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Big Match revisited
« on: Thu 23 Sep 2021 22:23 »
Not sure how many of you have been watching this series but it’s fantastic. From a personal point of view and being something of a refereeing dinosaur it’s great to see assistants running left wings. Also good to see some old refereeing faces from the 1970s. Fascinating to see challenges that do not even result in a word from the referee but would probably be a red card these days. Pure nostalgia.

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Re: Big Match revisited
« Reply #1 on: Sun 26 Sep 2021 20:04 »
Not sure how many of you have been watching this series but it’s fantastic. From a personal point of view and being something of a refereeing dinosaur it’s great to see assistants running left wings. Also good to see some old refereeing faces from the 1970s. Fascinating to see challenges that do not even result in a word from the referee but would probably be a red card these days. Pure nostalgia.


How are you watching this please ? The ITV Hub - https://www.itv.com/hub/the-big-match-revisited/1a6464 - seems to have Series 4 (22 episodes), Series 5 (15 episodes) and the first five episodes of series 6 available as at today (Sunday).

Don't times change ? Series 4 episode 1 is from the 1974/75 season and includes Leyton Orient versus Manchester United. I think that might well have been in the "old" Division Two, as Manchester United did get relegated for one season in the mid-1970s. In the intervening period, Leyton Orient have had a spell in non-league football, whilst most are familiar with Manchester United's achievements.   


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Re: Big Match revisited
« Reply #2 on: Sun 26 Sep 2021 20:21 »
ITV4 (sky 120) is showing 1979/80  Mon - Fri  at 17.55 to 19.00 & on Saturday mornings at 10.30  to 11.30 1980/81.

These are subject to change if they are showing live darts or cycling etc
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« Reply #3 on: Thu 30 Sep 2021 11:21 »
I was watching the tributes the other day to the late great Roger Hunt. There were two sequences involving referees, Liverpool v Arsenal in August 1964 when Roger scored the first ever goal on MOTD. The ref was Kevin Howley. And then the following May, Roger scored Liverpool's first goal in the FA Cup Final, ref Bill Clements. What was noticeable was how exaggerated the goal signals were, with Bill taking off for the centre circle, arms flaying in the air as if he were celebrating. Compare that with the perfunctory flick of the finger employed now by Kevin Friend to indicate a goal!
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« Reply #4 on: Fri 01 Oct 2021 16:46 »
I was watching the tributes the other day to the late great Roger Hunt. There were two sequences involving referees, Liverpool v Arsenal in August 1964 when Roger scored the first ever goal on MOTD. The ref was Kevin Howley. And then the following May, Roger scored Liverpool's first goal in the FA Cup Final, ref Bill Clements. What was noticeable was how exaggerated the goal signals were, with Bill taking off for the centre circle, arms flaying in the air as if he were celebrating. Compare that with the perfunctory flick of the finger employed now by Kevin Friend to indicate a goal!

Good point AT. When I was very junior and doing quite an exciting match that was decided by a late goal I did the full "Clements" goal signal plus a load blast on the whistle. The County FA refs secretary, a nice man, was watching and afterwards said, quietly, "I thought you had a good game overall but I don't think the entire neighbourhood really needed to know about that last goal, did it?"