Used to go to my Nan and Grandad's every Saturday. Get there for lunch, stay for tea. My Dad would do their garden, and we would go play. Then every one would always gather round the TV to watch the scores. Council house, Park Drive ciggies, pot of tea. Great memories.
Great story that. For me it was gather round the tv to watch the results on Grandstand, mum would jot down the scores in the paper, then hand them to Dad who had the pools coupons. Never did win anything, but they were happy days!
@@iscagreen4279 Back in the 70s my dad received a winnings cheque in the post from one of the football pools companies (probably Littlewoods) - for 15p!
@@M.J.Stevens-x5m It's just my opinion. I grew up in the 80's if you wanted adult material it was hard to get it, now all you have to do is go on the computer and it is there for kids to watch. Drugs freely available, there were drugs in the 80's but not like this. Terrorists bombing Christmas Markets. Not being allowed to say Christmas. The world is far more darker now. Feel free to disagree but it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
Me old man would watch this back in the day, before going down the pub . Then we'd have the telly to ourselves 😊 Them days were simple and life was more family/community orientated . 🍺⚽️❤🇬🇧
Ipswich Town 2, Norwich City 3. Ha ha, I remember it well. This was actually Xmas 1982. Last minute direct free-kick from Martin O'Neill to win it for City at the death. Great days. And they still can't beat us after all these years 😂 #16years #OTBC
I actually went to 2 games that day, i was at Anfield for an early kick off watching Manchester City, i got back to my house in Stretford (about 10 minutes walk from Old Trafford) my red brother was just leaving to watch United, he asked if i wanted to go along with him, so i did, i still had the programme from the Liverpool vs City game in my pocket!
The one and only Len Martin. I remember December day when he was reading the Saturday teatime results and kept saying "dil" instead of "nil". My mum said "he's got a bit of a cold,hasn't he?"
Loved watching the final scores coming in back in the day. Used to check my football pools as the results were read out, lucky enough to get 8 score draws one time.
Used to watch the wrestling at 4 o’clock on ITV, then switch over to see the football results. This clip from 1981, I was 21 then , where has the time gone .
"Well now you you've met the Pink Panther,the Pink Panther, Isn't he a panther ever so pink? He really is a groovy cat What a general learned scholar,what an acrobat."
@@christopheradderley45 You're welcome. We watched it a lot when we were little. I've got that tune - and the other incidental music that played in it from the theme - back in my head now.
@rjjcms1. Hee hee, now that's a memory jolt. I think it was because I used to love the antics of Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the Vulture Squadron is why I always rooted for them in The Wacky Races. 👍
Reminds me of being in the car with my dad in the early 2000s. Loved listening to football and cricket on the radio was we drove between Devon where I lived and London where he did
@@bobmathews9072 Yeah, but what was more remarkable was that your shower actually finished second in the league to Liverpool. I well remember the nose-bleed
We did it,though,topping the entire league for a week in September,never being lower than 8th and nearly never out of the top 4 from late November onwards,and clinching runners-up spot in front of Manchester United by beating a Liverpool that had been champions for a month 2-1 at the Vic on the last day. Your lot had rather a different mission on your hands that day!
Division 1 table following these results on 27th December 1982 1 Liverpool 43 points 2 Nottingham Forest 38 3 Manchester United 36 4 West Ham 34 flew high,came down with the Christmas decorations,as was their wont then 5 Watford 33 6 West Brom 31 7 Aston Villa 29 8 Coventry 31 9 Manchester City 28 10 Southampton 28 11 Ipswich 27 12 Stoke 27 13 Tottenham 27 had long injury list at the time 14 Everton 26 15 Arsenal 26 had one of their worst seasons 16 Notts County 25 17 Luton 23 18 Swansea 22 19 Brighton 22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Norwich 20 21 Birmingam 20 22 Sunderland 18 Never mind West Brom in 2004-05 in the Premier League - in this season all three teams in the relegation zone at Christmas and here stayed up! Brighton got relegated together with Swansea on the penultimate Saturday,then a fortnight later the Seagulls took Manchester United to a replay 2-2 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. Manchester City were top after 3 winning all their first three games,2nd at one point in November and 9th here - look what happened to them (KebabMusicLtd will know!) - at the end of the season! Coventry had a rollercoaster campaign,sitting 5th and dreamin of European football going into March only to have to win their penultimate game (3-0 away to Stoke) to stave off 11th hour relegation catastophe and finish 19th! Champions Liverpool went forward to the 1983-84 European Cup,FA Cup winners Manchester United into the European Cup Winners' Cup and Watford,Spurs,Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa into the UEFA Cup; Everton and West Ham missed out on Europe both by a 4-point margin.
I was just wondering the date and guessed it was around Christmas, as the English league (not sure about Scotland?) Held local darbys then if possible, and there are several examples of this in the matches played, or at least places that are relatively close together, apparently it was for ease of travelling around Christmas time.
@@Eurobrasil550 I think there was a time once, when most English league games on Boxing Day/New Year's Day were local derbies, as you pointed out, for ease of travelling, possibly due to good weather not being guaranteed at those times of the year. Then again, I've known times when there've been one or two fixtures involving lengthy journey's for some clubs, ie on Boxing Day 1990, my local side, Sunderland, had to journey to Crystal Palace, & for a 12.30PM KO!
@@andrewc4612 There was a time where the clubs would play a set of fixtures (even on Christmas Day) and play the reverse fixtures the very next day. Of course, in those days your neighbour was also your friend and you could leave your back door open
This was 27 December 1982. Luton (1) and Watford (2) weren't in the First Division until they both got promoted in May 1982. (Brackets) = clubs final position in Division Two (now the Championship) at the end of the 1981-82 season.
The date is actually wrong. This was on 27th December 1982. I was at a big Christmas dinner with family in Rayners Lane in North London,and we got the reports on the Ashes cricket from the news but I had to tune into a radio later to hear the football results.
13 of these clubs in Division 4 here have since fallen out of the football league, folded and reformed and some have made it back. Only 3 sides that entered the FL since Divs 3 and 4 were added in 1958/59, joining the FL LATER have not got into the top division Oxford Wimbledon and Wigan.
Oldham played Leeds the previous day (Christmas Sunday 26th December). This is Boxing Day 1982, moved to Monday 27th and most teams played again Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th.
Nine day gap between Saturday 18th December (we beat Ipswich 2-1 at home,I was at that game) to the day after Boxing Day (lost 1-0 at Luton),must have been because of how the days fell. Then everyone played a full fixture programme again on 29th? December (we beat West Ham 2-1 at home,evening game,me and my sister were away staying over at other family's house in Sunningdale so I only saw the result on Ceefax), New Year's Day (drew 1-1 at Brighton,watched Final Score with friend at his house in Rickmansworth,after we were at a female friend's New Year house party overnight) and finally 3rd January (beat Manchester City 2-0 at home,was at that game,which was an evening one that followed plenty of liquid preparation at the nearby Oddfellows pub with the chaps I went to the match with).
when football was played by real men. look at the teams that are lower lge now Barnsley, Coventry, Swansea, to much money on football now lower lge clubs don't have chance
Used to go to my Nan and Grandad's every Saturday. Get there for lunch, stay for tea. My Dad would do their garden, and we would go play. Then every one would always gather round the TV to watch the scores. Council house, Park Drive ciggies, pot of tea. Great memories.
Great story that. For me it was gather round the tv to watch the results on Grandstand, mum would jot down the scores in the paper, then hand them to Dad who had the pools coupons. Never did win anything, but they were happy days!
@@iscagreen4279 Back in the 70s my dad received a winnings cheque in the post from one of the football pools companies (probably Littlewoods) - for 15p!
After the final scores you kept it on BBC 1 for the Dukes of Hazard or switched over to ITV for Knight Rider. FANTASTIC MEMORIES.
It was almost magical.
How the fuck did you remember that.....just the good ole boys
Saturday night tv was awesome. CHiPS was also a favourite too and The A Team
Yep, it was that no school tomorrow stay up late kinda vibe.
@@will-ellington Still only 3 channels too.
Brilliant!!!!.....Takes me back to a happier World and place ....
The world is so much darker now
@@JonEdmiston No it isn't.
@@M.J.Stevens-x5m It's just my opinion. I grew up in the 80's if you wanted adult material it was hard to get it, now all you have to do is go on the computer and it is there for kids to watch. Drugs freely available, there were drugs in the 80's but not like this. Terrorists bombing Christmas Markets. Not being allowed to say Christmas. The world is far more darker now. Feel free to disagree but it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
@@M.J.Stevens-x5m it really is
Me old man would watch this back in the day, before going down the pub . Then we'd have the telly to ourselves 😊
Them days were simple and life was more family/community orientated .
🍺⚽️❤🇬🇧
Ipswich Town 2, Norwich City 3.
Ha ha, I remember it well. This was actually Xmas 1982. Last minute direct free-kick from Martin O'Neill to win it for City at the death. Great days. And they still can't beat us after all these years 😂
#16years
#OTBC
I actually went to 2 games that day, i was at Anfield for an early kick off watching Manchester City, i got back to my house in Stretford (about 10 minutes walk from Old Trafford) my red brother was just leaving to watch United, he asked if i wanted to go along with him, so i did, i still had the programme from the Liverpool vs City game in my pocket!
I was at Anfield that day too, aged 11
Great memories. I also went to two games that Boxing Day.
Arsenal v Spurs at 11am then QPR v Chelsea at 3pm.
@@andyf750happy times, back when football was affordable for the working classes, I went to City vs Chelsea on Saturday, it cost me £65!
Remember that voice from my childhood. Just shared this with the kids. Thanks for posting it 👍
I literally just wrote the same memory on different video… memories from grandparents house 😢
The one and only Len Martin. I remember December day when he was reading the Saturday teatime results and kept saying "dil" instead of "nil". My mum said "he's got a bit of a cold,hasn't he?"
Loved watching the final scores coming in back in the day. Used to check my football pools as the results were read out, lucky enough to get 8 score draws one time.
Loved final score the great Len Martin. And on Sport on 2 you had fantastic James Alexander Gordon.both sadly missed.
I remember my dad watching this and doing the pools.....them was the days .
"Them was"? What a terrible double negative.
@Nob
@ Daily Star reader alert.
That voice at Saturday tea time, then it was either the A-Team or Knight Rider on ITV.
Fab days!
Or CHiPs
Or Dukes Of Hazzard!
Used to watch the wrestling at 4 o’clock on ITV, then switch over to see the football results. This clip from 1981, I was 21 then , where has the time gone .
Len Martin read the football results for BBC Television in those days. He died of a heart attack in 1995 at the age of 76.
This was Mon, 27th December, 1982.
This brings back happy memories.
Blimey my team Port Vale won at Bristol City and even better, up next it's "The Pink Panther Show" 🧡
"Well now you you've met the Pink Panther,the Pink Panther,
Isn't he a panther ever so pink?
He really is a groovy cat
What a general learned scholar,what an acrobat."
Those were the days Ralph.
Thanks for your fabulous reply 👍
@@christopheradderley45 You're welcome. We watched it a lot when we were little. I've got that tune - and the other incidental music that played in it from the theme - back in my head now.
Just rewatched it (couldn't resist),and the intro to Stop the Pigeon. "Stop that snickering,Muttley! [or you get the Doghouse Medal]"
@rjjcms1. Hee hee, now that's a memory jolt.
I think it was because I used to love the antics of Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the Vulture Squadron is why I always rooted for them in The Wacky Races. 👍
This is the version I remember, that voice. Queen of the South.
His was the familiar voice reading the football results for years and years through the 70s and 80s.
Bring back good memories
Reminds me of being in the car with my dad in the early 2000s. Loved listening to football and cricket on the radio was we drove between Devon where I lived and London where he did
When he said East Fife 4 who was praying for a Fofar 5
This was December 1982. I was at the West Brom v Notts County game.
A big derby day for S Yorkshire: Owls v Barnsley and Blades v Doncaster...
More interesting than football focus this morning.
I remember this lol, every old bloke was a WW2 vet then. i remember meeting old WW1 widows as well.
My moment of zen
It’s actually 27th December 1982
I was thinking, is this Boxing Day, or something? Plenty of local derbies!
My own local derby there Luton/Watford , the scummers did us 🤬 @@Captain-Cardboard
@@bobmathews9072 Yeah, but what was more remarkable was that your shower actually finished second in the league to Liverpool.
I well remember the nose-bleed
We did it,though,topping the entire league for a week in September,never being lower than 8th and nearly never out of the top 4 from late November onwards,and clinching runners-up spot in front of Manchester United by beating a Liverpool that had been champions for a month 2-1 at the Vic on the last day. Your lot had rather a different mission on your hands that day!
Division 1 table following these results on 27th December 1982
1 Liverpool 43 points
2 Nottingham Forest 38
3 Manchester United 36
4 West Ham 34 flew high,came down with the Christmas decorations,as was their wont then
5 Watford 33
6 West Brom 31
7 Aston Villa 29
8 Coventry 31
9 Manchester City 28
10 Southampton 28
11 Ipswich 27
12 Stoke 27
13 Tottenham 27 had long injury list at the time
14 Everton 26
15 Arsenal 26 had one of their worst seasons
16 Notts County 25
17 Luton 23
18 Swansea 22
19 Brighton 22
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 Norwich 20
21 Birmingam 20
22 Sunderland 18
Never mind West Brom in 2004-05 in the Premier League - in this season all three teams in the relegation zone at Christmas and here stayed up! Brighton got relegated together with Swansea on the penultimate Saturday,then a fortnight later the Seagulls took Manchester United to a replay 2-2 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. Manchester City were top after 3 winning all their first three games,2nd at one point in November and 9th here - look what happened to them (KebabMusicLtd will know!) - at the end of the season! Coventry had a rollercoaster campaign,sitting 5th and dreamin of European football going into March only to have to win their penultimate game (3-0 away to Stoke) to stave off 11th hour relegation catastophe and finish 19th! Champions Liverpool went forward to the 1983-84 European Cup,FA Cup winners Manchester United into the European Cup Winners' Cup and Watford,Spurs,Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa into the UEFA Cup; Everton and West Ham missed out on Europe both by a 4-point margin.
3:10 Yes, used to love the way he said Hamilton Academial 🙂
Wow when boxing day had local derbies
Still some long trips, Mansfield to Wimbledon, Derby to Newcastle and Leicester to Middlesbrough.
South Yorkshire Police must have loved that day with two South Yorks derbies and Rotherham at home as well.
Particulary enjoyed the birmingham vs vile result 😅😅😅those were the days kro
Even back then.... Norwich still getting the better of Ipshit 😂
This was actually 1982 (December 27th)
I was just wondering the date and guessed it was around Christmas, as the English league (not sure about Scotland?) Held local darbys then if possible, and there are several examples of this in the matches played, or at least places that are relatively close together, apparently it was for ease of travelling around Christmas time.
@@Eurobrasil550 I think there was a time once, when most English league games on Boxing Day/New Year's Day were local derbies, as you pointed out, for ease of travelling, possibly due to good weather not being guaranteed at those times of the year. Then again, I've known times when there've been one or two fixtures involving lengthy journey's for some clubs, ie on Boxing Day 1990, my local side, Sunderland, had to journey to Crystal Palace, & for a 12.30PM KO!
@@andrewc4612 There was a time where the clubs would play a set of fixtures (even on Christmas Day) and play the reverse fixtures the very next day. Of course, in those days your neighbour was also your friend and you could leave your back door open
They used to have lots of local derbies at Christmas and Easter - until the police started to object to it.
0:04 It’s worth repeating. Birmingham city 3 Aston Villa 0. KRO
Reminds me of my grandad this be on TV but he have the radio on also checking the pools lol
lots of local derbies was this around xmas?
Great Post, when everyone played on the same day ish!
Forfar 4 East Fife 5
Forfar so far 4 haha
Memories!
December 82
14 score draws ! March 27th 1981
This was 27 December 1982. Luton (1) and Watford (2) weren't in the First Division until they both got promoted in May 1982.
(Brackets) = clubs final position in Division Two (now the Championship) at the end of the 1981-82 season.
The date is actually wrong. This was on 27th December 1982. I was at a big Christmas dinner with family in Rayners Lane in North London,and we got the reports on the Ashes cricket from the news but I had to tune into a radio later to hear the football results.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
those were the days so many memories and look at the crap thats on BBC 1 on a Saturday night now a load of complete rubbish
'Some godforsaken fishing port, 1'.
Look where Notts County are now.
13 of these clubs in Division 4 here have since fallen out of the football league, folded and reformed and some have made it back. Only 3 sides that entered the FL since Divs 3 and 4 were added in 1958/59, joining the FL LATER have not got into the top division Oxford Wimbledon and Wigan.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS only radio or TV to get the results no smart phones or computers then
British TV was fine until Thatcher stuck her oar in and deregulated it.
Channel 4 had just launched weeks before this,so we were up to having 4 channels - hooray!
COYG! Arteta in
Boxing Day 1982?
The day after Boxing Day 1982.
Quite a few local derbies in one day
Can't remember Notts County being in the first division!
I do. Several years until they were relegated in 1984. Again for a single season in 1991-92,when Neil Warnock was their manager.
@@rjjcms1 Good info!
A bit of Ken Bruce in there !
I cannot think of this man's name but I certainly remember his dulcet tone of disdain whenever he announced the score.....NIL.
Wimbledon 😳
Millers 3 Grimsby 0
It was 27-12-1982 not 1981
Up the villa. God damn we're still awesome.
27-12-1982
My first north London derby that day. UP THE ARSENAL
NIL 😂😂
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before the premier league. also oldham didnt play.
Oldham played Leeds the previous day (Christmas Sunday 26th December). This is Boxing Day 1982, moved to Monday 27th and most teams played again Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th.
Nine day gap between Saturday 18th December (we beat Ipswich 2-1 at home,I was at that game) to the day after Boxing Day (lost 1-0 at Luton),must have been because of how the days fell.
Then everyone played a full fixture programme again on 29th? December (we beat West Ham 2-1 at home,evening game,me and my sister were away staying over at other family's house in Sunningdale so I only saw the result on Ceefax),
New Year's Day (drew 1-1 at Brighton,watched Final Score with friend at his house in Rickmansworth,after we were at a female friend's New Year house party overnight)
and finally 3rd January (beat Manchester City 2-0 at home,was at that game,which was an evening one that followed plenty of liquid preparation at the nearby Oddfellows pub with the chaps I went to the match with).
when football was played by real men. look at the teams that are lower lge now Barnsley, Coventry, Swansea, to much money on football now lower lge clubs don't have chance
When sat tv was awesome and the hammers won 😀
Blackburn Rovers victory at Turf Moor. Scorer: Garner.
Makes me very aroused
Almost all local derbies - or similar. Must have been arranged that way. First day of the season?