14/04/1973 The Kick Off

[@mnd1955]

Thanks for the Stoke footage. I swear I can see myself and my mate Graham in the crowd shot behind the goal when we made it 2-2. I had on a green combat jacket, jeans and boots. We played Leeds a couple of days later away and won 1-0 which pretty much staved off relegation. I can still remember seeing Trevor Anderson knocking the ball over David Harvey at the Leeds end to score the winner. Getting back to the station was an adventure to say the least.

[@robertroberts2666]

Even though a Welshman , Blackpool FC were my childhood footballing heroes. I guess it springs from many a happy holiday spent at the Las Vegas of the North West! 😁 I remember seeing them, as a youngster, play Cardiff City in my home backyard and wishing that I could go with them on the long coach trip back to Blackpool!

[@robertroberts2666]

This remote Pool fan is grateful for this post!👍😁

[@robertroberts2666]

George Wood also played for Cardiff City towards the latter end of his career but always with a smile on his face, though no one understood a word that the Scot spoke. God bless him!

[@1990-t1j]

Thanks for posting that. I enjoyed it. I agree with the poster below's description of Blackpool's old ground. It was a great place. I went several times with Burnley in the 70s. And to Deepdale too.

[@Dommer1973]

Love the way Sinstadt spins around to camera after the McIlmoyle interview, pretending it hasnt been edited in. Fabulous Jacket too!

[@robertroberts2666]

RIP Alan Suddick! My childhood hero!

[@staceygrove5976]

I spent as much time looking at the crowd as I did at the football here. This game is an interesting document of British society at the time, as reflected in the composition of the supporters and their appearance in terms of hairstyles, dress, etc. Many of the older people are even still wearing collars and ties! You can hear the familiar chant to the tune of the old Hoover Vacuum Cleaner advertisement, which was popular on Northern grounds from the early-mid 1970s onwards, at around 7:55 on this video. I might still go to matches if the game was still the way was back then, with cheap admission prices, standing on the terraces, and none of the ludicrous hype, greed and political correctness we see in the modern game. Would probably draw the line at jerseys for goalposts though... Preston competed very well here, but were sorely lacking in quality and were lightweight up front. Blackpool weren't too brilliant themselves, mind you. LOL, the Hoover Vacuum tune: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3LOe42sgNSFbKc

[@Nigelpreece]

A pre-Birmingham City Bob Hatton, or as we called him in his biues days "The Hatton Bomb".

[@darren2514fv]

It was called Football in 1973 it did not become The Kick Off Match until 1975

[@lennylaa1686]

..@ 10.40..great shot of the roof over the large bank of terracing; that end used to be open to the elements previously. What year was it built, any one know? Also remember the terrible shock a year later when Bolton visited and a home supporter was stabbed to death on that bank to the left. Was anyone at that game, do you remember this tragedy??

[@garyowens1517]

Before the premier league took the soul out of football.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

.... completely, claiming that it needed all that money. Now all its "stars" are third rate, outside of a couple of clubs. It's dire, some of it seems too far fetched and since the match fixing scandals, I sometimes wonder if it's all been deliberately arranged as "entertainment". The game has been ruined the more money has been involved. There shouldn't be any more betting on games, but the deliberate relaxing on gambling in the UK has caused it even more. And as for VAR? Utterly ridiculous concept.....

[@richardsharpe2966]

How true

[@seltaeb3302]

I presume none of you went Sky? They go hand in hand with the Premier & subscribers football fans can't not take responsibility can they. That's where all the money started from.

[@robertroberts2666]

How right you are gr8 footy! 👍😁

[@chrisfallon9678]

These youngsters today ...all they know is foreign players dominating teams unlike yesteryear

[@richardsharpe2966]

In the 1972/73 season at Granada Gerald Sinstatd was off for a couple of weeks to cover the Olympics for ITV do you have any film of Gerry Harrison of Anglia working for Granada Television for one week only on Granada match and of Bill Grundy commentating on a Granada game also I never knew that Bill Grundy did sports commentating is that correct

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Gerry Harrison covered Burnley vs Aston Villa (I think he has the "Big Match" edition which included that game, Agusut 1972), and on KZbin there is also Bill Grundy's game; Everton vs West Brom.

[@mct1970]

Richard Sharpe Gerry Harrison - Burnley v Aston Villa From 46 minutes onwards: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn2vonWLZ7aHl7c

[@davefisher9418]

@@YeOldeFootballChannel Gerry Harrison also commentated on Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers.

[@richardsharpe2966]

What is the theme tune from Granada Television football would like to know please

[@joefisher3239]

The magic trumpet

[@bobacrey1068]

By Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

[@wildbill8635]

A gritty if unremarkable Lancashire Hotpot. They all seemed quite nice to each t'other, is your shin ok as that nasty corner flag hurted you, d'you want me to kiss it better, not to worry then, we'll have a nice cup 'o tea afterwards. A lot of the videos are stretched of late, thus making players like Frannie Lee or John Robertson look like the Roly Poly man! There seems no adjustment of aspect ratio on KZbin surprisingly. Any fixes out there?

[@staceygrove5976]

Er.....are you sure about that? Francis Lee and John Robertson WERE Roly Poly men! Brian Clough used to refer to Robertson as 'The Fat Man' and Lee was known as 'Barney Rubble'. LOL.

[@doctorthrobber]

UP THE POOL