1980/81 - The Big Match (Chelsea v QPR, Walsall v Brentford & Ipswich v Everton - 30.8.80)

Full 'The Big Match' programme with Jim Rosenthal
Chelsea v QPR - Commentary by Brian Moore
Walsall v Brentford - Commentary by Hugh Johns
Ipswich v Everton - Commentary by Gerry Harrison

[@jimcrump8061]

Fantastic memories of my first football ground I ever went to,the old Fellows Park,Walsall with my dear old late dad and best friend. Very happy exciting childhood days.Miss you dad ❤❤❤

[@DD-ev2dt]

Happy days early 80s watching TBM on Sunday afternoons with one of the best signature tunes those were the days 😎👍...

[@amos686]

The Ipswich v Everton game was featured on the front of a maths book we used at primary school lol (Peak Mathematics 5)

[@vordman]

Some great Hugh Johns commentry in that Walsall V Brentford game. They've lost that ball in the old laundry. You don't get commentry like that in the effing Premier League!

[@alanprior7650]

What a fantastic own goal by Brentford 😂

[@Ruda-n4h]

'Lungs' was a Blue and didn't want to leave Chelsea but the club needed the money. Geoff Hurst accidently betrayed that there were problems behind the scenes, which of course came to pass in the farcical second half of the season.

[@KevinSmith-lz6jm]

Here because of Mike L. Great choice, Snake :-)

[@lennylaa1686]

Those huge partition fences at Ipswich were mad!
How could you see through them? Bonkers!

[@classicfootballmatches6167]

Alot of the grounds were like that. Mental really.

[@jontalbot1]

They were there to separate home and away supporters. It’s hard for young people to know how bad the violence was. I was in that stand before those fences when 14 people were stabbed. At another game my friend ended up in hospital after being hit by a coke bottle. I have mixed feelings about that era. We had great players and a great team but going to a football match is such a joy now by comparison.

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

Qphaha actually had a few hundred there 🤣

[@muttley523]

QPR had a great team then

[@richardwallace4672]

Classic Brentford away top😊

[@abdosalam1536]

Ok

[@ralphrex9118]

A blatant bit of time wasting has now become professionally seeing the game out.

[@paulkington8380]

Currie playing as a sweeper, quite unusual for those days.

[@stanandollie7041]

Poor Tommy, daft asa brush