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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: thick_mike on August 09, 2017, 07:15:17 PM
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I came across this ceefax memory in the loft today...
(https://image.ibb.co/ftOCCF/IMG_1845.jpg)
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A couple of questions spring to mind ...
How and why did you keep a TV with that Ceefax page in the loft for so long without losing the page ?
I came across this ceefax memory in the loft today...
I know it was a great game, but does it merit such a reaction 20-odd years on... ? ;-)
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UPS
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That's brilliant. What a game.
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Was it a Sunday? In my mind it was midweek. Memory playing tricks.
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I couldn't wait to get home from school and stick Ceefax on the telly on the old Thursday in March transfer deadline day. I think the highlight was the double signing of Steve Hunt and Andy Blair in 1986.
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I bet we had a brilliant season the year after.
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I bet that beer is flat now! :)
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My most vivid memory of Ceefax/Teletext is the Villa Leicester game in 1995. Total delight watching Villa go racing ahead through Saunders, Staunton, Yorke and Johnson. 4-1 and we'd scored seven the previous home game, imagine how many more we'd add to that today. The delight at each scorer being added to the page. And then Leicester pull two back.... Oh shit. Blow the full time whistle damn it. Then while I am pacing up and down that dreaded moment. LEICESTER SCORE AGAIN, Lowe 90+ what ever time it was. Similar feelings during the Spurs 4-4 under MON although I listened to the radio for that one. Ceefax was bit like the early championship manager games, you couldn't see anything on the pitch so your imagination worked overtime creating images in your mind of what each goal looked like.
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And also the agony of waiting for the page your game was on to flash up, some days you'd be on page 5/5 and the minute you turned on Teletext it would typically be the page after. If you know what I mean.
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Was it a Sunday? In my mind it was midweek. Memory playing tricks.
It was a Sunday. People around me ducked when Rico hit his penalty.
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Bamber Bamboozler.
The BBC advent calendar (press reveal for today's picture)
Recipes.
My Dad checking the racing results even though he didn't have a bet that day.
Planet Sound music pages on CH4.
The ITV holiday pages changing too quickly, press hold but then miss half a dozen other pages.
Reading the latest scores and results off Teletext for Dudley Hospital Radio at breakneck speed before the page changed.
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Bamber Bamboozler.
The BBC advent calendar (press reveal for today's picture)
Recipes.
My Dad checking the racing results even though he didn't have a bet that day.
Planet Sound music pages on CH4.
The ITV holiday pages changing too quickly, press hold but then miss half a dozen other pages.
Reading the latest scores and results off Teletext for Dudley Hospital Radio at breakneck speed before the page changed.
My old man splashed out on a VHS video recorder and a Teletext TV Christmas 1984. Before thay we had no Teletext and a V2000 video recorder from the late seventies which you could record on (his mate he bought it off threw in his 'blank tapes') but couldn't rent videos for. I spent that Christmas and New Year reading all the TV, sport and music pages on Teletext and was so excited by this new addition to the house was writing down recipes and knitting patterns for my Mum. Which she politely accepted before discreetly binning them.
I don't remember the advent calender. Although that is probably because we only got the Teletext telly on Christmas day!
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Bamber Bamboozler.
The BBC advent calendar (press reveal for today's picture)
Recipes.
My Dad checking the racing results even though he didn't have a bet that day.
Planet Sound music pages on CH4.
The ITV holiday pages changing too quickly, press hold but then miss half a dozen other pages.
Reading the latest scores and results off Teletext for Dudley Hospital Radio at breakneck speed before the page changed.
I like the Peter Kay routine about the holiday pages driving him up the wall by changing too quick. Whilst all his mates claimed they had successfully, "booked it, packed it, f**ked off"!
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Bamber Bamboozler.
The BBC advent calendar (press reveal for today's picture)
Recipes.
My Dad checking the racing results even though he didn't have a bet that day.
Planet Sound music pages on CH4.
The ITV holiday pages changing too quickly, press hold but then miss half a dozen other pages.
Reading the latest scores and results off Teletext for Dudley Hospital Radio at breakneck speed before the page changed.
Holiday pages, there were hundreds, and when you eventually got back to page whatever the holiday was gone. Wankers.
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Well held there on 2/2.
One of life's greatest pleasures was watching shootouts on ceefax.
Brings back memories. 302 for the main football page, 312 for fixtures?
The summer of 91 was brilliant, turning ceefax on every day to check who else Big Ron had signed.
I'm sure ITV had a local football menu (page 140 or 170?), can't remember if ceefax did. Page 370 rings a bell.
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ITV was 410 I think. When they had the ''Premiership'' show in the early 00's, they had dedicated pages for each club in the top flight. We were P502. Every Thursday, some cheeky fecker would preview the games, he always referred to John Gregory as Grecian2000.
I still miss Planet Sound on C4 text. John Earls was/is a really good music journalist.
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Put it on mix, watching Grandstand before the bidding printer with page 301 I think for the scores.
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I loved the old videprinter.
Crystal Palace .... 1 ....Aston Villa ...... 0
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I also loved Ceefax I used to use it when my mom and dad were watching something it would cause arguments but I didn't mind as long as I got the scores.
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Put it on mix, watching Grandstand before the bidding printer with page 301 I think for the scores.
Wasn't 300 sport home, 301 top stories, 302 football, 312 was something that sticks in my head but can't think why, 340 was cricket.
I do remember watching Brian Lara's 501 on ceefax, the cricket only refreshed every 7 overs or so.
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312 was round up I think. Shorter news clips that didn't make the headlines.
...just looked it up...
News in Brief
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It might have been Channel 4 , which did a fanzine style preview of the up coming premiership games for that weekend.It was always worth a read , but I remember them getting loads of stick for commenting that the Villa Coventry game was a Black Country derby !
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312 was round up I think. Shorter news clips that didn't make the headlines.
...just looked it up...
News in Brief
339 was football news in brief, I think.
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I googled ceefax football results and had a smirk at the second image. This is quite a novel idea for a gift:
https://p302.co.uk/epages/9eaa96aa-17e1-470d-954c-06bb76b52075.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/9eaa96aa-17e1-470d-954c-06bb76b52075/Categories/Find_Your_Team1/Aston_Villa
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ITV was 410 I think. When they had the ''Premiership'' show in the early 00's, they had dedicated pages for each club in the top flight. We were P502. Every Thursday, some cheeky fecker would preview the games, he always referred to John Gregory as Grecian2000.
I still miss Planet Sound on C4 text. John Earls was/is a really good music journalist.
I remember that, I believe he was called "The Guvnor." Not sure if that was Paul Ince in between jobs.
Used to love Ceefax. "Watched" many Saturday games on there as I'm sure many did.