Rolf Johnson tunes in to find Radio’s Racing Service on its last legs

Everybody, not least Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies, had a go at it: East Fife 4 Forfar 5 - a result begging to be read out on Sports Report’s Classified Scores on the dot of 5pm, on winter Saturdays. Eric Morecambe was a comic genius but even he couldn’t get further than mimicking the elusive scoreline. the Ronnies, Barker and Corbett, gave it their best shot: “East Fife 5 Forfar so far 4.” The audience for broadcast soccer results peaked at 15million, three million s...