Granada Kick-Off Match 13/1/1980

Granada's Kick-Off Match episode broadcast on 13th January 1980, covering the Liverpool v Southampton, Nottingham Forest v West Brom and Middesbrough v Manchester United games that were played the previous day.

[@davidchesworth9110]

God how I miss the old first division.

[@thealamothealamo7704]

Eigthies make me a lover of the beautiful game! We here in Italy followed english footy on late sunday night on swiss Italian tv waiting for hlities of two matches. What a TIME!

[@phillipingham7538]

How I miss those days where football such as this and music meant so meant so much togetherness (: great tv shows to look forward to back in 1980 (:

[@staceygrove5976]

Affordable admission prices as well...

[@tomduggan51]

Football Heaven, Thanks very much for this episode of the Kick Off Match featuring excellent games as Liverpool and Man. United have it put up to them by Southampton and Middlesboro respectively!

[@bobkeery8373]

I remember the 79/80 season.Arsenal v Liverpool over 5 games in the FA Cup Semi-Final.We seemed to have Arsenal v Liverpool on the radio every night

[@darren2514fv]

I think the 4 match Liverpool v Arsenal semi final series was the one that led to the FA to reduce Semi Finals to one replay and the resulting introduction of penalty shoot-outs in FA Cup Semi Finals

[@duncanbirss4333]

Bob Keery now the poor babies struggle to play 2 games in a week !

[@edmundpower1250]

It was actually 4 matches

[@edmundpower1250]

@@darren2514fv it was 4 matches. It was 5 matches v Sheffield Wednesday the year before

[@darren2514fv]

@@edmundpower1250 the 5th match was a league game at Anfield that was played during that period

[@robharding5345]

That Liverpool side was a machine like unit, could never take them lightly.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

When admiral and Umbro were top dogs..!!

[@dirkdiggler5622]

worth a fortune now

[@MrJonno85]

Southampton's away kit here is virtually the same one that they wore in the 76 Cup Final - teams kept their kits for much longer then.

[@mrkipling2201]

Jon Cole they only seemed to change their kits back then if they changed kit supplier, otherwise they would have the same kit for a few seasons.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Chelsea & Aston Villa were buggers for kit changes in the 80s. Newcastle kept a V necked Umbro kit for around 4 seasons, which was rare in the commercial-hungry 1980s

[@PeterAnderson-z4y]

Liverpool in the classic White V neck shirts and kit they wearing here for 4th year in a row. Now all teams change kit every year.

[@chrisevans5259]

Great times of football on the box,...proper games played by proper players despite muddy bobbly pitches ,..they just got on with it,... no whingeing, or diving or VAR,....even the grounds had their own unique character, and identity,.....the 70s and 80s were great times

[@andrewjablonski7970]

More of these Granada kick off match episodes please !!

[@canoebadour]

Great upload. Night and day to the modern game.

[@skintslots]

Only just realised that the Southampton team had Holmes and Watson, and Channon and Ball in their line up!lol

[@caeserromero3013]

They also had Baker so should have signed Butcher 😂

[@paulmcdonough1093]

the intro music ha I was a footy mad kid in Liverpool Toxteth in the 80s I went right through school with Robbie fowler, Everton my team

[@johncambridge7339]

Didn't emlin hughes play for Hull as well

[@stephenpritchett7920]

more please that was great

[@staceygrove5976]

Really enjoying these Kick-Off Match uploads from 1980. Always felt Gerald Sinstadt and Elton Welsby were a bit naff, but that kind of adds to the entertainment value and unique quality of it all.

[@mattford1593]

Elton Welsby, the thinking man's Alan Partridge.

[@spib65]

spot on lol

[@steveo7165]

A-haaa 😀

[@dlamiss]

Always thought Alan Partridge was the thinking mans Elton Welsby

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Notice how the host says things like "Forest are in the dark shirts". In 1980, a significant percentage of homes still had black and white television sets.

[@wobblybobengland]

McDermott Souness, this is just before the scouser 'tasche perm combo really took hold.

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Look at that Liverpool side best team in the world and no foreigners see what has ruined the beautiful game.

[@callithowiseeit5806]

I agree, plenty will leap to throw the racist card at you but you're right, not only has it ruined the game financially with daft fees creating a mercenary feel but also the quota system/affirmitve action has brought lesser talent in lowering standards of play just to tick boxes

[@shen_baba]

So what you're saying is that foreigners ruined football? Bigotry comment

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

@@shen_baba Bollocks and crap. If anything, the clubs have gone to such an extreme that there are NO British players in the top sides. It's bollocksing the National Sides of not just England but of the other 3 home nations. Scotland's PL was swamped with overseas players before it became a farcical one horse contest. Those to blame are the Premier League for only being interested in money and greedy player agents, overpricing English players, so that overseas players are recruited. Imported players should cost X10 the prices and drive the value of domestically based talent. Wages should be a fraction of the amounts these modern greedy bastards receive and the money should be pushed into schemes to help clubs involve their local communities again. Most of all, fat greedy club owners should be punished on financial irregularities or underfunding (think that Cockney **** Ashley for one example). The game will eventually die if something isn't done soon..... Bury FC will be followed by many others

[@paulsimpson3269]

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 what a load of rubbish.

[@robertboyle2573]

Great saves by Gary Bailey.

[@dogwwoo]

Boro had a decent side then. The first ever match I attended happy days.

[@mikeauld7971]

Alan Partridge’s links appear to have been recorded in a large hall - the echoey reverb very noticeable!

[@hotrockin197]

Great times, proper football & no diving cheating mercenaries🤔Walking down to Burnden Park on a spring afternoon☺

[@staceygrove5976]

Well done Southampton - I was expecting the inevitable late LIverpool winner after they equalized, but the Saints stuck to their task impressively. McMenemy did a very decent job there from the later 1970s to early 1980s.

[@ElysiumNZ]

The physical nature of football in those days gives me funny images of how Neymar jr would react if he was playing there.

[@WELLBRAN]

Sorry today's players would want more money to play on a muddy pitch

[@ptf2941]

Ope it isnt taken th wrong way n my wrdin is readabl,bt don think they wud last 5min playing on these pitches of th past,th spoilt rich players of 2day that luk lik a bunch of 15 yr olds playing,wer as th players of then cud play on anything including present grounds.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

He'd be fragile glass and smashed easily. Lightweight Latin bellend

[@charlieboffin2432]

It’s a shame that Admiral were never the strip manufacturer for Liverpool , those shirts would be iconic .

[@MagratheaLegend]

How proggy is that theme tune!!!!

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

It's a Rick Wakeman wannabe with a Korg/Casio/Bontempi..... Granada knew they couldn't pinch another show's tune, so they tried thinking "Vangelis on Acid" instead. Worse than a kids science TV show theme.....

[@MrJeepsters]

En 1980, forest avait encore une très bonne équipe. A quelle place ont-ils fini le championnat ?

[@scherben8870]

Phil Boyer's only away goal that season, even though he was the First Division's leading scorer.

[@Telcontar1962]

Love the game. And as great a side as they were you can see with that penalty just how well looked after Liverpool were.

[@gawdhelpus304]

As if Dalglish would go down there, clean through on the keeper, Kop End, rather than convert a chance to claim a goal for himself ! Nailed on directly to a definite stone wall that one!

[@Telcontar1962]

@@gawdhelpus304 thats quite a novel take on what happened considering the other tackles that went on in that match and the game in general at the time.

[@JohnMcMahon.]

Telcontar1962 You having a laugh? That was a stonewall penalty. Seriously?

[@gawdhelpus304]

Not many complaints from the assailant ! 🤔

[@gawdhelpus304]

I'll have a look around and see if KZbin has a Braille version for you ! 😎😂

[@edmundpower1250]

Great presenter Elton

[@themanftheworld8439]

Elton Welsby

[@tomthomas9708]

Watching that first game, I'm glad the back pass law changed.

[@ArmyofLove]

I remember Peter Wells as a leyton orient keeper at the end of his career

[@johnpettigrew83]

Up the O's!

[@mohdazmi10]

Middlesbrough decline started two seasons later after David Armstrong John Proctor and Craig Johnston all left the club.

[@callithowiseeit5806]

What a scrap! lol Gotta say the Admiral and Bukta eras were the best for kits, before sponsors ruined it, having the great Liverpool kit cheapened by having Crown Paints plastered on the front

[@paullofts4164]

Man Utd boro game 2 people killed after wall collapsed after the game forgotten tragedy rip the roxbys

[@shahedmc9656]

How's Elton Welsby?

[@davidsmythe9266]

Stan Bowles gets around ,class .

[@mrkipling2201]

Quite a decent team Southampton had. Dave Watson, channon, Charlie George, Alan ball etc. Not a bad side!!

[@mrkipling2201]

distantvoices you’re right that’s crazy when you think about it. You forget how long Ian Rush played for. Joining Liverpool from Chester in 81 wasn’t it?? Then he played for Liverpool until 1996-97?? Then didn’t he go to Newcastle afterwards??

[@mrkipling2201]

distantvoices I thought keegan always got a good reception when he went back to anfield.

[@MrJonno85]

@@mrkipling2201 Ian Rush's last league game for Liverpool was against Alan Ball's Man City in 95-96: he scored in a 2-2 draw that relegated City.

[@mrkipling2201]

Jon Cole that’s right city thought they only needed a draw but then news came through that they actually needed a win!!

[@mrkipling2201]

distantvoices I wasn’t aware of that, did he leave on bad terms when he went to Hamburg in 77?? I would have thought that just winning the European Cup and getting kenny Dalglish, Liverpool fans would have said good luck!! You certainly got the better end of the deal!!

[@mrkipling2201]

How long was Steve heighway at Liverpool?? I knew he was there for a long time but I didn’t realise he was still playing at the end of the 70’s, start of the 80’s even though he was only substitute for this game against Southampton.

[@comond]

1970-1981, then went to play in the U.S.A.

[@dlamiss]

Great player lost his place in the middle of the 78/79 season to Johnson but stayed an extra 2 and a half seasons when he could have walked into most first division sides... Had a last hurrah in the 81 league cup final (first game) when he was probably man of the match but was injured before he replay and a certain gentleman by the name of Ian Rush played...

[@richardgardner90125]

Was this aired every sunday afternoon? Love this channel!

[@jameskelly2559]

Yep every week

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Is this Elton welsbey

[@rich5086]

Mod 66 certainly is.

[@glenjarnold]

Give me this over the Premiershit any day...

[@mrkipling2201]

Micky Thomas should have stayed a lot longer at United. I thought he was underrated for us. Always gave his all for the shirt and you could tell he loved playing for us.

[@mrkipling2201]

distantvoices really?? I didn’t know that!! What United v Liverpool games???

[@mrkipling2201]

distantvoices he might have been the players back then didn’t earn the obscene, stupid amounts of money that they do now!!!

[@andrewparker8806]

Ah the Welsh Tenner! Arrested for selling fake notes to the youth team, proper character Mickey Thomas was.

[@scherben8870]

I thought he was shite, and was glad to see him gone ;)

[@MrJeepsters]

Pourquoi Mick Channon n'a jamais joué dans un autre club ? Je trouve qu'il méritait un carrière plus brillante. Je croyais qu'il s'était blessé avant 1980 (je ne savais pas qu'il jouait encore à cette époque).

[@staceygrove5976]

Channon a joué dans Manchester City pendant les ans 1977-79, un club peut être plus célèbre que Southampton!

[@carlesq.]

just a thought i wonder if that alan ball yellow card was the first time a world cup winner had been booked at anfield

[@edmundpower1250]

Strange question

[@robinevans3440]

Wonder why Keegan wasn't playing

[@kieranoleary3607]

He was gone in 1977 . Signed King Kenny after Keegan left

[@robinevans3440]

He signed for the Saints after he played for Hamburg...Wanted to be in this country for the 82 world cup

[@carlesq.]

southampton with holmes and watson plus a baker(street)

[@carlesq.]

and they've got a case to deal with on the other side

[@carlesq.]

written by sir arthur 'channon' doyle hahahaha

[@donrevie721]

Phil Thompson isn't very gracious or magnanimous or humble..very cocky and boastful. According to him Liverpool have a god given right to win every game , heaven help any team that has the cheek to beat them.

[@duncanmiller1288]

Holmes Watson & Baker all in one team lol

[@richardtaylor8165]

Elementary!

[@KingFahtah]

Love the cheesy 80s intro

[@duncanmiller1288]

Rick Wakeman on keyboard

[@scherben8870]

What this season showed was the wasted potential of Tommy Doc's team, ruined by the original David Moyes. More creative and scoring power provided by Merlin and Pancho could have swung the title for us. Without that, that Liverpool team were way too good.

[@desplatt842]

scherben You could be right. From this game onwards, Liverpool were pretty moderate to the end of the season but always just stayed that touch ahead of Man United . I remember, the last game of the season Derek Parlane scored one of his few goals for Leeds in a two nil defeat for Man United which sealed Championship for Liverpool who beat Villa 4-1 at home that day

[@scherben8870]

​@@desplatt842 Liverpool had the greatness we lacked.

[@seltaeb9691]

Welsby is a annoying tic & really that foo pah 1970s jacket with Concorde's lapel wings he could almost take off with all that hot air that he blows out.

[@brianwilliams71]

The days before they murdered home and away!

[@gawdhelpus304]

Always preferred Neighbours myself

[@sunnyxdays1036]

The barmy annie road army with their Stanley knives ?

[@jameskelly2559]

What a sick you must be

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Miss the footballof those times really badly. However I really don't miss this terrible music.