Quote Originally Posted by KemptownMag View Post
I was a student in Leningrad during the 1970 World Cup.
In those days they played 3-4 games each day, all kicking off at the same time.
Russian TV would show one game live, then the other games straight afterwards in full.
There was no internet and no mobile phones of course, so no way of finding out the scores without watching the games - at least not in the good old USSR. There were no "expert" panels in between games and no flashing up of scores along the bottom of the screen.

So we would sit watching football for six hours at a stretch until the early hours.
Loved every minute of it.
Nowadays - not so much.
That’s interesting - did you actually study there or just happened to be there during the WC?