Video Of The Week: The Big Match – April 1979

This week’s Video Of The Week takes us back to the race for the Second Division title from the 1978/79 season and features three matches from an episode of London Weekend Television’s “The Big Match”, presented as ever by Brian Moore. The first match is between from Selhurst Park and is between Crystal Palace and Notts County, the second match is from The Goldstone Ground and is between Brighton & Hove Albion and Blackburn Rovers (about whom Moore says, “they’ve already been relegated to the Third Division, so at least they’ll be relaxed) and the final match is from Roker Park, and is between Sunderland and Cardiff City.

Look out also for interviews with an extravagantly coiffured Terry Venables and with Alan Mullery, who looks as if he has stepped straight from the set of “The Sweeney” and, as if that isn’t enough to satiate you, the show also features LWT’s “Golden Goal of 1979″ competition, in which viewers are asked to put six of the best goals of the season in the correct order, with the prize for the winner being a trip to Munich for the European Cup final between Nottingham Forest and Malmo. Thrilling stuff.