15/11/1969 - The Big Match

Highlights from Chelsea v Everton, Ipswich Town v Crystal Palace and Manchester City v Manchester United. Includes interview with Charlie Cooke.
It was the first ever edition broadcast in colour.

[@johndempsey7528]

Brings back happy memories for me and I was lucky to play in a great team. John Dempsey ex Chelsea Player

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

You were at the greatest ever team - such a privilege to play with Hudson or Osgood, right?

[@johndempsey7528]

@@YeOldeFootballChannel Thank you for your kind comment and yes it was a massive privilege to play alongside so many great players Osgood what a great player Hudson so skilful Cooke unbelievable and I could go and on about all the team. Blue Is The Colour

[@1061andy]

Brilliant match - you can feel the atmosphere. Football was great back then.

[@technodemic6258]

Football?? Looks more like mud-wrestling.

[@Trev359]

@@technodemic6258 Yes, football.Real football, played by real men who just got on with it no matter what the conditions. Not like today's pansies who complain if one blade of grass is out of place.

[@technodemic6258]

@@Trev359 Trouble is that when our teams back then, who rightly believed that they'd achieve greater success by passing the ball through the air - since much of the time the conditions made passing the ball along the ground unreliable - would confront Continental teams on their own territory, they'd be outplayed. These days - with better pitches at home and the example of foreign players joining Clubs in England to demonstrate the more universally-acceptable style - we have become the equals, if not superior, to Continental clubs, who are required to show us a great deal more respect when drawn against us. Of course, the same circumstance is true for German, Scandinavian, Eastern European Clubs and those from the Low Countries - which proves that our training for young players is more enthusiastic and comprehensive that that in other countries, and our fans more passionate and devoted in a way that is a joy to embrace. Rule Britannia.

[@technodemic6258]

@@fredpongthetoiletguy9433 I loved playing in ALL conditions - and you soon warm up when running around. But I must admit to enjoying it more when playing in France or Spain, where your passes along the ground were more likely to end up in the right place. Criminal to have left Tomori out of the current England squad, though, no?

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@technodemic6258 Since when are top level clubs , English any longer ?? For all that mud, English clubs were very successful in Europe from 68 to 85.

[@olemikkelsen1895]

Fantastic stuff. This was when danish tv started the lovely transmissions from England. In colour!!!

[@gbrinch]

nemlig!

[@johncodling9805]

Coming out the tunnel John Hurst who died last week RIP john you gave me many happy memories.

[@Schnipp08]

Incredible quality!

[@chancesareshewears]

My childhood sigh. Osgood really deserved to be Englands number one striker (and I'm a Spurs fan)..He was so gifted.

[@technodemic6258]

So am I - and I completely agree.

[@beds139]

Too much of a "fancy dan" for Alfs liking.

[@technodemic6258]

@@beds139 Perhaps. Or was it just imagining he was playing safe by sticking with Hurst? Thing is (and don't get me wrong - I'll always think of Hurst as a superb contributor to England - "obviously", to quote The Hurricane) the Germans knew Hurst inside out. He'd scored a hatrick against them in a WC final, for goodness' sake. They must have spent no end of time poring over his every detail since that fateful day. But snakehips they'd never met on a football field - as far as I know - so they'd have had no idea who they were dealing with, and his skill might well have come as something of a shock and caught them by more of a surprise. Anyway - I'll always believe it was a glaring error on the Coach's part, since the proof of the pudding was in the chunder (of course, substituting R. Charlton Esq didn't help. Nor did the inclusion of Brian The Bone as center-back). I never even saw the match live (seen a million, trillion re-runs, though). I was in Argentina at the time, hanging out with my mates. Got the news as it came over the radio while driving through the burbs of B.A:.

[@beds139]

@@technodemic6258 For Ossie back then re Maddison and Grealish today. Robson & Venables apart generations of England managers have mistrusted the "fancy dans" who would walk into most other teams.

[@technodemic6258]

@@beds139 I do back them - and Bellingham, don't forget. Let's see if our midfield can strike up an understanding - superfast (that's if Southgate has the verve to pick them, which I very much doubt), because they'll need to with some of our leakier defenders playing.

[@arthurderian2429]

These are brilliant episodes of The Big Match. Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing more of this . English football at its very best .

[@HollinsShaker]

yes, it great to see these older games taking us back before those featured in the Big Match revisited

[@HollinsShaker]

Everton team that went on to win the league that season

[@JohnJones-hh8cs]

Yes they did.

[@f0urstr1ng]

Then the following season we still had Harvey Kendall and Ball but we didn’t half miss Brian Labone.

[@donrevie721]

Superb iconic stuff , legendary English Division 1 action. Thanks a million again for these superb uploads.

[@randybackgammon890]

There can't be many of matches of this colour/picture quality from the 60s....real time capsule

[@ac9110]

No players rolling about in pretend agony every time someone even looks in their direction.

[@donaldcunningham2386]

I can remember everyone's name, then. No idea who plays for whom, today..

[@ScratchyBaws]

Another Scotsman Charlie Cooke, played a great game and turned 80yrs old last month. Just missing his handlebar moustache🙃

[@garryleerob]

I love games obviously, and this game brought back the memory of Ian Hutchinson and his fantastic throw-ins. I'm a seasoncard holder at a Premier club, and my mate who I sit next to is a bit younger and one day I said for a laugh how much 'we' would gain if we could have 'Ian' (RIP) with us just for throws. He looked completely bewildered and asked why. He also said why bother practicing throws? I explained Ian could almost, maybe actually reach the box from the half-way line with a throw... I said any throw near the box is basically a free kick into the box. He didn't believe me. This game... penalty spot from the sideline, lol. He was once measured and his throw was recorded at 112 feet... over 37 yards.34 mtrs Std Prem size of pitch 106 x 68 metres ( for half the teams in the prem there is a list of teams and sizes) Also, the many interviews with the players after the match in the studio. How well-spoken they are and don't rely on cliches ( as a rule) Rodney Marsh always gave a good interview as did Mick Channon. Not the usual tripe they pour out to the cameras today... ''' Yeah, I fink it was a good free points for der team.'' To be fair, the foreign players sound better than the homegrown bunch. Charlie could and did have a conversation as opposed to just agreeing and giving the std answers today's players mostly respond with. They have media training today... back then?

[@technodemic6258]

Loved your comment - and story. I'm a Spurs supporter, but this clip served to remind me how many great players Chelsea could boast, back then. All the aitches - Hollins, Hudson, Hutchinson, Harris. Also David Webb, and, of course, Cooke. Not to mention the finest striker we ever produced - lamentably ignored by Ramsey in 1970, with the same absurd "loyalty" displayed today by goat-face. And as for the interviews....."obviously" (ha ha).

[@keithwaites9991]

Better than today's football fast and skillful - and on crap soggy pitches. Best of all, crunching tackles with no rolling about in fake agony...I started watching football around 1967/68 at Leyton Orient, great times, great atmosphere, golden days...

[@randybackgammon890]

You could have crunching tackles because(for the most part) they were honest.Not studs up lunges at the players ankle which you've got no option but to jump out the way of or get your keg broken.In the those days that would probably have earned you a full frontal smack in the mouth and the perpetrator a booking.More honest really

[@seltaeb3302]

Today is more trick football with a sterile perfect pitch & a large ping pong ball that zooms around with the slightest kick. This has sped the game up resulting in basketball defending. A perfect sliding tackle where the attacker falls over results in a red card as happened in the last Euros. I don't watch it now & rely on KZbin yesterday videos from the 1990s & back. That decade was the last of British teams with British players & managers. RIP Footy.

[@vitasthecat]

@@seltaeb3302 Well said! I completely agree. I also rely on KZbin for British football and also European Cups from the 60s-80s .

[@00simonwise]

This was shown on the first day of colour broadcasting by LWT hence Brian's introduction. Obviously the rest of ITV hadn't been upgraded hence most of the show being in black and white. BBC Two had simulcast the 1968 Cup final in colour though.

[@stephendiss8344]

The day I was ten!!! I remember all of these players as I collected stickers.

[@UOO303T]

Gr8 to see a old match in color

[@paulhollis8879]

Charlie Cooke was a very good talker wasn’t he? And a favourite of my uncle who had Scottish parents.

[@arejaycee5704]

Love these old games Proper football I was born literally at the start of this season so don't remember much.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

English, Welsh , Irish , Scots . We were all in it together back then. Since then we imported millions who despise our Culture and History . Then our politicians wonder why Society is so divided..?!?!

[@limjamrace]

Hoping for a match around 1965 when we made a solo visit to Stamford Bridge as school boys..My friends in class started me off supporting Chelsea..Still at it at 70 years old now.

[@anthonyscott4270]

There were a few members of the England world cup squad on the pitch in the Chelsea v Everton match. But it is a mystery how Howard Kendall was never capped. Ps, Charlie Cooke was a great winger.

[@grabham59]

15th November 1969 was the first day of colour TV on ITV (hence the Nod to in colour in the intro by Brian Moore)...

[@markgaughran4374]

Imagine if you were fortunate enough at the time to have a colour set, to have the novelty of watching a match in colour

[@alunjones685]

08:05 The guy doing the scores for ITV well on top of his game...

[@johnduarte1428]

LOL

[@horrortackleharry]

LOL you can hear Brian Moore pause as if silently banging his head against the desk.... bizarre decision to leave it in the edited highlights.

[@anthonylyons9810]

Great Memories and Marked the Day 15th November 1969 that ITV in the London , ATV , Granada , and Yorkshire ITV regions started Colour Transmissions

[@davidjones4291]

Osgood was so brilliant, should have had more games for England

[@technodemic6258]

Leaving snakehips on the sidelines for the 1970 World Cup England v West Germany match began a managerial rot that has lasted for decades. Give me an England Manager (English only, please!) with flair, courage and prepared to take risks (Glenn Hoddle was getting there. Brian Clough should have been offered the job, in his day), instead of the succession of boring, conventional, dead-beats the England fans and teams have been saddled with since 1970, by an F.A. who clearly are of the same species, and I'll show you a squad of players as good as any on the planet.

[@beds139]

I loved Ossie & he could be brilliant...but he had many long runs without a goal.

[@philjohnson3547]

Amazing! This was the first top Div 1 game my dad took me to see. Two great teams it is hard to know where to start talking about the players out there. Everton went on to win the league that season and they glinched my support ever since. So nearly could have been Chelsea! Incredible that Everton were unchanged in 13 or 14 games, I think he said? How did they get through that many games without injury? Compare that to the 'modern' game. Not a bad game either. Osgood could have had a hat trick. Thankfully he didn't!

[@ac9110]

Football was better then without the pressing. The game could breathe.

[@JohnJones-hh8cs]

Chelsea v Everton ... the seasons league champions and also FA Cup winners

[@ILoveMusicfromthesonwards]

The VERY FIRST match EVER broadcasted on ITV in COLOUR...The year before, Chelsea also featured in the VERY FIRST match EVER broadcasted on the BBC in COLOUR vs Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.

[@beds139]

The 1968 Cup Final was broadcast in colour on BBC2. The first ever BBC colour football broadcast was meant to be the Charity Shield match between Man Utd & Spurs in August 1967 but the cameras failed to pick up the colour signal!

[@renejean2523]

Oh, the memories. Sponsor-free shirts. Muddy players. Stone's Ginger Wine. Good times.

[@valvlog4665]

and no distracting LED advertising banners flashing constantly all around the pitch.

[@666armarda]

Jumpers for goalposts

[@FrozenHero2010]

and no VAR!

[@DrFod]

And Player's No.10!

[@christophercook723]

African,Muslim and Female official free. Certainly was. I was there in 1967 and 1992. Chopper Harris punched a black fella playing for Preston North end in an FA cup tie while the Referee not watching. To be fair he did it to everyone.

[@robbryant52]

Brilliant game fast entertaining

[@andisadler2897]

Excellentupload, keep em coming bro

[@robertm4063]

Summerbee, Bell & Lee. What talent..

[@Kiln99]

my favourite youtube channel by a mile 😁. Anything from the Scottish league of the late 60s early 70s?

[@simontroop]

Have you got any the Big Match or Match of the Day tapes from 1976-77 season?

[@renejean2523]

I seem to remember Charlie Cooke going on to grow a very impressive moustache a few years later.

[@ac9110]

Players could do that then Rene. Play quality football AND grow an impressive moustache.

[@renejean2523]

@@ac9110 - Like Derek Dougan.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

And sideburns !! Malcolm MacDonald probably most impressive !! Didn't help against Hereford !!!

[@stevebird7265]

Football is so boring nowadays! The pace of the game back then was amazing, no players pretending to be injured and no passing the ball backwards every player just tunnel visioned to get the ball forward and in the net.

[@mccartney2]

genuine excitement created by Brian Moores commentary..... footbal SO SO much better then..no plocey diving around with fake injuries... as a1961 baby..I loved this era..... even the football kits..the great golden shirts of EFC.... A MAGICAL ERA..proper passion from the players

[@joeoconnor5400]

It is appalling that ATV allowed so much of the Star Soccer Archive to be destroyed.

[@simongotts796]

Great stuff. Osgood was good!

[@kaidenpollard6974]

amazing to see no soft players

[@geriatricmotorcars9516]

As a teenager at that time In the shed , amazing No Russian money scraping by Team with names to be proud of Players that gave they're all not just at Chelsea but most clubs . Show this to these. Ladies and big salaries of today .

[@gunternetzer9621]

Oz, Charlie and Hutch looking like 3 choirboys.

[@randybackgammon890]

Anyone know what the first broadcast colour match was apart from the BBC2 colour coverage of the 68 FA cup final.My guess it would be the start of this season 69/70.Be interesting to know date and match

[@beds139]

A few games were recoded in colour in 1968 as tests but were broadcast as b&w. Chelsea v Man City comes to mind. The 1967 Charity Shield was meant to be recorded in colour but the cameras failed.

[@randybackgammon890]

@@beds139 cheers for info.Pity those cameras failed.What a VHS that would have made

[@beds139]

@@randybackgammon890 The story goes that the Man Utd chairman had bought one of the very expensive new fangled colour tvs & his wife had laid on a posh do at their house where various dignitaries could watch the recorded colour highlights on BBC2 that night .Only for the announcer to issue an apology & the recording went out in black & white. Certainly the BBC2 colour coverage of the 1968 FA Cup final exists on VT for at least the extra time period where the only goal was scored. (It was a dreadfully dull game).The 1969 FA Cup final was also broadcast in colour and exists on VT although this was some months before the official colour switch on in November 1969.

[@martinjackson3586]

Osgood is good ⚽️

[@seltaeb3302]

Love these countdown boards.

[@junglejamesie]

Pure blood and snotters fitba and not a single player diving around as if he's been shot.

[@tricornclub9594]

Very tidy from both teams. Great players all over the pitch.

[@popicorn99]

Hopefully you have some episodes where United actually win a game? Thanks for sharing once again.

[@mnd1955]

I was at Maine Road that day. City rubbed our noses in it. I remember several fights the following Monday at school about that result. They beat us 2-1 at home as well that season.

[@popicorn99]

@@mnd1955 It was my 4th birthday, thankfully I'd have been blissfully unaware. We beat them in the cup a few weeks later,I've seen that one but it must have been a painful time being a red early 70s

[@mnd1955]

@@popicorn99 3-0 with Kidd scoring two. Allison was gobbing off because they'd not long since beat us in the League Cup semi-final. Both him and Doyle were saying that City would stuff us and it was fun to watch him eating humble pie. By the way, I always thought that Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill disliked us. The pair of them were always making snide comments every time we were on the telly.

[@popicorn99]

@@mnd1955 I think everyone felt |Jimmy HIll was against their team. I think Brian Moore used to love watching Best, he got so excited. I still preferred Gerald Sindstadt was the best ,especially in Granada region.

[@lennylaa1686]

There's a few City fans scattered amongst the large bank of MU fans behind the left-hand goal...they had a good view of those three second half goals, hahahahaha...

[@robharding5345]

The way football was always meant to be played. firm, but fair.

[@jimmyjam4371]

I was there! Courtesy of Grey Cars (Exeter) and The Bishop Lacy (Chudleigh, Devon) With Roy Gilbert the driver! RIP Happy days.

[@martinharris539]

interesting to see the position of the linesmen [opposite of today] especially for the corners.

[@robfinlay8058]

Was this the first season where football was shown in colour? I notice they still used B&W for the secondary game.

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Indeed, this was the very first "official" day in which LWT had colour TV. They had already recorded some shows in colour, but shown on B&W. Granada TV (the one of City v United) made the switch that very day, but highlights waited until January, and Anglia (Ipswich v Palace) were one of the latest: they started to show their matches in colour as far as September *1971*.

[@Robertoknowit]

Not sure the year is right,going to check now

[@speakfreeley4473]

Before the North Stand was ridiculously over-developed, causing the club to slip into the wilderness for many years after Problem was it was far too many years ahead of it's time.

[@apm763]

East Stand.

[@neilpeace7734]

That was actually a really good game of football even though it is obviously a bit slower because of the weight of the ball and the pitch compared to the bowling greens they play on these days. You could see what great players Alan Ball and Peter Osgood were. I can confirm that the goal scored by Brighton at 45:35 was actually handball and I have the still from using the pause button. It's actually quite funny because the ball was about 3 feet away from his head and those defenders must have been doing their nuts. lol 😆 I will try to post the pic here but I don't think youtube allow still pics. What I can do is to put it as my account pic but you may need a magnifying glass or screen magnifier. If you look for the no.9 shirt and then look up about 3 feet and a foot to the left you can then see the ball. 😂

[@stevebird7265]

Slower? Were you watching the same game as us? The pace of this game puts modern football to shame!

[@neilpeace7734]

@@stevebird7265 Did you see the handball goal which starts at 45:22? Maradona's looked cultured compared to that. lol

[@stevebird7265]

@@neilpeace7734 I don't see what your point is!

[@neilpeace7734]

@@stevebird7265 Que? I thought it was pretty funny if not a bit naughty. Oh well different people find different things funny I suppose.

[@beds139]

Weight of the ball? What are you talking about?

[@lennylaa1686]

I wish the camera had panned up to the large terrace packed with MU fans behind the left hand goal...to see all those gutted MU fans as City slammed in three goals,...hahahaha....lol.

[@luddite2702]

Nice shorts.

[@geriatricmotorcars9516]

Need a hutch today . Left his mark at that time

[@jackhardy1649]

Remember my first visit to Stamford Bridge in 62' great open ground, referees were better then

[@stephenwaring]

Uppa Towen !!

[@seltaeb9691]

You must be a time traveller, going back & forth with a video recorder stuck under your armpit.

[@kingarthurusatenniscoach1415]

Osgood,,,, world class,,,, Francis Lee Astle mexico Ramsey selected them before Osgood,,, And it proved a winner LOL

[@yozzsongs]

UTFT!

[@antrog1895]

I bet SKY could have games like this every week. Everton clearly came for the draw…😆 Advertising hoardings for Red Barrel and Pams sewing shop. Lazy Osgood 😆and Hutchinson’s throws Wow. Brian Moore’s commentary - everyone’s Uncle Brian. Halcyon days.

[@malcolmholmes9166]

Much prefer the football played today (a part of course of all the diving) controlled and possesion based.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Distinct lack of Diversity here. W T F happened ?!

[@christophercook723]

Demographic destruction of our once green and pleasant Land. Kampala Palace mow play at Sellhurst Park.

[@geoffreywilliams4266]

I am a liverpool fan but I went down with the everton mob that day they were great mates of mine les powell beadsley Eddie ashton curro collo eggo whitey it was a great mob and we really give chelsea great agro Godder liverpool skinhead 6

[@geoffreywilliams4266]

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