Big Match Highlights - Q.P.R Vs. Man Utd., 11.05.1985

Big Match Highlights - Q.P.R Vs. Man Utd., 11.05.1985 - Presented by Brian Moore. At the very end of the clip there is a mention of the Bradford City fire diaster which happened earlier that day.

[@mrkipling2201]

Proper football. I prefer the game back then over today’s nonsense, all day long. Yes I know we had hooliganism etc but it was so much easier to attend a game and the atmosphere was so much better. No VAR rubbish either!!

[@melvynslote457]

Totally agree with your opinion. In fact I do not really follow football anymore.

[@mrkipling2201]

@@melvynslote457 cheers mate. Same here tbh. I’ll check the results and watch the odd game on television but it’s not the game I grew up watching and was obsessed with. I mean you can’t even celebrate your team scoring a goal anymore because your player might have his toenail offside. VAR will kill the game I think. It’s certainly killing any spontaneity in the game. It’s like the Spurs European game the other week. They must have been in dreamland after scoring a last minute winner, yet it’s chalked off a minute afterwards for an offside decision that was pathetic.

[@robinmcewen3286]

@@mrkipling2201 A pal of mine at work from Nigeria was lauding how football has moved on from the 'thug' days. He has a point, but he has no concept of how football was about where you were from back in the day. Going to a game was cheap and easy - now it isn't. VAR will kill the game unless gender politics does it first to all pro sport. Blatter was a rogue, but he refused tech getting involved for as long as he could. He was right about that. Some proper players on show here though. Robson must have been injured. The 80s were full of trouble. But it really was a golden era to attend football in the UK.

[@Suve35967]

@@melvynslote457 Same. It's a business now. The clubs with the most money (sugar daddies..oil) can buy the 🏆🏆🏆. I just don't bother now.

[@532bluepeter1]

@@Suve35967It was a business then with Manchester United and Liverpool hoovering up talent from smaller clubs keeping them smaller.

[@JasonC1782]

The information about this edition of The Big Match suggests that it actually included the Yorkshire TV footage of the Bradford fire, which would have been a very bold decision if it did.

[@SteveM-ly7oy]

Almost nonchalant reporting of hooliganism, but hey, it's England in the mid-1980s. Normal fare. I am so glad he mentioned Bradford City, but I think two weeks later, it was the Heysel disaster.

[@mrkipling2201]

18 days later. 29th May.

[@Diddy1970AD]

Great upload, thanks. Just to point out QPR are at home!!

[@viscountofvhs960]

Thanks! I've corrected that now!

[@lucaschapman2188]

The ground hasn’t changed in 40 years ! Wtf . Must be the only one in Britain. Even Kenilworth has had a lick of paint recently lol.

[@motormouthalmighty]

we watched the big match 1970s game of this fixture yesterday on TV didn't we?2-2?that was a brilliant match?1977?sir Stanley rous?the rous trophy?president of qpr?

[@robertboyle2573]

Strachan on form.

[@gustaaf1892]

I had totally forgotten that Alan Brazil had ever played for United. That was an awful United side that trotted out that day.

[@redflag8970]

Never worked out for him. I think he was another unfit pisshead

[@mrkipling2201]

He scored our goal in my first ever game at Old Trafford!! 30th November 1985 against Watford. 1-1.

[@mrkipling2201]

Plus we had the Cup final a week after this game at QPR.

[@LagerWeStand]

Alan Brazil was only 25 here

[@creynolds094]

Saturday 11th May 1985

[@mrkipling2201]

Was this shown on the Sunday afternoon?? The Big Match highlights??

[@darren2514fv]

Yes

[@mrkipling2201]

​@@darren2514fv thanks for your reply mate.

[@kjw7556]

I was 6 weeks old .

[@kkean5972]

Do u remember the match when u was watching from your cot 😂

[@growlerthe2nd712]

Plastic pitch 😱

[@mohdazmi10]

Different to the present plastics

[@mrkipling2201]

@@mohdazmi10 definitely. This was a horrible plastic pitch. Burnt your knees and legs if you slid in for a tackle!! Not like the 3G pitches today!!

[@electrician1602]

We was robbed

[@seltaeb9691]

QPRs awful plastic pitch which has led to today's hybrid grass/plastic pitch & equally as awful. Pitches should show some wear & being totally natural & it gives the gamegrounds a variety rather than boring uniformity.

[@tommyhemlock7915]

The referee might as well have refereed the game wearing a Sc*m United shirt.

[@danabrahams7892]

You never have a chance against them and liverpool