The Argus and the Sporting star

[soulman101]

They have talking about these on WM phone in tonight .
Brought back memories waiting for the van to arrive .
Later in life , my wife had a part time job delvering the Sandwell Mail and the argus round the newsagents in Great Bidge, Tipton and Wednesbury .
If Albion was away i used to help her on the Argus run .

[phild]

It always amazed me how quick the local football results and reports were compiled in such a short space of time! I also would wait for the Argus to be delivered which would invariably arrive within an hour of the game finishing

[Grand Wazoo]

Myself and Baggies-boy-Tony worked on the Sports Argus for in my case twenty years but Tony for far longer as he is a good bit older than me. No offence Tony. It was a great experience and probably the next best thing to being able to go to the game. The scores of the local Big Six teams would come into the Composing Room from Editorial within seconds of a goal being scored. As an apprentice I took great pleasure in shouting out 1 up the Baggies and even more of 1 down the Cream (as an apprentice you had to refer to the Vile as the cream). Great times.

[soulman101]

Myself and Baggies-boy-Tony worked on the Sports Argus for in my case twenty years but Tony for far longer as he is a good bit older than me. No offence Tony. It was a great experience and probably the next best thing to being able to go to the game. The scores of the local Big Six teams would come into the Composing Room from Editorial within seconds of a goal being scored. As an apprentice I took great pleasure in shouting out 1 up the Baggies and even more of 1 down the Cream (as an apprentice you had to refer to the Vile as the cream). Great times.

The blues reporter was saying he was using the land lines from the and dicating the report during the match to a copy writter.

[soulman101]

The blues reporter was saying he was using the land lines from the and dicating the report during the match to a copy writter.

Think he said his name was Colin Tattler

[Omegstrat6]

Still have my old Albion scrap book somewhere from the 70s comprised mostly of cuttings from the Argos match reports

[soulman101]

Didn't know that .
The B'ham Dispatch did the Blue sports paper, whilst the Mail did the PInk till , the mail tookover the dispatch .
I've got the Blue 54 Cup Final special

[boinggazmic]

Think he said his name was Colin Tattler

Yes I heard it to. His name is Colin Tatum.great days.when I was serving overseas in the 80s my dad would send me a few copies via BFPO..those Argus pages would go around the lads..as I said great days..form rate outstanding.

[Baggies_Boy_Tony]

Sorry Soulman, it was the other way round, my brother worked for the Evening Despatch who produced the Pink Argus, I worked at the B'ham Mail and we produced the Blue Sports Final.
The Mail brought out the Despatch and closed it down so we took over producing the Sports Argus

[soulman101]

Sorry Soulman, it was the other way round, my brother worked for the Evening Despatch who produced the Pink Argus, I worked at the B'ham Mail and we produced the Blue Sports Final.
The Mail brought out the Despatch and closed it down so we took over producing the Sports Argus

Hi Tony thanks for the info .
Looked it up today the Mail tookover the Despatch in 1963 but it has stated up again as a e mail paper .
The Sporting Star finnished 15 years ago and the Argus 18 years ago .
A chap rang up tonight and he got the 1931 cup final Argus Blues V Albion .