24/04/1976 The Kick Off

[@David_JB65]

Brilliant upload, love it when I see whole programmes like this, don't know why ITV or BBC don't have their own you tube channels and show classic Big Match/MOTD episodes, pretty certain it would be very popular

[@angelicupstart1977]

Because they are control freaks.

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

Great opening theme music loved watching this in70s

[@billmorris8358]

What a game! A perfect answer to anyone who queries why I think football was better in the 70s than it is now. No play acting, few fouls, no tippy tappy playing from the back rubbish, just all out end to end attacking football. Notice that even when play was stopped, no player kicked the ball away! In fact they even retrieved it and threw it back to either the keeper or the free kick taker! When was the last time you saw that happen these days?

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

Football now has turned into a no contact sport.v.a.r. has ruined it and POLITICS has infiltrated football to the point that it is no longer for the working class it's become corporate for the rich and sold its soul to the global elites...sad....

[@darren2514fv]

Played 14 February 1976 the highlights show was shown on 15 February 1976

[@edmundpower1250]

Nice bit of slow mo action of Stevie Highway at the intro. What an exciting winger he was

[@plynch8787]

Agreed what a player Highway was.

[@seltaeb3302]

And he continued into the early 80s, they never moved him on. He & Tommy Smith came & saw a few eras.

[@robertoc2485]

Jack Taylor - what a haircut. Brylcreem galore. Proper ref.

[@seltaeb3302]

He was a policeman & no player harangued Jack & any stupid pitch invader got marched off the field. He was a fair & overall a good Ref but he's not perfect as we see here.

[@markkavanagh4562]

Great programme no overpaid pundits talking rubbish just a presenter , action and facts

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

No virtue signalling by tossers like lineaker ,and no players wearing rainbow laces and no kneeling for Marxist anti white black nationalists.......what went wrong....give me the 70s anytime...

[@williamgeoffreyjones3421]

Perhaps it's me but the kit looks better without sponsorship

[@flatfox70]

No it's not just you, football was better generally before the corporate / sky sports take over. It used to be for the fans, now they don't even need us at the grounds. Stay home, stay safe, pay your subscription and protect the uber rich 😷

[@duncanedwards7840]

@@flatfox70 👏🤝

[@toTVset]

Thanks for uploading. Great to see these programmes in full.

[@GriefTourist]

god that intro takes me back. Used to be shown Sunday afternoon we used to go out and play as soon as it was over!

[@glenjarnold]

GriefTourist Same!

[@bobacrey4755]

This is the FA Cup match. In the league game at Filbert Street Peter Coyne scored for United

[@comond]

Had to laugh at the "he know where the goal is," comment regarding David McCreery! 7 goals in 97 appearances for Man U & 2 goals in 272 games for Newcastle!!

[@briansmith8313]

I loved the FA cup every year in the 70s,Utd had a decent cup run that year in 76 eventually losing in the final to southampton

[@darren2514fv]

The BBC showed the 24th April League game

[@andywainwright1516]

I was at the Stoke game shown here. Don't recall it being as exciting as the highlights shown here suggest.

[@merseydave1]

I loved watching the Kick Off review [in the Granada region] on Friday Night and Kick Off Matches on Sunday afternoon's it was a focus on the North West Teams [and lower divisions] ... here is a question, when did those two programmes stop ... was it the mid 80s.

[@scherben8870]

Kick Off highlights ended 1980. Kick Off preview was revived in the late 80s, but finished 1989, I think.

[@merseydave1]

scherben, I definitely remember watching Kick Off (the football highlights programme) on Sunday afternoons in the early to mid 1980s, I agree with your comment on Kick Off (the football revue programme) on Friday evenings i e the late 1980s.

[@scherben8870]

David Cummings I'll bow to your superior memory :)

[@gmlpc7132]

@@darren2514fv I think all the regional ITV highlights programmes ended in 1983 with ITV then focusing on showing the "live" matches which were introduced from the 1983-1984 season.

[@scherben8870]

@@darren2514fv Thanks for the info.

[@staceygrove5976]

27:35 Surely the ref could have thought up some reason to disallow that goal, to judge by his decisions earlier in the match?

[@darren2514fv]

Derek Brandon is a familiar name to American Football fans who grew up with Channel 4

[@rrrraaaacccc80]

Great videos 👍

[@stanogden6254]

This was the cup 5th round played 14th February

[@seltaeb3302]

I thought that date posted here was wrong as by then the semis had been played.

[@mnd1955]

The match was played in February 1976 not April.

[@AMan-zt8tz]

Stevie Highway, super Dub!

[@seltaeb3302]

Ref Jack Taylor frog marches a Utd loon off the pitch & then disallows a good Leicester goal & the City players didn't protest vehemently & why? Well Jack's day job was a policeman of the old school & no player however famous or hard nut would ever cross Jack Taylor on the football field, they all respected his good refereeing & any rare bad calls.

[@staceygrove5976]

16:21 Is that a dead body they're taking out there?

[@edmundpower1250]

No his head moved 😞

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

🤣🤣🤣. What was that???

[@williamgeoffreyjones3421]

No bottom of the bag ex professionals who achieved nothing and taking everything out it Savage, Osman, and the rest

[@chrisevans5259]

Proper football ,...loved the game from this era,..now it's just an overrated money obssessed machine,...that's lost it's charm ,and alot of its appeal.......miss those times

[@ΔημήτρηςΧρήστου-κ1η]

Tragic linesmen!

[@staceygrove5976]

40:39 How not to take a throw in...