The Big Match Revisited review: It's nice to wallow in nostalgia, but we shouldn't be fooled into thinking football was better in the 1970s
It's invidious to make comparisons, but at a time when the TV schedules are awash with World Cup 'action' and ITV are showing reruns of The Big Match from the 1970s, it’s difficult not to.
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