluvitt]

I miss that old place, even if I did used to fiddle the gates

In your Cuban heels?

 

[Bluechipblue]

That picture is great but where are the Johava’s Proclaiming the End is Nigh etc….

You've heard of 'pre raphaelite'? Well this is 'post apocalypse'.

 

[JGL07]

Didn't City get beaten 6-1 with Bert got sent off.for hurling the ball at the ref?

It was certainly a heavy defeat but Bert was not playing as Harry Dowd was in goals.

 

[yerwot?]

I Am amazed you used to chat with Billy Meredith, now he was a proper legend, I know he played for both City & United but I have heard he prefered City, did he ever mention anything interesting?

nah, pretty sardonic when we lost, just a nod if we had won. About what you would expect from someone in their late sixties/early seventies. When he played, players were more or less treated as pawns, owned by chairmen/business men, maximum wage was enforced, and he was a high-profile "agitator" for a better deal for the players. A subject he never mentioned, and never asked about tbf. This was long before "the million pound" transfer (trevor francis) era, and the tribalism that was to come to the terracees/fans....

 

[KS55]

I think it was the other way around.
The MEN was green and the Chronicle was Pink.
When the MEN bought / merged the two, they chose to have it the Pink as it was the more successful

Yes, that's my memory too.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

The smudged ink off a hot press. The insessant whining of Ted Knott, the Spot The Ball coupon, and the all too often woeful City score. Happy days...

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The smudged ink off a hot press. The insessant whining of Ted Knott, the Spot The Ball coupon, and the all too often woeful City score. Happy days...

You should friend Ted on facebook..... 0-0 at half time he is calling for Pep to be sacked!

 

[jonah62]

The smudged ink off a hot press. The insessant whining of Ted Knott, the Spot The Ball coupon, and the all too often woeful City score. Happy days...

..and a topless Miss Pink !!

 

[KS55]

It was certainly a heavy defeat but Bert was not playing as Harry Dowd was in goals.

Over on ITV, the late scores ticking across the bottom of the wrestling. Following the football at the same time as Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks at Dudley Town Hall was something you probably couldn’t get kids to believe you about nowadays

Les Kellet clowning.