| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football 10:00 - Oct 31 with 2063 views | FrimleyBlue |
Something my nan and grandad used to do on a weekly basis, think it was something that used to come through the post?? the'd pick what games would be draws or something
Anyone remember it? |  |
| |  |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:02 - Oct 31 with 1964 views | J2BLUE |
The pools? |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:03 - Oct 31 with 1947 views | waveneyblue |
Yeah, its the pools - Still going -
Oh, hang on, you've blocked me so you won't see this.
I'm sure someone else will tell you |  | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:07 - Oct 31 with 1920 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:02 - Oct 31 by J2BLUE |
The pools? |
oo that maybe it, cheers J2 | |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:11 - Oct 31 with 1902 views | Dennyx4 |
Yes was the pools. You would pick 10 games looking to get 8 score draws.
This was very popular prior to the launch of the lottery.
From memory 3 points for a score draws, 2 points for a non score draw, 1.5 points for an away win and 1 point for a home win. Think the jackpot was 24 points, 8 games with 3 points. But if there wasn’t 8 score draws, money was paid to the highest points tally?
That’s my recollection, might be slightly wrong? |  | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:13 - Oct 31 with 1886 views | J2BLUE |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:07 - Oct 31 by FrimleyBlue |
oo that maybe it, cheers J2 |
They are still going online. One of the new who haven't yet banned me.
I had better not link you as that is basically the equivalent of pushing your face into a pile of cocaine to some on here. | |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:21 - Oct 31 with 1845 views | Zx1988 |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:11 - Oct 31 by Dennyx4 |
Yes was the pools. You would pick 10 games looking to get 8 score draws.
This was very popular prior to the launch of the lottery.
From memory 3 points for a score draws, 2 points for a non score draw, 1.5 points for an away win and 1 point for a home win. Think the jackpot was 24 points, 8 games with 3 points. But if there wasn’t 8 score draws, money was paid to the highest points tally?
That’s my recollection, might be slightly wrong? |
I think you're about right there.
I recall that Grandstand would issue a 'Pools Forecast' at the end of the classified results, often alongside a minimum points threshold for participants to submit their claims.
Halcyon days. |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:21 - Oct 31 with 1850 views | RonFearonsHair |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:11 - Oct 31 by Dennyx4 |
Yes was the pools. You would pick 10 games looking to get 8 score draws.
This was very popular prior to the launch of the lottery.
From memory 3 points for a score draws, 2 points for a non score draw, 1.5 points for an away win and 1 point for a home win. Think the jackpot was 24 points, 8 games with 3 points. But if there wasn’t 8 score draws, money was paid to the highest points tally?
That’s my recollection, might be slightly wrong? |
The Grandstand classified results allowed you to check off your pools coupon at the same time.
 |  | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:31 - Oct 31 with 1785 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:21 - Oct 31 by RonFearonsHair |
The Grandstand classified results allowed you to check off your pools coupon at the same time.
|
I remember "the pools panel" would decide what the result would've been for abandoned/postponed games... and it would annoy me if Town were involved and not given a favourable decision! I can't remember if I genuinely thought it counted as a result, but I was very young at the time. |  |
| |
Login to get fewer ads
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:33 - Oct 31 with 1768 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:21 - Oct 31 by RonFearonsHair |
The Grandstand classified results allowed you to check off your pools coupon at the same time.
|
Think that's what i used to watch around my grandparents house
There's a question on general tab about old programmes and I was about to post about how saturdays used to be for me and i just couldn't think of what these football things were, as sat evening would be the grandstand results, nan moaning she lost, then beadles about, blind date etc etc | |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:36 - Oct 31 with 1741 views | RonFearonsHair |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:31 - Oct 31 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I remember "the pools panel" would decide what the result would've been for abandoned/postponed games... and it would annoy me if Town were involved and not given a favourable decision! I can't remember if I genuinely thought it counted as a result, but I was very young at the time. |
Would love to have seen the Pools Panel's verdict on the Blackburn game... | | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 11:08 - Oct 31 with 1610 views | Illinoisblue |
The pools and Spot the Ball coupons. Massively popular at the time, reaching millions of households. I am convinced Spot the Ball was a scam, though and the money from that was used to cover Pools winners. |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 11:48 - Oct 31 with 1489 views | ronnyd |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:21 - Oct 31 by RonFearonsHair |
The Grandstand classified results allowed you to check off your pools coupon at the same time.
|
Scum v Toffies game looked tasty, except they won.  | | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 13:20 - Oct 31 with 1307 views | Radlett_blue |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:31 - Oct 31 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I remember "the pools panel" would decide what the result would've been for abandoned/postponed games... and it would annoy me if Town were involved and not given a favourable decision! I can't remember if I genuinely thought it counted as a result, but I was very young at the time. |
The BBC seemed obsessed with the number of score draws and the pools coupon in those days. Maybe that's what many people who tuned into Grandstand for, but I thought it distracted from the excitement of the football results, which was never quite the same after the teleprinter was replaced by the videoprinter. |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 14:21 - Oct 31 with 1220 views | LuciBlue |
Won £5k a few years back tyvm |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 14:33 - Oct 31 with 1194 views | Trequartista |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 11:08 - Oct 31 by Illinoisblue |
The pools and Spot the Ball coupons. Massively popular at the time, reaching millions of households. I am convinced Spot the Ball was a scam, though and the money from that was used to cover Pools winners. |
It was a scam. For some copyright reason or other they weren’t allowed to just put the ball back from where it was erased, it had to be predicted by a panel of experts. [Post edited 31 Oct 14:45]
|  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 17:56 - Oct 31 with 948 views | Everydayblue |
I remember us getting two wins on the same day once...
We had a game postponed because of snow on the pitch. Which The Pools Forecast gave as an Ipswich win.
But we travelled to Coventry I think, to play them instead. And we won that one.
Around 1982'ish... Proper Winters back then. | | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 18:25 - Oct 31 with 908 views | BloomBlue |
The Pools, a very, very, popular form of football betting in the 60s/70s especially with 'Grannies'. Nothing wrong with football betting. |  | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 18:30 - Oct 31 with 884 views | Swansea_Blue |
My grandad used to do the pools religiously. Which is a bid weird as he wasn’t much of a football man (I don’t think he had a team and if he did he never mentioned it) and he wasn’t a betting man either. Plus they were skint. It just seemed like something to do that was very popular. |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 18:43 - Oct 31 with 853 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:33 - Oct 31 by FrimleyBlue |
Think that's what i used to watch around my grandparents house
There's a question on general tab about old programmes and I was about to post about how saturdays used to be for me and i just couldn't think of what these football things were, as sat evening would be the grandstand results, nan moaning she lost, then beadles about, blind date etc etc |
So you really are 14 Frimmers. Either that or I'm really, really old. |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 19:36 - Oct 31 with 761 views | ClareBlue |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:36 - Oct 31 by RonFearonsHair |
Would love to have seen the Pools Panel's verdict on the Blackburn game... |
They gave some strange verdicts. Someone did a study of the actual results when the game was played and the panel verdict was about 25 perc accurate. Worse than the random control they compared it with. | | | |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 23:50 - Oct 31 with 470 views | Whos_blue |
I remember the "pools man" knocking on the door weekly. My dad did the pools and STB religiously but oddly he had no interest in football whatsoever.
When I worked in a factory in the early 90s we had a "pools man" too.
I thought the pools had long since finished, so it's great to hear it's still a thing. |  |
| Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness. |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 02:09 - Nov 1 with 400 views | Perublue |
…. And the Australian football covered the close season for those that wanted to continue over the summer.
Frimmers has made me feel very old .. Does he know about 9/11 ? |  |
| |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 11:39 - Nov 1 with 132 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Something really bugging me.... draw betting in football on 10:02 - Oct 31 by J2BLUE |
The pools? |
I used to do it, was run by 'Vernons' IIRC?
My old man did it before me, used to have all the numbers cut out on cardboard squares that he had hand written and kept them in a 'Cafe Creme' tin, which were tiny cigars.
Would do two lines, one which he tried to deduce and one for us kids, that we would randomly pick ten numbers from the cardboard squares. |  |
| |
| |
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
