[Football] The Ashton Gate 8 World in Action 1982

[Lenny Rider]

Worth a watch when you get half an hour, fascinating stuff, has a lot changed in 40 years?

Apart from Bryan Robson being on £1,500 a week at Man United, and a very young Roy Hodgson

 

[Jam The Man]

Interesting question at 17:02 to 17:07…

 

[The Wookiee]

Interesting question at 17:02 to 17:07…

A pair of Bristol Cities ?

 

[The Seagull]

The world in action music is so seriously grim. It was more suited to when they did a story on the IRA back in the day.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Been to both Ashton Gate and what was Eastville and that was a strange set-up.

 

[rippleman]

@1.53 "...football is fast becoming a bankrupt game"

40 years on it is a morally bankrupt game.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Thanks for that. Interesting memories. At that time we were in the first division, before the fall and rise. Ashton Gate looked so antiquated, for a club recently in div 1. A lot has happened in 40 years.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

About time Bristol city had a crack in the Premier league. Must be easily the biggest club not to make it yet.

 

[armchairclubber]

.. and Fulhams No. 10 is ??

 

[kojak]

About time Bristol city had a crack in the Premier league. Must be easily the biggest club not to make it yet.

ha ha,i think we both know that Bristol City were n the old Division One

Plymouth is probably the answer

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Old first division 1976-79 i believe and put player's on high wage long term contracts.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

ha ha,i think we both know that Bristol City were n the old Division One

Plymouth is probably the answer

I do remember, but I did mean the Premier league, they must be the biggest not to have been in it.

 

[portlock seagull]

Good to see young Woy in the dugout.

Why does everyone look like a paedo though back then?

 

[Invicta]

A young Gordon Taylor advising his players to walk away from their contracts!

 

[Lenny Rider]

A young Gordon Taylor advising his players to walk away from their contracts!

Is that the same bloke who was the highest paid Union official in the world?

The content was quite telling, Jimmy Hill saying there was too much football on TV (little did he know) and clubs living beyond their means, I wonder if we will ever have a club again asking its 8 highest wage earners to rip up their contracts?
Didnt Pompey so something along the same lines and Sol Campbell and Kanu amongst others took them to court?