yeah good post Big Mag, bringing back real memories of when football was larger than life.
Wolrd Soccer still around. I had a subscription for several years up until recently. Shamefully I just don't have time to read it anymore, so I stop. I does still pick it up before and after a Euros or the WC as memeorabilia. Hopefully my kids will get a kick out of it when they get older.
It was hard to come by in TnT though. I rememebr a man who used to sell magazines in the peoples mall used to get Shoot and World Soccer back in the early 90's but his supply was real unreliable. Price was high too, about 60.00 - 80.00 for a WS and 30 for a Shoot but when yuh get it it was like gold in the pre-internet, pre-cable age.
Talking about them times anybody used to listen to the BBC World Service on SW radio. They used to have a "super saturday" like program every saturday from 10.00 - 12.00 and thay would have a 15 minute sports report at 1.45, 6.45, 11.45 everyday. I had an old radio with them SW bands on it and I remeber dropping everything to strain my ears to hear the English scores and match analysis.
A next great source for football back then Evening News and Evening Sun. Whereas Express and Guardian had a small football section, both of them papers was pulling down every AP article they could find on English Italian and Spanish football just to full up the paper every day.12
