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Topic Originator: stoo61
Date: Fri 1 Aug 20:56
Aye good decision. Used to get it every week, home and away.
Haven`t bothered in about 5 year.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:09
That`s very sad, however the programme recently hasn`t been a patch on what it was like years ago when it was regularly winning awards. I guess times change, there would be nothing in the programme that hadn`t been on the website in the week leading up to the game. Don`t really see the need for handing out free teamsheets either, it`s all available online, and the stadium announcer reads it out twice too. Seems like a waste of paper to me.
It would be good for them to produce a one-off last ever programme though,just to round off everyone's programme collection
Post Edited (Fri 01 Aug 21:12)
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:24
Och that`s a shame, I`ve got quite a collection too.
Was always decent, but the last few seasons wasn`t great at all, it`s a thankless task, and all it takes is a couple of the writers to drop out and it drops a bit.
Internet killed it a bit, and the info on social media is great and comprehensive -everyone has a phone now.
Good to see they are keeping options open in future, there was a period where it was very good, read it at half time, then the rest when I got home-the last few times (I live overseas) it`s taken a few minutes to read, with most of the content the same.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:26
Some of us like a paper teamsheet in our hands rather than a digital one. I definitely do. I regularly mark mine up with sub changes incase I’ve not picked up the tannoy in time.
Shame about the programme though ~ there’s been some great articles in it over the years.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:35
But will the free thing have which games belong to what letters for the half time scores?
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The universe is ruled by chance and indifference
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:42
That’s gone right o’er my heid, Parsfan!
Explain please.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:52
You are a bit young to remember that, Buffy.
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Fri 1 Aug 21:56
More the reason to support the fanzine. It`s not the same as the match day programme but a great read.
Reality is that print is pretty dead when you can get the info on your phone. A bit of a shame and I have a genuine concern it`ll start to affect people`s memories. Everyone remembers where they bought a record or a DVD/Blu-ray/VHS, but will they remember when they first streamed something?
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Topic Originator: Stevie Nicks
Date: Fri 1 Aug 22:00
“But will the free thing have which games belong to what letters for the half time scores?”
Thank you parsfan for bringing back a long lost memory and which has resulted in some hilarious attempts at explanation to the younger members of my family 😆😆😆
“It’s not the name and number on the back of the shirt that counts… it’s the badge on the front”
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Fri 1 Aug 22:40
Quote:
buffy, Fri 1 Aug 21:42
That’s gone right o’er my heid, Parsfan!
Explain please.
Pre-smart phones, pre-internet, largely pre-tranny man (when that meant something quite different and less contentious) information from other games being played was spread by an advertising hoardings with letters on them. Depending on the ground you were at, East End was typically early second half, someone would trudge round to the letters and hang a couple of numbers beside each letter. These represented the halftime scores of other games.
Which letter? Which game? You had to have the programme to know for sure.
The tranny man was both loved and hated. With his wireless clamped to his ear he`d be both the bringer of good news and bad news and either resented or disliked depending.
Like a witch.
We never drowned or burned them though.
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The universe is ruled by chance and indifference
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Topic Originator: Stanza
Date: Fri 1 Aug 22:59
..... and not every ground had anything as sophisticated as a board that could be seen by the whole crowd. At some grounds a young lad would walk round the track with a board displaying the scores (eg A = 2-0, B = 0-1 etc). If you missed seeing the scores you were just out of luck.
For those not at the match, they would get the HT scores from special editions of the (usually-coloured) sports papers.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 1 Aug 23:10
That was excellent - thanks Parsfan and Stanza
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Fri 1 Aug 23:36
Got to admit, I did quite enjoy the pre-internet days in the 90s of not knowing anything about what was happening at East End Park except the occasional article in the daily papers, what was in the Dunfermline Press and the occasional bit of gossip in the East Port. On Saturdays at the game, I`d get a programme and, if it was available, a fanzine. There was some good banter in some of the fanzines, some articles by Fu Manchu etc. At the match there would maybe be someone with a radio and a score from another game would filter out like some kind of Mexican wave of a Chinese Whisper. Left more than one game thinking the score was totally different because I had been late in and missed a goal, or like at Brockville when a Tattie Cooper goal was chopped off but none of us realised it wasn`t a goal.
It was a lot better going out after the game, having a brief chat about it, then getting on with some drinking, and not really thinking about the football again until the following week. Now it`s like there needs to be 24/7 updates on the football
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Topic Originator: Bovril Man
Date: Sat 2 Aug 00:18
And if you managed to get out the ground and up the road quick enough, you could join the crowd outside the radio rentals shop on East Port and see the full time scores coming in on the ‘vidiprinter’ on the TVs in the shop window!
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 2 Aug 00:57
Or watch an entire match on CEEFAX, a nerve shredding experience. Used to love when my dad returned from the boozer on a Saturday night when I was a nipper, with a fish supper and the sports pink, which I would read from cover to cover, then we would watch Sportscene, followed by NBA Basketball highlights, then The Odd Couple
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Topic Originator: LEGEND85
Date: Sat 2 Aug 05:22
I can mind in the early nineties when I was still in my teens during the school holidays walking up to the library to read the sports section of the courier to see if it had and Pars/transfer news and that would take 5 minutes once that was done your Pars news was done for the day.
Now you don`t have any kind of break.
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Sat 2 Aug 07:00
A few clubs were still hanging on to the A B C system into the late 80s... I think it was Motherwell where I heard it when we`d been promoted to the Premier Division and I was very confused. It was announced over the tannoy though, rather than being on a hoarding. "A... 0-0. B... 1-0. C... 0-2" was just weird.
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Topic Originator: Angus_W
Date: Sat 2 Aug 07:09
I liked the Pink.
I liked the general chaos of the publication. Cutting the sides off peoples faces to fit the type, pasting ball shaped blobs onto photographs to make them more realistic. Hunt the article - “Cont on page 5” - turning to the page revealed a completely different report and you had to hunt through the paper, sometimes it wasn’t there!
And no bus trip home wasn’t complete without a heated argument around “Spot the ball”.
Good times.
“.........it ain’t over till the Pars score!”
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Sat 2 Aug 07:32
Quote:
parsfan, Fri 1 Aug 22:40
Quote:
buffy, Fri 1 Aug 21:42
That’s gone right o’er my heid, Parsfan!
Explain please.
Pre-smart phones, pre-internet, largely pre-tranny man (when that meant something quite different and less contentious) information from other games being played was spread by an advertising hoardings with letters on them. Depending on the ground you were at, East End was typically early second half, someone would trudge round to the letters and hang a couple of numbers beside each letter. These represented the halftime scores of other games.
Which letter? Which game? You had to have the programme to know for sure.
The tranny man was both loved and hated. With his wireless clamped to his ear he`d be both the bringer of good news and bad news and either resented or disliked depending.
Like a witch.
We never drowned or burned them though.
Never knew that was a thing. Thanks for sharing that edited to say and others for contributing. 👏
c'mon the pars
Post Edited (Sat 02 Aug 07:39)
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Topic Originator: p4r5f4n
Date: Sat 2 Aug 08:23
I hung the numbers in the late 60s and we didn’t have the luxury of a radio. The scores were written on a piece of paper next to the letters and you trudged round the perimeter track carrying a very heavy load of metal numbers, hung them up, waited ten minutes and took them back. It was horrible on a cold wet winters day.
One day I clearly remember was reaching the west end goal just as Alex Ferguson blootered the ball over an open net to cost us the championship. I called him a silly c* # and he nodded in agreement.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 2 Aug 08:42
I remember the numbered board. Think it was in the NW terrace and yes, that was the only way you could know the halftime scores (with a programme)
But, it was common for people to speak to fellow fans in the event they didn’t have one to find out the scores as ABCDE…. Etc was only available in it.
I remember the cheers or groans as the person put the numbers on it lol
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 2 Aug 08:43
Quote:
p4r5f4n, Sat 2 Aug 08:23
I hung the numbers in the late 60s and we didn’t have the luxury of a radio. The scores were written on a piece of paper next to the letters and you trudged round the perimeter track carrying a very heavy load of metal numbers, hung them up, waited ten minutes and took them back. It was horrible on a cold wet winters day.
One day I clearly remember was reaching the west end goal just as Alex Ferguson blootered the ball over an open net to cost us the championship. I called him a silly c* # and he nodded in agreement.
Brilliant! 😂
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Back_oh_the_net
Date: Sat 2 Aug 09:00
Quote:
Raymie the Legend, Fri 1 Aug 21:52
You are a bit young to remember that, Buffy.
Nah I’m quite a bit younger than buffy and even I know about that
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Sat 2 Aug 09:14
Growing up in Inverkeithing, we got both the Pink News, and a bit later the Dundee one (Sporting Post?) the pink was out incredibly fast, almost by the time we got home, this in the days before mobile phones, the journos would have to phone in the report/score.
Read them both cover to cover, proper newspapers too, articles, interviews etc.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 2 Aug 09:44
Quote:
neils, Sat 2 Aug 09:14
Growing up in Inverkeithing, we got both the Pink News, and a bit later the Dundee one (Sporting Post?) the pink was out incredibly fast, almost by the time we got home, this in the days before mobile phones, the journos would have to phone in the report/score.
Read them both cover to cover, proper newspapers too, articles, interviews etc.
The pink paper was so fast they only did a report up until half time lol
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Wotsit
Date: Sat 2 Aug 10:00
I remember the reports in the pink paper being in the present tense with really short sentences, so they sounded a bit like someone had written down a match commentary.
"Watson is clear of the Meadowbank defense. He`s bearing down on goal. He`s scored! Dunfermline equalise"
The enemy travels by private jet, not by dinghy.
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Topic Originator: Big T Par
Date: Sat 2 Aug 10:19
Quote:
AdamAntsParsStripe, Sat 2 Aug 08:42
I remember the numbered board. Think it was in the NW terrace and yes, that was the only way you could know the halftime scores (with a programme)
But, it was common for people to speak to fellow fans in the event they didn’t have one to find out the scores as ABCDE…. Etc was only available in it.
I remember the cheers or groans as the person put the numbers on it lol
Can remember you telling me, it was like a modern marvel, when they went from pigeons flying in with the latest scores to the numbered board, at the turn of the 20th century.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 2 Aug 11:03
Quote:
Big T Par, Sat 2 Aug 10:19
Quote:
AdamAntsParsStripe, Sat 2 Aug 08:42
I remember the numbered board. Think it was in the NW terrace and yes, that was the only way you could know the halftime scores (with a programme)
But, it was common for people to speak to fellow fans in the event they didn’t have one to find out the scores as ABCDE…. Etc was only available in it.
I remember the cheers or groans as the person put the numbers on it lol
Can remember you telling me, it was like a modern marvel, when they went from pigeons flying in with the latest scores to the numbered board, at the turn of the 20th century.
I glad you remember 1903 as well mate.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Big T Par
Date: Sat 2 Aug 11:07
1909 😉
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sat 2 Aug 11:18
I remember being at a game at EEP, and Rangers were playing Airdrie at Ibrox. The lad hanging up the score (perhaps the poster who shouted some encouragement to Fergie) put it up as 0-3 to loud cheers from all the kids behind the goals at the town end.
These quickly changed to groans when he realised his mistake and changed it to 3-0.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 2 Aug 11:43
Quote:
Back_oh_the_net, Sat 2 Aug 09:00
Quote:
Raymie the Legend, Fri 1 Aug 21:52
You are a bit young to remember that, Buffy.
Nah I’m quite a bit younger than buffy and even I know about that
Oh aye? 😂
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: dd23
Date: Sat 2 Aug 12:19
Quote:
GG Riva, Sat 2 Aug 11:18
I remember being at a game at EEP, and Rangers were playing Airdrie at Ibrox. The lad hanging up the score (perhaps the poster who shouted some encouragement to Fergie) put it up as 0-3 to loud cheers from all the kids behind the goals at the town end.
These quickly changed to groans when he realised his mistake and changed it to 3-0.
😂😂😂😂. I can totally imagine that.
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Topic Originator: Rigger Al
Date: Sat 2 Aug 12:59
Quote:
neils, Sat 2 Aug 09:14
Growing up in Inverkeithing, we got both the Pink News, and a bit later the Dundee one (Sporting Post?) the pink was out incredibly fast, almost by the time we got home, this in the days before mobile phones, the journos would have to phone in the report/score.
Read them both cover to cover, proper newspapers too, articles, interviews etc.
Used to deliver the pink in Inverkeithing ,after reading it off coarse :):)
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 2 Aug 14:38
Quote:
Big T Par, Sat 2 Aug 11:07
1909 😉
🖤💛
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Bletchley_Par
Date: Sat 2 Aug 15:26
A rather depressing turn of events.
Perhaps a chance for some enterprising Pars fans to fill the gap with a more cheep and cheerful alterative?
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Topic Originator: vasco
Date: Sat 2 Aug 17:25
I have a vague recollection of D being 0-5 and the fans shouting bollox assuming it was a joke or mistake but it was Hibs 5 up at Tynecastle I think they finally won 7-0
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Topic Originator: Parallel Lines
Date: Sat 2 Aug 19:09
The Pink would be in the shops around 5pm in Edinburgh.
Any game that went beyond 4.45 was latest score.
There was a side column for late scores printed in red.
I worked at John Menzies in Princes Street on a Saturday so could not attend games much. One day we were away at Clydebank in a cup tie. I saw the final score as a draw and was looking forward to the replay at EEP on the Wednesday.
Then I happened to see some late scorers in the side column.
Yup Clydebank, 90th minute winner.😪
I looked for my pet in all the books on animals and birds and then I found it in the Book of Revelations.Marty Feldman
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Topic Originator: StevenPar77
Date: Sat 2 Aug 19:35
It looks as though Watford are also stopping their match day programme, sales were on or around 1000 copies for a home game.
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