Match Of The Day - 15 August 2007

[@vlnakajr2346]

Great upload. Mid-late 2000s is the best era in the PL. More of these please. Cheers.

[@gustavbrinkel5489]

As s guess, were you growing up then?

[@robevans5507]

mid to late 90s was the best

[@HamsaT12]

@@gustavbrinkel5489 Most likely. People always choose the era they were young as the best. After 10 years people will say the same about this current era of man city lmao.

[@Tridentus]

​@@HamsaT12 In fairness I think it was the best in objective ways- the largest amount of legendary names played in this time at any 5 year stretch, it was the most dominant the league has been in terms of overall strength of all 4 clubs in CL too which shows how strong it was (recently has also been strong but only cos of 2 teams not all 4, and also arguably because top clubs in Europe are in transition) , and the storylines in terms of rivalries etc. were as strong as they've ever been. Plus even the fringe narratives like the bitch-to-play Sam Allardyce teams, the gritty Moyes Everton team.. Random players like Okocha and Kanu that were so entertaining to watch. Also, people definitely won't be saying the same about this City era- City are far too clean-cut, only really Grealish offers that added character, and similar goes for all the other top teams and players. People can disagree about the above factors, but don't suggest that the factors are arbitrary and that "it only depends when you grew up"- no, times do change. Nobody can tell me the mid 2010s were as good as PL is now for example- the teams were terrible compared to now (although football overall in all the other top leagues was fantastic)

[@Coxy_Wrecked]

@@HamsaT12 Same with any sport. I often see comments about F1 being better in the 80's (despite 70% of the grid regularly failing to finish the race back then)and of course heavyweight boxing aint whtat it used to be either🙄 These rose-tinted spec merchant really get my back up.

[@joecurran2811]

John Motson was a quality commentator!

[@paranoidandroid192]

Drogbarrrrrrr!

[@Barney-ii1no]

national treasure

[@LNDN1905]

Watching Chelsea from 2007 brought back my childhood memories man and Lampard and Drogba scoring was so typical! The good ‘ol days!

[@stickstu2866]

How we wish for these days to return

[@trapboost4841]

I probably watched this sat on my bunk bed watching on my tiny Phillips box tv that I had to smack every now and then to get the sound back working. So much nostalgia

[@mrannonymous4822]

I still can't get over the fact Ronald, Rooney, Tevez etc played at Fratton Park once, hoping the good times return Play up Pompey!

[@PoorlyWrttenReviews]

Not just those guys, but we even had ronaldinho grace the pitch, not to forget the legends we had in our squad

[@5thdawg917]

Those were the days as a young school teen. Weekends as a teen back then were the best days of the week. Coming home to watch motd every night. Even use to watch the news whilst waiting lol

[@ashleygray99]

😂 I knew more about politics as a 10 year old than I do now from watching the news before Match of the Day. Great times!

[@mrgreatbritain]

This intro brings back the memories! Such nostalgia

[@habesha6883]

How I miss this era 😢

[@jamesdunlop9678]

2007/08 is my favourite Premier League season. The football was so good to watch back then and there was a lot of good competition for the title, Europe and Relegation

[@tombardsley3081]

It isn’t for me 😢

[@jziffi]

@@tombardsley3081 Ok Tom

[@blinksone2768]

Football fell off hardly since then.

[@tombardsley3081]

@@blinksone2768 disagree. It's got better

[@josephcole8046]

@@tombardsley3081 Nah it's worse in my opinion. Teams have got much better structure and tactical awareness now, which makes games so much more boring to watch.

[@slayerr4365]

Something about this old match of the day feels like you are watching the games live compared to these days where it really feels like just highlight clips from the match don't know what it is

[@corinisboring4480]

Michael Johnson.. having heard that name in a long time

[@ShortsYouNeed98]

When I used to play football. Just this brings goosebumps

[@aleksanderpagels288]

Amazing, literally anything from 2007 to 2010 will do for me 👌

[@EddieExplores]

Those were the days

[@dc6521]

man the algorithm is weird nowadays. Not that I'm complaining

[@chrisclarke8451]

Wow, what an upload! absolute gold dust. More! We want more!

[@xey7459]

The GOAT era of football

[@hooper1605]

appy days m8 upload more of these, imagine the 2004 season where invincibles arsenal and few match of the days from then would be class! cheers ben

[@nickyhaugh2390]

@Ben Jones - Cheers mate. This is absolutely brilliant. Do keep it up if you can please - the more the merrier.

[@alanprior7650]

As a Pompey fan I'd kill for a team like that today!

[@DFandV]

Redknapp did wonders with your team and what a team.

[@kennywilkinson913]

We ain't sitting to bad at the min mush, play up pompey!

[@mrannonymous4822]

we will be back might take a decade or 2! 😅

[@kennywilkinson913]

@mrannonymous4822 I'd be happy with the Derby next year, even better if we go straight up to prem and scum come with us too.

[@terryevans7055]

As a united fan I’d kill for a team like that today as well 😂

[@darudesandstrom1067]

This version of ronaldo was the best for me. He was so technically ahead of everybody and entertaining to watch. He was still good at Real Madrid but he eventually just evolved into a pacey attack who could finish. Which don’t get me wrong he was the best at, but he lacked the flair he showed here

[@thedishonestjeffsokol2489]

I loved 06/07 Ronaldo. Still had all the trickery but got something like 22 assists and 22 goals - perfect blend of flair and end product

[@xBenjamin18]

He just became an efficiency monster

[@Tridentus]

I kind of don't agree with this. I think he was a better dribbler in first half of his time Madrid- he did fewer step overs but he was (and I know he was already a specimen by this point but) more physically dominant than he was here which meant maybe it didn't "look" as impressive when he dribbled past people because he could power past them like playing against kids. Also this game was quite a good one for "flair" from him, but there were a bunch of games that season when he'd repeatedly run into rabbit holes, but then he'd score so nobody cared.

[@brandonharris9769]

@@Tridentus the knee injury in 2014 was when Ronaldo started turning himself into a pure goalscorer he played injured due to it during the world cup and you could really tell

[@endadouglas6795]

Please keep posting these

[@robtyman4281]

Jesus, to think that Wigan v Boro was a Premier League fixture! lol ....mind you in 20 years time, someone might well say the same thing about Luton v Bournemouth!! ....and by then Wrexham v Milton Keynes could be a Premier League fixture!

[@gaziibabaa]

I miss this season

[@Baggie8]

hanson and motson 🐐🐐🐐

[@joeelvinofficial]

SPOILERS: Man United won the league and the Champions League this season. Pompey won the FA Cup, knocking out Man United in the quarter-finals and denying them a treble.

[@joek7277]

Wow is it just me or is match of the day 10000 times better here

[@Meacham777]

Awww back when football was great!

[@jackporter2251]

Weird to think last time I watched this I was trading match attax

[@MikeyJMJ]

Do you have the MOTD Fa Cup 3rd round highlights from this season? The one with the Anelka debut for Chelsea?

[@jonathanpuggleworth8259]

Quality stuff mate

[@cavedweller2000]

Wow, I have watched 5 mins of highlights so far and haven't seen anyone go down feigning injury

[@robertthirtle9630]

Ahahha

[@druhurn3686]

Quality this mate

[@farah.t]

Portsmouth was genuinely a solid team back then

[@kirky1293]

Good luck essien getting back into the team now Sidwell has signed!

[@ljafrain]

I'd give anything to watch Reading on motd again!

[@lecharls4128]

Give us more mate!

[@incognito_.]

Wow it’s amazing to see what my favourite sport was like on my birthday 15/08/07

[@Tridentus]

I just worked out had my first kiss on 22/08/07... I worked it out cos I remember Torres scored his first(?) goal when he rinsed Ben Haim the weekend before, and it was on the night England played Germany and Micah Richards was the big new thing on the England scene (peak bursting onto the scene). Amazing how many details I remember of that week just because it has that milestone.

[@killadog84]

Ronaldo was so fucking good to watch in these days. Can't argue with his goalscoring record at Madrid, but he neutered that dynamism that made him such a huge attacking threat.

[@SamCovington-fh7ek]

Can we have more of these please

[@jayson22s]

please upload more

[@tyrellking6332]

where do you find these match of the day programmes

[@Alex-rq2jd]

Back when football was proper

[@tombardsley3081]

Football is a lot better now that it was back then. A lot more long ball stuff back here than there is now. The quality even in the championship has significantly improved

[@joecurran2811]

​@@tombardsley3081Yeah teams try and play football even in League Two now.

[@abdus808]

There was more talented players back then

[@MindfulnessGamer]

@@tombardsley3081yet so many teams put 11 men behind the ball as soon as they score a goal now

[@tombardsley3081]

@@MindfulnessGamerthat's just not true. It's only the weak teams that do that and it's called tactics

[@megazard5249]

This just casually showing up on my recommended today. 🤔

[@Ev2005jp]

Wow that city team boys

[@kylewilliams6918]

Champions Manchester United we won't hear that again for a long time in today's football lol

[@aleksanderpagels288]

New uploads coming soon?

[@user-mh6nm5mv4b]

Hi could you upload motd from 29 September 2012

[@MultiVince95]

Wednesday 15th August 2007

[@LKReacts647]

ah the days when the premier league had almost a full saturday fixture list instead of one game

[@nemo9248]

Never forget, Gary took the Qatar money

[@thombr9o17]

Next upload, been 7 months!!! ???

[@juliolleshi751]

2006-2010 was PRIME Barclays

[@michaelparkinsonsfreeparkerpen]

2006-2009 Dropped off slightly in 09/10 Dropped off a lot in 13/14

[@Dr.Fluffball]

If you pause at 20:17 you can see a ad called ‘HI-TEC’ kinda looks like the EA sports FC logo if you squint and look closely 😮

[@RBenjo21]

Fulham on last? What a surprise!

[@tombardsley3081]

As a derby fan, this is back when we had a slight bit of hope of staying up before it all went pair shaped. Didn’t play badly in this game but things would get significantly worse

[@hakc97again]

What caused the capitulation? Cause they played OK on the first 2 matches and were unlucky not to win against Portsmouth

[@tombardsley3081]

@@hakc97again manager wasn’t sure of his future, a lack of backing in the transfer market as the owners wanted to sell with being a premier league side and wanting to make a bit of money out of it plus being beaten to signings by other clubs (we wanted players like Kenwyne Jones and Craig Gordon but they went to Sunderland) and the players we had just weren’t good enough. They were all championship players at best (a lot of them fairly average and it was just the style of play that allowed us to scrap results out Vs better teams in the championship eg the playoff final against West Brom) and the only player that could possibly make the step up just kept getting injured (Giles Barnes). Yes we bought in players like Andy Todd who had premier league experience but he wasn’t good enough to take away the shortcomings of players like Claude Davis, Darren Moore , Tyrone Mears and Dean Leacock.

[@joecurran2811]

​@@tombardsley3081What happened to Giles Barnes? He was very good as a youngsters. Also Tyrone Mears come back to the PL at Burnley?

[@tombardsley3081]

@@joecurran2811 got injured a lot and never fulfilled the potential. He went to Fulham and barely played . Yeah Mears was at Burnley but he wasn't very good

[@TeamGeist06]

We're about to see the same with Luton.

[@aidossocratis1813]

City pre oil

[@scottyk200]

"Hold the back page - Manchester City have scored at home"! 🤣

[@TheBomber15]

Ah. The good times when City were shite and aren’t a plastic club used for sportwashing.

[@mrsose1872]

Portsmouth battle a top Man Utd team containing some of the best players in the world. 2023 they are delighted with 3 points against Fleetwood Town (wherever that is?)

[@kennyobrienaiti]

When football was good

[@keighlancoe5933]

Well, I now feel fuxking old.

[@boltontillidie3347]

As always were the last team on the program

[@HealthyHappyThankful]

Was this before or after oil money

[@1990DJB]

Not many of these guys still playing in 2023. Ronaldo, Schmeichel and Cameron Jerome were the ones I spotted.

[@ZeroNiteLite]

That's mad to think so many have retired now. Doesn't seem that long ago, but it's 16 years now

[@wizzgamer]

Ronaldo's retired now 😂

[@jonathanpuggleworth8259]

Did cech punch the wee mascot?

[@YbcA1]

Haven’t seen Alan Hansen in donkeys

[@stickstu2866]

Was wondering what ever happened to Hansen and Dixon

[@HamsaT12]

He retired in 2014 and was never seen again. Tbh I never liked him as a pundit so I wasn't too bothered.

[@abdisalaamabdi8422]

Alex Ferguson really didn’t do no interviews with motd for years as 😂

[@thomaslawley7444]

Geovani for the win next saturday

[@gezmonder]

Micah Richards playing in slicks

[@lfc632]

Before Man City fell from grace...

[@julian_cross_]

This was the beginning of the takeover

[@GADHobby]

Prime Barclays

[@Qsnu]

That was not the Ronaldo free kick or performance I expected vs Portsmouth😂😂

[@JT-wp4up]

UTC

[@captainhindsight6994]

Its so weird to see tv look dated when i watched this live and it never looked this bad lol

[@muckymoe5619]

02:09 sums up the Fergie era: bought refs

[@joecurran2811]

Refs were terrified of him

[@neil1982]

It's pretty insane how fast Ronaldo was at this age.

[@paulhammond3590]

When football mattered and when football was football not politically correct

[@CrAzYxProductionZ]

Barclays ‘eritage

[@S-Nova0]

Scholesyyy

[@shen_baba]

The referee in the Birmingham Sunderland game was terrible. Didn't give a penalty to Sunderland and counted the final Sunderland goal after the keeper was wiped out.

[@elliot4837]

Paul scholes was just different gravy wasn’t he

[@FrancisFilmsYT]

Spoiler. Reading did not stay up 😅😂☹️

[@damienbrown6764]

Nugent was absolutely terrible I remember when he stole a goal for England as if he fell over 😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@Wonderguard1]

And of all teams to steal a goal, it was against San Marino if I recall correctly

[@michaelparkinsonsfreeparkerpen]

Nugent was one of those players who would be good at championship level but not good enough for the PL

[@damienbrown6764]

@@Wonderguard1 yeah it was 😂🤣😂

[@mrsose1872]

When Gary Linekar still came across as being normal

[@penaltygallery]

Good old days when the pundits had actually played at the level they're commenting on

[@predictivetextisforaunts]

When soccer was good.

[@ParallaxRS]

Ahh the good old days before oil money when Man City were nothing but a lower mid table team

[@tombardsley3081]

You mean the good old days where only Man United were the ones that could spend the most every time and bought their rivals top players? If not for Blackburn or Chelsea , Man United would have had a streak like Bayern Munich are on with the number of consecutive league titles.

[@ParallaxRS]

@@tombardsley3081 I'm a Liverpool fan but the thing I admire about Man United is at least they grew their income organically. Still today they make the most money out of any club in the world. The Glazers in effect invest nothing into the club and they can still waste 150-200m per window on players.

[@tombardsley3081]

@@ParallaxRS they put money into the club to improve it in the 90s and 2000s. They were the team buying the best players in the premier league to continue to stay at the top, including players from teams that were title rivals eg Newcastle with Andy Cole and Villa with Dwight Yorke. To win when there’s no real cost controls as I don’t believe FFP actually works and there are so many loopholes, you needed to put money in not just on players but the whole infrastructure. It's what city have done alongside buying players which is why several good talented players have come out of their academy in recent years (2 of which are in city’s first team). Now city have the organic income and would be fine minus the owners they have given their net spend has decreased in recent years.

[@ParallaxRS]

@@tombardsley3081 Granted United have spent money in the past, but the money and investment from the owners has now dried up to become just the profit. If the City money dried up, the Sheikh left, would the income from worldwide merchandise sales, fans, ticketing etc be enough to keep City profitable? Probably not. Of City's top 12 global sponsors on their website, a quarter of them, including their main kit sponsor and stadium sponsor, is in effect an elaborate hoax from 'companies' funded by the same cash pot as the owners. I don't see TeamViewer (Utd's main kit sponsor) being owned in full by the Glazers. City are reliant on one cash source for their signings - the owners. Let's be honest the old beating stick of 'The Emptyhad' is unfortunately fairly accurate. Not on big games, they fill it out for those - but on smaller games against lesser opposition there are often noticeable empty patches. If they can't fill a 55,000 capacity stadium every game, you have to question whether there are enough fans invested in the club for its size. Your point about academy players is basically irrelevant because of the investment the City owners have made in the academy facilities. They were opened almost ten years ago so we're just starting to see them reap the rewards from a £200m investment in this area.

[@stevegreen9612]

​@tombardsley3081 that's where you're wrong. Look up FACTS. In the 90s, Newcastle, Liverpool, spurs and even man city outspent United. In the 00s, chelsea outspent United and in the 10s, obviously city did. Fergie never ever spent the most in any decade. So. 💁‍♂️

[@roythomson638]

We’ve seen Gary evolve from football pundit to grumpy old woke git over the years

[@jordan4547]

Pompey under redknapp, rugby kit and gold numbers. Vintage Barclays 🤌