Popular Nostalgia

Sporting events are often interesting, and bookmark the passage of years well. Share and enjoy memories of sporting events throughout the years.

Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light. And then there was Baywatch. We never missed a single episodes as normally disorganised brothers and dads managed to time their takeover of the telly to coincide with the weekly soft porn episode brought to you by David Hasslehof. I recently watched a […]

In 2001, England beat Germany 5-1 at football in a real fairytale of a game. This match was another in the classic series of big games between the two European footballing giants. England had been second-best for over a decade in most encounters between these two teams, so when we had to go to Germany […]

In 1993 we saw “the National that never was” as the world’s most famous steeple chase was declared void after false starting twice, and one totally armless flagman… The race was declared void after the horses false started twice, and, on the second occasion, most of the runners continued without having seen the officials flagging […]

An item of big time nostalgic value: that milk advert. “Milk, yeurgh!” Advertising milk to children must be the stuff of nightmares for any marketer, but somehow those who produced this classic early 90s TV ad hit the mark so well that they entered an entire generation’s psyche. The Advert on Video

Linford Christie, the (only?) Olympic Gold Medal winning British 100 metre sprinter wore some tremendous Puma contact lenses during the 1990s. This was soon stomped on by the authorities as “advertising”, but I admire his moxy to this very day. Whether or not the powers that be banned the use of the lenses, they were […]