The big match revisited - Class

Erimus74

Erimus74

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1974 the best year ever

In the days when other leagues mattered, not just the greed is good PL

Arthur Horseield No5 for Charlton Athletic

No's 1-11, no names on the back, class kits, no cheating, rolling about

We drew 1-1 away at Stoke City with Graeme Souness scoring a scorcher, shown on MOTD, minutes after Stoke went in the lead with a penalty

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I was at the game with my dear Dad. Good old Willie. The greatest uncapped player of all time IMHO. An absolute crime that him and Craggsy were never capped.
 
When me & my younger brother started going to games we'd go in the boys end & our dad in the bob end stood against the wall seperating the boysend/ bob end, the final game of the season Sheff Weds at home, my dad took me in the holgate for the 1st time
The following season (1974-75) the 3 of us would walk to AP together & all go in to the holgate, me & my brother with our mates, our dad with his work mates
 
18th August 1974 with Brian Clough interview, this should be good, his Leeds team got stuffed at Stoke
 
Just watched Boro 3 Spurs 0 from March 1975. Forgotten how good that side was and how much I enjoyed watching us.
Also, the main match was Charlton v Southend from Div 3. Imagine that now on MOTD!
Oh, and we were last on too 😀
 
Red_is_best said:
Just watched Boro 3 Spurs 0 from March 1975. Forgotten how good that side was and how much I enjoyed watching us.
Also, the main match was Charlton v Southend from Div 3. Imagine that now on MOTD!
Oh, and we were last on too 😀
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Yea watched that too

Loved those days, small dugouts, manager, trainer (magic sponge man) & sub,, sometimes the manager having a fag, class
 
I watched Big Match revisited the other day and I'd forgotten how teams then seemed only intent on going forward. Hardly any back or sideways passes even though the keeper could pick back passes. up.
 
I thought it was simply rose-tinted glasses that made me think that there used to be more attacks.
Good to see some good hurly-burly old fashioned footie.
Even when I started going to Ayresome in the bleak early eighties I felt that we would always 'throw the kitchen sink' at it if we were losing or drawing.
It felt like there was kind of a 'gentleman's agreement' to go for it.

At roughly the same time as this it felt like football on the continent was much different.
The England team would fly at teams (it was generally suggested that English football was 'faster).
But time and time again the England team would get done on the break.

My view is that the game has got more 'serious' - larger amounts of money at stake contributes to that.
Now many teams seem to take a cautious approach and simply wait for the other team to make a mistake.
Midfields are packed, strikers are left isolated and phrases such as 'pragmatic' and 'work off the ball' seem to be bandied about.

But this can make for a terrible spectacle. Wonder if there were many games back in the day when a team would register zero shots on target???
 
Badonde said:
I thought it was simply rose-tinted glasses that made me think that there used to be more attacks.
Good to see some good hurly-burly old fashioned footie.
Even when I started going to Ayresome in the bleak early eighties I felt that we would always 'throw the kitchen sink' at it if we were losing or drawing.
It felt like there was kind of a 'gentleman's agreement' to go for it.

At roughly the same time as this it felt like football on the continent was much different.
The England team would fly at teams (it was generally suggested that English football was 'faster).
But time and time again the England team would get done on the break.

My view is that the game has got more 'serious' - larger amounts of money at stake contributes to that.
Now many teams seem to take a cautious approach and simply wait for the other team to make a mistake.
Midfields are packed, strikers are left isolated and phrases such as 'pragmatic' and 'work off the ball' seem to be bandied about.

But this can make for a terrible spectacle. Wonder if there were many games back in the day when a team would register zero shots on target???
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1992, Man City 0 Boro 1, OG
IIRC, no shots on target
 
Erimus74 said:
Yea watched that too

Loved those days, small dugouts, manager, trainer (magic sponge man) & sub,, sometimes the manager having a fag, class
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And the pitches, @Erimus74 ! Baseball Ground was always known to be bad but, bloody hell, seeing that Derby v Stoke game, what a quagmire, don’t know how anyone played on it!
 
Red_is_best said:
And the pitches, @Erimus74 ! Baseball Ground was always known to be bad but, bloody hell, seeing that Derby v Stoke game, what a quagmire, don’t know how anyone played on it!
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Went to the Baseball ground in 68-69 season. when George Kinnell was playing........ useless burger. Me and me dad found ourselves in the wrong end.
So we asked a steward if he would take us round to the Boro end, which he did. But to my amazement he led us straight across the pitch!
I must have been about 6 inches taller when I got to the other side of the pitch. Simpler days!
 
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