Have they all died out? Does anywhere still produce one?

They say - 'they' being historians and that - that the internet, and mobile technology, coupled with the fact that no games are ever played at 3pm Saturday anymore, pretty much made them obsolete.

Which is a shame, because apart from being vital resources back in the day, they were really fucking cool.

As far as I know the Green 'Un still gets printed in Sheffield.

And in Ipswich. And Norwich still has a Pink'Un, I think.

Yes, the one in Bolton was called The Buff. But I haven't seen that in donkeys' years.

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Yes, the one in Bolton was called The Buff. But I haven't seen that in donkeys' years.

Urgh. "Did you see Mixu Paatelainen in The Buff?"

Urgh.

It's all very sad indeed. I still think they could have had a role, albeit a reduced one, in certain areas, if newspaper companies were prepared to back them. It's still handy to have all the results in front of you in paper form on the way back from a game.

They're seriously frantic and busy fuckers to work on, mind.

I can imagine.

The Midlands used to have two pinks which overlapped. The Sports Argus was published in Birmingham, by the makers of the Evening Mail. It's still going, but in two parts. The Sports Argus is still a Saturday pink, but is a lunctime paper, and the results are carried by the Sports Argus Extra, on the Monday. Both are 'free' supplements with the Evening Mail.

The Wolverhampton-based Sporting Star is still going, as a Saturday tea-time results paper, and has changed with the times. It's now printed on white paper, and has an accompanying electronic version (that you have to subscribe to, in order to read).

The Leicester one died a couple of years ago, and it's been a while since I've seen one anywhere. They were great, and provided a service which there is no effective substitute for.

The Southampton pink paper (The Pink) is still going. I think this is largely due to the large amount of coverage it has always given to local non-league football. You can get scores and half-time reports from Wessex and Hampshire League games in it

The Cardiff one saw it's demise nearly three years ago now
http://www.cardiffcity-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=262134

I used to deliver the Press & Journal equivalent around Elgin on some very cold saturday nights in the 70s.

There was one house where a 6 year-old kid was sent to the door to say: "Ma da' only wants it when Rangers wins"

Which seems bizarre, as you didn't really buy it for in-depth match reports or analysis of tactics, did you?

Is the Manchester one gone? That one used to come out in Ireland on Sunday, if I recall correctly.

"Football Echo" still going strong on Wearside while "The Football Pink" has died on Tyneside. Hopefully a indication of the sporting future.

There was one house where a 6 year-old kid was sent to the door to say: "Ma da' only wants it when Rangers wins"

Which seems bizarre, as you didn't really buy it for in-depth match reports or analysis of tactics, did you?

Yes, I remember the same phenomenon happened in the Black Country - my local newsagent said they always used to sell out much quicker if the Albion had won.

I used to pore over the Sports Argus every week. In pre-internet times it was essential.

Twas the only way to find out the scores once "Grandstand"/ "World Of Sport" had finished. No Internet or Teletext back then. The Sunderland version "Football Echo" doesnt make a profit apparently but its parent paper are terrified of the publics reaction if they kill it off.

I'm surprised that the football echo doesn't make a profit as it mostly consists of a rehash of the previous weeks sports articles from the parent newspaper.

I buy it every week and previously relied upon it for directions to the away games until it gave me a bumsteer at Stoke the other week and I ended up driving around greater manchester for the thick end of 2 hours.

I'd miss it if it was pulled tbh