That's how it used to be....

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Often watch Big Match Revisted on ITV4. Love Brian Moore commentary.

He was brilliant. I used to love watching 'The Big Match' on a Sunday.
I'd always watch it at my grandmother's home. The smell of homemade baking, the Big Match coupled with Brian Moore's commentary - it was all reassuringly safe back then.

[NYCBlue]

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He was brilliant. I used to love watching 'The Big Match' on a Sunday.
I'd always watch it at my grandmother's home. The smell of homemade baking, the Big Match coupled with Brian Moore's commentary - it was all reassuringly safe back then.

Yes, but what about Farming Diary and all those weird adverts about weevils and "ordinary twenty ten ten"? (whatever that is) It seemed to go on forever before the Big Match came on. Strange to think how much we looked forward to watching edited versions 23 hours after the event of what always seemed to be London-based games. Is that because it was LWT? Whenever I think of the Big Match I always think of Stamford Bridge.

[the other bob wilson]

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Just been watching West Ham v Everton on C4...1977...and now Rotherham v Palace......
Lovely to see shirts with no names....no sponsors...no fancy embellishments....!

Blimey - the pitches are a long long way behind what they are today - real cabbage patches.

What I do NOT remember are freekicks being awarded just outside the SIX yard box!!!i

All in all a million miles form today's approach....forward....sideways...back...sideways. ....etc etc...far more entertaining.

Think that’s the game when Ronnie Goodlass scored a Gabbiadini like goal for Everton from about forty yards.

Doing away with the obstruction law means that there are far less free kicks inside the penalty area these days - time was plonking yourself in front of an attacker to let the ball roll out for a goal kick would have been punished with an indirect free kick.

The Big Match Revisited is on ITV 4 most Saturday mornings at 10:30. They’ve been working their way through the 80/81 season lately when Villa won the title - Gary Shaw looked a great prospect until he got a bad injury, Tony Morley was a really exciting winger, Gordon Cowans a clever and classy midfielder and Peter Withe was a better player than I gave him credit for at the time.

You should search something like football from your favourite decade on You Tube, there’s stacks of games on there - as a confirmed Chelsea hater, I loved finding Rotherham 6 Chelsea 0 (may have been from 80/81 actually) when their eccentric keeper Peta Borota had a bit of a mare.

Someone mentioned that the Big Match always seemed to be from Stamford Bridge, but I always think of Upton Park where, although it didn’t happen really, the games seemed to always end 3-3 - there were some fantastic games with Wolves back then. My first match at Upton Park was in 1979 I think it was in the Second Division against Sunderland, I confidently predicted it would finish 3-3 beforehand and it did!

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Yes, but what about Farming Diary and all those weird adverts about weevils and "ordinary twenty ten ten"? (whatever that is) It seemed to go on forever before the Big Match came on. Strange to think how much we looked forward to watching edited versions 23 hours after the event of what always seemed to be London-based games. Is that because it was LWT? Whenever I think of the Big Match I always think of Stamford Bridge.

Hahaha... you've brought it all flooding back! Yeah, 'Farming Diary' and those bloody adverts for products to curb weevils, amongst other things.

It was indeed a LWT production, hence why a First Division London side's game would invariably be the featured match.
Funnily enough, I always associated the programme with West Ham, probably for the same reason you did with Chelsea.
What followed after, wasn't it programmes such as Catweazle and Follyfoot?

[splott parker]

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The Big Match theme tune reminds me of Sunday dinner.

[Cleve van Leef]

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Indirect free kicks?

Correct, and they were awarded outside the penalty box as well for certain infringements.

[Dave Blue]

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Hahaha... you've brought it all flooding back! Yeah, 'Farming Diary' and those bloody adverts for products to curb weevils, amongst other things.

It was indeed a LWT production, hence why a First Division London side's game would invariably be the featured match.
Funnily enough, I always associated the programme with West Ham, probably for the same reason you did with Chelsea.
What followed after, wasn't it programmes such as Catweazle and Follyfoot?

They did have regional variations but rarely in this area (HTV). City were shown a couple of times a year.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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They did have regional variations but rarely in this area (HTV). City were shown a couple of times a year.

Do you mean 'Soccer Sunday'?

Edit: Ah, I know what you mean. Yes, The Big Match would show regional games after the main London game featured.

[Dorcus]

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Hahaha... you've brought it all flooding back! Yeah, 'Farming Diary' and those bloody adverts for products to curb weevils, amongst other things.

It was indeed a LWT production, hence why a First Division London side's game would invariably be the featured match.
Funnily enough, I always associated the programme with West Ham, probably for the same reason you did with Chelsea.
What followed after, wasn't it programmes such as Catweazle and Follyfoot?

And wasn't Weekend World always on before the big match? Often interesting current affairs debate at a time when your head was still thumping from a Saturday night out.

[Fatty Foggon]

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They did have regional variations but rarely in this area (HTV). City were shown a couple of times a year.

I remember those Severnside derby highlights with Bristol City on HTV (or was it TWW) shown on the Sunday with Roger Malone as commentator.

[Dorcus]

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I remember those Severnside derby highlights with Bristol City on HTV (or was it TWW) shown on the Sunday with Roger Malone as commentator.

And Hugh John's I think.

[life on mars]

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Just been watching West Ham v Everton on C4...1977...and now Rotherham v Palace......
Lovely to see shirts with no names....no sponsors...no fancy embellishments....!

Blimey - the pitches are a long long way behind what they are today - real cabbage patches.

What I do NOT remember are freekicks being awarded just outside the SIX yard box!!!i

All in all a million miles form today's approach....forward....sideways...back...sideways. ....etc etc...far more entertaining.

Yes watched the WHU v Everton game loved that big clock , haircuts , muddy patch penalty areas.

Such a different time .

Sir Trevor Brooking looked a class act on such an awful playing surface .

[Fatty Foggon]

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And Hugh John's I think.

Haha, yes, I forgot Hugh Johns. I remember watching Bristol Rovers v Swindon because our aerial was tuned to the Mendip's mast.