TV Highlights Blues v Watford - November 1977

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

John Bond for Norwich.

 

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Loved the Crazy Corner bit in the programme with Sparta Rotterdam and Twente Enschede playing and Brian Moore making a huge thing about the Twente keeper Duisburg coming out of his area to win a tackle, taking a free kick on the halfway line and then, in the last minute or 2, coming up for a corner and hitting the post with a header.

"I'll guarantee that's something you'll have never seen and may well never see again" he said.

How times change!

 

[londonblue]

Paul Clark for Brighton,
Peter Taylor for Spurs in the first game

And Keith Mercer playing for Watford.

 

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And it was great to see a game from that era... good crowd, you forget just how big the South bank was! And some great Blues connections in the programme as stated. I forgot Dennis Booth but got the others.

I wouldn't have been at that game as I was playing somewhere at that time and I don't remember seeing the Sunday programme. No chance of catch up or recording it back then (although my Dad did have an old Philips original video recorder that was pre-VHS that he bought in 1975 for the Fulham v West Ham FA Cup final. I remember the tapes lasted 45 mins and cost £5 each! That was a lot of money back then.)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

And it was great to see a game from that era... good crowd, you forget just how big the South bank was! And some great Blues connections in the programme as stated. I forgot Dennis Booth but got the others.

I wouldn't have been at that game as I was playing somewhere at that time and I don't remember seeing the Sunday programme. No chance of catch up or recording it back then (although my Dad did have an old Philips original video recorder that was pre-VHS that he bought in 1975 for the Fulham v West Ham FA Cup final. I remember the tapes lasted 45 mins and cost £5 each! That was a lot of money back then.)

Ha! I went to that game.

 

[londonblue]

Ha! I went to that game.

I'm sure I would have been ther too. I was a bit young to remember it though.

 

[Swiss Tony]

Ha! I went to that game.

A secret Spammer.

 

[fbm]

A secret Spammer.

Or Fulham supporter?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Or Fulham supporter?

Yes, he's mentioned many times his main team is Fulham. Also supports Southend of course.

 

[rigsby]

The problem with ITV and Southend was they could never decided with region we come under. Also you may recall it depended where your house was your TV tuned into different regions.

Our house was Thames, not much covered by them. My grandparents two streets away were Anglia so some SUFC coverage. My cousins were Southern and they also covered SUFC. I had to pop round and visit family depending on who covered the match and suggest the Sunday football with of course no idea that Southend were actually going to be featured

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

The problem with ITV and Southend was they could never decided with region we come under. Also you may recall it depended where your house was your TV tuned into different regions.

Our house was Thames, not much covered by them. My grandparents two streets away were Anglia so some SUFC coverage. My cousins were Southern and they also covered SUFC. I had to pop round and visit family depending on who covered the match and suggest the Sunday football with of course no idea that Southend were actually going to be featured

Yeah, it was so annoying when they announced that the Southend high lights were on Anglia TV. My whole area was Thames TV. So had no chance.

 

[fbm]

The problem with ITV and Southend was they could never decided with region we come under. Also you may recall it depended where your house was your TV tuned into different regions.

Our house was Thames, not much covered by them. My grandparents two streets away were Anglia so some SUFC coverage. My cousins were Southern and they also covered SUFC. I had to pop round and visit family depending on who covered the match and suggest the Sunday football with of course no idea that Southend were actually going to be featured

Didn't Anglia also cover Northampton as well? I found that quite odd.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

14 SUEPA members in that match, all of our 12 plus Merce and Dennis.

Have been in touch with a few of them to let thrm know it was on ITV4. Gerry was chuffed with his overhead kick!

Great days, and good that via two SUEPA events we've reunited all 12 (plus Merce).

 

[Leeboy]

Didn't Anglia also cover Northampton as well? I found that quite odd.

BBC Look East cover Northampton now. They’ve totally ignored us since we dropped into the NL. I have contacted them several times to complain about lack of coverage- funny how they were all over us when we were having financial troubles/ demonstrations when we were a football league team. A holes.
Yours, outraged in Rochford

 

[Leeboy]

Yeah, it was so annoying when they announced that the Southend high lights were on Anglia TV. My whole area was Thames TV. So had no chance.

as a kid in Shoebury it was Meridian default with a very fuzzy London / Thames if you jiggled the aerial
one for the kids there!

 

[LCBB72]

Elton John is a homosexual

I dont think that Elton had come 'Out' yet .

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

A secret Spammer.

No a disappointed Fulham fan.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Yes, he's mentioned many times his main team is Fulham. Also supports Southend of course.

No my main team is SUFC but I've also supported Fulham for years.

 

[annie1954]

How about two like Luther blisset & Ross Jenkins up front for us in the national league we’d have no problem with scoring goals

 

[Zeuss]

Didn't Anglia also cover Northampton as well? I found that quite odd.

Anglia’s Sunday afternoon coverage went right up as far as Hull.
When talking football with Frankie Banks,he was amazed at how well I remembered the exciting team of that era,with Chilton,Wagstaff,Butler etc.