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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 2, 2020 20:03:36 GMT
Oh really? :( how sad. I don't pretend to know a crazy amount about football. My husband lives and breathes it and my entire immediate family are Spurs fans of varying degrees. I understand the offside rule (wahey ) but I don't really get excited by football, although if I have to watch sport it's first choice if it doesn't happen to be during the Olympic Games (sore subject, perhaps, there!). But I do think it's funny, seeing various aspects over the years. The ages (or at least how old they looked!) of footballers in the 60s/70s compared to the kids on the pitch now. The quality of the pitches (the fact that the top clubs have under pitch heating still makes me smile) and the trends in kits (I swear I don't spend a lot of time looking at footballers, at this point - I don't think I've ever fancied a footballer!) but the kits in the 60s/70s withe crazily short shorts compared to the huge, rugby style shirts and shorts in the 90s (I think) and now they're all essentially wearing lycra. I wonder what the '66 winners make of it all, for instance; it's a very different world for the sport.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 2, 2020 20:17:49 GMT
The footballers of the 70 for instance were not like the millionaires of today. Loads of them looked far older than their years and would like like a booze up in between games These days it all sports science. The kits in this country started to be influenced by professional design companies in the 70s. By the mid 80s it was a huge industry worth multi millions. A small british firm called Admiral were at the forefront of the new designs. I really liked the documentary about them called Get Shirty, it might be on the ITV player or most likely turn up on one of the BT sports channels if you have them.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 2, 2020 23:02:28 GMT
It's odd that they read viewer's addresses out in full like that, they did it on other shows too, though written addresses on letters to Jim'll Fix It, That's Life, Points Of View, etc. would be partly covered up I remember.
I liked Panini stickers but I was never really into football or sport in general. My older brothers were, one of them supported Aston Villa & I used to copy him, I had a nice Aston Villa Le Coq Sportif top. Umbro had a rubbish logo, looked like a basket, whereas Le Coq Sportif, well it's a different class innit?
The Brazil team stickers always looked the best to me with their bronzed faces & yellow shirts, they had the best player names, hard to beat Zico as a name.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 2, 2020 23:44:34 GMT
If its this one or the following year then they go for a tidy sum. These go for about £150 to £200.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 3, 2020 7:25:00 GMT
I love the 70s sets for The Big Match. Brian Moore is looking a bit Haskins there Seen in the clip below from 1979 the set had a blue look complete with BT phone and a mic poking out the desk no less Another quaint tradition on The Big Match was reading out of viewers letters including reading out their full address. They wasn't far off the sets used for Regional News. Cheap & Cheerful. Though, it's much better looking than the Brown/Beige/Cork that ATV used a lot in the 70s.
Back then - a TV station was more or less a 24/7 operation, so once a live show was broadcast, the set would be dismantled and another show put in.
The Big Match possibly shared a studio with "World of Sport" and "Weekend World".
So stuff had to be quick and easy to change.
For instance, ATV, in the midlands had 3 studios in Birmingham: The large studio with audience seating was used on a Sunday for 'Golden Shot', and then "Crossroads" the rest of the week. The medium studio shared Crossroads and a couple of sitcoms. The small studio Mon-Fri had the local news, Saturday - Tiswas, and Sunday "ATV Star Soccer".
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 3, 2020 9:06:03 GMT
I love the 70s sets for The Big Match. Brian Moore is looking a bit Haskins there Seen in the clip below from 1979 the set had a blue look complete with BT phone and a mic poking out the desk no less Another quaint tradition on The Big Match was reading out of viewers letters including reading out their full address. They wasn't far off the sets used for Regional News. Cheap & Cheerful. Though, it's much better looking than the Brown/Beige/Cork that ATV used a lot in the 70s.
Back then - a TV station was more or less a 24/7 operation, so once a live show was broadcast, the set would be dismantled and another show put in.
The Big Match possibly shared a studio with "World of Sport" and "Weekend World".
So stuff had to be quick and easy to change.
For instance, ATV, in the midlands had 3 studios in Birmingham: The large studio with audience seating was used on a Sunday for 'Golden Shot', and then "Crossroads" the rest of the week. The medium studio shared Crossroads and a couple of sitcoms. The small studio Mon-Fri had the local news, Saturday - Tiswas, and Sunday "ATV Star Soccer". I quite like cheap and cheerful. It's a better use of resources, everything tends to be overdone these days and probably costs a whole lot more.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 3, 2020 9:14:23 GMT
They wasn't far off the sets used for Regional News. Cheap & Cheerful. Though, it's much better looking than the Brown/Beige/Cork that ATV used a lot in the 70s.
Back then - a TV station was more or less a 24/7 operation, so once a live show was broadcast, the set would be dismantled and another show put in.
The Big Match possibly shared a studio with "World of Sport" and "Weekend World".
So stuff had to be quick and easy to change.
For instance, ATV, in the midlands had 3 studios in Birmingham: The large studio with audience seating was used on a Sunday for 'Golden Shot', and then "Crossroads" the rest of the week. The medium studio shared Crossroads and a couple of sitcoms. The small studio Mon-Fri had the local news, Saturday - Tiswas, and Sunday "ATV Star Soccer". I quite like cheap and cheerful. It's a better use of resources, everything tends to be overdone these days and probably costs a whole lot more. Yeah that is the case. The excuse was "it's because of HD TV" (when that came in).
Though I loved the cheap & cheerful - at the end of the day, it was the content of the programme that you were interested in, not the bloody lightshow, or how good the presenters hair looked - and who did it. That's something that's come from the US.
Even footballers are the ruddy same - it's all about product endorsements & sponsorship - on top of their extortionate weekly wage.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Apr 3, 2020 21:11:15 GMT
If its this one or the following year then they go for a tidy sum. These go for about £150 to £200. I had the away shirt which is white. There's one ebay seller asking £250 for one. I haven't kept it, though it was tight on me as a 14 year old so wouldn't be big enough for an adult to wear.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 4, 2020 0:29:54 GMT
I know the one Arthur. Nice shirt. A lot of those so called originals for sale at that price are fake anyway. Twenty years ago shirts from this era were like hens teeth. Compare that to now and there seems to be loads about.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 11, 2020 19:18:11 GMT
My daughter is watching Britain's Got Talent (really, not me).
They had a small kids act.
I suddenly remembered that teeny tots pop act on BBC I think about 30 years ago.
That was horrendous, small kids about as highly sexualised as you could get.
I don't think they even dare show a clip of it anymore.
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