Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6229 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-08-09
• Rating: Exempt
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 250 minutes

Synopsis
Throughout the years the length of footballers' hair and shorts may go up and down but the skills on the pitch are perennially impressive. The BBC's Match of the Day has been the showcase for English football for decades. Here are highlights from the 1960s, 70s and 80s featuring the likes of Best, Moore, Keegan, Law, Dalglish and Hunter under the watchful gaze of managers such as Clough and Shankly. Three decades of the beautiful game at its best.

Customer Reviews

Not quite what I was expecting
If you want to see football played when men were men and British footballers truly dominated the world then this is an ideal place to start. If like me however, you were after the definitive history of the televised era of English football then look elsewhere. Not a patch on the superb Match of the 70's/80's/90's television series that I was expecting. Very little in the way of interviews from the people who were there, or, indeed very little insight into the events of the periods covered. What I consider big happenings, eg. Clough's disasterous period at Leeds, Alex Ferguson joining United or Arsenal winning the championship with almost the last kick of the season, all ignored. Norwich City beating Sunderland in a league cup final however, made it in. As I said, not what I had in mind and the wasted opportunity that this represents is reflected with the three stars I gave it. Some great stuff but missing too much. All I can hope for is that the BBC bring out the aforementioned Match of the 70's/80's/90's series, now that didn't dissapoint!

Classic football action!
You can't argue with the football action on show here, in a wonderful must see 3 DVD set for all fans of the beautiful game. An array of football stars grace three decades of English football where unlike today the nearest foreigners were Scottish, Welsh and Irish! From Charlton & Best in the 60's, Dalglish & Keegan in the 70's and Lineker & Rush in the 80's younger footie fans will get to see the players their dads say 'you can't beat!'

A minor criticism is the lack of any extras and from a personal point of view i must admit to preferring the 'Match of the 70's/80's series' releases in the mid 90's which combined the action with a musical soundtrack of the time.

Best, Dalglish, Hoddle ... what more d'ya want?
Any selection like this is of course a selection - and like the previous reviewer I could have done with some more Clough, especially the Forest team that came from the lower reaches of the old second division and won two European Cups.

But there’s plenty of great action – some epic Tottenham vs Man U ties from the late 60s (one season they each won the home fixture 5-1), Ronnie Radford’s piledriver on the Hereford mudbath (“Billy Meadows, the Hereford centre forward cost 200 pounds and Malcolm MacDonald the Newcastle centre forward cost 180,000 pounds,” says Motty as the teams warm up), Aston Villa against Bournmouth with 60,000 spectators in the third division, and Frank Worthington and Glen Hoddle and Kenny Dalglish and fans wearing crombies, and a very competitive Everton side or two that Howard Kendall put together.

You might find too much Liverpool in the 80s series, with Rush scoring goal after goal, but that’s the way it was. Some of the Dalglish through-balls should have been stuck on the wall and hung in an art gallery.

I’ve watched in loads of times and am still not sick of it.