Death of the Green Un..

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  1. Sopwith Camel

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    Read Paul Walker's tweet, where the Saturday night Green Un is to be no more....End of n era, On of the best ways to get Reds news and away match details pre internet and sky news...as a kid I used to deliver em, and as an adult, bought one getting off fthe bus in town and read it in the first pub...them days it would have been the White Hart..
    But not bought one for years now, especially since I got the tinternet...no need, but still a shame though..
     
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    Shame, I used to grab one as I stepped off the bus in Hoyland after a match.
     
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    It is a shame because I still pick one up from time to time although nowhere near as often as I used to.
     
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    i bought one every Saturday of the season last season, a bit steep at a quid but better then chronicle looks like being football league on a Sunday from now on
     
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    R.i.p.
     
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    It's from another age. I used to buy it every week 30 or so years ago and would study the results and tables on the front page in some detail. The print deadlines would cause chaos with the match report. If a game was 0-0 up to the 85th minute you'd have a detailed description of nothing much to fill the space and then the article would end with "Glavin scored in the 88th minute. Moore scored in the 89th minute. Glavin scored in the 90th minute". That lack of detail wouldn't be tolerated today!
     
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    Unfortunately thats spot on - we used to pick it up every week in the 70's - when I moved away from Barnsley in the '80s my Dad always used to cut out the BFC match reports and newsand post them to me - then the internet happened ...

    Its a real shame but in all honesty I am surprised it lasted this long
     
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    Waiting outside Bond St newsagents in Wombwell waiting for the van to drop them off after an away game, Hemsy won't appreciate this thread
     
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    Like wise, when I departed for college in the early 90's I would get a weekly package from my Mum containing the match report and the weekly Barnsley page (or 2 pages when we were in the Premiership) from the Green Un' and the back 2 pages of the Barnsley Chronicle :)
     
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    Same but outside the newsagents at the top of hough lane across from the George
     
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    My mum will, about now, be reeling out her favourite Green 'Un tale. The Saturday back in about 1950 when my Grandad sent her, as a young girl, across the field from Queens Drive up to the newsagent on Greenfoot Lane to "get him a Green 'Un". She thought it was just the way Stan spoke, so promptly entered the shop with "please could I have a green one?" Cutting edge humour for the time, probably.
     
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    I've still got the copy from the day we beat Newport 4-1 as we got promoted from the third. It was the same day that the Blunts lost 1-0 at home to Walsall to go down to the fourth for the first time in their history. The front page has the big headline 'BLADES DOWN'. I've never been able to part with it!
     
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    I've never bought it since they reduced our double page to a single page of news when we got relegated from the championship. Then when the wendys and blades went down they didn't reduce theirs, nor increase ours back when we got promoted again. A sheffield rag.
     
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    London Tykes have a soft spot for the Green un- we bought it almost without fail from WH Smiths at Sheffield Station after our matches- our arrival into Sheff usually coincided with the Green Un delivery man. Sometimes the delivery bloke was late so we'd cut it fine to see if we could still get one before legging it to get the London St Pancras train.

    Happy happy days.
     
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    Used to play football myself on a Saturday and if any opponent disputed a goal, penalty etc we used to say - Look in t'Green 'Un toneet mate. What's today's equivalent?
     
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