Stroller
08-20-2013, 04:46 PM
Before the Internet, newsfeeds and blogs. No Sky, just BBC and ITV.
Papers really only reported after games. Go to the ground and get a programme to see the team, then hear changes over the loudspeaker.
Remember going once as a kid and the announcer gave out a name nobody knew. Turned out to be some bloke signed from Wolves the previous day.
Football was for Saturday afternoons. In between nothing much but to jaw about the last game with your mates.
Now it's 24x7 micro-analysis, opinions, opinions, opinions with faux experts handing out judgments like confetti, fans wound up and at each other throats a lot of the time.
Papers really only reported after games. Go to the ground and get a programme to see the team, then hear changes over the loudspeaker.
Remember going once as a kid and the announcer gave out a name nobody knew. Turned out to be some bloke signed from Wolves the previous day.
Football was for Saturday afternoons. In between nothing much but to jaw about the last game with your mates.
Now it's 24x7 micro-analysis, opinions, opinions, opinions with faux experts handing out judgments like confetti, fans wound up and at each other throats a lot of the time.