The Big Match Revisited (ITV)

[dickie davies]

There was always a big thing made in international match commentaries about how "foreign" keepers tended to punch everything and ours were always a safe pair of hands and caught it - I remember Clough saying Jan Tomaszewski was a clown at half time in that infamous match but it was Shilton that dived over the ball.......

Shilton should never have played for England again after that.
I cannot recall him ever making a world class save and the less said about him not punching the ball before Maradona the better

 

[Big Swifty]

IIRC, Bert Trautmann never wore gloves.

 

[A590 blues]

And occasionally he would bounce the ball off the head of a centre forward as he was making his way out of the box.

I actually played in a Sunday league game where our Goalie did this to a bloke he worked with but played for the opposition...got sent off ..great memory brought back thanks

 

[manclad]

Aston Villa vs Stoke 1979 and a dog has run onto the pitch and dribbled the ball out of play.
You don't see that anymore in modern stadiums!!

 

[stevemacca]

Aston Villa vs Stoke 1979 and a dog has run onto the pitch and dribbled the ball out of play.
You don't see that anymore in modern stadiums!!

Mores the pity as far as I'm concerned. Bit like knocking a policemans hat off with a snowball, these things should be encouraged
My missus actually smuggled her chihuahua into the Etihad against Villareal, literally concealed in her handbag
Dozy stewards were too busy admiring her Bristols and just nodded her through

 

[Lavinda Past]

My old dad used to tell me that he would throw the ball like a tennis ball three quarters the length of Maine Road.

My dad said that Frank Swift would never be matched at any level. The best goalkeeper he ever saw. He thought Bert Trautmann was brilliant but was nowhere as good as Frank.

I remember when we signed Keith McRae... My dad just laughed when he saw him and said "what the bloody hell is that?". We had a reputation for having great goalkeepers and my dad said it all went downhill from there.

Thank God we had big Joe waiting in the wings.

 

[LongsightM13]

My dad said that Frank Swift would never be matched at any level. The best goalkeeper he ever saw. He thought Bert Trautmann was brilliant but was nowhere as good as Frank.

I remember when we signed Keith McRae... My dad just laughed when he saw him and said "what the bloody hell is that?". We had a reputation for having great goalkeepers and my dad said it all went downhill from there.

Thank God we had big Joe waiting in the wings.

Keith McRae was a British record fee for a keeper at the time iirc? I mainly remember him and Paddy Roche down the road being figures of fun at school, their names being invoked as insults whenever someone dropped a goalkeeping clanger in PE

 

[eastmanc]

My dad said that Frank Swift would never be matched at any level. The best goalkeeper he ever saw. He thought Bert Trautmann was brilliant but was nowhere as good as Frank.

I remember when we signed Keith McRae... My dad just laughed when he saw him and said "what the bloody hell is that?". We had a reputation for having great goalkeepers and my dad said it all went downhill from there.

Thank God we had big Joe waiting in the wings.

It’s funny isn’t it , my dad’s idolised Frank Swift and used to tell me that Frank and Peter Doherty were his first City heroes but he always said that Bert Trautmann was the best keeper City ever had.

 

[Blue Mist]

Aston Villa vs Stoke 1979 and a dog has run onto the pitch and dribbled the ball out of play.
You don't see that anymore in modern stadiums!!

And did you see the sending off ? Forget who Smith ? who had already been booked ran past the referee and said something abusive so got a second yellow.
The entire rag team would be in the bath after 70 minutes if those standards had remained. Rooney would Deffo never have finished a match.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Keith McRae was a British record fee for a keeper at the time iirc? I mainly remember him and Paddy Roche down the road being figures of fun at school, their names being invoked as insults whenever someone dropped a goalkeeping clanger in PE

I'm probably completely wrong but I don't recall Keith McRae ever making a save above shoulder height. Good on the ground, bad in the air as I remember.
Probably only signed to play in Dailly Express 5 a side games. :-)

 

[Lavinda Past]

It’s funny isn’t it , my dad’s idolised Frank Swift and used to tell me that Frank and Peter Doherty were his first City heroes but he always said that Bert Trautmann was the best keeper City ever had.

Better than Frank Swift....?

Bloody hell. That would have been fighting talk in our house!

;-)

 

[dennishasdoneit]

frank swift copyrighted that

Tbf.Pat Jennings upbringing in Galiec Football in Ireland probably contributed more to his skill of catching the ball with one hand than our great Keeper Frank Swift ever did.

I may be wrong....

 

[ChicagoBlue]

And clueless for a few others. His debut v Blackpool when the ball went through his legs for their goal, and West Ham at home when Greaves made his debut is mainly remembered for Ron Boyce's volley when Joe was sauntering back to goal after he'd taken a goal kick. Gloves wouldn't have helped him then. Having said that, he developed into a first class keeper, gloves or not.

His early nickname was Muttonhead! At least it was in the Platt Lane End where I used to sit back in the day!

However, he went on to play for England and coached at Liverpool for about a decade, so no doubting he was a decent keeper.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Shilton should never have played for England again after that.
I cannot recall him ever making a world class save and the less said about him not punching the ball before Maradona the better

Shilton made two world class saves for Forest in a nil nil draw away at Coventry. A Mick Ferguson header was the most talked about,whilst Ferguson's strike partner Ian Wallace was also dumbfounded by the keepers ability.
This draw won forest the title ..in the penultimate game of the season.
Highfield road was a tough place to go in the late 70s and City..along with many teams..struggled to contain a scottish forward line of Big Mick Ferguson,Ian Wallace and the irrepressible, unorthodox, high striding left wiger Tommy Hutchinson....before his Maine rd days.

 

[crazyg]

His early nickname was Muttonhead! At least it was in the Platt Lane End where I used to sit back in the day!

However, he went on to play for England and coached at Liverpool for about a decade, so no doubting he was a decent keeper.

A nice guy as well. His (the Corrigan) family lived back garden to back garden to my wife in Sale Moor and she was friends with his sisters, and I saw him a few times.
As I posted earlier he had a rather inauspicious start to his career, but in the replay at Blackpool kept us in the game with his performance. You always remember a goalie's howler as it generally leads to a goal, but you always remember the saves as a balance. His save at Leeds in the cup was one of the best I've ever seen.

 

[Blue Mist]

His early nickname was Muttonhead! At least it was in the Platt Lane End where I used to sit back in the day!

However, he went on to play for England and coached at Liverpool for about a decade, so no doubting he was a decent keeper.

The turn around was amazing in today's world of immediate results he would gave been canned after half a season.
I always believed he grew to be better than Shilton who kept him out the England team.
Whether it was maturity, determination to improve of Joey Holts bitter I don't know, but something turned him into a brilliant keeper.

 

[southamptonblue]

Love watching this, the most noticeable thing for me is players being tackled, getting straight up, and getting on with it, no complaining.......those same tackles today would have them rolling over 10 times, holding parts of their body that hadn't been touched, waving imaginary cards, the player being sent off, and the commentator calling it a leg breaker....shows how pathetic todays snowflake soft players are, and probably why i watch less football than ever ;(

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Loved watching that post match interview with both managers. Not somethung you see now. It's all about tribalism and attrition.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The turn around was amazing in today's world of immediate results he would gave been canned after half a season.
I always believed he grew to be better than Shilton who kept him out the England team.
Whether it was maturity, determination to improve of Joey Holts bitter I don't know, but something turned him into a brilliant keeper.

Didn't Malcolm Allison tell him to stop eating meat and potato pie and chips for lunch if he wanted to improve?

 

[napoleon dynamite]

Aston Villa vs Stoke 1979 and a dog has run onto the pitch and dribbled the ball out of play.
You don't see that anymore in modern stadiums!!

r. dog?