The Big Match Revisited

Brian Moore hosts a programme showcasing the football highlights from October 1980. The featured fixtures are Manchester City versus Liverpool, Crystal Palace against West Bromwich Albion, and Nottingham Forest meeting Manchester United. Each clip captures key moments from these top‑flight English league clashes.

The broadcast is a television episode in which veteran presenter Brian Moore takes the lead, guiding viewers through a selection of football highlights. It’s structured as a concise programme that rolls out the most noteworthy moments from a single month’s action, with Moore’s commentary linking each segment together. In this particular edition the focus is on three fixtures that took place in October 1980. First up is the clash between Manchester City and Liverpool, followed by the encounter pitting Crystal Palace against West Bromwich Albion. The final feature is the match that saw Nottingham Forest go head‑to‑head with Manchester United. Each game is presented as a highlight reel, allowing the audience to catch the essential bits without watching the full broadcasts. The episode serves as a snapshot of that period’s football calendar, stitching together the selected contests into a single viewing experience. By concentrating on these three pairings, the programme offers a brief but varied look at the domestic scene, covering teams from different regions and with differing styles of play. Overall, the show delivers a tidy roundup of October’s key football moments, with Brian Moore’s introductions providing the connective tissue that ties the three highlight packages into a coherent whole.