05/02/1977 - The Big Match

[@nickycotton6137]

Awe, Brian Moore over 2 decades a goner already! Bless him 🔥... Cheers for this & "fair result on a Difficult Pitch" @ Craven there! Blimey..

[@alanprior7650]

In the era when most kit manufacturers were British...Umbro,Bukta, Admiral etc. Two weeks away from my seventh birthday.

[@thetruthk5138]

Those Admiral kits were iconic

[@LordFlashheart.11]

And a Like from me!

[@elshadjafar2437]

Like from me

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

What a screamer from Highway

[@carlh429]

Martin Tyler commenting on the Middlesbrough v Spurs game? Christ how old is he? I was 11 years old and in my final year at primary school in February 1977!

[@alanprior7650]

Burns and Francis...a Forest team yet yet to happen.

[@charlieboffin2432]

And Liverpool-getting all the favours from the ref as they always did at Anfield back then .

[@djgaryowens]

Wonderful, football without Lineker.

[@alanprior7650]

No left-wing "woke" bollocks.

[@charlieboffin2432]

That’s the biased broadcasting company for you they do what they like or who !

[@kingkevinhector]

"Sour-ness"

[@alunjones685]

yes, prescient from the commentator...

[@original.dwornboy]

It was always pronounced Sow-ness by commentators in his days at Boro.

[@andrewc4612]

Wonder why Spurs opted to wear their change kit at Middlesbrough?

[@simonrichmond4935]

What happened to that Charlton team? Where are they now?

[@raymondbonington9355]

I was there at the cottage .

[@simonrichmond4935]

So was I, supporting a post-Derek Hales Charlton.

[@raymondbonington9355]

@@simonrichmond4935 I’m at the cottage a lot fulham fan lol, hales gone to West Ham or derby by then

[@charlieboffin2432]

If you were there then maybe you could say if there was only 15,000 there as it looked more like 20,000 to me , both ends packed and stands full too. Creative accounting maybe ?

[@starmersbarber]

Interesting to see this footage. Marsh and Best look ordinary in the Fulham game. Best's fitness levels don't look that great. It's quite sad. I suppose it boosted attendances at the time. I saw Best in the flesh up here in Glasgow a few years later playing in a cup semi-final. I only went because THE George Best was playing.

[@dlamiss]

Fulham went on a pretty poor run after the initial boost with the Hereford 4/1 win and think im correct in saying Marsh left pretty soon after this match

[@starmersbarber]

@@dlamissIt's almost as of that Hereford game was a bit of a curse.

[@raymondbonington9355]

@@dlamissyour right but we still beat Chelsea 3-1 and best scored .

[@TimmyTickle]

Best was probably on the piss the night before

[@charlieboffin2432]

Bobby Moore didn’t look all that good either , I know it’s not the done thing to say it .

[@charlieboffin2432]

Haha Brian has his pipe on the table

[@vcollins2163]

I remember going to football in the seventies at spurs yould see the London weekend television Van's parked outside the ground and Brian Moore would get an earful from the crowd which went Brian Brian Brian Moore Brian Moore Brian Moore Brian Brian Brian Moore Brian Brian Moore O Wan-x wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wanx wankex always felt sorry for him.

[@alunjones685]

Yes, that was a popular chant on The Shelf in the 70s, and clearly audible on many a Sunday afternoon viewing, lol. Think it was due to a perceived bias towards Arsenal or at least a lack of appreciation of Spurs' merits in the games shown on ITV. Can't remember him saying anything untoward all the times I watched the Big Match but guess there was some reason behind it...

[@alanprior7650]

Brian was a Gillingham fan and latterly a director but as host of the London region had to be as neutral as possible. If you pay attention to any narration of a London team v anyone else he was rooting for the London teams whether it was Millwall,Palace, Spurs,Arsenal or West Ham United...

[@esseel7896]

lol best was crap. totally over rated by the media.