BBC1 | Grandstand | Final Score | 1986

[@Richard-fv7rq]

Was glued to watching this in the 80's. Simple, effective and no BS. Happy days.

[@SirGeorgeButtox]

Love that Grandstand music. Reminds me how wonderful Saturday’s were as kid in the 70s. Swap Shop in the morning followed by Football Focus with Bob Wilson. Out on my bike with my mates after dinner then back home in time for final score and tea. Generation Game , Doctor Who and Starsky and Hutch before bed. Lovely.

[@lawrencesimmons5093]

Tiswaz?

[@SirGeorgeButtox]

@@lawrencesimmons5093 preferred Swap Shop but at least Tiswas had the lovely Sally James!

[@AB-kx4nc]

@@SirGeorgeButtox 😍😍😍

[@thebritishbushman6753]

Love it. Sounds exactly the same as my Saturday as a kid. Loved it!!

[@nickdeth24]

Stop. It's too painful. You're right though - fantastic era to grow up.

[@cashcrop70]

The days when Saturdays and Saturday TV were special.

[@debrahitchman416]

I agree. 👍

[@jasonwheeler3669]

Wrestling on itv then football results

[@lxdimension]

That was 1996 haha

[@karmafuture]

Magic times, had to stay silent with my dad. 'Cause mum was on night shift'!..... Grandstand, World of Sport & Saturday Matinee..... Couldn't be better.....

[@jasonwheeler3669]

@crazyclive ah I see must be thinking years earlier then

[@johnhastings7841]

Des Lynam wrapping up Grandstand to the theme from Miami Vice. Yep - life WAS good.

[@5eurocups2005]

That was awesome, love Vice.

[@montyf2165]

Comments reminiscing about Grandstand and Saturday night TV, it was chippy tea night too in our house. Miss those days so much you could almost grieve for them.

[@IanLawson-tl1xe]

Absolutely agree- I miss the catchy Miami Vice and Bruce Hornsby "The Way It Is" instrumentals during Final Score and weekly football league scores & positions read by James Alexander Gordon! Also long gone are the days of Pools News...like the National Lottery- both quickly lost their novelty. Saturdays like Christmas used to be a great bonanza of top quality TV sport, comedy, entertainment and must see movie premieres...before the Internet and mobile phones- and there were only four analogue channels in the '80s. 😢

[@chrisfallon9678]

Time 4.43 and games finished what time did they kick off .2.58 !!

[@johnhastings7841]

@chrisfallon9678 Back then, all games kicked off at 3pm SHARP, half-time was only 10 minutes & injury time was usually no more than 2 minutes - now we have games kicking off at Daft O'Clock & stoppage time running up to 10 minutes at least.

[@johnhastings7841]

@@montyf2165 #TakeMeBack

[@jonhart7630]

Lived in Birmingham during the 80s. If your team weren't playing at home then got back to watch final score on Grandstand. Then bought the Saturday evening sports paper to read the match reports. Then went out to try and pull a bird if you were lucky. The 80s best years of my life.😊

[@AndrewDavis-r3b]

TV from a golden era. Des Lynam was an absolute master of his art. Things were just better back then. The sound of the vidi printer and the dulcet tones of the classified results. Brilliant

[@fretlessfan]

Just takes me back to simpler times. Classified results read by the wonderful Tim Gudgeon.

[@NorthernerInSpace]

Des Lynam, what a legend! No one has done this better since.

[@NK-cc7bq]

Sitting here with a Guiness on a rainy Sunday in Eastern Poland, i live here. A stew in on the boil, after going out to the markets. it’s raining out and strangely cold for late May. Had childhood flashbacks and suddenly thought of the vidiprinter and heard the sound... memories of 5pm in West Bromwich with Mum’s Irish family and the telly in the corner. Saturdays had a special feel, as did Sunday.

[@russellgoodall6206]

Looking in the TV shop window to catch the football results, what a buzz that gave you. Nothing like that nowadays 😩⚽️👍🏼

[@hammer6619]

golden days how i miss them

[@crispendaysh3401]

Me 2

[@jonhart7630]

And me. Loved watching Final Score as a teenager. The blanket coverage we have today isn't the same. I think less means more applies here.

[@paulhighe7615]

Loved that, so many memories of my childhood at weekends 👍

[@SuperHoggster]

This was my Saturday afternoon every other week when I wasn’t at the football. The vidi-Printer was torture in the times before goal alerts. Des Lynam as super smooth and witty as you could possibly get....

[@SirGeorgeButtox]

SuperHoggster there was always ceefax.

[@danoneill8026]

Des Lynam, like the horse Desert Orchid. Fast, grey, 😉always goes the distance.

[@mbvideoselection]

@@danoneill8026 Rory Bremner?!☺️

[@richardevans7035]

Des was class on tv

[@sjfvideo9508]

Before the internet information age when this is all we had. It's like waiting for pictures to come in from the Mars rover lol.

[@del7538]

I remember we got a teletext capable tv in 1990 and thinking I was living in the future!

[@TimeMeddler]

Yeah, waiting for the Ceefax page to change with baited breath to see if the result had changed, lol.

[@Treaclebasket]

So strange to remember how exciting the videprinter was! And even though it's nearly forty years ago, I groaned just as my fifteen year old self would have when I saw my team had only drawn with Lincoln! Thanks for posting this. Somehow I have a hankering for a French Bread pizza and some oven chips...

[@parster2010]

Back in the day when only one game wasn’t played at 3pm on Saturday -

[@crispendaysh3401]

Brings back great memories

[@peterlarne6462]

Loved those Saturdays as a kid wish they could return some of these young ones wouldn't appreciate them

[@normtoon4914]

Newcastle 3, Coventry City 2. Goals by Beardsley, Allon and Wharton. Coventry goals by Regis and Brazil. A young Gazza played for the Toon that day.

[@psychologicalprojectionist]

All the buzzes! I remember getting excited whenever D1 appeared on the vidiprinter. Duncan Shearer, I just checked made two appearances and scored just 1 goal for Chelsea. That was it! A great day for Duncan. It has to be said he went on to play 492 games and score 190 which is a highly successful professional career, despite the disappointment at Chelsea.

[@WorldCupWillie]

The Sunday game finished West Ham 2 Man United 1. West Ham went on to finish 3rd that season. I'm a West Ham fan and this is the first season I've got memories of. I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to my first game in 87. The following season in 88/89 my dad got me and my brothers season tickets. In that season we were relegated.

[@shanethetrain8132]

Seen west ham relegated a few times. Shite.

[@MrN8073]

That text sound. Takes me back in time to my teens. All the family alive then.

[@AshtonArcher]

Great video! Ahh the nostalgia!

[@traydar5]

The good old days

[@ImperialsExplained]

A trip down memory 😂 love it 👍

[@jamiefors5062]

Ah man, this was all we had, no goal alerts, no way to look up scores, you had to sit and pray while waiting for your teams score to come through

[@neilogden]

or watch Ceefax

[@reddwarfer999]

@@neilogden Who was it who sdaid that the best way to watch Wimbledon was on Ceefax?

[@walkslad]

We did have radio though which also seemed much more enjoyable to listen to.

[@craiglittle1437]

Ceefax mate

[@terryo2168]

Gary Lineker.

[@clivemitchell4316]

Ipswich 2 Liverpool 1...always a tough place to go, in the late 70s-mid 80s. Still we did end up doing the double that year ⚽️😎

[@mjscott65]

I reckon that was the last time Ipswich beat Liverpool, for a while. We were relegated may 86. Back up in 92 I think. Then down again till.2000. happy days for town fans.

[@paulward3535]

Imagine the reaction now, Liverpool beaten by a team that went down. Social media would have a field day.

[@garypeacock5919]

Clydebank in the Scottish premier league, holding leaders Hearts 1-1, seems like a diffirent lifetime.

[@lawrencesimmons5093]

Hearts? They couldn't beat a team of drunken cats right now.

[@dvidclapperton]

Every weekend game taking place every Saturday afternoon at 3pm as it should always have been.

[@StuartjamesSmith-m8s]

Willie munros Red and White Army !

[@JasonC1782]

Jan Hammer's 'Miami Vice' theme playing over the closing headlines.

[@jamesrobins8544]

I was only 5 weeks old. Wolves on their way down to Division Four! What a season to be born!

[@DeanWood-j1h]

I was 9 back then. My team Birmingham got relegated that season. At least we beat Villa @ Villa Park. My first football kit was in that year also. Great memories.

[@clivec10]

KRO

[@jasecox3912]

Wow this is so nostalgic,loved the vidiprinter

[@grahampearson5670]

The guy reading the football results on Grandstand is Len Martin.

[@jayadamone]

When do you ever see full time in the top division at 4:42 pm!! Brilliant

[@bluebirdlegend]

Back then half time was just 10 minutes.

[@reddwarfer999]

@@bluebirdlegend Is that right? Thought it was always 15 mins. It's injury time that's now 10 mins......

[@bluebirdlegend]

@@reddwarfer999 I think it was the late 1980s early 90s it changed from 10 to 15 minutes. Although in Scotland it may have always been 15?

[@mdonoCFC]

Brings back so many memories… the games used to start finishing at 16:40 and usually all in by 16;45

[@davetaylor6971]

Yep the days when you got back to the car in time for 5pm sports report after the game. Now you're lucky if the game finishes by 5pm!

[@mikedowns8293]

Des was a smooth operator wasn't he ?

[@eclectica1]

The housewive's favourite.

[@TheVote2010]

Tell me it’s Saturday, without telling me it’s Saturday ❤🎉

[@mattstone5789]

Used to love this & the agony of watching your team being printed up & hoping they won. Happy days….

[@edwardowen9559]

Saturday's very special back in the day! Football scores basil brush doctor who the generation game and not forgetting world of sports wrestling

[@dvidclapperton]

Don't forget Little and Large, and Bob's Full House were often on on a Saturday night on BBC1 back in the day. Buck Rodgers and 3-2-1 too, but that was the ITV. Saturday's today are not a patch on Saturday's back in the day, no matter what time of day or night you're comparing, and not just because there's not an action packed weekly 5 hour sports show on BBC1 and the ITV nowadays.

[@adamweishaupt2846]

20:07 I'll definitely be tuning into BBC 1 at 9:20pm to watch a bit of Steve Davis v Jimmy White.

[@agr7879]

Ah, the Vidi Printer and Des Lynham!

[@paulskilling6637]

Those were the days back when most games were on a Saturday.

[@PTS-THX1138]

...The Viddy Printer, Great memories..

[@adelesteele2008]

I didn't then and I don't now (though I was only 10 in 1986), there was always something quite 'hypnotic' with the results being read out!

[@jetjunkjiver8194]

The classified results read out at more sedate pace compared to today. Nice to seen Derby pick up three points on their way to promotion from Div 3.

[@greenisland75]

This clip is from 1985/86 season.

[@steakmeal74]

Absolutely great days and my teams Chester and Everton both top of their leagues 👌🏼

[@davidcornelius2340]

God that final music made me nostalgic I was transported right back to my mum and dads house, where my mum would make the best steak and kidney pudding! Made me slightly sad if im honest. Oh well happy days!

[@Mantis_Toboggan_MD.]

You knew you're club had finally achieved greatness when the vidi-printer ahad your team's score spelled out in brackets Celtic 8 (EIGHT) Hamilton Academical 3 3pm KO games finishing at 4:42pm on a Saturday. A lot of them finish after 5pm now

[@joebryant5722]

I actually tutted and cursed when the Ipswich v L'pool result went through!!!, christ I've got it bad!

[@reddwarfer999]

Even though these games were played almost 40 years ago, I found myself waiting with bated breath to find out my team's (Leeds Utd) score. Then cheering to discover it was a thumping 4-0 win!

[@jollyturnip]

Indeed, it's crazy to see the time of the final scores coming in. Half time was between 10-15 and little added time, would have only been one sub allowed compared to the three now. That said I do wonder about the whether the clock was off by a couple of minutes. 1641 is incredibly early for the then 1st division. My memory is that Scottish lower leagues were always from approx 1642 with the English leagues nearer 1645

[@AshtonArcher]

Most games would only have around 10-15 minutes for half time, it certainly wasn't set in stone at 20 minutes like it is now. I think it was at each clubs discretion within reason.

[@calummacsween9134]

All the football on the Saturday as it should be and match of the day on later 👍👍👍

[@billyshearer117]

I loved that video printer thing. I remember when it looked like a typewriter

[@Keithbarber]

Telex machine

[@dvidclapperton]

How about the horse racing results from way back. Seemed like they were handwritten and went through an overhead projector.

[@JellyMonster1]

Yes, I remember that typewriter thing too with David Coleman.

[@dminalba]

I forgot that Aberdeen legend Duncan Shearer used to play for Chelsea

[@Spectrescup]

We got through a load of Scottish strikers around then. Billy Dodds too.

[@09weenic]

Aberdeen leg end more like 😂

[@nantes23]

Swindon Town legend also 😉

[@neilwalsh4058]

We signed him at Blackburn, utter sh**e. Got a decent Shearer after that though!

[@leeedmondo7787]

Wow nostalgia.... remember it well...

[@DMWBN3]

When I was a kid Des & his GF used to come to my mums & stepdads house for dinner parties, and used to play football with his son, or stepson or something. Oh the memories, and seeing BHAFC being beaten after 4 wins. Born & bred BHA.

[@benellis9665]

How early the matches finished. The difference stoppage time and ad breaks for foreign TV makes these days, matches finish close to 5pm!

[@mattylamb9194]

Half time was only ten minutes back then too. Fifteen nminutes nowadays

[@andrewmacleod5826]

absolutely brilliant memories ,❤️❤️

[@simondavies419]

That sound of the vidiprinter. Iconic.

[@stevedavis6879]

How early some of those results came in . .

[@dminalba]

Future Cheltenham gold cup winner Desert Orchid 2nd at the 3.35 race at Sandown at 18:43

[@grahampearson5670]

A young looking Des hosting Grandstand in its glory days.

[@edmundpower1250]

How come the games are over at 4.43 was it only 10 minutes break between halves?

[@NeilMiles]

Yes

[@tinytim5172]

Money has football ruined in today's game big teams keep getting bigger and stuff the rest that's the way it is

[@pwareham61]

Your not wrong

[@MONKEY-ne7vu]

Tiny Tim yep 👍

[@ColmORourke1981]

I can just about make out "Torture" by King playing over the PA at Portman Road during Gerald Sinstadt's report.

[@andrewswift8139]

1st February 1986 when King’s final hit Torture was in the charts.

[@brendangibbons2018]

Always remember as a kid if you were out shopping with your parents you had to make your way to a tv shop and watch the results come in

[@56postoffice]

When football all kicked off on Saturday, 3:00pm.

[@lawrencesimmons5093]

Where did you find this? My 35 year old lad was just 1.

[@darren2514fv]

West Ham United v Manchester United was live on ITV the following day 2 February and a month later would make TV Football history by meeting at the same ground in the first FA Cup replay to be shown live on TV only because the latter was postponed from the original midweek date 19 February to March 9 which was 6th Round weekend and ITV were meant to show the 6th Round tie between the winners of the tie and Sheffield Wednesday

[@PressureOnJulian]

Not true - several FA Cup replays were shown live in the 1955/56 season Chelsea v Burnley, Bedford v Arsenal and West Ham v Tottenham

[@jamesburke2094]

In the 80s David Davies, later head at FA, was a match reporter on grandstand

[@simonhobbs3458]

Ah takes me back 😊😊

[@ilikemyowncomments5374]

Ffs, Oxford let me down for a treble 😟

[@bawhatever5260]

Why did they stop the coupon? Anyone know?

[@jonhart7630]

3:24 Went to that game when I was sixteen with my brother-in-law. False dawn of hope as we still got relegated.

[@drylunch6400]

Up the Town!!!

[@AndyWood71]

Seems a life time away from today's mess.

[@alfiesolomons434]

I was at the Wales rugby match that day and the Cardiff match the previous night

[@DuderinoDeux]

I loved the sound of vidiprinter in the afternoon (of Saturdays)

[@BritishRaceCaller]

Has to be said Des was not a patch on David Coleman when it came to the vidi printer. Check out Coleman even as late as 1984 on YT reeling off memorized stats as the results came through.

[@simonlilley]

Wigan 1 Bristol City 1. I was on a BCFC trip from London for that. Wonderful day out.

[@dlamiss]

The old springfield park remember it well having been there often. Was there one day in Feb 83 when your arch rivals put 5 past Wigan with a certain Alan Ball in the Rovers side. remember him coming off at full time and saying to the crowd was that good enough for you...

[@tonyhoughton6857]

Brings back memories watching the vidi printer waiting for my team Leeds United score as they only showed the scores not reports from 3 till 5 like they do now

[@Betterthantelly]

Time machine please.

[@michaelwilson1020]

Peter Reid, love it.

[@mikedowns8293]

Miserable sod

[@5eurocups2005]

Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice" theme at they end 🌴⚽

[@tedted4367]

Have u got anymore

[@laurencewinter9728]

Matches finishing at 4.42? What's happening???

[@shuckylad]

Half time wasn’t as long

[@bawhatever5260]

Propper voice for the job!!

[@paulshorney3465]

Basingstoke match on the vidieprinter! I was there as well! We were rubbish as usual! Lol

[@alancharles6789]

I remember when the teleprinter was mechanical, with an inked ribbon!

[@tankc6474]

Everton top of the league 👍👍👍

[@johnoshea470]

Liverpool went on to win the double though.

[@jj9749]

Beautiful

[@gareth110777]

Don't suppose you have any of the snooker coverage at all? I remember watching it on this particular episode of Grandstand back in the day and would love to see it again.

[@NeilMiles]

Sorry, besides about 30 seconds of ice skating that's all that was on this tape

[@jrb1802uk]

Makes me nostalgic watching this. The days before Shiekhs, Billionaire Russians and Billionaire Yanks came in and destroyed the game

[@AffectedArea]

The subversion came from within first.

[@tornado_smith]

The swines cut off the last 20 secs of the closing credits. No respect.

[@trevorlewis8714]

And they didnt show the bottom half of division 4 i wonder who was the bottom 2

[@johnrider5701]

I miss those days.

[@paulwilliams5296]

My first ever Leeds united match I attended

[@michealSutcliffe]

Was this len Martin Reading the scores,great tones,along with des!

[@SuperHans64]

Des Lynam is head and shoulders above Jeff “Shouty” Stelling. Mais, ou sont les neiges d’antan?

[@simonvazquez6751]

On final score results, you could close your eyes and determine each result by the tone of his voice (try it 🙂)

[@jackkenefick2696]

These were so the days

[@cpowers94]

"Don't bother ringing up... None of us'll get rich this week." 😂

[@colinbaker3916]

Look at the times those games finished. Nowadays no game finishes before 4:50.