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Rothmans Football Yearbook...

  • 11-05-2016 6:59am
    #1
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    ...was thinking of West Hams move from the Boleyn Ground - and the number of people on another thread who didn't actually know the name of West Ham's ground - and remembered this wonderful reference book.

    Anyone else get this tome back in the day and read it cover to cover? It was a fine work at a time when football coverage was different and limited. Believe Sky produce it now, can't say I've heard of it in some time. In the 80s, it was the Bible.


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  • #2
    greendom
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    Funny how times have changed. Imagine a football book sponsored by a cigarette brand today!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Remember the excitement of getting it in the library each year, must have been 1,000 pages in that sucker, and you'd sit down and gorge on the grounds and colours and squad of teams like Aldershot and Wrexham.

    That, the odd game on Saturday on RTE, MOTD, coverage in the print media, static filled radio broadcasts, Shoot magazine, that was pretty much it. Then again, we only had a rolled up ball of paper and jumpers for goalposts...


  • #4
    Rega
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Remember the excitement of getting it in the library each year, must have been 1,000 pages in that sucker, and you'd sit down and gorge on the grounds and colours and squad of teams like Aldershot and Wrexham.

    That, the odd game on Saturday on RTE, MOTD, coverage in the print media, static filled radio broadcasts, Shoot magazine, that was pretty much it. Then again, we only had a rolled up ball of paper and jumpers for goalposts...

    Ah yeah, you'd be glued to the telly. Derby v Coventry at the Baseball Ground. Middle of January. The pitch in absolute shíte and everyone in the crowd wearing brown parka jackets.


  • #5
    eagle eye
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    They were great times and then there were the bets about something. A guy would say that some player scored a goal in some match somewhere and you knew he didn't and the next thing there was £10 on it and you had to go and get a book or an old paper to prove it.

    I won lots of money back in those days.:)


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