The Evening Standard

[Fauxstralian]

Rebranding as the London Standard and as from September 26 will publish once a week on a Thursday
Not the greatest newspaper in the world but a distraction on a tube ride home on a week day evening 
Obviously been overtaken by the internet and Westhamonline but in the past always covered London football teams comprehensively & a good source of what was going on at West Ham via Ken Dyer

[violator]

The late version on a Saturday used to have the football results from that day at the bottom of the back page, Live Score can eat my shorts.

Wasn't that the evening news? I could be wrong but I remember getting back to Woolwich after a game and they would have them, then again we'd all be peering into the window of Radio Rentals anyway, or Visionhire

[ray winstone]

The late version on a Saturday used to have the football results from that day at the bottom of the back page, Live Score can eat my shorts.

[greenie1]

Used to buy a copy every evening from an old guy between Finsbury Circus and Liverpool St. That was when mobile phones were for calls and texts, none of these games and internet stuff. 

[wils]

A mouthpiece for toryism owned by a Russian oligarch who apparently paid Johnson £25,000 a month to have dinner with his missus while he was prime minister. 

Whilst this is not untrue. To anyone who has been reading this paper for the last half a decade it just shows them how far left the modern Tory party is these days, at least those in the Tory party with any power over it.

There is nothing in this paper's editorial decisions that is remotely right of centre. It endorsed the left wing radical Khan in the mayoral elections.

I used to like it. Not least for it's focus on London football clubs. But you can find that anywhere these days so wouldn't use this for toilet paper in the middle of a pandemic.

[Leonard Hatred]

I only used to read it for Victor Lewis-Smith's page 

[Hammer and Pickle]

Modesty BLAISE

[BRANDED]

Always seems 90% adverts for property. The only news in it is the same you see everywhere in every news outlet. Politically its seems much more centrist for years. Certainly nothing particularly right wing except properties selling for > 4 mill in Peckham or something.

[chim chim cha boo]

A mouthpiece for toryism owned by a Russian oligarch who apparently paid Johnson £25,000 a month to have dinner with his missus while he was prime minister. I guess making child maintenance payments to every woman he's ever shagged forces you to take a few (haha!) liberties? Not that they all didn't earn it to have an overstuffed albino scarecrow grunting like a pig in their earholes?

Let's face it, without his enormous privilege of birth had he gone to any London comprehensive he'd have been fucking battered every day. It would have been ironic if he'd had the education his party thought appropriate for me and you. Schools in the East End are basically holding stations to wait for you and me to become 16 so we can be put in our place, cannon fodder, a few apprenticeships at a bank if you were good at maths or a lifetime smelling of burnt molasses working at Tate And Lyle. 

'London Evening Standard'? You will read a fuck ton more about Liverpool and Man City than you'll ever read about West Ham. Shameful. 

[Manuel]

Always been a good paper. I have their website as a bookmark and go on once or twice a day. Ken Dyer has been around forever.

[Alfs]

Needed a job in the 80s/90s?  Buy the Standard and you'll have one within a couple of hours.  Either selling ad space or mini cab controlling. 

[zebthecat]

Eveny Stannit!
I worked on their website, ThsIsiLondon, many years ago including the publishing system which ended up as the core of Daily Mail site.
Still carrying the guilt.
The Standard is Evgeny Lebedev's toy now.

[Gary Strodders shank]

I still pick it up on the way home occasionally but its a shadow of its former self so the rebranding is well needed.

Ken Dyer was always worth a read particularly when covering West Ham and Noble also  had his own column a few years back

Happy memories of the Evening Standard fives at Wembley arena back in the day also.