Does anyone still do the “ pools”?

[George 1978]

a distant relative of mine won spot the ball in the early 80s , I recall the prize was a cruise that he and his girlfriend took , a sports car ,that was played with for a few months then sold and settled on an xr3. Cash was around 100k. Not a huge amount nowadays but was plenty for him to buy a decent house in a nice area and a chip shop business and a posh wedding .

Back in the mid 1990s I looked at Microfilm editions of the Nottingham Evening Post at the Central Library from 1978 and I saw on a weekend edition that one week the Find the Ball competition jackpot was £21,000 - that was probably more than what most middle class people were earning in a year back in 1978. That's possibly nearly half a million in today's money - imagine winning all that back then!

[Semi42]

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Spot the ball, all whizz thought it was a fiddle

a distant relative of mine won spot the ball in the early 80s , I recall the prize was a cruise that he and his girlfriend took , a sports car ,that was played with for a few months then sold and settled on an xr3. Cash was around 100k. Not a huge amount nowadays but was plenty for him to buy a decent house in a nice area and a chip shop business and a posh wedding .

[teepee]

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My dad used to be an agent/collector. I used to love accompanying him on his rounds when he would collect completed entries and give out coupons for the following week. There used to be a black piece of paper in the pile of coupons, presumably to mark every 100 (or perhaps 500?) "That's in case any blind people want to do the pools", my dad told me. And I believed him. One week one of the regulars said he hadn't had time to complete his entry and asked my dad to put one in for him. Dad went home and pored over the bloody thing all night, submitted it - and it won a jackpot! The bloke thanked Dad for doing it by giving him ... absolutely bugger all. Not even a dry fart, the tight git.

[George 1978]

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Yes when The National Lottery was introduced sales at Liverpool Pools dropped think it was the same with Vernons

The National Lottery must have made the pools look really out of date, hence the decline by the mid 1990s. Besides, the lottery jackpot was greater and was publicised more, and also I don't think that bookmakers and bingo would have been eventually advertised on television if it hasn't have been for the National Lottery opening the floodgates back in 1994 - and the foundation of the Gambling Commission.

[George 1978]

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Oh OK thanks George

Missed that bit

I am like that when it comes to long threads, and sometimes I am not sure whether something has already been mentioned.

[amethyst]

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I thought that they had indirectly replaced the lottery as I had mentioned earlier on in this thread.

Yes when The National Lottery was introduced sales at Liverpool Pools dropped think it was the same with Vernons

[Twocky61]

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Oh OK thanks George

Missed that bit

[George 1978]

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Are the Pools still going then, what with the lottery?

I thought that they had indirectly replaced the lottery as I had mentioned earlier on in this thread.

[Twocky61]

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Are the Pools still going then, what with the lottery?

[Zincubus]

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Also we used to look forward to seeing football results on grandstand where we would get excited if there was 8 draw games,then to check the coupon damn it not us lol

Remember how you could tell if the first team won or lost with the guy’s tone of voice


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[amethyst]

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Also we used to look forward to seeing football results on grandstand where we would get excited if there was 8 draw games,then to check the coupon damn it not us lol

[George 1978]

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Another thing you don't see anymore are football cards....you pay your 20p and pick a team from a choice of about 50, when all the teams were picked the winning team ( the name of which is hidden under a sticker) is revealed and you would win a couple of quid

I have in my mind those Panini football stickers that used to get passed along in the school playground.

[Zincubus]

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Spot the ball, all whizz thought it was a fiddle

TalkSport just interviewed the only bloke to win TWICE. !!

He now has TWO Ferraris !!

He uses a drinks coaster to measure the player’s eye-line. ...


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[zabadak]

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I seem to remember my dad winning a few shillings (yes, it was that long ago!) a coupla times but nothing more...

[Richard1978]

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Another thing you don't see anymore are football cards....you pay your 20p and pick a team from a choice of about 50, when all the teams were picked the winning team ( the name of which is hidden under a sticker) is revealed and you would win a couple of quid

I've seen these around fairly recently.