ITV4 are showing a series of editions of 'The Big Match' from the 70's and 80's.

Only thing is its sometime at midday every Thursday ITV4.

Set your video recorder,Sky Plus.......... whatever!

Actually its on now!

Proper football from before all this all seater Premiership nonsense. AND you can gaze in awe at Brian Moore's enormous egg shaped shiny head.

This week its Fifth Round Day!!!!!!!!!

Villa vs Watford,Everton vs Sp*rs and Boro vs Arsen*l from 1983.

Gutted I din't know about that - I'm at work

Used to love The Big Match when I was a kid. All the various commentators that covered the different regions - Gerald Sinstadt up North - Hugh Johns the Midlands. And of course we had good old Brian More for the London games. And how he used to shout!!!

OSGOOD!!

Im watching it now on my lunch break,its great!!

Record it next week!

Im watching it now on my lunch break,its great!!

Record it next week!

Can you torrent it?

I honestly wouldn't know how to do that matey?

The Big Match Revisited is being shown tomorrow (Sunday) at 11:15am on ITV4, Freeview Channel 28 - probably a repeat of Thursday's programme, I'm not sure.

I'm gonna make a point of seeing as many of these as possible, Chelsea featured on The Big Match pretty regularly!

Can you get it onto disc BB?

Can you get it onto disc BB?

Will do, Tim

Much appreciated - The Big Match was a way of life: Sunday league match kick off at 10; a few pints down the pub after the game and then home to the Big match and sunday dinner.

My Sunday's were very similar to yours by the sound of it, Tim. Though by the late 70's I was playing football on Saturday mornings, which meant I was able to spend the rest of the day/evening doing my best to drink various South London pubs dry

So my Sunday mornings were spent nursing gigantic hangovers rather than playing football, something that was helped enormously by quaffing (love that word ) about 7 or 8 pints of Double Diamond or Long Life down the Star in Mitcham. But the pubs were only open for two hours Sunday lunchtimes, which left five hours to kill before opening time in the evening! I still have nightmares about those barbaric licencing hours

I f*ckin' hated Sundays back then, but The Big Match certainly helped a bit

I just hope they show some of the better Chelsea games from the 70's and early 80's, and not some of the crap performances from that era!