Celebrity Fans: What's The Point?

[saunders_heroes]

I'm assuming Tiswas/Swap Shop.

I don't remember hearing that but I was only a babby

Yup.
Tizwas / Celtic / Left Side for me.

Same here. Back then in the late 70s early 80s I’d say a majority were Celtic and Tiswas. Only mommy’s boys and girls watched Swap Shop and given the 1976 shenanigans there was little love for Rangers.

Same here!

[pauliewalnuts]

I remember being on the Holte with the left side right side thing as late as 84-85.

However, 40 years later, for the life of me, I can not remember whether it was left or right side as you looked at the stand from the pitch, or as you stood on it.

[Exeter 77]

I remember being on the Holte with the left side right side thing as late as 84-85.

However, 40 years later, for the life of me, I can not remember whether it was left or right side as you looked at the stand from the pitch, or as you stood on it.

I thought it was as you were looking at the pitch so the left side was closest to Trinity Road.

[saunders_heroes]

Trinity road side was the left. Witton Lane the right.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

We always stood slightly nearer the Trinity. Left was and has always remained better than Right.
As for Tiswas or Swapshop ? Sally James.

[pauliewalnuts]

Only squares watched Swap Shop.

The same demographic whose parents bought them BBC Micros.

[aev]

Fin Smith played really well for the England eggchasers today.

He is a big Villa fan.

[Dante Lavelli]

Finn Smith played really well for the England eggchasers today.

He is a big Villa fan.

Jamie George too.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

The downfall of Tiswas can be tracked back to Bob Carolgees' introduction of Spit the Dog's successor Cough the Cat. What the fuck were you thinking of Bob?

[Brend'Watkins]

No, don’t remember Cough the Cat. Was it on once or twice?  I still to this day don’t know who the Phantom Flan Flinger was.

[Pat McMahon]

No, don’t remember Cough the Cat. Was it on once or twice?  I still to this day don’t know who the Phantom Flan Flinger was.

Cough the Cat was indeed a poor addition to the gang. The Phantom Flan Flinger was the darkest fiend in the cosmos - better for you to not have crossed paths.

[edgysatsuma89]

No, don’t remember Cough the Cat. Was it on once or twice?  I still to this day don’t know who the Phantom Flan Flinger was.

Cough the Cat was indeed a poor addition to the gang. The Phantom Flan Flinger was the darkest fiend in the cosmos - better for you to not have crossed paths.

It sounds like all you oldies were just on LSD and none of this actually happened.

[cdbearsfan]

I remember the Phantom Raspberry Blower.

[jon collett]

I remember the Phantom Raspberry Blower.

… Of Old London Town.

I am sure I read in H&V the Phantom Flan Flinger was a Villa supporter.

Tiswas went off the rails when all the main presenters departed and people like Den Hegarty and Gordon Astley took over.

[thick_mike]

Cough the cat was the Scrappy Doo of Tiswas.