1974-75 The Big Match 20 04 75 (Tottenham v Chelsea Norwich v Nott'm Forest Everton Sheff United)

[@Del-yv1qy]

When London teams had local players and we had real rivalry. Please bring me back.

[@jerryoshea3116]

I always loved that music as a kid,and listening to it again,brought back fine memories and made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck(quite strange really!)but can see why!! And then we had the football to feast our eyes upon!!

[@denzil4]

The good old days when football was at it's best. Ploughed fields for pitches , 50,000 + standing great atmosphere, hardly a foreign player, probably about £1.50 - £2.00 to get in, played at 3pm on a saturday, no silly bookings, decent tackles great football. Now look at it a load of overpaid primadonnas and £50 to get in on a monday night with no away fans no atmosphere and bookings for breathing in the wrong direction!!!! and a crap national stadium. I wish I could time travel back 40 years like most fans want to do!!!!!!!

[@topbanana8438]

most off football legends come from the 70s. totally wrong about bad football mate. players back then played with there heart not thinking when the next pay check goes in

[@hodsgod]

It was 40p for adults at that game. I was there, 20p for me at 15.

[@dooda77penn19]

20p to get in, boys enclosure ..I was there. 👍,at Paxton Rd end.

[@hairynews1973]

Spot on denzil4

[@jerryoshea3116]

I know u made ur comment a few yrs ago,but I couldn't agree anymore!!👍👍

[@tomduggan51]

DJB, Thanks for providing Big Match memories-great action- when these programmes were the only source of coverage!

[@rajnirvan3336]

Retro shirts whatever club you support are so much better than the current styles

[@mooseing22]

Oh God, I'm in heaven! Thank you!

[@davidreed1995]

Never a fan of chelsea or manchester united in later years Great player RIP ray wilkins what a goalie pat jenkins was

[@jerryoshea3116]

Jennings was pure class,with that Hard Leather ball,no Gloves and he would kick today's(ridiculously)lightweight Ball out of the Stadium!.And I never could understand why Spurs let him walk out of the door,to travel down the road to Highbury!

[@tigertony2716]

Thanks for uploading, nice to see the whole programme. Great, competitive main game - plenty of penalty box action and both teams only interested in going forward and then we have Brian Moore - presenter, commentator, analyst & interviewer - and suberb at all.

[@mauludsadiq5438]

I greatly appreciate these type of posts. The program in its entirety - uncut. thanks.

[@martinmason5008]

This is good and thanks for the upload. I got the impression Spurs would win when the introduced Steve Perryman as the studio guest. But he and Wilkins marshaling their respective troops was great to see. The latter's precision passing sublime. A testament to the toughness of Jack Taylor. You could imagining him decking Droy if he needed to make his point, and Droy would have felt it. And Droy was a tough cookie. Really enjoyed it, thanks.

[@step4024]

What an amazing goalkeeper Pat Jennings was. I am a Boro fan and our goalie then was Jim Platt. He was a great goalkeeper,but could never get a game for N.Ireland because big Pat was around at the same time!!. What were Tottenham thinking about letting him go to Arsenal at the end of the next season?. Hugo Loris??... I'm sorry, but he could'nt hold a candle to a true great like Pat Jennings.

[@David_JB65]

Ste P totally agree I’m an Everton supporter and must admit Big Pat was one of the greats, going from Tottenham to Arsenal is unusual, he actually followed his manager Terry Neill who did the same thing and signed the big man a year after arriving at Arsenal, he too was a Northern Ireland international and also part time NI manager

[@lennylaa1686]

see my comments above Dave!

[@jerryoshea3116]

Funny!While I was watching the game the comments on "Big Pat" that u made crossed my mind!! They were extremely fortunate to have such a world class goalkeeper!!Pure class!!

[@robertroberts2666]

Hugo who?

[@dlamiss]

Burkinshaw backed Barry Daines who was 6 years younger than Pat Jennings. Ironic that in 1981 Clemence signed for Spurs and Clemence was a year older when he signed than Jennings was when he left..Burkinshaw admitted later on letting Pat go was his biggest managerial mistake

[@arthurnibble4763]

Southern Television had covered Southampton 3 Millwall 2 (a Friday night match!) as their main game before joining "The Big Match" for the last two matches.

[@philipmaguire9209]

Ian Hutchinson legend

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Terry Yorath Leeds legend 💙

[@philipmaguire9209]

I was there .. .packed scary day .. trouble in out around ground .....hell of place ..

[@robertroberts2666]

No wonder that Jennings was considered the best goalie around this time!

[@eles2147]

Shame Spurs let him go.

[@wildbill8635]

In the 70s 80s big clubs got relegated, ie Chelsea Spurs Man U/City. They will never go down now as they have squillions to buy anyone. The usuals bob up & down West Ham Sheffield Utd Aston Villa, & some once great huge Dreadnoughts like Leeds Utd just cant get out of the 2nd tier. Sadly.

[@neilinbengeo]

My first ever game of football!

[@KingFahtah]

Spurs and Chelsea in a relegation scrap. Can’t imagine that today

[@MrJeepsters]

Tout les ans, on nous disait que les spurs allaient gagner le titre et, à chaque fois, ils se sauvaient de justesse de la relégation (les journaux français avaient les pronostics des journalistes anglais).

[@domijean8023]

Poor teams in the 70s

[@Spectrescup]

@@domijean8023 Chelsea came close to bankruptcy in the mid-70s, like every team that embarked on large-scale building works just before the recession bit. See also Wolves, Middlesbrough, Sheffield United, Burnley etc. They were ,at least, the only member of that group not to get relegated below the second tier. Before then they'd experienced real success in the 70s. Spurs fortunes were revived in the late 70s, but like Chelsea they'd already had European trophy success in the decade, so hardly poor.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

@@Spectrescup In those days, anything other than the European (Champions) Cup was irrelevant

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 No the UEFA Cup and European Cup Winners Cup were highly prized and the former hard to win.

[@lennylaa1686]

Christ! What a comeback from the Blades, 0-2 down to win it 3-2. Could hear a mini roar for each of their goals; were they at the opposite Park End? And if any Blades fans went, did it get a bit lively coming out the ground afterwards? Four years later, I followed Villa up there Jan. 1979; all in, shat meself for 3 hours,.never felt so frightened at a game and that includes Oct 1976 when 12,000 G. Rangers came down for a friendly/riot! I came within an ace of being attacked and beaten up outside the ground, TV camera side, at full time. Merseyside, an absolutely wickedly evil place to go in the 70's; you took your life in your hands as a visiting fan. No joke, it gives me the vapours to this day, I'm now aged 60; a bloody horrible experience.

[@SuperForest78]

.....and 4 years later we were European champions!!! Clough had only been in charge for 3 months by that Norwich game

[@dlamiss]

And Wolves beating Bolton at Burnden on the last day of the 76-7 season made it all possible for you

[@SuperForest78]

Yes on such moments history turns

[@williambuchan4778]

Lets see, best goalkeeper ever Pat Jennings, best commenter ever Brian Moore, best ref ever Jack Taylor (no one & I mean NO ONE mucked Jack about!), best footy era ever 70s, best most scary player ever Mickey Droy, oh, best rugby player trying to play football Ron 'Chopper' Harris.

[@rubewaddell1704]

Norman Hunter gave Chopper a run for his money

[@mikemurray2027]

Ron could play, he just preferred booting people.

[@1990-t1j]

36:32 the best goal of the day. Norwich.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Was certainly a cracking team goal. Set up by Peters, who I can remember being at Norwich when I started following the sport in 1979/80....He even played part time for Gorleston near Gt Yarmouth while at NCFC

[@CamcorderSteve]

Since we have had the influx of players from all over the world, the game has changed completely hasn't it? Goalkeepers seldom just boot the ball downfield but prefer to roll it out and play through the midfield. There were no 'safe' balls passing it along the back line then back then sideways. Everything seemed to be how can we get the ball forward ASAP, not sure if I prefer that style of play to the style of play we get today. Footballers had obviously not been trained to be interviewed by the media - Steve Perryman seemed quite nervous when talking to Brian Moore, As I recall Spurs survived the season but were relegated the following season.

[@jerryoshea3116]

I take ur point,but the game was so much more Physical and Competitive and that naturally took a toll on Players..And u had so many classy Midfield players,but when the ball went back to the GK,then the idea was to get the ball back into ur opponents Territory,the simplest and most effective way possible!! .Perhaps less aesthetically eye catching(admittedly)but certainly more direct!

[@stephengrainger7586]

And the money has gone up big time

[@SimonJohn67]

Thousands are locked out? How true that is today...

[@redflag8970]

gotta say a packed whl was a great place

[@jeremysmith4073]

When footballers were footballers and not politicians.

[@redflag8970]

Ye sky sports constantly on it

[@stephengrainger7586]

And not paid to much money

[@CoysMasterson]

Spurs Chelsea 1975. I was at that game. I was 14. Riots! On the pitch battles. Policemen’s getting kicked in the head. Chelsea we relegated. Spurs survived by a point.

[@markrobinson1369]

Billy Bremner admitted Leeds threw the game for money. 4.2. He told Steve Pratt to stop taking the piss at 1 point. Sent Luton down

[@Dommer1973]

Alec Stock, isnt it, hmmmm, young lads, jumpers for goalposts. Alfie Conn motioning and calling Gary Locke a wanker at 4.15 is a highlight

[@richardmmason]

Alec Stock IS Ron Manager. Innit? Marvellous!

[@David_JB65]

Just put it out there on Twitter to @ITVfootball @BBCMOTD @bbcsport have they every thought about their own you tube channels showing classic Big Match/MOTD episodes, just a thought but if there's a demand I sure they would consider it, 👍🏻😀

[@missxsoph1]

Davie Hay "the quiet assasin" and Alfie Conn,Pat Jennings what a keeper

[@stevenhurst1353]

Great Sheff Utd win :-)

[@lennylaa1686]

see my comments above, Steve!

[@roytheboy1963]

What classic songs from the terraces.. "Chelsea are a bunch of wankers la la la la la la la la la"

[@tonynesbit9673]

I am an evertonian and saw everton all through the 70s,it would of been embarrassing to win the league with those players how the hell they managed to be up there was baffling?dai davies was beyond shite ,dobson was about the only decent player we had as for the rest all 5/6 out of 10 type of players.

[@andyb4864]

The original Ron Manager 39.00

[@dlamiss]

+Andrew Berry so I believe

[@domijean8023]

10min33 haha Also Spurs singing YNWA !!

[@zaius316]

Weird hearing Spurs fans sing You’ll Never Walk Home at White Hart Lane.

[@everton1941]

If it weren't for the existence of KZbin I would have long ago erased that fucking Sheffield Utd. match from my memory.

[@4evaclapham]

13.54 ...fans up the floodlights on the roofs of stands a very common sight in the 70's ..now the game would be stopped all health and safety, police would be involved, media hysteria etc etc ...the days when men were men and snowflakes did not exist

[@footballsoccerx2021]

It's good that we're a bunch of snowflakes nowadays. just think - it took for the Hillborough disaster to happen before people realised that football terraces were actually dangerous places and safety needed to be taken seriously. Let somebody climb a floodlight today, fall off and injure themselves and see how the club is sue for millions over neglect

[@philipboyce4034]

Great Days...

[@saraw6446]

Fulham manager.... Jumpers for goalposts, hmm, marvelous, hmm isn't it

[@wildbill6826]

"...yadda yadda ya.. 20/4/75.. Take 1..I hate my frigging job!!.. (There's worse mate)

[@andyfin990]

The street end when smallman scores for Everton, limbs... Nsno...

[@MrJeepsters]

Comment expliquer que dans le championnat anglais, à cette époque, cela marquait un maximum de but alors que l'équipe nationale ne marquait pas ?

[@mrraoulandtheking11]

All London affair thanks to Clive Thomas

[@MrJeepsters]

Qui était le gardien de Chelsea ? Je ne reconnais pas Bonetti

[@MrClitheroe]

Il s'appelle John Phillips en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phillips_(footballer)

[@sfwplant]

Opening titiles, you don't see a ball at any point.

[@johnbracher158]

Frightening haircut by Ian Britton

[@WokeHate]

OTBC

[@dogcowrph]

Chelsea are bnow like the New England Patriots (NFL, USA).

[@2005peasah]

Tottenham and Chelsea are nothing. Arsenal are the best.

[@supahdupahguy81]

+Kwame Aboagye Best at what? Best at end of season collapses?

[@2005peasah]

Better than your worthless amateurs called Tottenham.

[@supahdupahguy81]

Kwame Aboagye Seen the league table recently?

[@2005peasah]

***** Ha, ha, ha, it will be Leicester than your amateurs.

[@Adam-vy6nl]

Ever been to the Emirates??

[@waiata216]

Terrible players awful pitches broken down terraces violent and racist crowds

[@redflag8970]

Great eh

[@bluebird7207]

Far better back then than the crap now.

[@markmeade2937]

Better players, skill on pitches that where mud baths and no poxy snowflakes, as for racism it’s still around for those who want to find it

[@footballsoccerx2021]

@@markmeade2937 ... and those who feel they have to dish it out

[@markmeade2937]

@@footballsoccerx2021 And that too