[Football] Spot the ball

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Poyningsgull

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• Jul 3, 2018

• #21

I used to stick a pin in the picture till I heard a bang.! Never failed.

 

KZNSeagull

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• Jul 3, 2018

• #22

whitelion said:

Yes I did. IIRC it was a block of 100. I did the Argus one as well as the National one which had a top prize of £100,000

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And how often did you win, as the cross had to be precisely in the middle of the ball didn't it?

 

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backson

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• Jul 3, 2018

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Is it PotG? said:

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Think I read somewhere that they didn't actually select the winner by placing the original photo over the top but by using an 'expert' panel to decide where they thought it SHOULD be.

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I recall reading that the reason was, that it was illegal to gamble on an event that had already taken place.

 

Mackenzie

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• Jul 3, 2018

• #24

pasty said:

Also remember something my dad used to run as a charity fund raiser. It was called Pontoon, and I think it was run by The Sunday People. Basic premise was each player was assigned two teams, and over a set period of time, 6 weeks I think it was though could be wrong, the player whose 2 teams scored nearest to 21 goals won, with a bigger prize for 21 exactly. The paper used to publish a full list of teams and the number of goals they'd scored.

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They used to do the pontoon at the fishermans club in the arches on the seafront.

A mate of my uncle was a football pools and spot the ball agent around Brighton. If the pools money didn't tally, he'd square it up using spot the ball takings....

 

Gazwag

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Bexhill-on-Sea

• Jul 3, 2018

• #25

circa Sept 1988

 

dazzer6666

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Burgess Hill

• Jul 3, 2018

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Remember my dear old grandad poring over Spot the Ball for ages before putting his 6ds worth of tiny crosses on the pic (after he'd spent even longer selecting his 10 draws) for the coupon collector who came round (Thursday evening from memory). We then had the high drama of everyone having to SHUT UP whilst the BBC announcer the results out around 5pm on Saturday (I used to spend every Saturday with my grandparents, along with my two cousins as both my and their parents worked on Saturdays)

He continued this well into his 80s. Same routine. Would always talk about how he was going to spend his winnings.

He won **** all. Must have been 60+ years of doing it (excluding 39-45 where he was busy elsewhere)

 

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Harry Wilson's Tackle

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• Jul 3, 2018

• #27

Albumen said:

6 posts gone and no photo of Peter Beardsley yet? NSC has gone downhill.

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Just been looking, fruitlessly, for a vid that part of an episode of Bottom where Richie....well you can guess the rest.

 

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Fungus

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Truro

• Jul 3, 2018

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The Big Issue still do a version of STB, where you just select from a grid.

 

PILTDOWN MAN

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• Jul 3, 2018

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I won 4th prize on the national spot the ball in 1983 won £500 a lot of dosh back then