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When one wants to have a moan at modern technology and BW in particular, (I missed 20mins at the start of the match on Saturday and still can't manage to here Feds interview today), reading the article about our Cup match against Worksop in 1922 makes you understand how fortunate we are today. I can tell you that in forty years not much had changed.
How many others on here remember standing, in a crowd, outside the Standard offices in Clifftown Road waiting for a hand-written sheet of paper to be put up in the window to inform the onlookers of our progress in an FA Cup match.
My memories are not that fond, I remember being there for our 3-0 defeat at Southampton in 1959. Four years later and the taste of defeat again, this time more embarrassingly on the imfamous sloping pitch at non-league Yeovil. I remember walking away, not only from the Standard Office but from Southend United for a few years as I found their results having a depressing emotional drain on myself.
So when there is a glitch on BW I would perhaps do well to remember how far we have come over the last decade or so. The ability to be informed about the latest news of my beloved club at the touch of a keyboard. The thrill at listening, when possible, to live commentaries of every match, whilst being a 1000kms from the action. The mind-blowing abity to view our play-off matches against Doncaster, (painful though it may have been), on my computer screen. Then there was the unforgetable
evening, two years ago, when I was able to sit in my living room and watch us defeat Man U, courtesy of a French Satellite Channel.
Yep, I suppose I, like others will continue moaning about BW.....but at the back of my mind I know how really lucky I am.
How many others on here remember standing, in a crowd, outside the Standard offices in Clifftown Road waiting for a hand-written sheet of paper to be put up in the window to inform the onlookers of our progress in an FA Cup match.
My memories are not that fond, I remember being there for our 3-0 defeat at Southampton in 1959. Four years later and the taste of defeat again, this time more embarrassingly on the imfamous sloping pitch at non-league Yeovil. I remember walking away, not only from the Standard Office but from Southend United for a few years as I found their results having a depressing emotional drain on myself.
So when there is a glitch on BW I would perhaps do well to remember how far we have come over the last decade or so. The ability to be informed about the latest news of my beloved club at the touch of a keyboard. The thrill at listening, when possible, to live commentaries of every match, whilst being a 1000kms from the action. The mind-blowing abity to view our play-off matches against Doncaster, (painful though it may have been), on my computer screen. Then there was the unforgetable
evening, two years ago, when I was able to sit in my living room and watch us defeat Man U, courtesy of a French Satellite Channel.
Yep, I suppose I, like others will continue moaning about BW.....but at the back of my mind I know how really lucky I am.
