What Happened to Saturday Football?

[Maltin]

a conversation about the game, quality of players, team play, a bit of banter and so on, without the paranoia, without mentioning fucking replays,

not being funny, but are you old enough to remember when a live game was a rarity?

I still have lots of conversations about the game, the quality of players, team play and general banter on a regular basis.

I don't tend to have many conversations about replays except after they've been shown.

As far as I can remember, people have always been paranoid about their club's treatment by referees etc.

I assume when you mean "live game" you are referring to live games being shown on TV.

It depends what you mean by rare. If you are asking if I'm aware of a time before Sky Sports, then the answer is yes.

I seem to remember The Big Match showing games most Sundays, although looking at this article, it seems as if that was just from 1988 (I was 15 at the time).

ETA Your original post also talks about glory hunting. When I was at school, there was always the piss taken out of the glory hunters supporting Liverpool.