Watford vs Chelsea 85/86

Action from Vicarage Road in September 1985.
Watford run out 3-1 winners.

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Sports

Tags:

• Watford
• Chelsea
• John
• Barnes
• Nigel
• Callaghan
• Steve
• Terry
• Luther
• Blissett

[hamdish332]

good vid but how did u get the highlights for all thease games?

[stevohorn]

Various different sources.

This one came from a video of mixed highlights i bought on ebay. I also have several club video's and dvd's.

[rjjcms1]

I was at this game. Did anyone here go to the last game of that season between Chelsea and Watford at Stamford Bridge? The one where Chelsea kid goalie Les Fridge was thrown in the deep end?

I somehow got on the wrong side of a police line and on getting into the ground found myself in the Shed by mistake (I didn't have any Watford colours on). I had to keep quiet and not give myself away as we scored 5 times!

[TheWorld880]

4.44...So, It's pressure from chelsea, but as yet "not penetration"..Roofie!! Yesssss......Penetration Now.!!

M Tyler Remembering his Friday nights out on the town

[kevintheshedend1976]

@stevohorn The reason it wasn't shown in UK wasn't because of a strike, but because of a dispute between the Football League and the BBC & ITV, particularly over live league games which had been introduced the previous season.

The FL believed that attendances at grounds, which had seen a steady decrease since the early 70's, was soley due to too much football on TV. The FL demaded a payment that the BBC & ITV refused to pay and the out come was that attendences immediately plumeted.

[Bikejon]

Also forgot to say - check out the respect of the players towards the referee (plaudits to Chelsea players in fairness). See kids - this is how is should be!!

[Bikejon]

What a peach of a goal from Barnes! Not seen that one before so thanks Stevo. Nice to see Callaghan - hope he gets back to full health very soon.

[FamousCFC66]

CHELSEA

[RobinCarmody]

Yes. As stated, many matches were recorded for international audiences at this point without being shown in the UK - ITV did all the coverage, which is why Martin Tyler's commentating here. Such were the circumstances of the dispute, though, that they couldn't even show the goals on Saint and Greavsie.

[stevohorn]

Thanks for clearing that up KingsRoad..

There was a bit of confusion over the year (due to the TV strike) but i was fairly confident that it must have been 1985..after first mistakenly stating it was 87!

[kingsroadBLUES]

This game is from Sept 85. A lot of games from the early part of the season were filmed and showed overseas. I have a few of the highlights, that were not shown in the UK including the QPR-West Ham

[dublinbrazilianblue]

This can't be from September 85 there was no footy on TV until January 86 because of a strike between the league and BBC/ITV, though our national broadcaster (RTE) showed a game between QPR and West Ham during the strike, so maybe it was made for the overseas market