1 April 1989 HTV - Saint and Greavsie extracts 

Jimmy Greaves and him are reunited now....

Definitely.

The days when the lunchtime warm-up to Saturday's match took in Saint & Greavsie on ITV v Football Focus on BBC1. I can't remember now if the screening times clashed. RIP and remember,it's a funny old game Saint!

Is he wearing that for a laugh? I don’t ever remember him wearing one.

It was for April fools day.

Mine too, watched a boat load of them. Who would have thought listening to crack about footie years ago would be so much fun

😂😂😂😂

That's right - this would have been the spring of 1989,which was smack in the middle of the inflatables craze. Grimsby's inflatable haddocks made me laugh the most!

@@rjjcms1 Palace used to have inflatable planes because they were sponsored by Virgin in those days. Yes! I do remember the Grimsby inflatable Haddocks! I had an inflatable banana, but it got knocked out of my hands and ended up being punched around by the crowd and i lost it. I’ve never really got over that 🤨 Yes, it was a very warm day so Spring sounds about right. I remember the game very well, Palace Brighton is a big game for the two clubs, almost like a Derby game for some reason, so the atmosphere was great. I remember by Palaces 4th penalty the crowd were already expecting a miss and a lot of them behind the goal had their hands up getting ready ti catch the ball. They weren’t wrong either! Cheers Ralph, regards Matt

@@mjepcmjepc8915 Haha that's funny. I support Watford and went to both legs of our play-off semi-final (0-0 at theirs,1-1 at ours,they went through on away goals) against Blackburn,who you beat in the final. Been to Selhurst Park three times - to see us take on Charlton,Palace and Wimbledon once each! The time against Palace was that FA Cup 5th round replay when you scored the winner in the last minute of extra time! George Ndah it was,I think,and that would have been 1995. There's been a long-running feud/rivalry between Palace and Brighton,hasn't there? Regards too,Matt!

@@rjjcms1 Hi Ralph, I actually support Charlton. But my best friend at school was a Palace fan, so we used to go to see Palace one week and Charlton the next as obviously they were groundsharing back then. Charlton were in the 1st division then, often playing in front of 5,000 people! We used to go to Millwall too now and again. The Old Den was an experience in those days, especially for a 14yr old. I remember seeing running battles and police horses charging across the pitch when they played West Ham earlier that season. Yes, we didn’t go to the Watford SF but did go to the Blackburn final 2nd leg. I remember invading the pitch when Palace scored their 3rd goal to win 4-3 on aggregate. The season after, all four south London clubs, Wimbledon, Charlton, Palace and Millwall were in the top division. The only memory of Watford i have is having to walk about 3 miles around a load of allotments to get into the away end. I think we lost that day too! Cheers 👍

@@mjepcmjepc8915 Ha,the infamous allotments claimed yet more unsuspecting victims! They're on the slope down from the Rookery end of the ground,which used to be the away end until they swapped it round and put the away fans in the Vicarage Road end instead. The council want to expand the hospital over them and the allotment holders were fighting the move. I remember when Charlton got moved out of the Valley very suddenly early in the 1985-86 season. It was a real feat to get promoted and stay in the top flight for four years against the odds when they didn't have their home any more. Am I right in thinking that their on-the-pitch efforts are still being undermined by the off-the-field tribulations? My first visit to Selhurst Park was to see Watford play Charlton in October 1990. I had a free afternoon the Wednesday before so with nothing else to do I jumped onto a train to Euston for a random wander looking at something or other in London. I decided to take a look at the Valley while at least some of it was still there,as the fight to get football ever played at the Valley again was still being fought,even after the fans' clear-ups of the vegetation that had overgrown the pitch,etc. and the Valley Party campaign for the council elections. Coming from the station nearest Floyd Road,I did a circuit round the outside looking in,though a council estate was in the way at the lower end,perhaps with a green space in front of it. At the highest point above that huge old terrace,opposite some light industrial units,I found a gap in the fencing (I think it was corrugated iron sheets) and slipped in between it. Hoping no-one would catch me and throw me out or anything worse,I took my time to explore,picking my way up and down that vast terrace that was still overgrown with weeds and small bushes without falling over and braining myself. The pitch (no,I didn't walk on it,that wouldn't have been right) was mown in readiness for eventually seeing action again but only one of the old stands remained intact,and I sat on one of the remaining (wooden if I remember correctly) seats thinking: will anyone sit here watching a match again? On the far side from there was the black framework of another stand,which I assumed must have been dismantled. I eventually slipped back out without being apprehended by anyone,and travelled to Selhurst Park where Charlton were operating out of a set of portakabins that also displayed and sold club merchandise,along one of the adjacent thoroughfares. Happily,a little over two years later Charlton returned to the Valley,which I revisited to attend a match several times. I did also go to Millwall's Old Den,in February 1993 shortly before it was about to become history. I have another trespass-related tale to do with that,which I posted recently in the comments to this RU-vid video by a chap called Jago Hazzard about how the LDR station Mudchute came to be named thus. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bdi6VwTwfME.html Cheers too,and all the best 👍.

You're right, it ran from 85-92 and it was particularly strong between 88-92 because ITV had exclusive rights to the old Division 1 for those last 4 years. They had no rights to the Premier League, hence the show finished. And yes the Baddiel/Skinner sketch was funny. "Grimsby versus Southend, exclusively live" !

Probably because he retired about 45-50 years ago and you're how old? Do you know who Bill Shankly is? If not, go back and read about how he turned Liverpool from a lower/mid-table, 2nd tier club into one of Europe's best club sides. Ian St John was to provider to Roger Hunt as Kenny was to Rushie, as Beardsley was to Aldo, as Macca was to Fowler. They were a great partnership up front.

@@jonisilk I'm in my nineties but don't like football and live in Saudi Arabia. Was just asking, man. Why the aggressive response 😏?

@@1wwc45 I figured you were either trolling, or in your 20's and barely knowledgable. Honestly didn't consider the foreign angle, but it was no need to slate a player just because you know nothing about them. It was intended as a defence of the player, rather than an attack on you. I hope my comment did at least give you some context for why he was important to the club and it's fans

@@1wwc45 age is no excuse, and if you are that old, you should know better than to leave a comment like that on what is to all intents and purposes a modern-day book of condolences...that's why the "aggressive" response...now jog on...and RIP Saint, all football fans know what a legend you will always be...

I thought the response was entirely factual and informative,not aggressive. But if the OP says they don't like football much that's probably why they never heard of him even if they're old enough to remember the 60s when he was playing!