“There’s a psychedelic sunset over Highbury” according to Brian Moore, who has clearly had the Grateful Dead records out again. That’s pretty much the end of the freeform jazz for the day, as Arsenal and Liverpool play out a 0-0 draw. Terry Neill refuses to speak to Moore afterwards, after ITV technicians had surreptitiously attached microphones to the goal netting, an act that so unbalances him that it drives him into the waiting arms of Benson & Hedges.

The other half of the North London v Merseyside battle takes place at Goodison Park as Spurs tip up there. In an interview after our first game Phil Thompson extols the virtues of Spurs’ offside trap when they visited Anfield a week earlier. Gordon Lee’s men show that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

When Notts County take on Chelsea, Hugh Johns takes issue with the slapdash building of a County wall, while there’s a seminal moment in musical history as Ian McCulloch misses an open goal and such is his fury with himself that he decides to concentrate on Echo & The Bunnymen instead.

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