Football Post

[Otis Redding]

Anyone know why they stopped printing it.

At a guess, because you're probably the only person who'd fork-out 60p for stuff that'd been online for over 24 hours.

 

[puds1970]

I think the death of the pubs and SSN heavily contributed to its downfall.

 

[Col]

This here forum probably didn't much help its cause either...

 

[Masuka]

The football post was a great read as long as no one scored in the last 5 minutes. I'm worried that all printed press will go the same way and then how will we get impartial and independant news coverage? You can't possibly trust the internet...

 

[Captain Sinister]

Loved the local league pages - always went there to see if I'd got a name check... invariably I'd been overlooked... again.

 

[football post]

Home from the game, bite to eat, changed and meet the Mrs in town. My mate and his lady arrive, girls talking at one end of the table, me and him reading the Post at the other. Regular Saturday night routine back in the 80's.

 

[OxfordshireRed]

anyone know why it stopped being printed?

 

[puds1970]

This here forum probably didn't much help its cause either...

Why I thought the post was full of facts and accurate football stories. Not random crap about crap, and pictures of squirrels that want to know the Leeds score.

 

[Redtedng9]

There was a guy called Red Ken who used to write almost every week about the Reds in the sixties. When I started work I ended up working with him! He was a good bloke. Ardent Leicester Fan was a laugh-he hated Forest with a vengence.
Football post also told you everything going on in the local leagues which was also worth reading. If you took your time walking along Arkwright Street you could buy the Post in the Market Square. Arkwright Street was an interesting place to be after the match.

 

[Rigler]

Many years ago I used to deliver the football post on a Saturday evening. That's all I can really bring to this discussion. Not very interesting I know.

 

[alabamared]

They had them all around the country in those days, all printed on distinctive paper. Ours in Norfolk was called the Pink 'Un and I've also seen them on green paper.

Great days.

The Sheffield one was on green paper and the Manchester one was on yellow I think.

At one time the late edition of the Evening Post was on Yellow Paper.

The reports were great there would be about ten paragraphs on the first half and the second half squeezed into about two. It was our only source of rumours back in the day.

I remeber letters from a guy called Ilkeston Red.

 

[alabamared]

Saturday evenings as a child were spent in some WMC 'kids room' reading the Football Post eating whelks from the seafood guy that used to visit whilst the bingo was being called. Hardly great but i wouldn't change it for the world

That would be in the days when people talked to each other instead of updating their facebook page!

 

[Otis Redding]

The Sheffield one was on green paper and the Manchester one was on yellow I think.

At one time the late edition of the Evening Post was on Yellow Paper.

The FP was printed as a pink broadsheet for decades.

In its post-war heyday it even shared a keen rivalry for readership from the Nottingham Football News (an off-shoot of the long-lamented Nottingham Evening News), that the NEP's owner, the Thomas-Foreman family, finally managed to purchase and close down in the early-60s.

 

[hannahd]

I used to have it sent to me, but with the internet, I saw no point in it any more so didn't bother to renew my subscription. It died a natural
death.

 

[The Red Mill]

When was the last issue printed ? Used to buy it every saturday about 6 oclock thought how
great it was you could read all about the game just over an hour after it had finished

You could buy not long after 5pm in the City, however despite games almost always finishing at 20 to five, it often had a lot of L-L scores, and the Forest report usually had a lot of detail of the first hour of the game, and then in different type just the late scores tagged onto the end of the report.

 

[br1anO1]

As a kid I can remember getting home from the match and going to the newsagent wating for the FP to arrive then spending the next 2 hours absorbing it. It went downhill when the NEP was taken over by the Daily Mail group along with the Derby Telegraph & the Leicester Mercury (and other locals). The FP was then printed in Derby, it didn't arrive in the shops until 7pm if you were lucky and was full of generic articles. As others have mentioned, the internet, 24hr Sports TV, plus extended radio covergae put paid to the FP. I'd be surprised if there are any local Saturday pm sports papers anywhere now.

 

[suffolkred1979]

My Gran always sent it in the post, still have several copies upstairs of important games & loads of cuttings mostly from the early / mid nineties.