Teletext Clubcall rumours page (1 Viewer)

Alkhen · Jul 18, 2018

I can't be the only person on here that used to check Teletext for the Clubcall rumours advert almost daily as a kid in the 90s?!

Always utter bollocks or pushing the to the very limits of the truth but for a lad not growing up in Cov it was one of the few places that even mentioned us!

You'd wait for the page scroll around to one line of text saying something like:

BRAZILIAN ACE SET FOR SKYBLUES

I'd excitedly run through all the possibilities of who this 'ACE' might be. Ronaldo... Romario.. Juninho... Rivaldo

Obviously I wasn't stupid enough to pay the £1.50 per min rate so id just have to let my imagination run wild

Then a week later id find out we'd signed Isaias.

I mean I was never pleasantly surprised.
Stupid but I loved it still, I guess there was just less to do back then or something

I_Saw_Shaw_Score · Jul 18, 2018

I remember seeing this advertised everywhere! Fortunately I was about 7 so couldn’t call to find out we’d signed Kyle Lightbourne

Deleted member 5849 · Jul 18, 2018

/coughs

TEAMTALK

sw88 · Jul 18, 2018

Did anyone ever compete bamboozle?

Alkhen · Jul 18, 2018

Deleted member 5849 said:
/coughs

TEAMTALK

Used to check that regularly in the 00s and still look at the bbc rumours from time to time

clint van damme · Jul 18, 2018

sw88 said:
Did anyone ever compete bamboozle?

yes mate!
Channel 4s music page was excellent, can't remember what it was called.

Alkhen · Jul 18, 2018

sw88 said:
Did anyone ever compete bamboozle?

Ha I used to cheat and start again writing down the right answers... we didnt have internet

sw88 · Jul 18, 2018

This guy did too!

sw88 · Jul 18, 2018

And cable TV, channel 10, was that Sky Blue TV or something like that? A channel dedicated to the mighty sky blues?

I_Saw_Shaw_Score · Jul 18, 2018

sw88 said:
Did anyone ever compete bamboozle?

The anticipation on a Friday night for the questions to change! Wow blast from the past!

Alkhen · Jul 18, 2018

Deleted member 5849 said:
/coughs

TEAMTALK

Ooooh totally missed that! Thought you were linking to the Teamtalk homepage

no_loyalty · Jul 18, 2018

sw88 said:
And cable TV, channel 10, was that Sky Blue TV or something like that? A channel dedicated to the mighty sky blues?

Yes it was on Coventry cable, can't remember if it carried on when NTL took over

Sick Boy · Jul 19, 2018

I ended up racking up a huge phone bill when I was a kid calling up Clubcall. I can still remember the number, 0891 12 11 67 or something like that. No idea how much is was but the good old Irish wooden spoon was brought out that night!

Cranfield Sky Blue · Jul 19, 2018

Sick Boy said:
I ended up racking up a huge phone bill when I was a kid calling up Clubcall. I can still remember the number, 0891 12 11 67 or something like that. No idea how much is was but the good old Irish wooden spoon was brought out that night!

The wooden spoon! Still makes me shiver!

Nick · Jul 19, 2018

sw88 said:
And cable TV, channel 10, was that Sky Blue TV or something like that? A channel dedicated to the mighty sky blues?

All about live TV, channel 20

ajsccfc · Jul 19, 2018

I used to play some kind of football management game by post. You'd be sent your squad and have to fill in your team, send it away and wait for the results to be posted back, and actually phoning people to arrange transfers thanks to the contact details being sent with the league table. Simpler* times

*worse

Nick · Jul 19, 2018

ajsccfc said:
I used to play some kind of football management game by post. You'd be sent your squad and have to fill in your team, send it away and wait for the results to be posted back, and actually phoning people to arrange transfers thanks to the contact details being sent with the league table. Simpler* times

*worse

Should have been via Fax to make it authentic.

willz121 · Jul 19, 2018

ajsccfc said:
I used to play some kind of football management game by post. You'd be sent your squad and have to fill in your team, send it away and wait for the results to be posted back, and actually phoning people to arrange transfers thanks to the contact details being sent with the league table. Simpler* times

*worse

This still runs to this day, but in the form of online forums rather than playing by post. I run a website that uses software called ESMS which is Electronic Soccer Management Simulator. It moved from play by mail, to play by email, to now being entirely forum based where managers login and create their teams and do transfers online.

I won't advertise the site here as not sure if that would contravene the forum rules, but anyone is interested I can send you a link via personal message.

SkyBlueScottie · Jul 19, 2018

sw88 said:
And cable TV, channel 10, was that Sky Blue TV or something like that? A channel dedicated to the mighty sky blues?

I was interviewed on that due to winning a free kit, I was the first in the queue, Phil Neal presented the kit, I was on the back page of The Pink, and Ian Clarke interviewed me.

Nick · Jul 19, 2018

willz121 said:
This still runs to this day, but in the form of online forums rather than playing by post. I run a website that uses software called ESMS which is Electronic Soccer Management Simulator. It moved from play by mail, to play by email, to now being entirely forum based where managers login and create their teams and do transfers online.

I won't advertise the site here as not sure if that would contravene the forum rules, but anyone is interested I can send you a link via personal message.

Nah you're OK, chuck a link up!

tisza · Jul 19, 2018

Sick Boy said:
I ended up racking up a huge phone bill when I was a kid calling up Clubcall. I can still remember the number, 0891 12 11 67 or something like that. No idea how much is was but the good old Irish wooden spoon was brought out that night!

i copped a few for running up a phone bill or two on Clubcall. It used to have that long intro (jacking up the bill) before the actual news of which about 10% was accurate!!!

Terry Gibson's perm · Jul 19, 2018

SkyBlueScottie said:
I was interviewed on that due to winning a free kit, I was the first in the queue, Phil Neal presented the kit, I was on the back page of The Pink, and Ian Clarke interviewed me.

Clarkie what man an ex manager of mine.

willz121 · Jul 20, 2018

Nick said:
Nah you're OK, chuck a link up!

Thanks Nick, wasn't sure what the rules were!

The website is www.tde3.co.uk and there is a link from there onto the forums. If anyone has any questions, let me know

Covstu · Jul 20, 2018

used to love Teletext, sat infront of that watching the results!!

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