@Mancunian1001 Get in ! As an increasingly bored Premier League fan who thinks the FC Utd boys have got it spot on, that might just be the reason I start coming to watch Stalybridge on a Saturday. I'll always love BWFC but modern Sky infected football's just not the same. We are all free men after all. Shove yer corporate bollocks up yer arse.
Proper football, with thick mud, bad hair and sheer ugliness. Primping twunts like Drogba, Torres, Ronaldo would have their nuts squashed within five minutes. Norman Hunter. Charlie George. Tommy Smith. Premier League? Fuck off.
Nostalgia!! back in 77, I was 13. In Greece "big match" was broadcasted every saturday , 2 matches every time. Then, after watching both, full of spirit I would take my ball and out to the field to meet my friends in another sunny afternoon. I remember, in a match the ball hit a pigeon and Brian Moore commented on that. What memories! Thanks for the upload
Aaaah ,what memories ! sunday lunch and the big match ,then out in the back garden to put my football through my dads greenhouse window for the umpteenth time ,the local glazier had more of my pocket money than I did !!
Football before all the big, 'money men', got their grubby hands on it and everything from the shirts to the actual leagues themselves became sponsorship hoardings for big companies. Back when you could see the big name clubs on TV, without having to pay through the nose for the privilege. When sports programmes were just pogrammes without having to be, 'brought to you by..', some electonics/motor car/mobile phone manufacturer, etc. Football when it was, well... football.
Please can we start some sort of campaign to get ITV to bring this theme back as part of their football coverage.... they have never had an iconic football tune - like MOTD - but i really think this could be it!!
This was the theme tune on Yorkshire TV, when Keith Macklin was commentator before Martin Tyler took over from him. We followed LWT on the music front.
The 70s, I am Spanish, and all the football matches of Spanish Liga I have seen in the 70s were in B/W, The Big Match, Match of the Day.. maybe 2 of the greatest shows i've ever seen. And that's not all: The football, the crowd, the muddy pitches, the goals.. Everything was different. The players played proud to the shirt (sometimes dirty shirt)... and all was familiar, without marketing or money.. Now all have passed, football is just a market, but everybody will be glad to see those pictures.
A lot of football supporters are now going to non-league (semi professional) football where there are dirty shirts, no marketing and people go just to enjoy themselves. 1.40 and the snow is brilliant. Sums up the game in the 1970s.
@Mulderre: Crikey! Two years ago some Spanish bloke described English football perfectly. Well done mate! A great time when football meant something more than money. Very sad.
Damn, Liverpool, we were soooo close to an amazing treble in '77. Jammy Utd ruined that for us. BUT THE REDS WENT ON TO WIN THE FIRST OF FIVE CHAMPIONS CUPS IN ROME. WHAT A NIGHT! I used to love the music to this footy show. RIP BOBBY ROBSON, RIP BRYAN MOORE.
RIP Sir Bobby Robson. I am no West Ham fan, in fact I am a Barnsley fan, but does anyone agree that if it was possible, that Bobby Moore deserves a posthumous knighthood? Probably the best English defender, definitely in the same mould of a gentleman as Sir Bobby Robson and a sportsman to the extreme. The shot of him in the '75 FA Cup Final where he is talking to a Fulham colleague and basically saying, 'Suck it up, mate! We gave it a good shot! There's next year!' No poncy paddy fits!
I TOTALLY AGREE. I hate, dispise WHU with a passion but Bobby Moore, LEGEND. If anyone cannot admit it as a fan of a club, admit it as an England fan. I admit it as a Chelsea fan I admire the man ENGLAND West Ham, Fulham too. I didnt actually see any of the legend, I'm too young, but video's, stories, books, the lot. I hear he was a great player and inspiration. Bobby MOORE....LEGGEND.
Wouldn't it have been good to have seen the likes of Chopper Harris kicking the shit out of the poncy foreigners that fall around at the drop of a hat these days.
Good point, Could you imagine what would happen if the likes of Drogba dived in front of Tommy Smith and won a penalty! Drogba's knackers would have been strung from the goalposts.
what a great compliation , and thanks for putting the title and artist of the music on there as well , helped me get the piece of music so many thanks for that , the bit what tickled me was the match played in the snow , trouble is football and footballers are now dominated by money so to see a game in the snow is very unlikely now adays and it was great to see Sir Bobby Robson lead my beloved IPSWICH TOWN out at wembley stadium for the 1978 FA Cup Final
Good knowledge. I reckon it was 74, as a different tune was used from 72 to 74 according to the ITV regional highlights page. The newer version of the tune was used on the end titles, wasn't it?
What a beautiful montage, well done. To be honest, I read somewhere that this theme came out in 1974 so I think you have got the dates more or less right. A newer version came out around 1978 and last about 2-3 years. Undoubtedly the best tune ITV have ever used for football coverage, and this was about my earliest memories of watching football.
As a postscript, the updated version of La Soiree is featured on ITV4's Big Match Revisited programmes which are currently showing re-runs of LWT and Granada TV coverage from season 1978-79. Just as catchy as the original!
Thank you for posting this beautiful melody... However, it started as the cover for The Big Match in 1971 og 1972 already... At least I own several original footages from early 1972 with with theme.
Are you likely to post the 1972 bits of footage? I was actually born in 1970, but I would be fascinated at viewing these. I agree that this was a beautiful melody.
Now lovingly used by Stalybridge Celtic AFC at every home match as the pre-match theme.
Mancunian1001 2 months ago
@Mancunian1001 Get in ! As an increasingly bored Premier League fan who thinks the FC Utd boys have got it spot on, that might just be the reason I start coming to watch Stalybridge on a Saturday. I'll always love BWFC but modern Sky infected football's just not the same. We are all free men after all. Shove yer corporate bollocks up yer arse.
HairyBosch 6 days ago
Is there Harpsichord in the theme tune?!
TheRazorbladesmile 3 months ago
Interesting to see people still standing in the terraces, is it just me or are the goals further back from the stands than they were back then?
TheRazorbladesmile 3 months ago
Where are they now? I missed all of them verymuch.
ngaitom09 5 months ago
mekes a change to see Arsenal lift a trophy
southlondon63 5 months ago
@southlondon63 oh man what is the matter with that team now?
MYBIGKINDHEART 4 months ago
Now that brings back memories of when I was a lad. Before I became old and bitter and twisted!
Jeremy68 6 months ago
55 seconds in days of film camera's. baldy loading up another film while smoking at the same time, what a guy and multi talented man. god bless him.
grahampiper1969 7 months ago
is 0.12 selhurst park ?
panda792 7 months ago
Proper football, with thick mud, bad hair and sheer ugliness. Primping twunts like Drogba, Torres, Ronaldo would have their nuts squashed within five minutes. Norman Hunter. Charlie George. Tommy Smith. Premier League? Fuck off.
Widmerpool99 9 months ago 4
Far better piece of music than Match Of The Day
2100Rose 10 months ago
Nostalgia!! back in 77, I was 13. In Greece "big match" was broadcasted every saturday , 2 matches every time. Then, after watching both, full of spirit I would take my ball and out to the field to meet my friends in another sunny afternoon. I remember, in a match the ball hit a pigeon and Brian Moore commented on that. What memories! Thanks for the upload
joham34 11 months ago
arrh and then it was the smurfs and jaffa cakes arrrhhh bisto
vania1013 1 year ago
Aaaah ,what memories ! sunday lunch and the big match ,then out in the back garden to put my football through my dads greenhouse window for the umpteenth time ,the local glazier had more of my pocket money than I did !!
scraggi 1 year ago 2
I don't even like soccer and I like this!!!
fknucklewit 1 year ago
Sounds a bit like the the theme to CASINO ROYALE THE DAVID NIVEN ONE.
bluevan12 1 year ago
I take it that this was ITV's answere to Match Of The Day : Whatever the case , a better theme music
2100Rose 1 year ago
God himself at :03-:04
dez10ify 1 year ago
Football before all the big, 'money men', got their grubby hands on it and everything from the shirts to the actual leagues themselves became sponsorship hoardings for big companies. Back when you could see the big name clubs on TV, without having to pay through the nose for the privilege. When sports programmes were just pogrammes without having to be, 'brought to you by..', some electonics/motor car/mobile phone manufacturer, etc. Football when it was, well... football.
JFredUK 1 year ago 2
@JFredUK Couldn't have put it better myself!!!
benlu123 1 year ago
Isn't it odd, (and much better), to see team shirts without poxy sponsorship logos all over them?
Apophisguard 1 year ago 4
...at 00:23 is a brief glimpse of Leonard Rossister before he became famous as Rigsby in Rising Damp.
vegbloke 1 year ago
Real Footballers, Not Todays Overpaid Ponces!
900Anon900 1 year ago 2
Brian Moore, what a guy.
liam17582 1 year ago
I could smell Sunday lunch right now...
darganx 1 year ago 2
What memories, Sunday at 12pm, we were allowed to have lunch in the living room, so we could watch "TBM"
gsf67 1 year ago
What happened to Ray Wilkins hair?
kinkkenny 1 year ago
the theme in the granada region was better....but i've not heard it since the mid 70s
GriefTourist 1 year ago
Men were so hairy then.
emmyjo720 1 year ago
The theme tune and the programme brings it all back to me when football was entertaining and not about money but enjoyment.
turkish6370 1 year ago
at first glance at 0.08 i thought his dick was hanging out
chad6258 1 year ago
@chad6258 it's string. But is that Gilbert o'Sullivan in goal at 00:19 ? i know his chart success was waning by then.
vegbloke 1 year ago
Back when football was played by men, no overpaid cry-baby wenches that they are now!
Apophisguard 2 years ago
Please can we start some sort of campaign to get ITV to bring this theme back as part of their football coverage.... they have never had an iconic football tune - like MOTD - but i really think this could be it!!
mjlodge 2 years ago 4
This is one of the best theme tunes around. Reminds me of many a Sunday afternoon in front of the telly (after excusing myself from lunch early!)
Remember, Modern Football is Rubbish!
niconumberfour 2 years ago 19
Different theme also on the old ATV Star Soccer with Hugh Johns..and if anyone has that to post, please do!
tocirpa 2 years ago
I hate football, but dam I could watch this all day!
pharbi1 2 years ago
This was the theme tune on Yorkshire TV, when Keith Macklin was commentator before Martin Tyler took over from him. We followed LWT on the music front.
ninjaradish 2 years ago
In the Granada area for Sunday afternoon football we had another theme tune, I'd love to hear that again.
GriefTourist 2 years ago
Do I take it that this was ITV's answere to "Match Of The Day " ? Not A football fan myself but "good music ." I am A sad Batstard and proud of it
2100Rose 2 years ago
The 70s, I am Spanish, and all the football matches of Spanish Liga I have seen in the 70s were in B/W, The Big Match, Match of the Day.. maybe 2 of the greatest shows i've ever seen. And that's not all: The football, the crowd, the muddy pitches, the goals.. Everything was different. The players played proud to the shirt (sometimes dirty shirt)... and all was familiar, without marketing or money.. Now all have passed, football is just a market, but everybody will be glad to see those pictures.
Mulderre 2 years ago 24
Great comment Mulderre.
A lot of football supporters are now going to non-league (semi professional) football where there are dirty shirts, no marketing and people go just to enjoy themselves. 1.40 and the snow is brilliant. Sums up the game in the 1970s.
t0mme1981 2 years ago 3
@Mulderre: Crikey! Two years ago some Spanish bloke described English football perfectly. Well done mate! A great time when football meant something more than money. Very sad.
eduardoisland 4 months ago
Bobby Moore?
ffc99 2 years ago
Damn, Liverpool, we were soooo close to an amazing treble in '77. Jammy Utd ruined that for us. BUT THE REDS WENT ON TO WIN THE FIRST OF FIVE CHAMPIONS CUPS IN ROME. WHAT A NIGHT! I used to love the music to this footy show. RIP BOBBY ROBSON, RIP BRYAN MOORE.
theglitterband 2 years ago
RIP Sir Bobby Robson. I am no West Ham fan, in fact I am a Barnsley fan, but does anyone agree that if it was possible, that Bobby Moore deserves a posthumous knighthood? Probably the best English defender, definitely in the same mould of a gentleman as Sir Bobby Robson and a sportsman to the extreme. The shot of him in the '75 FA Cup Final where he is talking to a Fulham colleague and basically saying, 'Suck it up, mate! We gave it a good shot! There's next year!' No poncy paddy fits!
ninjaradish 2 years ago 4
I TOTALLY AGREE. I hate, dispise WHU with a passion but Bobby Moore, LEGEND. If anyone cannot admit it as a fan of a club, admit it as an England fan. I admit it as a Chelsea fan I admire the man ENGLAND West Ham, Fulham too. I didnt actually see any of the legend, I'm too young, but video's, stories, books, the lot. I hear he was a great player and inspiration. Bobby MOORE....LEGGEND.
LafeMan110 2 years ago
Wouldn't it have been good to have seen the likes of Chopper Harris kicking the shit out of the poncy foreigners that fall around at the drop of a hat these days.
fudgepackor 2 years ago 3
Chopper Harris?!
Tommy Smith was the hardest of the hard.
Proper football, proper grounds, proper fans, how I wish I was alive during those times.
DJgaZman 2 years ago
Good point, Could you imagine what would happen if the likes of Drogba dived in front of Tommy Smith and won a penalty! Drogba's knackers would have been strung from the goalposts.
fudgepackor 2 years ago 2
what a great compliation , and thanks for putting the title and artist of the music on there as well , helped me get the piece of music so many thanks for that , the bit what tickled me was the match played in the snow , trouble is football and footballers are now dominated by money so to see a game in the snow is very unlikely now adays and it was great to see Sir Bobby Robson lead my beloved IPSWICH TOWN out at wembley stadium for the 1978 FA Cup Final
thedj2471 2 years ago
Roger Osborne 1 -0.
kinkkenny 2 years ago
oh yes one of the greatest days in the history of IPSWICH TOWN only topped by the uefa cup victory in 1981
thedj2471 2 years ago
Hey, if we're gonna do this, let's do it properly. Its "OSBORNE. ONE-NIL". Great days.
lilmisspino 2 years ago
RIP Bobby
kinkkenny 2 years ago
what a team that was as well.
I'm a Watford fan but Ipswich had a great team then.
DJgaZman 2 years ago
This music is available on iTunes. It is La Soiree by David Ordini. Quality.
ozzy0907 2 years ago 2
I wasn't born until 1989 but 0:20 ha ha what on earth!
snigguhneb 2 years ago
classic
Todster101 2 years ago
The best Football theme tune ive heard i think its better than Match of the Day. Brian Moore R.I.P
stuttsy83 3 years ago
1:41 - 1:49 - Ha Ha. Can you imagine today's fairies playing in the snow?
Kaosapts 3 years ago
if only...ronaldo will get hit with a snow ball and fall on his arse clutching his leg...BRING THE OLD DAYS BACK...
badbusta4lyf 2 years ago 3
Good knowledge. I reckon it was 74, as a different tune was used from 72 to 74 according to the ITV regional highlights page. The newer version of the tune was used on the end titles, wasn't it?
AglishWD 3 years ago
What a beautiful montage, well done. To be honest, I read somewhere that this theme came out in 1974 so I think you have got the dates more or less right. A newer version came out around 1978 and last about 2-3 years. Undoubtedly the best tune ITV have ever used for football coverage, and this was about my earliest memories of watching football.
converse91970 3 years ago
As a postscript, the updated version of La Soiree is featured on ITV4's Big Match Revisited programmes which are currently showing re-runs of LWT and Granada TV coverage from season 1978-79. Just as catchy as the original!
converse91970 3 years ago
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converse91970 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this beautiful melody... However, it started as the cover for The Big Match in 1971 og 1972 already... At least I own several original footages from early 1972 with with theme.
Farerets 3 years ago
Are you likely to post the 1972 bits of footage? I was actually born in 1970, but I would be fascinated at viewing these. I agree that this was a beautiful melody.
converse91970 3 years ago
Check our the following user: HOMESDALE35
He has downloaded masses of good old material...
Farerets 3 years ago
OK, many thanks and all the best!
converse91970 3 years ago
I love this truly awesome. The heyday of football. There's only 1 Brian Moore. Come on you Irons. Up the Hammers!!!
sabbathwho 3 years ago