1970/71 - The Big Match (Gillingham v Fulham, N Forest v West Ham & Norwich v QPR - 10.4.71)

[@calvinaitkin-sf9up]

Best commentator ever was Brian Moore,,knocks spots off present day ones.

[@philwise872]

Vic Halom played for Sunderland in the FA Cup Final Just 2 seasons later

[@chriscox7918]

Peach won the FA cup with Southampton

[@darrensfeist]

Cant believe I have found this, last time I saw this programme was in B/W the next day. I was there at 4m.39s one of the kids behind the corner post...I remember not seeing much action at that end of the pitch 😞 I've still got all the Gills players autographs. 🙂

[@alanprior7650]

Fulham had a meteoric rise in the early 70s. Only a few years later they were playing West Ham United in the FA Cup final and had players like George Best,Bobby Moore,Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery playing for them! Fulham repeated the trick in the 90s too but without the FA Cup Final appearance.

[@tommyhemlock7915]

Asking the viewers to come up with a song for Arsenal for the Cup Final, then giving the Golden Goal entries names just shows how ITV’s football coverage has always been dire.

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

That’s nothing, this coverage is the best, better than the crappie coverage of today, the game is better back then than today.

[@mikewest1542]

Hope they enjoyed the cake !

[@steve9542000]

All the Fulham fans in the Rainham end. Those were the days.

[@raymondbonington9355]

Fulham fans in every bit of the gillingham ground ,wouldn’t happen these day .

[@ianclarke1852]

You could allow it when opposing fans didn’t want to hurt each other

[@jatsher]

@@ianclarke1852I guarantee you there were fights during and after the game. It was standard practice then.

[@ianclarke1852]

@@jatsher I wasn’t hard enough or brave enough so never got involved but seen a lot of it as you say. Eventually they had to segregate rival fans.