{"id":7187,"date":"2015-06-03T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:48:34","slug":"celtic-radio-da-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"Celtic &#8211; Radio Da Da!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting part of the last season has seen many football fans, including Etims Diary readers, turn around and tell Sky Sports TV to rammit with cancelled subscriptions and then give a polite No Thanks when duly begged to remain as loyal customers ( <em>Fergus McCann just smiled and doesnt know why &#8211; Ed<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Various reasons have been cited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exploitation of punters with ever rising costs.<\/li>\n<li>A total lack of respect for the Scottish game with low payments and crazy match scheduling\u00a0, often at very late notice to detriment of\u00a0travelling fans.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0personal hate, the\u00a0idiotic praise for Gary Nevilles banality &#8211; Im sorry but saying things like<em> &#8220;The defender had to do better to stop that striker getting passed him \u00a0and scoring&#8221;<\/em> is <strong>NOT<\/strong> genius insight &#8211; (<em>And release &#8211; Ed<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It wasnt always like that you know.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, there was a genuine media outlet that people could go to with glee and dare i say it, respect. People would flock to this information supplier and sit there in rature, hanging on every word, kicking every ball, crossing every finger, living every sweet moment whenever they could, for one very important aspect to rememeber, there wasnt saturation like there was with SKY and its competitors, this was a one stop gig, not a monopoly but more like a Charity, everyone felt priviledged if you found out you had access to the game.<\/p>\n<p>What was this strange alluring media outlet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RADIO<\/strong>..the media heroin of the football fan of days gone by!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly people today see the words Football and radio and the thoughts in their head are pretty ghastly including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adrian Durham and his mentalist rantings.<\/li>\n<li>Radio 5 Live and its refusal to see the English premiership for what it truly is&#8230;a fat cash cow, force fed on bullshit and lardy praise and ready\u00a0to burst<\/li>\n<li>TalkShite radio and its obsession with Engerlund<\/li>\n<li>Radio Clyde and its biased Superscoreboard and pandering to idiots then slamming same idiots when the desired brouhaha is generated.<\/li>\n<li>Radio Scotland and its crazy ability to hire ex Rangers players who clearly have no presence, personality or appreciation of football whatsoever, and we wont bother mentioning any\u00a0bias over there and Tam Cowans sulking whenever Motherwell\\Dundee Utd\u00a0fail to offer a starlet more than 5 groats a week and he leaves for Parkhead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It wasnt always like that though.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us on here are old enough to remember the glory days. Yes\u00a0its green tinted earplug romanticising I know, but there really was something glorious at smiling when\u00a0 just\u00a0finding out &#8220;The games on the tranny tonight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cue the clock watching and then the dial turning as you tried to find your radio reception. Digital Schmigital..this was RSI inducing antics. \u00a0If you were lucky you got a good signal, if you werent ( as normal) it was a crackling low volume reception but somehow that was part of it, a price to pay&#8230;like a junkie knowing the score is cut up with talc&#8230;we took our fix anyway we could get it and were silent and\u00a0grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week on Etims Season review piece\u00a0I\u00a0found myself\u00a0remembering a moment from radio listening days gone passed:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0I mind jumping for joy when he ( John\u00a0 Hughes)\u00a0scored against Hearts when I was stuck in a crappy wee bedsit down South just about getting a Radio Scotland signal on the tranny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was only in the 90s, not 50 years ago, and also generated this reply from BondiBhoy<\/p>\n<p><em>..got me thinking about the time ah lived in a bedsit in Tottenham listening to the tranny as the Meastro missed the penalty againts Raith Rovers in that final\u2026.then radio flung across ( about all of 10 feet in distance ) across the room\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bondhibhoys reply reminded me that I also listened to the raith Rovers game. That was\u00a0in my cousins kitchen in Blackpool. Even the losing game memories stay fresh in the mind when captured through the ears.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favourite &#8216;Fitbaw on the Tranny&#8217; memory however was a\u00a0wednesday night late September back in\u00a0&#8217;82 and cue me grudgingly getting sent up for a bath by my mum while my late Dad\u00a0was \u00a0in the kitchen sitting staring and pawing\u00a0at\u00a0a tranny playing loud static noises as he tried to find &#8220;The Game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The stage was set. It was the second leg and Celtic had a mountain to climb and hope wasnt high, despite them still being\u00a0in the tie at 3-3 on\u00a0aggregate( but\u00a0losing on away goals rule)\u00a0with only 5 minutes to go&#8230; but Celtic being Celtic, Football and radio glory was on its way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I can still remember straining in the bath( steady!) to hear the radio from way down in the kitchen but what a moment when \u00a0I heard a crackling voice whisper \u00a0&#8220;Its a goal!&#8221; followed by a very load YESSSSSS! from my Dad who was usually more of a quiet sort of guy.<\/p>\n<p>Cue much splashing and rejoicing after \u00a0George McKinlay Cassidy McCluskey had stepped up and secured a wonderful win over Ajax, Johan Cruffs Ajax no less, in Amsterdam, no less!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to an advertising dispute, there was no TV highlights ( <a href=\"www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tSEnHKmmLB8\">youtube here<\/a>) but far away across the sea,\u00a0 through those beautiful \u00a0radio waves, oh god bless those beautiful \u00a0radio waves, me, my dad and Celtic fans abound got to\u00a0share that wonderful win and got to store away some wonderful coveted memories.<\/p>\n<p>Technology moves on of course, it has to and we all accept that. Every generation will have their own version of\u00a0romantic stories\u00a0ala &#8220;<em>We sat in Peru and streamed the historic win\u00a0to qualify for Champions Leadue in 2016<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0or potentially &#8220;<em>We plugged ourselves in and downloaded the feed for the Scottish Cup in 2034<\/em>&#8221; but its all relative and nothing to me will ever be more relative than the radio. Especially that night in 82.<\/p>\n<p>So for one last time, G&#8217;aun yirself Da, one more time: &#8220;YESSSSSSSSSSSS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desimond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>So whats your favourite radio listening memory..Lounge listening to 67 Lisbon?&#8230;Straining to hear Seville in some distant bodega&#8230;A Jimmy Sanderson orphanage spoof sketch? maybe\u00a0even\u00a0Pensionerbhoy recalling seeing a bloke name Marconi dribbling touchside at Parkhead?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let us know in the comments below..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting part of the last season has seen many football fans, including Etims Diary readers, turn around and tell Sky Sports TV to rammit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/finding_joy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-1RV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}