WITH Stevie Heighway on the wing, you can dream you’re back in the 1970s.

Kopites of a certain vintage never tire of the chance to get another glimpse of Keegan, Toshack, Dalglish, Souness and the rest one in their pomp. And while you may have seen all those classic games, goals and gaffes a million times over, it’s always worth another look.

Those who have caught the Big Match Revisited on ITV4 will know just what to expect from the Match of the 70s Liverpool DVD. It does exactly what it says on the tin. With 91 minutes of action it brings you great games and goals from the ITV and Granada archives in 1970s no frills style – apart from, as the decade went on, the flashy new graphics (for the time) which showed you were watching a replay of the action.

Spread across the entire decade 10 great matches introduced by Brian Moore with mostly the dulcet tones of Granada’s Gerald Sindstadt. While you get the famous 7-0 mauling of Tottenham – with World Cup winners Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa being given a lesson – there are plenty of hidden gems in the other matches that may have long slipped the memory banks.

Names like Wagstaffe, Farringdon, Kinden and Bowles made the opposition sound like an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs or Howard’s Way – ask your grandad.

It’s also nice to remember that some the current crop of pundits – Andy Gray, Bobby Gould, Trevor Francis, Glenn Hoddle, a bearded, long haired Brian Little and many more – did actually play the game. Although against Liverpool they didn’t have much chance to do their talking on the pitch.

You also get the 70s staples of muddy, bare or well-sanded pitches, orange balls, players celebrating in the bath, big ‘taches, perms, short shorts, pass backs and the alphabet half-time scores boards running along the old Kemlyn Road.

I always thought that the Anfield staff were a bit lax back in the day when supposedly bringing the Red faithful the scores from around the grounds. And the evidence is all here with plenty of letters but very few numbers.

In the action Heighway shows why his name is still sung by many who never saw him in the flesh – scoring, winning penalties and setting up chances from both wings.

Liverpool’s original bogey team in blue Leicester are beaten, Alun Evans grabs a goal against his former team Wolves, while Jack Whitham hits a hat-trick against Derby County before disappearing into obscurity.