On ITV4 now (1 Viewer)

[Deleted member 2477]

Just started on ITV4 the big match showing Liverpool v Ipswich and the Sky Blues V Man City in 1983 at Highfield Road.
Commentator states we are challenging for a European place.

showsp how much we have fallen

 

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[torchomatic]

They've shown that before. Ranson is playing for Man City.

 

[Macca]

God take me back there now. When football was a true working mans game. They look like Sunday league players but play better than the crap we see today. And you can pass back to the keeper...... Brilliant !

 

[Regis87]

Battering Man City !
How times change

 

[Sub]

good to see the pitch looking like they should do a mud bath !!!!!:claping hands::claping hands::claping hands::claping hands:

 

[Joe King]

Missed it!!! Ah well, thank goodness for ITV4+ See you in an hour guys!!

 

[torchomatic]

It's odd to think that football was like that back then. Seems like a lifetime ago. Everything is much more sophisticated now. And poorer for it. I miss HR.

 

[Macca]

It's odd to think that football was like that back then. Seems like a lifetime ago. Everything is much more sophisticated now. And poorer for it. I miss HR.

Nail on the head torch. It was the lack of sophistication that made it so attractive. And although the players still earned decent money it wasn't so much as to completely alienate them from us

 

[torchomatic]

An Eric Black hat-trick for Aberdeen too.

 

[Macca]

Best manager in the world, ever

 

[wingy]

Best manager in the world, ever

just on Halftime now on ITV4+1FRAnCIS HUNT ,brilliant midfielders ,who's that on the right wing Jacobs ??pretty quick l,HATELY GREAT PLAYER ,Robbedfrom us By Portsmouth @Tribunal for £250k. .Sexton mananging was'nt it??
RIGHT WING "WHITTON"

 

[wingy]

Just look at the numbers we got into the Box when on the Attack4-5 on a lot of occassions.

 

[torchomatic]

You mistakenly only put one "ever".

Best manager in the world, ever

 

[Macca]

just on Halftime now on ITV4+1FRAnCIS HUNT ,brilliant midfielders ,who's that on the right wing Jacobs ??pretty quick l,HATELY GREAT PLAYER ,Robbedfrom us By Portsmouth @Tribunal for £250k. .Sexton mananging was'nt it??
RIGHT WING "WHITTON"

Portsmouth did us over there selling him on to ac Milan. Gerry Francis, great player considering he looked like he should be playing for a pub side! Passing and movement, it's like an acid trip!

 

[torchomatic]

I'd forgotten about "Big" Jim Melrose too. He looked better than I remembered.

 

[Macca]

Torch even then we d go home slagging them off ! In hindsight..........

Watching this makes me realise how today's match day experience doesnt even come close.

Different times and stage of life I guess

 

[torchomatic]

I know what you mean Macca. I still really look forward to match days, but things did seem more exciting in those days. I suppose it is a youth thing. I was 17 when that match was played and it was a whole day thing. Getting the bus to Leam, getting the train to Cov, etc.