The Big Match Revisited (ITV)

bobbyowenquiff said:
As someone who watched City in the 70s (and loved it) some of these TV repeats have been an eye opener. It certainly shatters some myths about so-called great sides of the past. It's like watching walking football and most of the defenders just look like unfit, slow, cloggers. It's no surprise that English international football was a joke for most of the 70s and 80s (post 1970)
There were great individual players of course who, with modern fitness levels, would have been great in any era but you just can't compare 40 years ago with the modern game. There's lots of things I hate about the modern game...but it's not the quality on the pitch.
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I fully agree with your excellent post. It's just watching an hours highlights of the goalkeepers booting it up the pitch and lots of throw ins and set pieces !
 
nixmith2 said:
Talking of goalkeeping gloves, the ones they have today are getting silly (padding to the max) are there rules on them?

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Anyone remember a rock group called Sepp Maier's Gloves?
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
As someone who watched City in the 70s (and loved it) some of these TV repeats have been an eye opener. It certainly shatters some myths about so-called great sides of the past. It's like watching walking football and most of the defenders just look like unfit, slow, cloggers. It's no surprise that English international football was a joke for most of the 70s and 80s (post 1970)
There were great individual players of course who, with modern fitness levels, would have been great in any era but you just can't compare 40 years ago with the modern game. There's lots of things I hate about the modern game...but it's not the quality on the pitch.
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It was the introduction of sky TV money that changed things and improved the product on the pitch. The funny thing is despite all these changes to the game and Manchester City (a little later) it doesn’t change your love for your club, it is the one constant.
 
nixmith2 said:
I don’t know why, but tonight I clicked on this on ITV Hub.

Now as a 52 year old I can just about remember games like this, but omg after so many years of ‘modern’ football so many differences stand out - in no particular order - oh by the way the game is Tottenham vs Sunderland a relegation battle in 1977.

The length of it! These days we either get full matches or ten minute highlights (or even a few minutes on youtube) this was like 30 minutes so basically 90 mins distilled to 30. Back in those days we only saw 1 full 90 minute match a year the FA Cup Final, maybe more if it was a World Cup Year, but this seemed like a whole game, even though it wasn’t.

The pitch! Rubbish.

The Haircuts - also rubbish.

Very tight shorts!

The standard of the football: seemed like a low championship or high division one game to me, even though Glenn Hoddle was playing, but you have to consider the previous points: the pitch and the hair.

Finally: so many times the goalkeeper on either side would do a massive kick up front…. you never see that anymore.

Overall, funny, but I prefer the modern game - Oh and they had loads of people in the ground watching (also with bad hair and bad clothes) we don’t get that these days!

Am I going Lockdown crazy>?
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I just found this and its made me laugh - I remember football when it was like this too. Just the FA Cup final was the one live match we got a year (except for the World Cups) and the crap pitches. And the clothes! the 1970s has to simply be the worst decade for fashion, ever.

I think I'm right in saying that nowadays most pitches are not just grass, they are sort of grass interwoven with a mesh - to keep it decent in the winter (or maybe I'm getting muddled up with Wayne Rooney's hair).

One other thing, my Dad once told me they used the goalkeepers kicks to help with the editing, so you see a goaly kickout at say 9 minutes, but it lands at 13 minutes! and that's why there seem to be so many!

Although it probably has more to do with the pass-back rule that was got rid of some years back.
 
nixmith2 said:
You never see outfield players wearing ickle gloves either, in these old games or dare I say it: a snood!

I fired up FIFA13 for a laugh on my Xbox 360 during lockdown and had a right laugh as they had animated Tevez in his snood!
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No gloves but Keith Weller of Leicester did turn out once in a pair if tights when it was cold and he was protecting an injury. A huge talking point at the time, front page news, “the game’s gone” shouts etc
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
As someone who watched City in the 70s (and loved it) some of these TV repeats have been an eye opener. It certainly shatters some myths about so-called great sides of the past. It's like watching walking football and most of the defenders just look like unfit, slow, cloggers. It's no surprise that English international football was a joke for most of the 70s and 80s (post 1970)
There were great individual players of course who, with modern fitness levels, would have been great in any era but you just can't compare 40 years ago with the modern game. There's lots of things I hate about the modern game...but it's not the quality on the pitch.
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Reply a bit late ,but walking football's a great game for the 'older gent'. A lot more competitive than a lot of people think and it's a bit frustrating as when it's on TV they always seem to show a group of 25 stone 95 year olds who can barely still walk anymore (let alone play sport).
Several of our players appeared to be playing walking football (or more accurately 'can't be arsed football') over the years, but that was probably more 80s/90s. Ya Ya often appeared to just walk around, but he was exceptionally good at it though as he had several other attributes.
Where I play (WF) resembles a 70s pitch/farm yard after a bit of rain in the winter. Most 70s pitches did indeed look very 'lush' in August but by November barely had a blade of grass on them anymore (the Baseball Ground being the 'benchmark')
This ofcourse led to those bloody awful plastic pitches QPR, Luton, Oldham (I think Preston maybe had one???) etc..
where the ball used to bounce about 100 foot in the air! Don't think we won many matches on plastic pitches (didn't win many on grass either though did we at various stages in the past)
 
burnley blue mcfc said:
Brian moore was a quality commentator, miles better than most of todays shite we’ve to put up with
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Brian Moore was footballs version of Richie Benaud, less is more and don't talk for the sake of it.

I never got the love in for Motson as a commentator, an utter bore of a man, Moore and David Coleman, night and day beter.
 
Keeper! said:
Brian Moore was footballs version of Richie Benaud, less is more and don't talk for the sake of it.

I never got the love in for Motson as a commentator, an utter bore of a man, Moore and David Coleman, night and day beter.
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Funnily enough, I never liked any of Benaud, Coleman and Moore.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Funnily enough, I never liked any of Benaud, Coleman and Moore.
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Liked Brian Moore, thought he was pretty decent. FA Cup Finals also didn't seem the same in my opinion without David Coleman simply saying 'one nil' as the first goal was scored.
Slightly more 'obscure' ones I liked on TV, Hugh John's, (think he did more Midlands based teams?) On Radio 2 ( when they did just the 2nd half commentaries) there was Peter Jones and Brian Butler. There was someone called Maurice Ecclestone I believe(?) good commentator but always sounded like he was always out of breath and needed his inhalers!
 
Zapcity said:
Liked Brian Moore, thought he was pretty decent. FA Cup Finals also didn't seem the same in my opinion without David Coleman simply saying 'one nil' as the first goal was scored.
Slightly more 'obscure' ones I liked on TV, Hugh John's, (think he did more Midlands based teams?) On Radio 2 ( when they did just the 2nd half commentaries) there was Peter Jones and Brian Butler. There was someone called Maurice Ecclestone I believe(?) good commentator but always sounded like he was always out of breath and needed his inhalers!
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I liked Jones and Butler.

At the time, we didn’t appreciate just how good they were, as we were unaware of the dross that we’ve had to put up with since.
 
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