Love that Grandstand music. Reminds me how wonderful Saturday’s were as kid in the 70s. Swap Shop in the morning followed by Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Out on my bike with my mates after dinner then back home in time for final score and tea. Generation Game , Doctor Who and Starsky and Hutch before bed. Lovely.
Magic times, had to stay silent with my dad. 'Cause mum was on night shift'!..... Grandstand, World of Sport & Saturday Matinee..... Couldn't be better.....
Sitting here with a Guiness on a rainy Sunday in Eastern Poland, i live here. A stew in on the boil, after going out to the markets. it’s raining out and strangely cold for late May. Had childhood flashbacks and suddenly thought of the vidiprinter and heard the sound... memories of 5pm in West Bromwich with Mum’s Irish family and the telly in the corner. Saturdays had a special feel, as did Sunday.
This was my Saturday afternoon every other week when I wasn’t at the football. The vidi-Printer was torture in the times before goal alerts. Des Lynam as super smooth and witty as you could possibly get....
The Sunday game finished West Ham 2 Man United 1. West Ham went on to finish 3rd that season. I'm a West Ham fan and this is the first season I've got memories of. I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to my first game in 87. The following season in 88/89 my dad got me and my brothers season tickets. In that season we were relegated.
I reckon that was the last time Ipswich beat Liverpool, for a while. We were relegated may 86. Back up in 92 I think. Then down again till.2000. happy days for town fans.
Don't forget Little and Large, and Bob's Full House were often on on a Saturday night on BBC1 back in the day. Buck Rodgers and 3-2-1 too, but that was the ITV. Saturday's today are not a patch on Saturday's back in the day, no matter what time of day or night you're comparing, and not just because there's not an action packed weekly 5 hour sports show on BBC1 and the ITV nowadays.
Indeed, it's crazy to see the time of the final scores coming in. Half time was between 10-15 and little added time, would have only been one sub allowed compared to the three now. That said I do wonder about the whether the clock was off by a couple of minutes. 1641 is incredibly early for the then 1st division. My memory is that Scottish lower leagues were always from approx 1642 with the English leagues nearer 1645
Most games would only have around 10-15 minutes for half time, it certainly wasn't set in stone at 20 minutes like it is now. I think it was at each clubs discretion within reason.
When I was a kid Des & his GF used to come to my mums & stepdads house for dinner parties, and used to play football with his son, or stepson or something. Oh the memories, and seeing BHAFC being beaten after 4 wins. Born & bred BHA.
Love seeing these for the memories. But definitely it would be boring now to have such coverage of football. But no dramatics, even on the final day, when the scores were done the same and a simple, so xxxx have won the league, xxx have been promoted was all the excitement you got.
Has to be said Des was not a patch on David Coleman when it came to the vidi printer. Check out Coleman even as late as 1984 on YT reeling off memorized stats as the results came through.
Don't suppose you have any of the snooker coverage at all? I remember watching it on this particular episode of Grandstand back in the day and would love to see it again.
The old springfield park remember it well having been there often. Was there one day in Feb 83 when your arch rivals put 5 past Wigan with a certain Alan Ball in the Rovers side. remember him coming off at full time and saying to the crowd was that good enough for you...
West Ham United v Manchester United was live on ITV the following day 2 February and a month later would make TV Football history by meeting at the same ground in the first FA Cup replay to be shown live on TV only because the latter was postponed from the original midweek date 19 February to March 9 which was 6th Round weekend and ITV were meant to show the 6th Round tie between the winners of the tie and Sheffield Wednesday
Ah yes. I was wondering why West Ham wasn't mentioned until I see they played Man Utd on the Sunday, live on tele too if I remember right and a big 2-1 home win.
Why are Vauxhall Opel scores (6th tier) shown on the Classified Results, but not Conference? I gather part of the reason was due to the Pools, but even so it seems bizarre to completely miss out the scores from a higher division
In those days the Gola League (later Conference) did not have automatic promotion to the League so it only appeared in the classifieds if their results were on the Pools, in the same manner as all the other non-leagues
cchance1973 Still seems strange they picked games so low down the pyramid, and several of them in this case. Does anyone know why the pools did this and bypassed games from a higher division in favour of these weaker matches?
@@samflory5541 they woild always have 3 or 4 games from a non league division, going in rotation of the Conference, Northern Premier, Southern and Isthmian Leagues. This carried on until the creation of Conference North and South in 2005 plus the pools were reduced to just 49 games. They still on occasion include National League North/South games on Scottish Cup weekends
@@TheGiantKillers During the summer from what I remember on World of Sport, only the score draws (but not whether it was 1-1, 2-2 3-3) and no score draws from Australia being shown on World Of Sport. Not a classified list of all the results. When there was only Grandstand as the 5 hour Saturday afternoon sports show I can't recall a full classified list of all the results from Australia.
That's why I was saying earlier that I wish I had kept a short diary! Did I see my team at Mansfield? What was the name of that Girl? Did I see certain groups? At 66 the lines get slightly blurred....:)
@@robertprees603 Yes I remember hearing about Wolves 1980's decline, The catalyst was the rebuild of the Molineux Street stand and the early 1980's British recession
Des Lynam wrapping up Grandstand to the theme from Miami Vice.
Yep - life WAS good.
Love that Grandstand music. Reminds me how wonderful Saturday’s were as kid in the 70s. Swap Shop in the morning followed by Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Out on my bike with my mates after dinner then back home in time for final score and tea. Generation Game , Doctor Who and Starsky and Hutch before bed. Lovely.
Tiswaz?
@@lawrencesimmons5093 preferred Swap Shop but at least Tiswas had the lovely Sally James!
@@SirGeorgeButtox 😍😍😍
Love it. Sounds exactly the same as my Saturday as a kid. Loved it!!
Stop. It's too painful. You're right though - fantastic era to grow up.
The days when Saturdays and Saturday TV were special.
I agree. 👍
Wrestling on itv then football results
That was 1996 haha
Magic times, had to stay silent with my dad. 'Cause mum was on night shift'!..... Grandstand, World of Sport & Saturday Matinee..... Couldn't be better.....
@crazyclive ah I see must be thinking years earlier then
Sitting here with a Guiness on a rainy Sunday in Eastern Poland, i live here. A stew in on the boil, after going out to the markets. it’s raining out and strangely cold for late May. Had childhood flashbacks and suddenly thought of the vidiprinter and heard the sound... memories of 5pm in West Bromwich with Mum’s Irish family and the telly in the corner. Saturdays had a special feel, as did Sunday.
Looking in the TV shop window to catch the football results, what a buzz that gave you. Nothing like that nowadays 😩⚽️👍🏼
golden days how i miss them
Me 2
This was my Saturday afternoon every other week when I wasn’t at the football. The vidi-Printer was torture in the times before goal alerts. Des Lynam as super smooth and witty as you could possibly get....
SuperHoggster there was always ceefax.
Des Lynam, like the horse Desert Orchid. Fast, grey, 😉always goes the distance.
@@danoneill8026 Rory Bremner?!☺️
Des was class on tv
Before the internet information age when this is all we had. It's like waiting for pictures to come in from the Mars rover lol.
I remember we got a teletext capable tv in 1990 and thinking I was living in the future!
Yeah, waiting for the Ceefax page to change with baited breath to see if the result had changed, lol.
Brings back great memories
Loved that, so many memories of my childhood at weekends 👍
The Sunday game finished West Ham 2 Man United 1. West Ham went on to finish 3rd that season.
I'm a West Ham fan and this is the first season I've got memories of. I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to my first game in 87. The following season in 88/89 my dad got me and my brothers season tickets. In that season we were relegated.
Loved those Saturdays as a kid wish they could return some of these young ones wouldn't appreciate them
Newcastle 3, Coventry City 2. Goals by Beardsley, Allon and Wharton. Coventry goals by Regis and Brazil. A young Gazza played for the Toon that day.
Ah man, this was all we had, no goal alerts, no way to look up scores, you had to sit and pray while waiting for your teams score to come through
Ipswich 2 Liverpool 1...always a tough place to go, in the late 70s-mid 80s. Still we did end up doing the double that year ⚽️😎
I reckon that was the last time Ipswich beat Liverpool, for a while. We were relegated may 86. Back up in 92 I think. Then down again till.2000. happy days for town fans.
20:07 I'll definitely be tuning into BBC 1 at 9:20pm to watch a bit of Steve Davis v Jimmy White.
Clydebank in the Scottish premier league, holding leaders Hearts 1-1, seems like a diffirent lifetime.
Hearts? They couldn't beat a team of drunken cats right now.
Every weekend game taking place every Saturday afternoon at 3pm as it should always have been.
Des was a smooth operator wasn't he ?
Tell me it’s Saturday, without telling me it’s Saturday ❤🎉
Jan Hammer's 'Miami Vice' theme playing over the closing headlines.
Saturday's very special back in the day! Football scores basil brush doctor who the generation game and not forgetting world of sports wrestling
Don't forget Little and Large, and Bob's Full House were often on on a Saturday night on BBC1 back in the day. Buck Rodgers and 3-2-1 too, but that was the ITV.
Saturday's today are not a patch on Saturday's back in the day, no matter what time of day or night you're comparing, and not just because there's not an action packed weekly 5 hour sports show on BBC1 and the ITV nowadays.
Great video! Ahh the nostalgia!
The guy reading the football results on Grandstand is Len Martin.
When do you ever see full time in the top division at 4:42 pm!! Brilliant
Back then half time was just 10 minutes.
I didn't then and I don't now (though I was only 10 in 1986), there was always something quite 'hypnotic' with the results being read out!
I actually tutted and cursed when the Ipswich v L'pool result went through!!!, christ I've got it bad!
Absolutely great days and my teams Chester and Everton both top of their leagues 👌🏼
I was only 5 weeks old. Wolves on their way down to Division Four! What a season to be born!
Those were the days back when most games were on a Saturday.
absolutely brilliant memories ,❤️❤️
The classified results read out at more sedate pace compared to today. Nice to seen Derby pick up three points on their way to promotion from Div 3.
I loved that video printer thing. I remember when it looked like a typewriter
Telex machine
How about the horse racing results from way back. Seemed like they were handwritten and went through an overhead projector.
Indeed, it's crazy to see the time of the final scores coming in. Half time was between 10-15 and little added time, would have only been one sub allowed compared to the three now. That said I do wonder about the whether the clock was off by a couple of minutes. 1641 is incredibly early for the then 1st division. My memory is that Scottish lower leagues were always from approx 1642 with the English leagues nearer 1645
Most games would only have around 10-15 minutes for half time, it certainly wasn't set in stone at 20 minutes like it is now. I think it was at each clubs discretion within reason.
A young looking Des hosting Grandstand in its glory days.
That text sound. Takes me back in time to my teens. All the family alive then.
I forgot that Aberdeen legend Duncan Shearer used to play for Chelsea
We got through a load of Scottish strikers around then. Billy Dodds too.
Aberdeen leg end more like 😂
Swindon Town legend also 😉
We signed him at Blackburn, utter sh**e. Got a decent Shearer after that though!
When I was a kid Des & his GF used to come to my mums & stepdads house for dinner parties, and used to play football with his son, or stepson or something.
Oh the memories, and seeing BHAFC being beaten after 4 wins. Born & bred BHA.
Future Cheltenham gold cup winner Desert Orchid 2nd at the 3.35 race at Sandown at 18:43
Miami Vice Theme????? Genius.
I can just about make out "Torture" by King playing over the PA at Portman Road during Gerald Sinstadt's report.
1st February 1986 when King’s final hit Torture was in the charts.
Love seeing these for the memories. But definitely it would be boring now to have such coverage of football. But no dramatics, even on the final day, when the scores were done the same and a simple, so xxxx have won the league, xxx have been promoted was all the excitement you got.
No it wouldn’t be boring at all .
Todays football is pathetic
Has to be said Des was not a patch on David Coleman when it came to the vidi printer. Check out Coleman even as late as 1984 on YT reeling off memorized stats as the results came through.
Beautiful
Don't suppose you have any of the snooker coverage at all? I remember watching it on this particular episode of Grandstand back in the day and would love to see it again.
Sorry, besides about 30 seconds of ice skating that's all that was on this tape
Wigan 1 Bristol City 1. I was on a BCFC trip from London for that. Wonderful day out.
The old springfield park remember it well having been there often. Was there one day in Feb 83 when your arch rivals put 5 past Wigan with a certain Alan Ball in the Rovers side. remember him coming off at full time and saying to the crowd was that good enough for you...
Where did you find this? My 35 year old lad was just 1.
Ffs, Oxford let me down for a treble 😟
West Ham United v Manchester United was live on ITV the following day 2 February and a month later would make TV Football history by meeting at the same ground in the first FA Cup replay to be shown live on TV only because the latter was postponed from the original midweek date 19 February to March 9 which was 6th Round weekend and ITV were meant to show the 6th Round tie between the winners of the tie and Sheffield Wednesday
Not true - several FA Cup replays were shown live in the 1955/56 season
Chelsea v Burnley, Bedford v Arsenal and West Ham v Tottenham
Peter Reid, love it.
Miserable sod
How early the matches finished. The difference stoppage time and ad breaks for foreign TV makes these days, matches finish close to 5pm!
Half time was only ten minutes back then too. Fifteen nminutes nowadays
It has nothing to do with “foreign TV”…..
Have u got anymore
Money has football ruined in today's game big teams keep getting bigger and stuff the rest that's the way it is
Your not wrong
Tiny Tim yep 👍
Propper voice for the job!!
On final score results, you could close your eyes and determine each result by the tone of his voice (try it 🙂)
I always wanted East Fife 5 Forfar 4 to happen!
It did once
There was a cup game when they played that ended 1-1 & then 5-4 on penalties.
Paddy K that’s brilliant
czcams.com/video/vC80DKlrTlQ/video.html
Or was it the other way around?
East Fife 4, Forfar 5 ???
Ah yes. I was wondering why West Ham wasn't mentioned until I see they played Man Utd on the Sunday, live on tele too if I remember right and a big 2-1 home win.
Why are Vauxhall Opel scores (6th tier) shown on the Classified Results, but not Conference? I gather part of the reason was due to the Pools, but even so it seems bizarre to completely miss out the scores from a higher division
In those days the Gola League (later Conference) did not have automatic promotion to the League so it only appeared in the classifieds if their results were on the Pools, in the same manner as all the other non-leagues
cchance1973 Still seems strange they picked games so low down the pyramid, and several of them in this case. Does anyone know why the pools did this and bypassed games from a higher division in favour of these weaker matches?
@@samflory5541 they woild always have 3 or 4 games from a non league division, going in rotation of the Conference, Northern Premier, Southern and Isthmian Leagues. This carried on until the creation of Conference North and South in 2005 plus the pools were reduced to just 49 games. They still on occasion include National League North/South games on Scottish Cup weekends
@@cchance1973 During the summer the Australian results being read out for games that were virtually played on local parks.
@@TheGiantKillers
During the summer from what I remember on World of Sport, only the score draws (but not whether it was 1-1, 2-2 3-3) and no score draws from Australia being shown on World Of Sport. Not a classified list of all the results.
When there was only Grandstand as the 5 hour Saturday afternoon sports show I can't recall a full classified list of all the results from Australia.
When football all kicked off on Saturday, 3:00pm.
Why did they stop the coupon? Anyone know?
Up the Town!!!
Seems a life time away from today's mess.
These Grandstand titles would be replaced later in the year with the 1986/92 racetrack titles
Chances are I was at that Maidstone win against Frickley
That's why I was saying earlier that I wish I had kept a short diary!
Did I see my team at Mansfield? What was the name of that Girl? Did I see certain groups? At 66 the lines get slightly blurred....:)
3 0 wins for both Nuneaton and Bedworth, the day that Warwickshire ruled the footy
Good old days
The sound of the vidiprinter was Saturday afternoon
Time machine please.
Rugby union was a different world in those days
Totally disrespecting the Irish Cup. Distillery is an awesome team name.
Great to see this....and my team Hubs won 4-0 👍 A rare thing 😅
How come the games are over at 4.43 was it only 10 minutes break between halves?
Yes
Dishy Des looking well there
Go to see Tottenham losing and not having a shot on target
Arsenal win, Spurs lose, Liverpool lose, what's not to like?
"Don't bother ringing up... None of us'll get rich this week." 😂
Great comeback for Yeovil there
Either that or the updates were slow at that level
Southern counties athletics in Peterborough?
Jackpot hi eight score draws 24 points
You can tell the result from the announcers tone of voice
Everton top of the league 👍👍👍
Liverpool went on to win the double though.
18:33 “None of us will get rich this week, which means I will be back here next week!”
20:55 “… and BOND IS BACK - John that is”
Torquay, the bottom club, beating the second bottom club. Shades of 1996 - Branfoot out, and the Adams family era begins.
My first birthday lol
Bring back Littlewoods!!
20:45 Peter Reid has a teletubby heed!
8,000 at Villa Park that day. Grim.
I have absolutely no interest in sport but I remember that printer sound!
Even better when we had the old teleprinter clack-clacking away in the 1960s! And of course David Coleman presiding.
The swines cut off the last 20 secs of the closing credits. No respect.
And they didnt show the bottom half of division 4 i wonder who was the bottom 2
The dark ages only one step up from newspapers the next day. Radio was the best way to get free live sport till very recently
Ahh the old vidi printer.
Des was cool
Makes me nostalgic watching this. The days before Shiekhs, Billionaire Russians and Billionaire Yanks came in and destroyed the game
Who would've thought seeing Wolves bottom of the old Div 3
They went down from that league as well dropped from top flight to all they way down to division 4 in successive seasons.
@@robertprees603 Yes I remember hearing about Wolves 1980's decline, The catalyst was the rebuild of the Molineux Street stand and the early 1980's British recession
I remember watching them lose 3-0 at Colchester in the old Division 4 the following season.
That Colchester match was my first match. I was 8 year's old. They've come a long way since.
Desert Orchid got beaten?!?
The Villa boys. Still struggling to beat southampton at home after all these years
Des sounding like he doesn't give a rats arse about Glentoran v Distillery haha
Des is Irish
I know... just like the way he said about the score...Glentoran are northern Ireland Des was born Republic of Ireland
Do you know in all those years I genuinely assumed he was from The South Coast and born there...lo
Wolverhampton 0 Bolton 2, those wern't the day, Back to the future, We are an established Premier League team.😊
Retro!
Donald Trump stole Archies hair...
=D Archie MacHairpiece.
I always got confused between Des and Dickie Davies
Those days when Walsall scores six!
Yes. Against a Reading side who won the third division that season!
Dessie beaten on a right-handed track!