I wasnât aware of this but a quick Netscape says it happened in 2020.
As we all know, as you get older, time becomes a diminished currency. Last year now means 2012. A few years ago means 2001.
Five years ago is 1995. I canât believe itâs that long ago.
They havenât been really.
Only since Covid did the highlights really become a thing on YouTube.
Nobody young watches tv in a traditional manner anymore.
Why record match of the day when you can just watch the highlights on you tube on your phone.
The only show in town when it comes to addiction is gambling unfortunately.
Nobody really wants to hear about drink or drug addictions anymore.
You are probably right, sadly.
Gambling is booming now with young fellas with a trade or working on building sites having plenty of disposable income. With more gambling comes more addiction and the accompanying problems.
Drink still outweighs them all but itâs almost ignored now.
Weird I was talking to a lad who said youâd walk into a paddy powers in the mid 00s and have 250 each way on a yoke at a price.
If you tried that now youâd end up in handcuffs Iâd say.
I guess soccer betting on phones is popular but itâs dead on racing.
Itâs actually starting to cost bookmakers money to offer odds on horse racing.
I dont recognise addiction in its current guise.
Itâs a cheap out a lot of the time.
Whatâs sold to us as a problem is generally just a symptom of something much deeper.
Screensport died because of the constantly shit reception.
In November 1986 during a childish tantrum over something, probably the result of a Masterteam '86 quarter-final, I pushed over our silver Hitachi television, which weâd had since about 1984, the television fell onto the floor off a table about three feet high. The television did not shatter, and still âworkedâ when it was put back up on the table, but the top quarter of the screen was now filled with a black horizontal straight band, obscuring the picture. We lived with this obscured picture through momentous events like Gary Mackayâs goal and Ireland beating England in Stuttgart (we probably didnât even see the ball going into the net) and the aftermath of the Lockerbie bomb and the Kegworth air crash.
Eventually a few days later in January 1989 my Mam got fed up of this obscured picture and counted the pennies and brought the television down to the local Beirne Electric who were able to remove the black band and restore the screen, however a slight âburnâ mark remained where the edge of the black band had been. I think the first major sporting event I watched on this now restored picture was Jocky Wilson beating Eric Bristow in the 1989 World Darts Final.
This restored picture with the horizontal burn mark remained the case until the sellotape and brown packaging tape and what have you which had been holding the television together since 1995 fell apart in March 1998 and so rather than face further risk of electrocution it was decided we would finally get a new television, which debuted for the edition of Match Of The Day featuring a 3-3 draw between Spurs and Liverpool in which Paul Ince scored an overhead kick. It really was a new world, sort of at least as weâd had a small 10 inch or 12 inch Grundig in the corner of the other room since about November 1991, which was the first time I ever experienced the utter magic of teletext. That really was a new world.
Iâd never watch anything on a phone. Theyâre the opposite of convenient. Theyâre annoying and heartbreaking.
Youâre from a different generation !
Whatever about addiction, this depression craze is the biggest cod going.
âI think Iâm depressedâ
âWhatâs wrong with you?â
âMy relationship broke down/I didnât get that job or promotion I went for/my dog died/Iâm a coeliacâ.
Half the country is depressed going by that logic.
I wish i had the energy to take you up on that fully but youâre absolutely correct.
We have psychologized every aspect of life.
By that i mean weve tried to quantify something thatâs not quantifiable- mental health.
Itâs not truly measurable.
But by putting a one size fits all tag on it weâve lumped any personal anguish under this umbrella. People get anxious and a little down about perfectly normal things - interviews, exams, relationships. Itâs all normal- your âmental healthâ isnât bad.
In trying to remove the pain from everything in society weve actually created more. You canât teach things like history now without asking people how it made them feel because there was slavery in the worldâŚ
By making something quantifiable you can also medicate it and produce a range of expetrs who can monetize it
Before Soccer Saturday existed, teletext was a great way of keeping up to date with the football scores.
What youâd do was youâd put on page 303 on Ceefax, youâd wait the 40 seconds for that to come around. Youâd see a depressing scoreline like Sheffield Wednesday 1 Liverpool 0 Hirst 62. Then youâd flick up to page 308 where the Scottish latest scores would be, youâd enter â308â and then watch as the page numbers flicked around slowly to a point where the page would update. Then youâd repeat this process 20 times from 4:25pm onwards, sitting there like a zombie.
My favourite Ceefax memory was one day in October 1996 when Celtic were only drawing 0-0 with Motherwell and I was relentlessly re-loading Ceefax page 308 hoping it would change. I couldnât get Scottish radio reception that day. It had reached 4:56pm and I was about to give up, but I continued refreshing the page like a slack jawed zombie. Eventually it got to 4:59pm and on my last zombie refresh effort it changed from Celtic 0 Motherwell 0 to Celtic 1 Motherwell 0 Van Hooydonk 90 and I leapt up and ran out the back fist pumping like a Waterford hurler.
Great, great times.
It was. I still think it would serve a purpose and was disappointed when it was done away with at the end of the 2012/13 season. It meant you didnât have to stay up until near midnight watching MOTD too because the Irish coverage was at a reasonable time of about half 7. They shouldâve lost âAgainst The Headâ and retained the Premier League coverage.
Was it 336 which would give you the in vision score updates meaning you coii to pd watch what was on bbc1 but get the vidiprinter/tickertape at the bottom of the screen.
2001-2004 I think.
The live 3pm kick-off was great. They showed that 2-2 draw between Liverpool and Spurs and the 1-0 the following season where Harry Kewell scored the winner. The Premier Sports coverage has now basically inherited that 3pm game so we still get to hear Kenny Cunningham, Damien Delaney et all.
Sami Hyypia scored a lovely equaliser on the half-volley anyway. Though that was for 2-2. I had to leave shortly after that for a hurling match.
I canât recall too many of the games.
Bolton beat Arsenal 2-0. Some lad called diop or something scored from a header.
Page 336 was beyond my technological capability.
I enjoyed the music pages, particularly the Aertel and Channel 4 ones which would give you music reviews and there would be letters pages - people would actually write hand written letters to the editors of teletext music pages - and youâd have witty retorts from âEdâ. The editors of these teletext music pages would be gloriously pompous and snide in their music taste, a bit like @farmerinthecity on steroids.
Channel 4 teletext didnât work very well though. It would crawl and there often would be lots of letters missing on the page, making the text appear like a heroin addictâs (or a Waterford hurlerâs) front teeth.
â˘Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool (Spring 2005)
â˘Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool (Spring 2005)
â˘Man Utd beating Blackburn in 2006/07. Park Ji Sung scored.
â˘Man City 0-0 Liverpool (April 2007)
â˘Wigan 0-4 Liverpool (December 2006)
â˘Arsenal v Reading and Portsmouth at the new Emirates in 2006/07.
â˘West Brom staying up on the final day of the season with a 2-0 (against Pompey I think) in 2005.
⢠Man Utd 1-2 Blackburn (September 2005). I think this was on RTà but I only saw a little bit of it due to a soccer match.
â˘Chelsea 4-0 Norwich (November 2004).
â˘Spurs 5-2 Everton (January 2005).
â˘Southampton winning a game 4-3 near the end of the 2004-05 season. Think it was against Norwich. I was irked that Liverpool 1-1 Boro wasnât chosen instead.
⢠I think Boro 1-0 Liverpool (autumn 2004) was also live.
â˘Man Utd v Reading 2006-07.
I have an incredible memory for old sports matches. Can remember all of those off the top of my head.
This game. At about 1:25 there is the most hilarious computer game style goalkeeping brain fart by Gordon Marshall. He comes way out of his goal over to the left hand âchannelâ, receives a back bass and then computer football style inexplicably runs over the ball. Future Rangers cunt Lee McCulloch then runs in behind him to where the ball is, presumably expecting to score, but before McCulloch can reach the ball Marshall performs a WWF style clothesline crossed with a rugby tackle and hauls him brutally to the ground. Marshall is sent off.
As Jimmy Greaves used to say, âScottish goalkeepersâ.