No matter whether you're a fan of a particular Premier League club, the league itself or soccer in general, the above two videos should be required viewing so you can get a taste of how English soccer has changed as well as how the TV production of the beautiful game has changed considerably over the years.

It's time to take any walk down memory lane. This time to 1982 for the Manchester derby. We have the first half of the match featured on The Big Match with Brian Moore and Jim Rosenthal. And what a derby it was.

The last two times these teams played each other before the 1982 derby was April, 1974 when Denis Law scored a back heel goal for Manchester City to relegate Manchester United to the then second division.

Continuing our series of World Cup compilation videos, this week we have every goal from the 1990 World Cup, which was, of course, held in Italy. Time has a tendency to soften our viewpoint of previous World Cup tournaments particularly when, as with this one, England surpass everyone's expectations and scramble as far as the semi-finals but the truth of the matter is that the 1990 World Cup finals were probably the worst that have been held in recent years.

For me the love affair with Tottenham Hotspur started in the black-and-white days of the 70s. Growing up in Cornwall made it difficult to see my Lilywhite heroes play live football, but nothing would keep me away from the television on a Sunday afternoon when the Big Match would start at 2 p.

By Ollie Irish

May the fourth be with you (yeah, I know that was yesterday I mean fourth place, natch).

Some of the best Man City vs Spurs vids on the interwebs:

1. Spurs 3-4 Man City, 2004
An astonishing FA Cup comeback by City, who were 3-0 down at halftime, then went down to ten men after Joey Barton's red card, but still managed to score four unanswered goals in the second half.

By Ollie Irish

A warming blast from t'past, featuring Brian Clough, Ipswich Town and Ray Wilkins with hair. A million times better than Sky Sports, obviously.

Clive and kicking
Clive Tyldesley has been commentating on football matches for over 20 years. He's had two stints at ITV with a four year spell at the BBC sandwiched in between.
Clive was good enough to give up some of his time to talk to EFW about his career, a new website to help budding commentators follow in his footsteps, Roy Keane, Brian Moore, Sir Alex, and of course Manchester United:
Do you have the best job in the world?

Twenty one years ago, Arsenal won the League title in the most unbelievable way by scoring an injury-time goal at Anfield. Arsenal was leading 1-0, but if the score had remained the same, Liverpool would have won the 1988-89 League title. Instead, the ball fell to Arsenal's Michael Thomas who knocked the ball past Bruce Grobbelaar to win the match 2-0 to the Gunners and to crown Arsenal champions based on goal difference.

I wouldn't normally want to drag up old batterings from the past, but this game at Highbury contained a slightly unusual incident. With the game at 4-0, Nigel Spink was injured in a challenge with Kevin Campbell interesting to note Brian Moore's keenness to exonerate Campbell of any blame, not sure that would be the case with a similar tackle today and without a substitute goalkeeper available, David Platt takes over between the sticks.

I wouldn't normally want to drag up old batterings from the past, but this game at Highbury contained a slightly unusual incident. With the game at 4-0, Nigel Spink was injured in a challenge with Kevin Campbell interesting to note Brian Moore's keenness to exonerate Campbell of any blame, not sure that would be the case with a similar tackle today and without a substitute goalkeeper available, David Platt takes over between the sticks.

In this week's installment of Friday Flashback Videos, we take you back to the 1974-75 season for a then glamor tie between Stoke City and Leeds United. The video features the first ten minutes of the broadcast and is hosted by the legendary soccer commentator Brian Moore.

Feel free to post your observations about the game in the comments section below.

I was saddened to hear this past weekend that Malcolm Allison, the legendary former manager of Manchester City, passed away at the age of 83.

No one apart from Brian Clough summed up 70s and 80s English football better than Malcolm Allison. He was always a joy to listen to on television and his clubs played good football.