The MEN Pink

[BuryBlue1977]

My mum used to work for The MEN and on a Saturday she used to work for The Pink. She used to type up the reports on a match day. Usually she’d be doing Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Bolton or Bury. Occasionally she’d do a City game. Great memories of distant times.

 

[eyalluvitt]

East Fife is in Methil ( mentioned in Letter From America).
Raith is an area in Kirkcaldy (also in Fife).

Only an Ederson punt away then , I’m Leven on a jet plane

 

[Franny 1234]

Is my memory playing tricks with me.
Did it have the next days horse racing in it too. CTID

 

[eyalluvitt]

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

 

[eyalluvitt]

Eating a Charcoal grill dog burger with extra onions with inky black fingers after reading the freshly printed pink, ahhhhhh the good old days

 

[bluegaz13]

Pretty much how I learned to do the job.

I trained at the MEN and the Pink was a fascinating insight in to how it got produced and the skills needed.

You would have to write a runner, which was essentially a middle body of colour/passage of play fluff, at half time, then the writer would have to file another couple hundred words on 3/4 time which was called the tail.

Whatever else happened between then and the final whistle, you had to fit in to the intro and a few pars (called the top), which was essentially the entire story of the match right on the whistle.

One of the hardest things to do in football reporting when the crowd is going mad and goals are going in while you trying to read your report over the phone to a copytaker who would throw in plenty of typos.

I was taught to ad-lib mine by some of the old timers like Peter Gardner and David Meek.

Most younger 'reporters' now would drown under such demands without a laptop and cut and paste.

Probably why my adrenal glands were shot by the time I was 30!!

When newspapers were newspapers.

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

 

[BringBackSwales]

Eating a Charcoal grill dog burger with extra onions with inky black fingers after reading the freshly printed pink, ahhhhhh the good old days
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I miss that old place, even if I did used to fiddle the gates

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

I would read the pink from back to front as a kid. Great memory.
Remember listening to the radio think it was Piccadilly on away games. When there was a local team goal they said ITS A GOAL or if it was against it was OHHHH NO used to sit there with baited breath all nervous to hear which team. Happy memories.

Ahh. Piccadilly Radio.261 James H Reeve

 

[manclad]

Only an Ederson punt away then , I’m Leven on a jet plane

Don't know when I'll be back again!!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Pretty much how I learned to do the job.

I trained at the MEN and the Pink was a fascinating insight in to how it got produced and the skills needed.

You would have to write a runner, which was essentially a middle body of colour/passage of play fluff, at half time, then the writer would have to file another couple hundred words on 3/4 time which was called the tail.

Whatever else happened between then and the final whistle, you had to fit in to the intro and a few pars (called the top), which was essentially the entire story of the match right on the whistle.

One of the hardest things to do in football reporting when the crowd is going mad and goals are going in while you trying to read your report over the phone to a copytaker who would throw in plenty of typos.

I was taught to ad-lib mine by some of the old timers like Peter Gardner and David Meek.

Most younger 'reporters' now would drown under such demands without a laptop and cut and paste.

Probably why my adrenal glands were shot by the time I was 30!!

When newspapers were newspapers.

My man.