Full 'Star Soccer' programme introduced by Gary Newbon Nottingham Forest v Derby - Commentary by Hugh Johns Chelsea v Coventry - Commentary by Brian Moore
Thank you for bringing back great memories when players usually got up after hard tackles and got on with the game and weren't in referees faces when decision went against them.
Yeah the great Brian Clough and Peter Taylor made Derby into the best team on England and Europe. And done more at Forest cus had more time there ,some Chairmen are no good for the club they Chair Sam Longston was a cunt otherwise Clough and Taylor would of stayed. We all have great memories
@Classic Football Matches please keep them coming. I live in America now and I watch these old matches every weekend! You do a wonderful public service!!!
Now that is indeed a very rare sighting. It's not every day that anyone comes across an edition of Star Soccer, I very much doubt that ITV4 has shown any so far. This is a crying shame, as Midlands soccer was very much on the up during the 70's. The epic ATV ident, the horns section of the gods blaring out that theme tune, the majestic tones of the late great Hugh Johns, all marshalled effectively by an ex-schoolmate of the equally late and great John Motson. As good as it was seeing Forest at the start of what would be a league winning season, the Coventry true blue in me was especially pleased to see the second game as the Sky... er, Reds defeated Chelsea at their back yard. Please tell me there are more of these floating around somewhere...
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This was essential viewing for me and my mates after Sunday lunch. Then we'd all clear off down the pitch just down from my house for a game of our own, encouraged by what we'd just watched! I remember watching a Derby match on Star Soccer around this time during the winter too, and the pitch was like the Somme!
Cloughie refused to give Peter a £50 pay rise, bonkers! He was a great player for us, glad he went on to do really well. At least his eventual replacement at Forest, Garry Birtles, was a success.
I think he even got half a dozen England caps when at Villa although Trevor Francis was the undisputed first choice England centre forward. Withe had far more success as a player than he did as a manager.
Classic Football, Thanks very much for this edition of Star Soccer as Derby, despite good work by Archie Gemmill and Colin Todd, are undone by a rising Forest side for whom John Robertson excelled. Thanks very much for this brilliant new channel-came across it by chance and was very pleased to subscribe. Really excellent content-thanks for sharing your wonderful football collection with us. Please keep it coming if you can and every best wish for future success.
Keep these rare uploads coming I enjoy watching these classic programmes is there any chance you could upload some Scotsport or Sportsreel from the 60s 70s please m8
Funny how on Derby County's shirts those cuffs were so wide (I don't remember other teams who wore Umbro having such big cuffs) and it was unique back then on Forest's kit to have no cuffs! That was more of an 80s thing. I remember when I was a kid thinking how modern Nottingham Forest looked.
Forest at their best. Remember we only just scraped in the year before (3rd) it was a memorable match at the end of the season. Then we went on an amazing run at the start of the season and remember crushing MAN U at Old Trafford 4-0. I went to this game, I was a season ticket holder. I was 12 at the time, any Trent Enders, I sat in the girders at the back with my bro. Fantastic times. FYI- met John O'Hare's brother in Canada in the early 90's, I did shout out, he's here, he's there, he's every fkin where, John O'Hare, John O'Hare... dead funny at the time.
Must've been a unique event for Cloughie watching two sides he essentially built face off, great kits, although Coventry seem to have decided to be Wales for the day hehe
Many of the players Clough signed for Derby (including Frank McGovern) had been replaced or retired by this time (Dave MacKay, Alan Hinton, Francis Lee). Several had survived (Todd, McFarland, Nish, Gemmill, Hector [signed by Tim Ward in 1966]) but the newer players struggled to compete as a team after MacKay resigned in 1976.
Cloughy proved that as long as you had eleven players on the pitch, working as a team, and not full of superstars, you had a decent chance of winning something.
This takes me back to Sunday afternoon at my aunts in Tipton (the lost city estate), dad and aunty smoking players cigs and my uncle smoking his pipe, how I haven’t got passive lung cancer I will never know
Would have been 1969-70 to 1971-72, and for the games at the City Ground for the last two of those seaons, Star Soccer showed the games. There is the unofficial ITV football website that showed what games all regions were showing each week that I found that out via the ATV pages.
A young John Robertson scores the winner. I wonder if you had told him back then that he’d score the winner in a European cup final what his reaction would of been.
I'm a bit confused by this as I thought 'The Big Match' was the ITV football highlights show and had assumed it was shown all across that network. I have never heard of 'Star Soccer'. Was it a Midlands only show?
For all the talent Derby had, this was a poor showing. I saw three Villa games there at that time and we were pretty much played off the park....and that was with Ron Saunders in charge!
