The Sports Argus

[Sotv]

I generally stopped at the newsagent in Princes End or get it from the Bramford shops on Park Road. I'd chat with Daz and other Baggies...

When it arrived it was like feeding time at the zoo!

Such a shame that things like the Argus are gone forever. Defo part of our supporting lives.

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PS in comparison, the Sporting Star was shite.

Fags and mags?

Newcastle's poorly named diversity scheme?

[baggiebloke]

I generally stopped at the newsagent in Princes End or get it from the Bramford shops on Park Road. I'd chat with Daz and other Baggies...

When it arrived it was like feeding time at the zoo!

Such a shame that things like the Argus are gone forever. Defo part of our supporting lives.

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PS in comparison, the Sporting Star was shite.

Fags and mags?

That's the one!

[BoingBoing2022]

British Newspaper Archive has a lot of them on their website

[Cheshire East Baggie]

It’s all a part of life that the younger generation will simply not understand. The inability to find out scores if you weren’t near a radio or TV, the gatherings of men outside TV rental shops at 4.45 every Saturday afternoon, the buying of shoot to get the league ladders, the waiting for the van with the Argus in it. The reality that unless you went to matches you wouldn’t get that experience and a big driver for just supporting your local team.

Things are better in many ways, and equally worse at the same time.

No SSN back then. Just WM and the Vidiprinter from 4:30 with Des Lynam.

(buzzy typing sound) Sheff Utd........0

W.........est..........Brom........................

"Oh come oooon!!"

..........0


"Feck".

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https://youtu.be/n_Wsoq1PGQo

Memories......

Never mind the vidiprinter - what about the old teleprinter? This is what I remember from my childhood


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6GK42UpCM

(Apologies if there's an advert before this youtube clip)

[Hopalong]

https://youtu.be/dONHQCNXbII

Brought to an end a massive era for me. 

I used to sell 100-120 on a saturday night, sell-out if the Baggies won. 

Saturday night without the Argus was unthinkable, however the dysfunctional football schedule and the emergence of social media clearly made it untenable.  

A sad day when it ended.