Things I miss.

The clunk of the Sporting Life shoved through the letterbox at 6:30 am.

JM. On form this morning old boy!

Stopping to look at the Black person in the street.

Buying a " Beatall" for a threepenny bit!

The sporting life a proper racing paper

Actually I do miss struggling with the broadsheet Sporting Life on the train, trying to turn the pages without getting most of it on the chap next to me.

Proper Fish and Chips in Newspaper

When one had to work for a living. When vile language was only heard in the rugby changing rooms! When good manners reigned.

Beer at 35p a pint..

My mate Ben

Beer at 1/10d a pint!

The sporting life a proper racing paper

The sporting chronicle for me..

Racecards being less than a pound and only have the races in them.

The ridiculous so called sports shown between races on Grandstand.

The chronicle was good too koi used to get both from time to time they did not seem to cost much even in todays terms

miss almost everything already mentioned on this thread but more than any 2 oclock closing on a sunday then mums sunday dinner 3 hours kip then back out for 7.

koi

can you remember the last ever headline tip in the chron ?

Listening to the results on the radio around 7:10pm to hear if I'd won anything on my Lucky 15. I hadn't.

The days when I wanted a horse ONLY to win!

john player league 40 over matches on sunday afternoons

Yep. Listening to the results on the radio - with anticipation - was magic

Frozen orange jubbly - in the 3 cornered cardboard packaging.

east of eden

those john player matches would now be an arbers paradise.

proper odds compilers in those days

coral 4/6 kent 5/4 sussex

hills 6/4 kent 1/2 sussex

indeed foxy....

All the good Tetley boozers in Leeds. The beer and pubs are not the same.

Smoking in pubs

the voice of sir henry cecil'

Prices wise posts.

ashleigh     13 Jun 15 09:59 
the voice of sir henry cecil'



Don't forget C4 7pm tonight

"KNOCKING ONE OUT" TO "MY CONFESSIONS" IN" PARADE"

The name L Piggott on a racecard

My Money

Decency.

Birds with Bushes

Instead of bloke/ birds winning Eurovision, With Beards!

I certainly agree regarding decency.. That, and lack of respect,( for self as well as others,) seems to be almost applauded nowadays.

foxy 13 Jun 15 09:23
koi

can you remember the last ever headline tip in the chron

I think the SC ended around 83/84.... something to do with candys Time Charter??

Summers in Lake Garda.

they say thatwhat you never had you never miss but somehow I can relate to that

Not getting moaned at for coming home drunk.

I agree with Facts, smoking in pubs. The smoking ban was ridiculous.

Getting a lift into a Celtic and rangers match.i spent all day buying and selling tickets and daily papers only to lose the lot at the end of the match through a hole in my pocket. the shock of it was massive as I was only nine at the time and it seemed a fortune .now I lose it all on betfair.

I miss my country. Where did it go???

Blackrock you from Zimbabwe?

London - guvnor.

Fings ain't wot they used to be

You are right Blackrock - London is another country now.

Would be nice if it was t.he subject of a nuclear attack

Multicultural and tolerant. ( Packed to the rafters with immigrant freeloaders!)

It has been like that for a few centuries get used to it

Cityists

London is of course still the greatest city in the world. Vibrant and intoxicating, I genuinely feel a little pity for those who don't understand its complexities.

I miss tickling my belly button with no hands each morning

Lived in london for 5 years, was like papillon the day i escaped, the worst dump on the face of the planet

I miss the days when the Grand National was a proper test of a Hoss,Merely a 4 and a half mile run of the mill Handicap Chase now.

^ agreed

My hair

captain Christy , where in London did you live ?

Got the last Chronicle in the loft somewhere as well as the first Weekender (83?), think first Weekender tip was Air Distingue at Goodwood.

Aceform.

koi

it was time charter.

Got the last sporting life may 12 1998 Henry Cecil hot line to sixth oaks headline

dod-Final Sporting Life sadly missed have never got on with the tabloid RP card layouts and annoying bookie adverts.Also Jack Berrys 1500th winner ridden by Gary Carter!!!

Same here m8

The Raceform Notebooks. Plastic folders with laces for binding the weekly updated race results. Red cover and pink pages for Flat, Green folder with buff/yellow pages for NH. Endless hours of reading and study

facts

I still get those in the national hunt season.

Facts i used to get them all looked forward to receiving the weekly updates as you say, hours of study with my dad who also loved his racing.

The raceform notebooks, always looked forward to the pages arriving every week..I was asked to leave a bookies when he saw me reading it in there..

great thread

have a good royal ascot everyone

Same here dod

Foxy, didn't know they were still doing these publications. Are they the same as then original format ? Last time I subscribed ,it was 30 years ago .

Any older members tell me what the paper book was around 1960 . My dad was well into his horses and got this. It was about 5" x 7" fitted pocket , gave a bit on the football aswell , had the leagues in. I used to get his old ones to look at, only about 7at the time not sure they may have been called almanacs . Ta.

aceform and frazier

Steveb48  They may have been the 'Sporting Chronicle' Handicap Book. They fitted in the pocket. Always took mine to school.

Raceform private handicap, weekly pamphlets that formed a small book

I miss Sir Henry , to me he was racing

Also Richard Holder and his massive priced place horses

Also miss the old school shops before numbers games and virtual shoite , places were good crack and mostly full of horse minded folk

Newcastle racecourse

Also miss the old school shops

before tv...your horse was always in with a chance on the blower..even if it wasnt mentioned..

You were lucky you had a blower koi - I started when the results came over the tickertape (1961).

"The sting" lol

Cheers Clacton, that's them. Handicap book , . Wonder if there's one cheap on eBay for old time sake. It's the only thing I remember my dad reading :-) . It was really bugging me ,thanks again Clacton.

Bruce Hobbs and John Gorton!

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mZgWxdeXLzGg_Uaf4JSymkA.jpg

Cecil and cauthen

Good god yes ^

Major D Hern's and usually Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's 2yos in the Yattendon maiden at Newbury in the middle of August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2AcJSkUw6M&list=RDI2AcJSkUw6M

the new road cricket ground at worcester.
used to be one of the most beautiful and iconic cricket grounds in the world before they pulled down the old pavilion and built the doliveire stand and that god awful hotel eyesore.
miss the old green scoreboard witn that old bloke in the flat cap who used to stick his head out and move the numbers by hand when they got stuck.
and the old geezer who used to come out in the lunch interval with his dog and paint the white crease markings
and curly and his yearbooks...

Superform had its own style, more succinct and not so many fancy words.

Mum and Dad, Wembley and White City dog tracks.

Doubles, when I play darts.

I bet they were all bemoaning life in the 70s and 80s and harking back to the 30s and 40s. Nostalgia is very selective in what it remembers. That said, 2011 was a great year!

Bookies  who would lay a decent bet , long before the machine

bangkok

Pies, the 40s were sh it, end of.

^ Yes - The Pies were better, years ago.

Proper solid squares of chewy diced potato, and you actually got some meat in a Meat & Potato, too.

Apart from absent friends???,,,,  I reckon I miss being able to rejoice in being British without someone attaching a racist tag. I am also NOT a member of the BNP or EDL before anyone starts!

Pies, the 40s were sh it, end of.

I have to take your word for it but most agree that the first 5 years of that decade weren't a barrel of laughs

The "Greyhound Express" paper.

BBC teletext page 668 which gave you the betting for four different races at a time.