With the new football season only a hop, skip and a jump away it’s time to go all nostalgic for the good old days and there were some.
The Shoot Football League Ladders
Like yesterday I can remember when I got my first copy, just before the start of the 1970/1971 season when a young 10-year-old lad spies and magazine the Shoot on the comic rack. The word free caught my eye, pulling it off the shelf for a look ‘Free Football Ladders’ inside. All of a sudden it was the new must have item. Money was tight and my week comic bill was limited was two, Topper and Beezer so getting a football magazine was not a done deal.
Pressure would be need on mum, the ‘keeper of the purse string’ in order enquire the said magazine. I need to put a little bit of pressure on dad but talking football to him would usually work. It took a few days but mum caved in and told the shopkeeper to keep one back for me. Luck for me the shopkeeper had the previous weeks copy under the counter and gave it to me for free.
It's hard to explain to younger football fans brought up the growing technology since the early 80’s onwards. Today it's wall to wall football with the likes of BBC Sport and Sky Sport and the internet.
To a 10-year-old lad living in the dark ages a thin sheet of card on which were printed blank league tables was about as exciting is about as good as it got back then. Some years you would have to wait a week to get the list of teams.
The teams came on another thin sheet of card and you had to be careful when popping them off the card. You were left with T-shaped "tabs" which you had slip into their leagues. Then as the season progressed you would move the teams, up and down the table. You had to be very care with the tabs there could easy break and tear and by the end of the season you would have used a lot of sellotape.
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