When Shorts Were Short S3 E08 Jeff Foulser - The Big Match (Producer 1976-89)

When Shorts Were Short

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When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.

If the shorts weren't short, we don't talk about it.

My guest this week is Jeff Foulser who in 1976, at just the age of 24, became The Big Match’s youngest ever producer. For many kids who grew up in the 70s and 80s, it was The Big Match or its regional variation, that was THE big football show in their life. It was our entry point into the world’s greatest game, in black and white initially for me but I seem to recall that didn’t diminish my early love for the game at all as I marvelled at this world of muddy pitches, combovers, glorious striped kits where the back of the shirt also had stripes – who would believe that now, eh – uncapped teeth, barely a tattoo in sight, and of course, there was the show’s frontman Brian Moore.

Brian Moore was our God.

Jeff oversaw the show for 13 years, a time of change, through the Michael Grade-led Snatch of the Day, and the end of the regional variations of the show in 1983 which saw The Big Match become the only football highlights show on ITV, and there was the introduction of live football in 1983-84, ITV showing the first game that autumn, and in 1988, there was the switch to only showing live football and having to fight the powers that be at ITV over the choice of new presenter to replace Brian Moore who would now be focusing solely on commentating.

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