Brilliant stuff, mate.
How much easier it is for the young yins to Follow Follow compared to the likes of you and I. A couple of things:
1. I moved to London for Yooni in 1981. In the winter on clear nights you could pick up BBC Scotland MW broadcasts for European games, crackly and intermittent though it may be.
2. Teletext came to our rescue for scores/results - but you never got the immediacy of David Francey's voice.
3. My auld dear fulfilled the same sort of function as
@mdingwall does. She'd tear out the back pages of Sunday's Mail and Monday's Herald and post them to me as regular as clockwork. Unlike Mr Dingwall she'd include a couple of caramel wafers or macaroon bars. Now and then she'd include a fiver - easily enough for a couple of pints.
Makes me nostalgic thinking about it.