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Pools?
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Any of you used to do the pools? I have vague memories of my dad doing them, and the results were on the Australian matches in the summer.
Spot the ball was also quite popular
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Re: Pools?
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I used to do the Vernons pools and we used to have a man come round and collected it. Also I think that the News of the World did a spot the ball?
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big thing at the time you could pick up forms at newsagent etc was shocked as a kid the weird teams names in the summer were Aussie .
PS Spot the ball was apparently rigged
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Yep. The Pools collector used to come on a Thursday night to collect the for m. I think it was 40p a line.
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My old man used to collect the Pools and I used to traipse the streets of Webb Rise and Archer Road every Thursday night with him.
Was an absolute ball ache. He used to get 12.5p for every pound collected.
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Our pools collector when I was a kid banked a quid for every quid collected.
Did very well for himself.
Till he got found out.
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As a young lad I couldn't fatham out what the pools were all about. There seemed to be different connotations depending on how much you wanted to spend.
All I remember was my Dad used to pick the same 11 numbers on the coupon each week.
He didn't win a farthing!
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Yes my old man used to do the littlewoods pools when I was a kid. Use to take them round to Alec’s newsagents on a Friday with him.
He won £5k one week back in the 70’s.
There use to be a special stamp with the crosses on for Spot the Ball.
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I also remember Horace Batchelor on Radio Luxembourg and his “Infra draw method” ……..He also put Keynsham on the map, where he operated from, and used to spell it out every week.
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good old Alec,s in main avenue . Bush Hill Park .
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I remember when the game was called off the guy doing the classified scores on BBC would give the pools panel result "home win" or "score draw" etc.
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The ball was always miles away from where you thought it'd be.
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