The big match revisited

[Luna17]

We were on today from 1980 beating Leeds 4 - 1

Didn't Pop get 2 that day ? Parlane for Leeds ?

Roger tames?

Cant say, but the guy that told me about this worked there at the time and was gutted to be told that news.
Unfookingbelieveable.

 

[Big Jeff]

Roker park looked bloody great anarl.

It got a bit dusty in our front room and I got some dust in my eyes at one point.

 

[hank williams]

Roker park looked bloody great anarl.

It got a bit dusty in our front room and I got some dust in my eyes at one point.

Grounds were so easily recognisable then every ground had something you could instantly say

thats Roker that’s villa park that’s anfeild I’d probably be able to only recognise bout 3 Premiership grounds

 

[Shandy drinker]

Can't remember the last time we played Fleetwood....oh that's right we never have

Can’t remember Sunderland playing Stevenage

 

[White city Boy]

It had QPR on a few weeks ago and there was a big terrace behind one goal.
Must of been a 1976 match. Yet when i went there was like a 1960s double decker type there. When did they build that ?
And why didnt they build a fancy one like Norwich did , and Villa iirc.

And that funny mini stand at Stamford Bridge, just on its own to the left of the away end.

I did go to Charlton when they had that massive bank on the side. It was probably a third higher than the Roker End, maybe more.

Beautiful grounds then. Not aesthetically , but in the level of intricacy and you could see how different stands were from different decades.

Jim Gregory re designed the ground around 1980 and made it pretty much like You see it today , nothing has changed it
The double decker stand would be the South Africa road stand that was constructed around 1967

 

[TX45]

Corrigan wasn't in Jennings' class. He became a decent keeper but was very prone to errors earlier in his career.
And he was one of the keepers (such as Bonetti and West) who won England caps as cover to Gordon Banks when Montgomery was shamefully overlooked. in my opinion, Monty was only bettered by Banks.

Agree Monty should have been capped but Joe Corrigan never covered Banks he didn't get his first cap till 1976 4 years after Banks last played for England.

 

[Deleted member 49961]

I watch it all the time, love it but as for always London club it’s never us

Pity our game at CBL first day of the season in 74 wasn't on...

They had Man Utd at Orient on instead... nowt like as interesting...

 

[C.ra.ig]

The 4-1 win v Leeds was a cracking watch. On same show, Forest conceded the only goal when linesman flagged for all crossing the line but it certainly didn’t.

Found a page which has all the Shoot games up until 1983 - fascinating.

http://tvset.byethost12.com/utm/itv/Shoot.html?i=1

 

[Monkey Boots]

Cardiff v Sunderland from 1980 on today at 5.55pm.

It was a fantastic day out; even if we didn’t clinch promotion until the West Ham game later.