Mikejee we all remember the Sports Argus. But there used to be the Blue Mail on a Saturday night. I remember uncle Alf giving me the money to go to the paper shop in School Rd at 5.55pm as if his life depended on it. It usually arrived about 6pm.
I was learnt to read by uncle Alf. I had to read all the match reports to him after I got home with the Sports Argus and Blue Mail.
And if you were really late (or little person) you got the paper from the top or bottom all scuffed up by the string!
). I really enjoyed hearing them talk about the great games of yesteryear and of the likes of Finney, Matthews and Billy Wright. Thirty odd years later on, I myself was standing by the counter at my local newsagents, talking with Alf and his other customers, about current and past games, waiting for The Sports Argus & Sporting Star, when they remained in publication. Happy past days and what a good read those papers were after the match.That’s it!
Alan, I think so as I remember. When I went to get it on the corner it was the pink one not the blue!
Yes. Sports Argus was pink, I think that was why the Mail version was Blue and known as the Blue Mail.
God am I that old. I saw Finney Matthews and Wright play.I used to wait at the Newsagents on a Saturday afternoon, with what I then thought were the "old men" (many of them were probably younger than I am now though, funny how everyone seems so much older when you are about 7 years old
TDL I'm assuming that was Albert Finney , Francis Matthews , and Ian Wright you're talking about ha ha
Cruyff now I thought he was the best of all time.
You are obviously young enough to remember the best international team of all time. Brazil 1970.
Aunt Lilian was a big Wolves fan so I got dragged around a lot of grounds when I was very young as my mother died when I was free.
Oh no win it again myself and Anthony Jinx were absolutely paralytic when the Final whistle went in 1966. In those days in the Channel Islands the pubs were open 11am till 11pm but closed all day Sunday, we had been in the pub since about 11.05. Then we had extra time. Pony Ale 11old pence a pint. Cigarettes we used to buy in 200s as no tax on them. Disque Blue and Gitanes French cigarettes. When we came back from the Channel Isles I had to go to the tobacco kiosk in Corporation St to get them Flints stores looked at me as if I was mental when I asked for them locally. As for 1970, 2.0 up against Germany and then we lose 2.3. Peter Bonetti in goal, was he a substitute.
