Who Will Take Over MOTD?

[Cheasty]

@Aertel220

•Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool (Spring 2005)
•Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool (Spring 2005)
•Man Utd beating Blackburn in 2006/07. Park Ji Sung scored.
•Man City 0-0 Liverpool (April 2007)
•Wigan 0-4 Liverpool (December 2006)
•Arsenal v Reading and Portsmouth at the new Emirates in 2006/07.
•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 RTÉ but I only saw a little bit of it due to a soccer match.
•Chelsea 4-0 Norwich (November 2004).
•Spurs 5-2 Everton (January 2005).
•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 wasn’t chosen instead.
• I think Boro 1-0 Liverpool (autumn 2004) was also live.
•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.

I think I have any recollection of only three of these.

Namely Crystal Palace 1 Liverpool 0 (a header by Andy Johnson where he sort of got on the end of A bouncy off target volley across the box?)

The West Brom pitch invasion. Bryan Robson the miracle worker. We need this guy as Ireland manager.

Chelsea beating Norwich 4-0. This was the absolutely generic Chelsea 2004/05 game. Generic 2004/05 Match Of The Day was Chelsea pummelling some lower or mid table team at home with Frank Lampard scoring at least once and Thiago pulling the strings in midfield and Mateja Kezman being absolutely shit.

I found 2003-2010/11-ish a very boring period of English football. The presence of Reading was symbolic of this.

My generic recall of RTE live matches in the 2006/07 period was Manchester United winning 3-0 at Bolton or Reading on a dull October afternoon and substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (he’s fit again!) scoring the third goal after 89 minutes and Moykal MockMullen hosting Bulmers Loive Ofter Foive on Today FM with callers from West Mead and Dunnygall who probably watched a lot of TV3.

[Arthur]

The daddy of all delayed rte Saturday live matches was Steve Bruce’s ICONIC brace against Sheffield Wednesday in 1993. Imagine I watched that half an hour after it actually happened and didn’t know the score. My wifi was down.

[Cheasty]

@Arthur

The daddy of all delayed rte Saturday live matches was Steve Bruce’s ICONIC brace against Sheffield Wednesday in 1993. Imagine I watched that half an hour after it actually happened and didn’t know the score. My wifi was down.

I ruined it by listening to BBC Radio 2. John Sheridan was scoring on the telly just as Bruce was appearing out of nowhere to score the winner on the radio.

The generic deferred RTE game was Manchester United beating some relegation threatened struggler like Middlesbrough, Sheffield United or Spurs at Old Trafford in Cantona’s “bedding in” period around January/February 1993.

[Arthur]

I always think of man utd v qpr in the early fergie years with Bryan Robson and mal donaghy playing. I think Liam o Brien was sent off on RTE playing for united.

[Cheasty]

@Arthur

I always think of man utd v qpr in the early fergie years with Bryan Robson and mal donaghy playing. I think Liam o Brien was sent off on RTE playing for united.

O’Brien was sent off after about 90 seconds of his debut for Manchester United. I think it was at Southampton, I’m not certain. I think it was at the very end of 1986.

Me oul’ fella always called O’Brien “The Butcher’s Boy” because he looked like a fella who’d work behind the counter at a butcher’s shop wearing a white coat.

[Cheasty]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24024300.man-united-man-sent-off-85-seconds-foul-southampton-psycho/#:~:text=ON%20this%20day%20in%201987,minutes%20later%20from%20Nick%20Holmes.

[Aertel220]

@Cheasty

I found 2003-2010/11-ish a very boring period of English football. The presence of Reading was symbolic of this.

I’d say 2010-11 was the most boring as a season. It was abject for Liverpool in the first-half of the season before a major burst of optimism under Kenny Dalgish’s resurgent reds in early 2011. It was obvious from early December that Man United were going to walk the league as Chelsea had fallen apart in November, Arsenal didn’t have the bottle or required quality and Man City weren’t quite ready yet. It wasn’t even a vintage Man Utd side as they’d lost CR7 and Tevez in 2009 but cruised to the league title with about 80 points anyway. Blackpool brought some bit of drama in the relegation battle.

[Bandage]

@Cheasty

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 you’d have witty retorts from “Ed”. 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 didn’t 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 addict’s (or a Waterford hurler’s) front teeth.

At one stage Channel 4 teletext used to have latest NFL* scores. The scores used to update at the end of each quarter.

*gridiron on Sunday nights, not the latest from Cusack Park Mullingar in March.

[Kyle]

There’s a teletext archive. Below is just the first link that Google suggested… but i remember reading a while back that large tracts of it were being made available.

There was a jobs and holiday section too.

Last minute deals to Corfu or a part time receptionist gig at a hair dressers…

Waiting for scores to update on Saturday afternoons was proto-footix behaviour

https://teletextarchaeologist.org/

[Tim_Riggins]

They have really, whether through legitimate or illegitimate means.

Sport is one of the few things that rates now.

[Galaxy]

Still watch it religiously. Highlights on YouTube are like 2 minutes and a lot of that is replays of goajs, etc. Wouldn’t mind Chapman taking over, hopefully not Alex Scott