#77: The Big Match, 1974

The Big Match's Christmas week shows were usually an excuse for players and stars to take over from Brian Moore in the studio, and 21st December 1974 was little different. QPR's Terry Mancini hosts, promising "hilarious frivolity", with guests Rodney Marsh and Terry Venables, the latter mocking the former's lack of socks immediately. Chelsea vs West Ham, Grimsby vs Charlton and Newcastle vs Leeds, with the guests analysing as they would full-time after retirement, are the meat of the matter, but in between we get Venables impersonating Johann Cruyff, the guests attempting to guess current players from youthful photos and 46 minutes in a classic 1970s ITV Sport shuttling-one-second-of-footage-back-and-forth-from-whence-humour-then-arises montage.