Sports papers

[linedancer16]

Does anybody remember the sports papers published on Saturday evening many years ago. They gave all the football results etc in the days when not everyone had a tv. As a child in West Yorks in the 50s I used to be sent up to the 'paper shop' to get the paper and there was always a queue. They were different colours and you could get either a' green 'un' or' a pink 'un' as we used to say. One was published by the Yorkshire Evening Post but I cant remember which colour that was or who published the other or what their proper titles were. Can anybody help please!?

[boxtops]

I don't remember that, but I remember that the inside back page of the Daily Express on Saturday used to have a big list of all that day's fixtures, and we had to be very quiet at 5 pm when all the football results came onto Sports Report on the BBC Home Service, when my dad used to copy down the results as they were read on the radio. I never knew if he did the pools but I suspect not, but he always wrote down those results.

[Mamyalynne]

In the Bolton area we had 'The Buff'

[linedancer16]

I can remember listening to the results on the radio but my Dad checked his pools when the paper arrived. Some times we had to wait out side a few minutes if the delivery was delayed. It sounds as if each area had their own version! Thanks.

[joeluke]

It was the 'Pink Final' where I grew up, a quickly cobbled together results paper which only had about 8 pages

[linedancer16]

Yes, they must have been put together and printed very quickly . They were on sale within a couple of hours of the matches ending!

[ichkeria]

Many of them, such as "Ireland's Saturday Night" only ceased publication very recently (in the case of ISN in 2008).
A sad, but I guess inevitable, loss

[Hopkirk]

In Brum it was the Sports Argus, printed in pink.

[linedancer16]

Thanks everyone! How things change and what uneventful things you remember from your past. I was just thinking about this at teatime after the football results which jogged my memory!

[micmak]

I live in W YKS. Where are you linedancer?

[mightyWBA]

We used to have the Sports Argus Hopkirk...Or the pink 'un...Shame they stopped printing it really as it had all the local non league footie in it as well.

They printed it in Blue once when West Brom played Birmingham in the 1931 F A Cup Final ,thanks to my Grandad I've got a copy of that :-)

[linedancer16]

Evening micmak! I'm in Mirfield now but born and bred in Dewsbury (at one time I had to explain where that was but after events in the last few years everybody knows now) Where are you?

[micmak]

Born in London, lived in many places including Salisbury and Northampton. I moved to W Y in 1986. South of Leeds.

[sandyRoe]

In Belfast the sports paper was a late edition of the Telegraph. We called it The Ulster

[Captin Kirk]

same as Hopkirk said.

[sandyRoe]

What happened to the Perry Barr dog track in Brum?

[linedancer16]

You're not too far from me then. I'ts good to know there's other Yorkshire folk on here. (even adopted ones!)

[Captin Kirk]

Dog track is still going. And Hall Green.