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From the wide selection available (see nearly 100 videos past and present) we've chosen:         "Ten out of Ten" which you'll find in the "Partial Seasons" category. If you want a copy, follow this link, where you can order it courtesy of the excellent Blackstar website.

NUFC.com's view: This is is a classic tape from that era. Its subject matter is stupendous, its presentation is poor and its production is pathetic. Awful backing music is accompanied by some inane commentary by the omnipresent Roger Tames ("even on a wet and windy Wednesday night United were playing sunshine football"...). Crowd dubbing reaches new heights as the replay of a Kevin Sheedy free-kick is greeted with an  unspeakably unconvincing thunderous cheer. We also get interviews aplenty with players and management that warm the heart and turn the stomach. A young Clarkie's "most definitely" is tremendous and a shy and stuttering Steve Howey's mackem brogue offends the ears as he tells us that Tommy Wright likes to "fiddle about with it a bit".

However, I love this tape and not just because it chronicle's the club's best ever start to the season, when a team that had just narrowly avoided relegation won its first ten games, scoring 23 goals. The amateurishness of it is engaging and its blatant commercialism is fantastically transparent. The fact that we made it eleven out of eleven against the mackems meant that two tapes could be popped down the chimney by Santa that Christmas.... 

From an anorak perspective, ten games (it's actually thirteen) on one tape allows extended footage of games that usually gets chopped off End of Season videos. The Luton home game is covered in all its glory (a game we could have won 10-0), the Peterborough away game shows a Kelly bar-wobbler and miraculous save and we also get the one and only appearance of Mansfield Town at St. James' as well as an Anglo-Italian thumping of Leicester.

Verdict: A classic. You can't help wondering if a superbly crafted version would actually be as enjoyable as this. Probably not.

Highlight:
Liam O'Brien's low drive at Ayresome Park in the Coca-Cola Cup. The lad had a knack of keeping his best for visits to our nearest and dearest.