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. :-)