Match Of The Day BBC Titles 1978

Classic titles from 1978 featuring muddy pitches & tiling done by real people - no CGI here.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• BBC
• Match
• Of
• The
• Day
• Jimmy
• Hill
• 1978

[bluesbrother37]

Real footballers, not todays overpaid ponces!

[Jaxcherr]

I was one of the kids involved in doing the tiling effect. It was done at Loftus Road (QPR's ground). They used kids from Hammersmith County and Christopher Wrens schools (both schools were in Shepherds Bush, London - close to the BBC's old White City Centre).

[PeterAGaunt]

I was one of the people on it as a member of staff at Hammersmith County School. Did Christopher Wren take part too? I don't recall them.

[HitMeQuick]

In the 1970s professional footballers were retired by the government and replaced with out of work ham actors and long haired drunks. With the success of television shows like It's a Knock Out, people thought that in the future all sports would resemble a circus farce and lose any serious competitive element. This is why a lot of the so called managers like Brian Clough played the pantomime villain for the media and also explains why England failed to qualify for both the 1974 and 78 World Cups.

[TheUltimateToad]

THe good old day.. the refs were fun and not stupid assholes, players had awesome hairstyles...

Ehh..

No more Fat people in football matches now adays...=[ Oh well..one dayt.

[reformation1542]

the porky referee was Roger Kirkpatrick (aka Mr Pickwick) - like many of his day, would always enjoy a good natured banter with the players (Gordon Hill was another) Not like todays po-faced officials who take themselves too seriously

[Feisty1967]

Da best Match of the Day title sequence ever!!

[fairhillnorrie]

@900Anon900 dead right... sadly those days are gone now..

[fairhillnorrie]

@bluesbrother37 if your still there, just to say ... WELL SAID..!!

[JFredUK]

Ah, back before the days of SKY television making you pay through the nose for, 'first division', football. Before the, 'money men', really got in on the game and turned it into a, 'product', to be sold worldwide. Back when it was a sport for your everyday man to watch on a Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. (Not Sundays at 12 noon!) No Trevor Brooking comparing the size of his lapels with those of John Motson, either! (0;}

[gurneyer]

@Mulderre Yes it was the late great Peter Osgood in a Southampton shirt.

[Mulderre]

@0:10 Peter Osgood? Check if it's Osgood