A decade of 1970s football: the 1978/79 season

The final season of the 1970s as an epic decade goes out in epic style with a magisterial title win for Liverpool, a European Cup for Nottingham Forest and the sighting of the first of an oncoming foreign invasion through the advance guard of Muhren, Thijssen, Ardiles, Villa, Tarantini et al. Elsewhere, the season is disfigured by the big freeze, we crown Colin Barrett as the most significant player of the campaign, and we fearlessly take you inside the microclimate created at Walsall’s Fellows Park…