Leicester 2 Villa 4 - Championship winning season

[Flamingo Lane]

The grid of other youtube stuff that comes up after the Leicester v Villa game includes or leads onto loads of other interesting stuff from the mid-70s, taken from The Big Match (London's equivalent of Star Soccer, so the footage of the Midlands' game is normally about 4/5 minutes).  Amongst those to be found are Villa v Portsmouth from 1974, played a couple of days after the Birmingham pub bombings (strangely not mentioned by Brian Moore in his introduction); Forest v Villa from 1973, featuring a slightly peculiar goal from Charlie Aitken; and Villa v Birmingham from 1975, with a couple of classic over the top tackles from John Robson and Kenny Burns, and a winning goal from Brian Little.

[Damo70]

I love the old Big Match Revisited stuff. Brian Moore reading out letters and including the full house number and address of people. Days when due to weather they could only show one match and have to fill airtime by showing the '66 World Cup final or the '76 European Championship final.

[Matt Collins]

I remember back in those days we used to complain about players not being able to use both feet but in that vid Bremner scored with his left , Morely scored with his right and Mortimer took a corner with his left. There were probably other examples I missed.

There really should be no excuse for players not being able to use either foot when needed.

Morley was right footed wasn't he, but ok on his left? Cowans was truly two footed

Whenever is see highlights of ken mcnaught he looks clumsier than Nathan baker. That second Leicester goal was as bad as anything I've seen in the last few years too.

I'm sure the game was faster than it looked ten years down the line when I started watching though.

It's really hard to compare eras. Whenever I see football from before the 90s it just looks so much poorer. But they had shit pitches, less responsive balls and we're much less fit. You'd still have to think that messi or Ronaldo would get about 100 goals a season (or in reality have both legs broken and retire at 23)