Post by Jon on Jan 22, 2018 0:38:33 GMT
Before xmas, BT Sport ran a great little series called the Football Archives.
Half hour programmes featured goals from the BBC and ITV archives for a season from the 70s alongside music from the year in question.
I've only just got round to watching the one for 1970/71.
George Best, Billy Bremner, Johnny Giles, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Free. Marvelous, isn't it?
But there was a clip I wasn't expecting that almost had me wetting myself with excitement.
I'd just watched Steve Perryman weave through the Burnley defence to "Alright Now", when the camera panned to a goalie about to take a goal kick.
A few gold and blue scarves and bobble hats. An advertising board for Torco Limited. Then as the camera pans out, five of those little blue "invacars" and a gold and blue caravan next to a very familiar looking toilet block.
It's the Babbacombe end!
Writing on screen confirms:
Tommy Mitchinson
TORQUAY 3 Fulham 1
Third Division
31st October 1970
Later adding:
THE UPSETTERS
Return of Django
The goal kick drops to Chris Barnard who turns, accelerates, plays a quick 1-2 (with John Rudge?) and lays the ball into Micky Cave who deftly lays it into the path of the onrushing Tommy Mitchinson who thumps a 30-yard left foot screamer into the the top corner of the net to the keeper's left.
Barry Davies bulds from a whisper to a scream "This is Cave.. Mitchinson... GOOD EFFORT" over the top of the Upsetters' soundtrack.
Alan Welsh, Mal Lucas and Dick Edwards pile in to congratulate Tommy.
Then we get the goal again in slow motion.
Next up future Gull Eddie Kelly and later on the lad Best scores a couple of crackers - but he wasn't Tommy Mitchinson, was he?
I suppose that the whole of our second outing on Match of the Day must exist at the BBC. If anyone ever finds a copy, please let me know.
Half hour programmes featured goals from the BBC and ITV archives for a season from the 70s alongside music from the year in question.
I've only just got round to watching the one for 1970/71.
George Best, Billy Bremner, Johnny Giles, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Free. Marvelous, isn't it?
But there was a clip I wasn't expecting that almost had me wetting myself with excitement.
I'd just watched Steve Perryman weave through the Burnley defence to "Alright Now", when the camera panned to a goalie about to take a goal kick.
A few gold and blue scarves and bobble hats. An advertising board for Torco Limited. Then as the camera pans out, five of those little blue "invacars" and a gold and blue caravan next to a very familiar looking toilet block.
It's the Babbacombe end!
Writing on screen confirms:
Tommy Mitchinson
TORQUAY 3 Fulham 1
Third Division
31st October 1970
Later adding:
THE UPSETTERS
Return of Django
The goal kick drops to Chris Barnard who turns, accelerates, plays a quick 1-2 (with John Rudge?) and lays the ball into Micky Cave who deftly lays it into the path of the onrushing Tommy Mitchinson who thumps a 30-yard left foot screamer into the the top corner of the net to the keeper's left.
Barry Davies bulds from a whisper to a scream "This is Cave.. Mitchinson... GOOD EFFORT" over the top of the Upsetters' soundtrack.
Alan Welsh, Mal Lucas and Dick Edwards pile in to congratulate Tommy.
Then we get the goal again in slow motion.
Next up future Gull Eddie Kelly and later on the lad Best scores a couple of crackers - but he wasn't Tommy Mitchinson, was he?
I suppose that the whole of our second outing on Match of the Day must exist at the BBC. If anyone ever finds a copy, please let me know.
