A long, long time ago before we had saturated coverage of football all we had MOTD on Saturday night, and on a Sunday afternoon we had a regional football show called Kick-off fronted by Gerald Sinstadt. No co-commentators just one man saying what he see's. It was always a big deal when we were on telly because Granada, more or less, featured the Manchester or the Merseyside two. Anyway, this game always stood out as one of the best I watched

 

 

Remember Gerald well, very professional.

Always called Barry Sidall, Barry Siddle.

Wish todays commentators were as good as him

One of the voices of my childhood

The excitement of going to a game on a Saturday and then watching the highlights on a Sunday. Happened more than usual in the Greaves era

Were it not Kick Off on Friday nights, and The Big Match on Sundays?

yeah, KO 6.30 Fridays

26 minutes ago, jeep said:

Were it not Kick Off on Friday nights, and The Big Match on Sundays?

Wasn't Kick-off both Friday evening and Sunday afternoon 🤔. I may be talking bollox but i think all regional highlight progs on a Sunday had their own names. The Big Match was the London one. But later on, for uniformity, they called them all TBM.

Edited November 10, 20214 yr by Underpants

52 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

One of the voices of my childhood

Same & it was an honest & respectful voice & I don't recall any bias. (Ahem, Welby).

RIP.

Summat I found.

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/KickOffMatch.html

 

That was the second time I saw us play away, the first was at OT, and both times I was in the home end (I didn't have any choice).  2 games in the top flight gone, no defeats.

Anyway, great commentary from Gerald Sinstadt.  I loved watching him on Kick Off and the Kick Off Match, just made every game seem like an occasion.

48 minutes ago, Underpants said:

Summat I found.

http://carousel.royalwebhosting.net/itv/KickOffMatch.html

Great find.

This theme tune was almost as memorable as the MOTD tune at the time.

 

 

I remember him being on the Bloomfield Road pitch reporting after the match on the infamous day in '74, two of my mates (one of them a police cadet) manged to blag their way out going over the pitch, one of the lads was jumping up and down on Gerald Sinstadt which really annoyed him

RIP Gerald a proper commentator

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Didnt he like a trip to the pictures

In a case never proven?

7 minutes ago, Casino said:

Didnt he like a trip to the pictures

In a case never proven?

gets a mention 1:52 into this 

 

Here's Lee 

Going past Marsh

Crossing well 

Beautiful goal 

McGinlay does it again 

 

8 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

That was the second time I saw us play away, the first was at OT, and both times I was in the home end (I didn't have any choice).  2 games in the top flight gone, no defeats.

Anyway, great commentary from Gerald Sinstadt.  I loved watching him on Kick Off and the Kick Off Match, just made every game seem like an occasion.

That match is one of my fondest memories of going with my dad.  Remember him going mental when Reid knocked that last minute penalty in.  It's a sobering thought that I'm over 10 years older now than he was then! 

7 hours ago, Zico said:

Here's Lee 

Going past Marsh

Crossing well 

Beautiful goal 

McGinlay does it again 

 

Beautiful 

1 hour ago, Duck Egg said:

That match is one of my fondest memories of going with my dad.  Remember him going mental when Reid knocked that last minute penalty in.  It's a sobering thought that I'm over 10 years older now than he was then! 

Didn’t dads always seem much more mature, age for age, than we do? I’m now looking back at milestone events in my life spent with my dad and wonder how/why I never actually grew up.
My first foreign holiday, Corfu 1972, I was 10, dad was 39. Fucking hell, I’m 20 years older now than he was then. 

Duck Egg, you’re a cunt for mashing my head! 🤣

Iirc, my mum moaned about him as she reckoned he was biased towards anyone playing utd.

Bollocks of course, but funny.

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

Didn’t dads always seem much more mature, age for age, than we do? I’m now looking back at milestone events in my life spent with my dad and wonder how/why I never actually grew up.
My first foreign holiday, Corfu 1972, I was 10, dad was 39. Fucking hell, I’m 20 years older now than he was then. 

Duck Egg, you’re a cunt for mashing my head! 🤣

😅 mate, if it's any consolation I've been wrestling with stuff like that all morning! That Liverpool win is 28 years ago now, seems like only yesterday.  28 years before I first started to go watching Wanderers there was a bloody war on! 

42 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

😅 mate, if it's any consolation I've been wrestling with stuff like that all morning! That Liverpool win is 28 years ago now, seems like only yesterday.  28 years before I first started to go watching Wanderers there was a bloody war on! 

Said before, when I got into football in 73, 58 seemed a lifetime ago

I'm sure it was him that got nearly a full 90mins of 'Gerald Sinstadt, your a wa***r, your a wa***r' throughout a game at Burnden

14 hours ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Great find.

This theme tune was almost as memorable as the MOTD tune at the time.

 

 

Haven't heard that for far too long 😁👍👍

2 hours ago, Breightmet Boy said:

I'm sure it was him that got nearly a full 90mins of 'Gerald Sinstadt, your a wa***r, your a wa***r' throughout a game at Burnden

Its unlikely anyone else got 90 minutes of 'Gerald Sinstadt, your a wa***r, your a wa***r' shouted at them.

4 hours ago, Breightmet Boy said:

I'm sure it was him that got nearly a full 90mins of 'Gerald Sinstadt, your a wa***r, your a wa***r' throughout a game at Burnden

Wasn't it Elton Welsby who got the "you're a wanker" for ages