Magic times, had to stay silent with my dad. 'Cause mum was on night shift'!..... Grandstand, World of Sport & Saturday Matinee..... Couldn't be better.....
Love that Grandstand music. Reminds me how wonderful Saturday’s were as kid in the 70s. Swap Shop in the morning followed by Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Out on my bike with my mates after dinner then back home in time for final score and tea. Generation Game , Doctor Who and Starsky and Hutch before bed. Lovely.
Sitting here with a Guiness on a rainy Sunday in Eastern Poland, i live here. A stew in on the boil, after going out to the markets. it’s raining out and strangely cold for late May. Had childhood flashbacks and suddenly thought of the vidiprinter and heard the sound... memories of 5pm in West Bromwich with Mum’s Irish family and the telly in the corner. Saturdays had a special feel, as did Sunday.
This was my Saturday afternoon every other week when I wasn’t at the football. The vidi-Printer was torture in the times before goal alerts. Des Lynam as super smooth and witty as you could possibly get....
The Sunday game finished West Ham 2 Man United 1. West Ham went on to finish 3rd that season. I'm a West Ham fan and this is the first season I've got memories of. I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to my first game in 87. The following season in 88/89 my dad got me and my brothers season tickets. In that season we were relegated.
I reckon that was the last time Ipswich beat Liverpool, for a while. We were relegated may 86. Back up in 92 I think. Then down again till.2000. happy days for town fans.
Don't forget Little and Large, and Bob's Full House were often on on a Saturday night on BBC1 back in the day. Buck Rodgers and 3-2-1 too, but that was the ITV. Saturday's today are not a patch on Saturday's back in the day, no matter what time of day or night you're comparing, and not just because there's not an action packed weekly 5 hour sports show on BBC1 and the ITV nowadays.
Has to be said Des was not a patch on David Coleman when it came to the vidi printer. Check out Coleman even as late as 1984 on YT reeling off memorized stats as the results came through.
Indeed, it's crazy to see the time of the final scores coming in. Half time was between 10-15 and little added time, would have only been one sub allowed compared to the three now. That said I do wonder about the whether the clock was off by a couple of minutes. 1641 is incredibly early for the then 1st division. My memory is that Scottish lower leagues were always from approx 1642 with the English leagues nearer 1645
Most games would only have around 10-15 minutes for half time, it certainly wasn't set in stone at 20 minutes like it is now. I think it was at each clubs discretion within reason.
West Ham United v Manchester United was live on ITV the following day 2 February and a month later would make TV Football history by meeting at the same ground in the first FA Cup replay to be shown live on TV only because the latter was postponed from the original midweek date 19 February to March 9 which was 6th Round weekend and ITV were meant to show the 6th Round tie between the winners of the tie and Sheffield Wednesday
Even though these games were played almost 40 years ago, I found myself waiting with bated breath to find out my team's (Leeds Utd) score. Then cheering to discover it was a thumping 4-0 win!
When I was a kid Des & his GF used to come to my mums & stepdads house for dinner parties, and used to play football with his son, or stepson or something. Oh the memories, and seeing BHAFC being beaten after 4 wins. Born & bred BHA.
The old springfield park remember it well having been there often. Was there one day in Feb 83 when your arch rivals put 5 past Wigan with a certain Alan Ball in the Rovers side. remember him coming off at full time and saying to the crowd was that good enough for you...
Don't suppose you have any of the snooker coverage at all? I remember watching it on this particular episode of Grandstand back in the day and would love to see it again.
That's why I was saying earlier that I wish I had kept a short diary! Did I see my team at Mansfield? What was the name of that Girl? Did I see certain groups? At 66 the lines get slightly blurred....:)
You knew you're club had finally achieved greatness when the vidi-printer ahad your team's score spelled out in brackets Celtic 8 (EIGHT) Hamilton Academical 3 3pm KO games finishing at 4:42pm on a Saturday. A lot of them finish after 5pm now
Ah yes. I was wondering why West Ham wasn't mentioned until I see they played Man Utd on the Sunday, live on tele too if I remember right and a big 2-1 home win.
Saturday afternoons were much more enjoyably spent with the suave, stylish Dickie Davies than with his BBC rival and moustachioed lookalike Des Lynam, even if 'World of Sport' was usually pretty much devoid of actual sport.
This doesn’t make sense. Unless the games kicked off before 3pm, how could the games finish just after 4 40? When factoring in added on time and half time
@@robertprees603 Yes I remember hearing about Wolves 1980's decline, The catalyst was the rebuild of the Molineux Street stand and the early 1980's British recession
Not watched this yet. Just about to. As far as I remember you had to predict score draws. I think eight score draws could see you get the magic million. We used to do it in the eighties.
Pools were like the lottery, you had to predict score draws for 3 points each, home win for 1 point, no score draw 2 points and away win for 1 1/2 points with the aim to get 24 points. 8 score draws instant jackpot. You picked 10 matches on a slip and you could play more than one line. This day was poor as there were so many score draws it meant there would be quite a few potential winners meaning the pot would be smaller for each person, like multiple lottery winners sharing jackpot.
@@lordvaderofearth7422 I used to deliver and collect the football pools near where I lived as a schoolboy and I never really understood what it was all about, but I think you've hit the nail on the head! The coupons also used to have Spot the ball attached sometimes which was a little easier to understand but probably harder to win.
BGB yeah the spot the ball was a bastard. You cannot believe how precise you had to be to win. Where the lines of the x meet that had to be bang in the centre of the ball if it was even a millimetre out you didn’t win. You could buy a special stamp that had 10 x’s on it instead of doing it by hand as you would have virtually no chance by hand. Just like you I also delivered and collect them. I got a whole 1 pound for my troubles. About 4 hours work over 2 days. Haha.
Hartlepool 3 Burnley 1. Burnley fan here. I used to wish for mediocrity. I am happy tonight - writing this after us beating Rotherham 3 - 2 after 100 minutes...
The days when Saturdays and Saturday TV were special.
I agree. 👍
Wrestling on itv then football results
That was 1996 haha
Magic times, had to stay silent with my dad. 'Cause mum was on night shift'!..... Grandstand, World of Sport & Saturday Matinee..... Couldn't be better.....
@crazyclive ah I see must be thinking years earlier then
Love that Grandstand music. Reminds me how wonderful Saturday’s were as kid in the 70s. Swap Shop in the morning followed by Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Out on my bike with my mates after dinner then back home in time for final score and tea. Generation Game , Doctor Who and Starsky and Hutch before bed. Lovely.
Tiswaz?
@@lawrencesimmons5093 preferred Swap Shop but at least Tiswas had the lovely Sally James!
@@SirGeorgeButtox 😍😍😍
Love it. Sounds exactly the same as my Saturday as a kid. Loved it!!
Stop. It's too painful. You're right though - fantastic era to grow up.
Des Lynam wrapping up Grandstand to the theme from Miami Vice.
Yep - life WAS good.
Sitting here with a Guiness on a rainy Sunday in Eastern Poland, i live here. A stew in on the boil, after going out to the markets. it’s raining out and strangely cold for late May. Had childhood flashbacks and suddenly thought of the vidiprinter and heard the sound... memories of 5pm in West Bromwich with Mum’s Irish family and the telly in the corner. Saturdays had a special feel, as did Sunday.
golden days how i miss them
Me 2
Looking in the TV shop window to catch the football results, what a buzz that gave you. Nothing like that nowadays 😩⚽️👍🏼
Before the internet information age when this is all we had. It's like waiting for pictures to come in from the Mars rover lol.
I remember we got a teletext capable tv in 1990 and thinking I was living in the future!
Yeah, waiting for the Ceefax page to change with baited breath to see if the result had changed, lol.
This was my Saturday afternoon every other week when I wasn’t at the football. The vidi-Printer was torture in the times before goal alerts. Des Lynam as super smooth and witty as you could possibly get....
SuperHoggster there was always ceefax.
Des Lynam, like the horse Desert Orchid. Fast, grey, 😉always goes the distance.
@@danoneill8026 Rory Bremner?!☺️
Des was class on tv
Loved that, so many memories of my childhood at weekends 👍
Brings back great memories
The Sunday game finished West Ham 2 Man United 1. West Ham went on to finish 3rd that season.
I'm a West Ham fan and this is the first season I've got memories of. I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to my first game in 87. The following season in 88/89 my dad got me and my brothers season tickets. In that season we were relegated.
Loved those Saturdays as a kid wish they could return some of these young ones wouldn't appreciate them
Newcastle 3, Coventry City 2. Goals by Beardsley, Allon and Wharton. Coventry goals by Regis and Brazil. A young Gazza played for the Toon that day.
Des was a smooth operator wasn't he ?
Clydebank in the Scottish premier league, holding leaders Hearts 1-1, seems like a diffirent lifetime.
Hearts? They couldn't beat a team of drunken cats right now.
Every weekend game taking place every Saturday afternoon at 3pm as it should always have been.
Jan Hammer's 'Miami Vice' theme playing over the closing headlines.
Great video! Ahh the nostalgia!
Ipswich 2 Liverpool 1...always a tough place to go, in the late 70s-mid 80s. Still we did end up doing the double that year ⚽️😎
I reckon that was the last time Ipswich beat Liverpool, for a while. We were relegated may 86. Back up in 92 I think. Then down again till.2000. happy days for town fans.
Ah man, this was all we had, no goal alerts, no way to look up scores, you had to sit and pray while waiting for your teams score to come through
or watch Ceefax
@@neilogden Who was it who sdaid that the best way to watch Wimbledon was on Ceefax?
20:07 I'll definitely be tuning into BBC 1 at 9:20pm to watch a bit of Steve Davis v Jimmy White.
The guy reading the football results on Grandstand is Len Martin.
I didn't then and I don't now (though I was only 10 in 1986), there was always something quite 'hypnotic' with the results being read out!
Absolutely great days and my teams Chester and Everton both top of their leagues 👌🏼
Saturday's very special back in the day! Football scores basil brush doctor who the generation game and not forgetting world of sports wrestling
Don't forget Little and Large, and Bob's Full House were often on on a Saturday night on BBC1 back in the day. Buck Rodgers and 3-2-1 too, but that was the ITV.
Saturday's today are not a patch on Saturday's back in the day, no matter what time of day or night you're comparing, and not just because there's not an action packed weekly 5 hour sports show on BBC1 and the ITV nowadays.
When do you ever see full time in the top division at 4:42 pm!! Brilliant
Back then half time was just 10 minutes.
@@bluebirdlegend Is that right? Thought it was always 15 mins.
It's injury time that's now 10 mins......
@@reddwarfer999 I think it was the late 1980s early 90s it changed from 10 to 15 minutes. Although in Scotland it may have always been 15?
Tell me it’s Saturday, without telling me it’s Saturday ❤🎉
Has to be said Des was not a patch on David Coleman when it came to the vidi printer. Check out Coleman even as late as 1984 on YT reeling off memorized stats as the results came through.
I was only 5 weeks old. Wolves on their way down to Division Four! What a season to be born!
absolutely brilliant memories ,❤️❤️
Indeed, it's crazy to see the time of the final scores coming in. Half time was between 10-15 and little added time, would have only been one sub allowed compared to the three now. That said I do wonder about the whether the clock was off by a couple of minutes. 1641 is incredibly early for the then 1st division. My memory is that Scottish lower leagues were always from approx 1642 with the English leagues nearer 1645
Most games would only have around 10-15 minutes for half time, it certainly wasn't set in stone at 20 minutes like it is now. I think it was at each clubs discretion within reason.
Those were the days back when most games were on a Saturday.
The classified results read out at more sedate pace compared to today. Nice to seen Derby pick up three points on their way to promotion from Div 3.
I loved that video printer thing. I remember when it looked like a typewriter
Telex machine
How about the horse racing results from way back. Seemed like they were handwritten and went through an overhead projector.
That text sound. Takes me back in time to my teens. All the family alive then.
West Ham United v Manchester United was live on ITV the following day 2 February and a month later would make TV Football history by meeting at the same ground in the first FA Cup replay to be shown live on TV only because the latter was postponed from the original midweek date 19 February to March 9 which was 6th Round weekend and ITV were meant to show the 6th Round tie between the winners of the tie and Sheffield Wednesday
Not true - several FA Cup replays were shown live in the 1955/56 season
Chelsea v Burnley, Bedford v Arsenal and West Ham v Tottenham
I forgot that Aberdeen legend Duncan Shearer used to play for Chelsea
We got through a load of Scottish strikers around then. Billy Dodds too.
Aberdeen leg end more like 😂
Swindon Town legend also 😉
We signed him at Blackburn, utter sh**e. Got a decent Shearer after that though!
I actually tutted and cursed when the Ipswich v L'pool result went through!!!, christ I've got it bad!
Even though these games were played almost 40 years ago, I found myself waiting with bated breath to find out my team's (Leeds Utd) score. Then cheering to discover it was a thumping 4-0 win!
Future Cheltenham gold cup winner Desert Orchid 2nd at the 3.35 race at Sandown at 18:43
In the 80s David Davies, later head at FA, was a match reporter on grandstand
I was at the Wales rugby match that day and the Cardiff match the previous night
I can just about make out "Torture" by King playing over the PA at Portman Road during Gerald Sinstadt's report.
1st February 1986 when King’s final hit Torture was in the charts.
A young looking Des hosting Grandstand in its glory days.
How early the matches finished. The difference stoppage time and ad breaks for foreign TV makes these days, matches finish close to 5pm!
Half time was only ten minutes back then too. Fifteen nminutes nowadays
It has nothing to do with “foreign TV”…..
Peter Reid, love it.
Miserable sod
I miss those days.
When I was a kid Des & his GF used to come to my mums & stepdads house for dinner parties, and used to play football with his son, or stepson or something.
Oh the memories, and seeing BHAFC being beaten after 4 wins. Born & bred BHA.
Wigan 1 Bristol City 1. I was on a BCFC trip from London for that. Wonderful day out.
The old springfield park remember it well having been there often. Was there one day in Feb 83 when your arch rivals put 5 past Wigan with a certain Alan Ball in the Rovers side. remember him coming off at full time and saying to the crowd was that good enough for you...
Money has football ruined in today's game big teams keep getting bigger and stuff the rest that's the way it is
Your not wrong
Tiny Tim yep 👍
Was this len Martin Reading the scores,great tones,along with des!
On final score results, you could close your eyes and determine each result by the tone of his voice (try it 🙂)
Ffs, Oxford let me down for a treble 😟
Don't suppose you have any of the snooker coverage at all? I remember watching it on this particular episode of Grandstand back in the day and would love to see it again.
Sorry, besides about 30 seconds of ice skating that's all that was on this tape
Everton top of the league 👍👍👍
Liverpool went on to win the double though.
Miami Vice Theme????? Genius.
Chances are I was at that Maidstone win against Frickley
That's why I was saying earlier that I wish I had kept a short diary!
Did I see my team at Mansfield? What was the name of that Girl? Did I see certain groups? At 66 the lines get slightly blurred....:)
These Grandstand titles would be replaced later in the year with the 1986/92 racetrack titles
Up the Town!!!
Seems a life time away from today's mess.
Where did you find this? My 35 year old lad was just 1.
Time machine please.
Propper voice for the job!!
The sound of the vidiprinter was Saturday afternoon
I always wanted East Fife 5 Forfar 4 to happen!
It did once
There was a cup game when they played that ended 1-1 & then 5-4 on penalties.
Paddy K that’s brilliant
ruclips.net/video/vC80DKlrTlQ/видео.html
Or was it the other way around?
East Fife 4, Forfar 5 ???
How come the games are over at 4.43 was it only 10 minutes break between halves?
Yes
You knew you're club had finally achieved greatness when the vidi-printer ahad your team's score spelled out in brackets
Celtic 8 (EIGHT) Hamilton Academical 3
3pm KO games finishing at 4:42pm on a Saturday. A lot of them finish after 5pm now
Beautiful
Ah yes. I was wondering why West Ham wasn't mentioned until I see they played Man Utd on the Sunday, live on tele too if I remember right and a big 2-1 home win.
18:33 “None of us will get rich this week, which means I will be back here next week!”
20:55 “… and BOND IS BACK - John that is”
When football all kicked off on Saturday, 3:00pm.
Totally disrespecting the Irish Cup. Distillery is an awesome team name.
Southern counties athletics in Peterborough?
"Don't bother ringing up... None of us'll get rich this week." 😂
Makes me nostalgic watching this. The days before Shiekhs, Billionaire Russians and Billionaire Yanks came in and destroyed the game
3 0 wins for both Nuneaton and Bedworth, the day that Warwickshire ruled the footy
Saturday afternoons were much more enjoyably spent with the suave, stylish Dickie Davies than with his BBC rival and moustachioed lookalike Des Lynam, even if 'World of Sport' was usually pretty much devoid of actual sport.
Go to see Tottenham losing and not having a shot on target
Arsenal win, Spurs lose, Liverpool lose, what's not to like?
Why did they stop the coupon? Anyone know?
The swines cut off the last 20 secs of the closing credits. No respect.
And they didnt show the bottom half of division 4 i wonder who was the bottom 2
You can tell the result from the announcers tone of voice
Good old days
This doesn’t make sense. Unless the games kicked off before 3pm, how could the games finish just after 4 40? When factoring in added on time and half time
Dishy Des looking well there
Great comeback for Yeovil there
Jackpot hi eight score draws 24 points
Desert Orchid got beaten?!?
Forgot they used the theme from Miami Vice, for closing headlines 😂
Torquay, the bottom club, beating the second bottom club. Shades of 1996 - Branfoot out, and the Adams family era begins.
I have absolutely no interest in sport but I remember that printer sound!
Even better when we had the old teleprinter clack-clacking away in the 1960s! And of course David Coleman presiding.
It should never have been axed its how the bbc lost the horse racing contract to be fair. Time to bring back grandstand
The dark ages only one step up from newspapers the next day. Radio was the best way to get free live sport till very recently
Have u got anymore
Wolverhampton 0 Bolton 2, those wern't the day, Back to the future, We are an established Premier League team.😊
The Villa boys. Still struggling to beat southampton at home after all these years
Who would've thought seeing Wolves bottom of the old Div 3
They went down from that league as well dropped from top flight to all they way down to division 4 in successive seasons.
@@robertprees603 Yes I remember hearing about Wolves 1980's decline, The catalyst was the rebuild of the Molineux Street stand and the early 1980's British recession
I remember watching them lose 3-0 at Colchester in the old Division 4 the following season.
That Colchester match was my first match. I was 8 year's old. They've come a long way since.
Bring back Littlewoods!!
haha I never did understand the Pools - not even why it was so-called. Why was this day such a poor day for punters?
Not watched this yet. Just about to. As far as I remember you had to predict score draws. I think eight score draws could see you get the magic million. We used to do it in the eighties.
Pools were like the lottery, you had to predict score draws for 3 points each, home win for 1 point, no score draw 2 points and away win for 1 1/2 points with the aim to get 24 points. 8 score draws instant jackpot. You picked 10 matches on a slip and you could play more than one line. This day was poor as there were so many score draws it meant there would be quite a few potential winners meaning the pot would be smaller for each person, like multiple lottery winners sharing jackpot.
I remember being confused too as a young kid. I visualised my mum in a swimming cap! A bit like the kid in the advert confusing taxes with taxis.
@@lordvaderofearth7422 I used to deliver and collect the football pools near where I lived as a schoolboy and I never really understood what it was all about, but I think you've hit the nail on the head! The coupons also used to have Spot the ball attached sometimes which was a little easier to understand but probably harder to win.
BGB yeah the spot the ball was a bastard. You cannot believe how precise you had to be to win. Where the lines of the x meet that had to be bang in the centre of the ball if it was even a millimetre out you didn’t win. You could buy a special stamp that had 10 x’s on it instead of doing it by hand as you would have virtually no chance by hand. Just like you I also delivered and collect them. I got a whole 1 pound for my troubles. About 4 hours work over 2 days. Haha.
Hartlepool 3 Burnley 1. Burnley fan here. I used to wish for mediocrity. I am happy tonight - writing this after us beating Rotherham 3 - 2 after 100 minutes...
20:45 Peter Reid has a teletubby heed!
I always got confused between Des and Dickie Davies
8,000 at Villa Park that day. Grim.
Des sounding like he doesn't give a rats arse about Glentoran v Distillery haha
Des is Irish
I know... just like the way he said about the score...Glentoran are northern Ireland Des was born Republic of Ireland
Do you know in all those years I genuinely assumed he was from The South Coast and born there...lo