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The Teleprinter

Goonerhater
Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
edited January 2009 in General Charlton
For the oldies but if you can remember the teleprinter that used to shw the final scores on TV sports programs did you ever watch it and when CAFCs result came in and we had lost, still watch the full results just in case it was wrong ?

bastard thing had a habit of saying


Burnley 1 charlton Ath--------------


you ended up shouting at it !

Comments

  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    yea, desperately clutching at straws, hoping it'd say ' correction ... Derby 1 Charlton 6(SIX)' ! and not the other way round
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Usually preceded by banger racing & followed by wrestling.........
  • funny as I was thinking that today as the results were coming in.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    I remembered the other day that after the results came in on grandstand they used to do a summary of what had happened that day while bruce hornsby and the range played in the background
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    These days we get Charlton 1 (ONE) C Palace 0 like you used to get

    Man Utd 9 (NINE) Ipswich O
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Or Liverpool 9 (Nine) Crystal Palace 0. Could happen again (please).