01/11/1975 Derby County v Leeds United

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[@billybigtime2808]

It breaks my heart watching this because it reminds me of the game I fell in love with as a Bairn that has now been destroyed just as society has also, this is how I remember it passion,mud and tough hard characters not only on the pitch but in the crowd as well,everything the modern game is not

[@johndurkin6382]

Feel exactly the same, as a kid football had everything, memories come flooding back, those were truly magical days

[@jameshickey100]

I do agree with you

[@user-tc1fq6mb1e]

Spot On my Friend

[@iaingalinski4365]

your right

[@shawnflanagan4995]

i'm an american and a very casual soccer....er, football fan, and this stuff is addictive. i can't get enough.

[@rgb6834]

about 3 years ago I stopped at traffic lights in North Leeds an old guy slowly crossed the road it was Norman hunter toot on the horn and a wave back from him made my day

[@captaincalhoun8693]

These old school footballers were tough as nails. Either one of these sides would scare the shit out of a modern squad.

[@HandleGF]

Hunter looks terrified in round two... retreating like an Italian tank in top gear... I remember watching this on MOTD when I was eleven. The scrap was sensational even then.

[@wardis8303]

RIP Norman, keep on biting up there🙏🙏

[@melvinbarfoot9974]

This was football at its best , the modern game is boring , derby , Nottingham forest, Leeds great sides never to be forgotten

[@guyneeve9365]

If this fight took place now, the game would last to Xmas as VAR would have to look at from 117 different angles!

[@steelyman08]

Too right! I was around for these years, and nothing compares. It was raw & brilliant. The real deal.

[@leebeardshall2888]

Proper football ⚽️.

[@grahamluna6935]

Today's football is pink and girly

[@vordman]

What a game between two legendary teams. The champions of the previous two seasons. Excellent atmosphere, tremendous goals, and a superb punch-up between Hunter and Lee. I'm sure they ended up the best of friends.

[@MrTotalluck]

Actually the winners of the previos Two seasons were Leeds and liverpool. Derby won It three years before and won it again that same season.

[@alancawfield6549]

@@MrTotalluck Leeds won the title in 73/74 and Derby won it in 74/75 (and 71/72) and this match on 01/11/1975 is from the 75/76 season where Liverpool were the champions.

[@MrTotalluck]

@@alancawfield6549 youre right. Since It was a game from 1975, I assumed It was the 74/75 season. But Since It was November It was from the following season

[@aerodrome4427]

@@MrTotalluck yes the last great year 75/76. From then it was all downhill

[@seltaeb9691]

Actually hearing Hunter speaking about it decades later I felt it was still not that friendly between them. Why it kicked off we don't know but Lee had his tantrums quite often.

[@alanmcbride6658]

That was some Derby team. Stacked with talent, as were Leeds.

[@michaelpower4372]

Its was never a penalty for derby the no 9 dived.

[@simonkevnorris]

Yes, he was a well known diver. Francis 'Franny' Lee. He had played for Manchester City and England.

[@sergiorivera669]

After leaving Leeds Utd and joining Bristol City, Norman Hunter was my next door neighbour for a while. As a football mad kid, we had some great chats 'over the back fence' and he related some funny stories. A proper footballing warrior!!

[@stingray4real]

RIP Norman Hunter

[@wiggshosp]

Proper football. So much more interesting than today's sanitized pap.

[@charlie01546]

That Leeds team on their day was one of the most exciting teams I can remember. Fond memories from a different era, great to revisit.

[@1061andy]

can't believe this is forty years ago now - football from another world...just glad I can remember that era

[@Gaelforced]

No kidding Andy, watching it thinking exactly the same.

[@chasfleming]

Was at the game, Hector and Roger Davis were a class act.

[@HuggyMackay]

Complete with John Motson to describe the action. Happy days.

[@SteveInskip]

Charles Fleming me too.....Ossie End Paddock! Lol.

[@TheGlassman63]

@@SteveInskipAlways a Popsider.

[@chokoholmes9177]

a proper game of footy - the enmity between these two at the time, stemming from the Clough/Revie scenario, was incredible. Good to see old City favourite Franny Lee diving his socks off and winning a penalty!

[@hughmackay5200]

Yes, anyone who says diving on a football pitch is a modern thing should look at the footage of the Lee dive. It was up there with the efforts of Tom Daley!!!!!

[@kaykay1884]

@@hughmackay5200 Pushed him pal, and he did not have to.

[@MartinCanada]

A veritable 9.2 effort by Francis Lee! (Jürgen Klinsmann would be envious.) Norman Hunter got his payback via a right cross at 3:26

[@pittassavvas7512]

This was the first time I saw derby county play, on TV in Australia and fell in love with the team, I still follow them, go Rams!!!!

[@rossi6113]

REAL British football before the cancer of the Premier League millionaires and the foreign badge kissers. Glad to have been there. Everton till I die.

[@tonynesbit9673]

Snap

[@martinputt6421]

You're teams in the Premier League and has a lot of foreign players in case you hadn't noticed.

[@duncanmoore8921]

@@martinputt6421 think he has noticed mate and is just stating his preference.......

[@chrisevans5259]

100% spot on ...when the league had a true identity

[@yozzsongs]

Ricky J.P. COYB ! I was home & away in those days . Working class Brits watched by working class lads. Players you could relate to.

[@ravsingh5347]

So much talent in the locally born player's.... DERBY were awesome in the 1970's alongside LEED's... ⚽🇬🇧👏

[@stephanedajtlich]

As a Frenchman I totally agree with the previous messages. When British football belonged to the Brits and not Yankee, Thai, Russian or Saudi club owners.

[@lfc7763]

And the French football belonged to the French. Not anymore.

[@martinputt6421]

Well it was the choice of British owners to sell out like cowards and greedy money grabbers so they should take a lot of blame.

[@tab6496]

@@lfc7763 and played by French and not africans.

[@HandleGF]

@@tab6496 And... the third reply is racist. That didn't take any longer than expected..

[@paulturner5128]

Wonderful watching this again. I was at that match (being a Rams supporter) and when Davies scored that winning goal there was a roar and cheer from the crowd that must have been heard in Leeds. The Leeds team at that time played hard uncompromising football and If they where playing today all of them would probably get sent off in the first 5 minutes of the match.

[@GJackson64]

I was there too - my first ever game. Great result

[@stephentaylor2066]

What fantastic players these two teams had, packed with legends.

[@UpTheJunction79]

Classic 70s action there will never be a decade like it again

[@alanwhite7912]

Division One was so much better than the Premier League.

[@martinputt6421]

@@alanwhite7912 It's the same bloody thing

[@alanwhite7912]

@@martinputt6421 Is it really...the same thing. Run by the Football League without all the money, hype, media circus etc etc. Not the same at all other than it being the top tier of English football.

[@martinputt6421]

@@alanwhite7912 Yes it is. The only difference is that the Premier League is permanently sponsored by Barclays

[@alanwhite7912]

@@martinputt6421 Barclays sponsorship of the PL ended in 2015-16. There has been no sponsor since then. I would suggest you do some reading around the creation of the PL, it's financial structure and the motivation behind clubs desire to breakaway from the Football League. As a corporate entity it is not the same product as the old Division One. Plus if you read the other comments you will see most agree with me. I guess you're a lot younger than me.

[@ronnierhino100]

What a dive by Franny Lee, gold medal performance.

[@steviemoon4472]

proper football proper crowds and a proper fight , God help the lot of us !!!!

[@Isleofskye]

Motty as observant as ever ! The 2 players are CLEARLY walking towards the tunnel and he says " they MAY have been sent off!" followed by an almighty scrap so then he says " I'm sure that must have been sent off THIS time!"... You don't say John !!!! lol Why 43 years later did I love this era? British players on real pitches giving 110% and loving THEIR Clubs and being able to choose to stand and right near the pitch...HALCYON DAYS...

[@raygrange7312]

The great days of football. Will never be the same.

[@stephenreeds3672]

Thank God.

[@simonkevnorris]

Franny Lee - one of the original 'divers' before it became part of the game. I remember watching these games.

[@davidmichaels8934]

What a fantastic game! The commitment the skill and courage was all there, AND no bloody VAR!

[@hughmackay5200]

Yes, I fear VAR will decide a relegation battle, either this season, or in seasons to come. I dare not imagine the financial implications for the club involved :(

[@davidmichaels8934]

@@hughmackay5200 thanks for the, yes, it could affect promotion as well! Imagine if it decided the Premier League title! 😭

[@Stewkeithmtb]

VAR would have cancelled the penalty, Lee would have been booked and no fighting on the pitch. Seems like a good idea to me

[@malarki5]

Roger Davis (Derby) & David Fairclough (Liverpool) were both match-changing super-subs of the era. Oh, the memories of the 1970s when I was just a seven year-old Black boy at the Clock End, Highbury Stadium...and watching the Big Match every Sunday with Brian Moore.

[@estemesnosetoma9250]

Tremenda película la de Bryan Clough un verdadero genio.. investigue sobre su vida y especialmente sus frases...fue impresionante lo que hizo en el Derby County y después en el Nottingham Forest FC...saludos de un admirador del fútbol Inglés desde 🇨🇱

[@elmexingles]

este mes no sé toma se dice que fue el mejor técnico que la selección inglesa nunca tuvo :(

[@estemesnosetoma9250]

@@elmexingles exacto he leído varios reportajes sobre el, el tipo practicaba el juego limpio y se lo inculcaba a sus jugadores en los 70 el Leeds sentó supremacía en el fútbol inglés y su fútbol era bastante rudo (es cosa de ver todas las peleas que provocaban Gilles, Bremner y cía) cuando Clough asumió en el Leeds (no duró más de uno o dos meses) les dijo "voten todas las medallas que han ganado, porque no lo han hecho en buena ley" jajaja un capo pero se hecho el camarín entero encima...

[@63mckenzie]

Ah, the days of 70s football and SHOOT magazine. Bliss.

[@michaelpower4372]

And £5.00 to get in.

[@63mckenzie]

@@michaelpower4372 If you were a kid they just lifted you over the turnstile!

[@michaelpower4372]

And a fiver to get in. Theres story's now that you'll pay £7.50 for a point of beer at west ham football ground.

[@TheGlassman63]

The Baseball ground, a `ram`shackled theatre of football. Like so many old grounds, now sadly gone forever.

[@hepatitusb]

"Oh, hard lines Nish..!" God, football was so much better back then...

[@petrasant5495]

And the boxing!

[@alunjones685]

As a linguist I was curious about the etymology of 'hard lines' and it appears to be several centuries old and to refer to having the bad luck of being on the front line in fierce combat or else handling frozen ropes on a ship. Unusual too the use of second person supporter-like commentator to protagonist dialogue, you don't often hear 'Nice bit of dribbling, Best' 'Good try, my son' or 'You'll be very disappointed about that, won't you, David [Seamen]?' on MOTD. Interestingly, 'nish' means 'nothing' in Northern English dialect, originating from 'nichts' in German or 'nisht' (no, not) in Yiddish, so may be an oblique reference by Motson to 'nothing doing on this particular occasion' - i.e hitting the bar - rather than addressing the Derby player by name. I'll get my coat.

[@patrickkelly9110]

@@alunjones685 very good

[@alunjones685]

@@patrickkelly9110 Cheers, Patrick

[@TheSloopyJoe]

As a swede this is real brittish football, not like the shit on premier league now a days!

[@jerryoshea3116]

Well observed!I couldn't agree more!!

[@SEBKAL]

100% British players on the field...untotally heard of in this day and age, not to mention 100% British managers too 👍🏻

[@jerryoshea3116]

@@SEBKAL Absolutely👍.More passion,conviction,skill,technique and of course Fight! .Unlike this phoney,expensive,hyped BS we're seeing now in this so called "Modern game"..Which we all know is a right load of "bollocks"!

[@davidoldham1545]

Take me back to this style of football I might start giving a toss about it again

[@robharding5345]

Well said Chris ! your so right.the current game is fast becoming a non contact sport..

[@martynhanson]

In 1989 the Football League chose the best 100 players who had played for their centenary year. They roughly chose ten from each decade from 1889 - so it was tough to get in. Yet, Norman Hunter made that 100. That's because there was much more to his game than the physical side. He was almost as good a passer than Bobby Moore, for example. Also, Hunter was the first PFA player of the year in 1974. So he must have had something extra.

[@Bayshuck]

Agreed, he was excellent, though not quite up to Bobby Moore - we will forgive his big error vs Poland which cost England so much.

[@jb9433]

McFarland better than both of them.

[@eddiejohn7744]

From the days when football was worth watching. England was a wonderful country back then. The days when it was Englaish , Scottish , Welsh and Irish guys on the pitch. Great players . They try to tell you football has moved on , yes well it did , in the wrong direction. Money destroyed football

[@maclfc6880]

England was a good country in the 70's? Get a grip Eddie. What planet were you living on?

[@nolan8336]

@@maclfc6880 He said Wonderful, not good...there's a difference, and he's spot on about Football.

[@robharding5345]

When the game had everything . Entertainment, Action, & passion. with a bit of hows yer father thrown in.

[@neilhartley5372]

All weather as well

[@petergoddard262]

...and a boxing match also. LOL

[@diptastik5651]

It's real life lol

[@andreslebon3869]

They look more skilful than the players of today, they could also box very well.

[@timomastosalo]

This is what I watched as a kid with my father at saturday night, with a Finnish commentary. We Finns take a sauna at Saturdays, which is a relaxing steam bath, in case somebody finds it somehow exotic. So, relaxed, steaming warm and pure, I sat at or by the sofa, with my after-sauna lemonade, father sat down in his spot on the sofa and poured himself a pint. I was usually first on my spot, cause I coudn't wait. Father came always a bit after the broadcast had started. Didn't understand it then, but I guess he came spot on whe he heard the whistle blow. Never in the world would I imagine sitting on the father's spot on the sofa - it was like messing the thrown up. Once I spilled his beer a bit cause I wanted to play. Got away with a serious talk. And quick feet for starters. Grabbed by hair was the typical serious case. Spanked I got only if I had hurt my baby sister. Never happened a hair pull or spanking in the football evening though. Those games were something I wouldn't miss even for an opportunity to torture my sister. My learned her way in the world - grew bigger than me. I don't torture her anymore as an adult. Exceet with my stories, occasionally. The game started. I could almost smell the grass (probably had played earlier in the day). Probably wore my Pele shirt quite often in the game night. Or then the bathrobe, or how do you call it - saunarobe for us Finns at home talk. Basically it's then exactly the same as bathrobe. The commentators voice calmed me down with his professionality, and with the exceptation of something grand -exceptation in his voice, and exceptation in the singing audience. And I wasn't disappointed, even if it was 0-0. It was a full experience, my Saturday night goodnight story. The singing English football crowd still takes me to my Finnish childhood 70's. Globalization taking its baby steps.

[@delanodegenie6970]

What the actual fuck??

[@timomastosalo]

@@delanodegenie6970 Childhood reminiscence, why get so negative about that? If it looks too long, you can always skip without noise. It's not like it's away from you if someone wrotes something you don't have time to read.

[@delanodegenie6970]

@@timomastosalo There's a stereotype that the Finnish are renowned for being a bit odd.... Certainly seems to be true here

[@timomastosalo]

@@delanodegenie6970 What was so odd there? The love of football (which is what it was about, from a little boy's view). Or was it the sauna. That's a version of bath, btw. Or Finns may be odd simply because the cukture is not Indo-European. Though Finns have existed longer than the country called England :)

[@Wolvesfan-oz6yh]

Must admit.... great kit Leeds had this particular season

[@The4thDensity]

For fooks sake someone hurry up and build that time machine.

[@deanbembridge8640]

Better players then than today's over paid prima Donna,s and they didn't need foreign players to make a great team

[@TestTest-mn5pk]

They have but it only goes back to Selhurst Park.

[@beds139]

Slightly off topic. I watched Chelsea play Spurs in the early 70s at Stamford Bridge. Peter Osgood and Mike England had a brutal battle that day but at 7pm that night they were together drinking each other's health in the King's Road pub I used then.

[@willcorlett7630]

I forgot that Franny Lee could never stand up once he got into the box - the true king of the divers.

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Oh Allan Clarke wasn't always offside or on his feet in the area either..Leeds were a skilful DIRTY team.

[@grzegorzfilipczyk2375]

Perfect

[@stephengodden6796]

He could also play a bit, what a career

[@markstevenfall]

His grandson, Chris 'The Wardrobe' Martin, now plays at Derby. He's also been known to go down relatively easily on the odd occasion... (not really his grandson, for those who might just actually be wondering...😄👍🐑🐑🐑)

[@kaykay1884]

Pushed him over.

[@johnhanson5943]

When Britain was Britain and football belonged to us and our local communities.

[@alexsheremett3097]

I think it 's the football we have lost for ever it 's the best we could ever see by the way in whole life I never ever saw someone flying in the air as Cherry did may be only Pele and Michael Jordan ,great football

[@edlbrexitmax139]

A lot of people don’t know about this rivalry

[@MrGranfield]

No wonder Hunter was furious it was a blatant dive by Lee.

[@RobCLynch]

I'm so lucky to have been brought up during this era. This was first division football and the working-man's game. When you could be shopping with the wife on Saturday and decide to shoot to the match.

[@mkrbrtsn1]

The 70's was a great decade in English football.

[@csb7376]

mkrbrtsn1 unless you were watching the World Cup.

[@petermills542]

mkrbrtsn 1 "A great decade for English Football " ? Ha bloody ha ! There was an appalling amount of violence, vandalism, racism (throwing bananas at black players) crumbling death trap old Stadiums with filthy facilities & rotten pitches, women & children scared to go to matches, bomb scares, & England twice not even qualifying for the World Cup!! (Germany & Argentina) Yeah a real 'Golden Age' for English Football ! Were you actually even there?! You should ditch your rose tinted glasses & get yourself down to Specsavers !!

[@johnjones9689]

@mkrbrtsn1 Yes indeed, great times.

[@johnjones9689]

@@petermills542 Another sad, hysterical rant from Peter Mills. Take your medication you plank.

[@petermills542]

John Jones. I've only made one 'rant' as you so politely put it. so where's the other one?!

[@jasonbrooks6562]

Franny lee at the time,was well known for his diving and getting pens. Hunter,had had enough. God,the football was great then.

[@Isleofskye]

"Lee One Pen "....

[@djangorheinhardt]

Hunter tried to cripple someone every week.As I said in the post Hunter was a nasty ,underhanded little shit.Franny did not punch someone every week : that scumbag Hunter kicked and tried to put someone out of the game,every week.It was a symptom of the footballing rationale I.e. win at all cost.No skullduggery was off the table.Even the FA warned Leeds about their conduct.

[@mickfoskett6629]

@@djangorheinhardt ..glad I'm not the only one who thought hunter had little talent and was just a dirty bastard..so over rated and makes me cringe when th plaudits were coming out after his death..that whole Leeds including revie in the 70s were just dirty gits!!👊👊👹

[@markfuller3948]

@@mickfoskett6629 Get a grip. Is this the first match you've seen from this era ?? Hunter was a great footballer, and all teams had enforcers. Francis Lee was just a cheat, and was reviled back then.

[@mickfoskett6629]

@@markfuller3948 mate the 70s and 80s were my era..saw Hunter and Lee many times..my opinion still stands👹

[@barrieholmes8550]

Baseball ground in unusually good nick, there was usually 3 inches of mud in penalty area lol

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

Diving was around then. Lee and Rodney marsh were great exponents of diving. Both English. No johnny foreigner then.

[@Nuttybott]

The difference is, back then Lee and Rodney Marsh were the exceptions, not the rule. That's why everyone remembers them diving...nowadays it has become the rule...they ALL do it! :-/

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

​@@Nuttybott And to be fair, Leeds deserved that back then. They had a reputation for professional fouls on players with clear goal-scoring opportunities and that was something that could only be given a booking until 1982 when Jimmy Hill had the rules changed. Leeds would always get in a well timed foul to block a striker when their mainly talentless (outside that of hacking legs) defence had inevitably screwed up. Seems to me Lee was just giving Dirty Leeds and their complete **** of a manager a bit of their own medicine.

[@mikeireland7388]

RIP Norman

[@fabriziochiapelli4101]

Fantastic ❤!! Love England Football 70/80!!

[@patrickmchenry2217]

Colin boulton, my favorite goalie, played for the Tulsa Roughnecks NASL, I was 10 or 11 going to these games. Hope he is doing well.

[@weebolddavy]

Can't remember the Baseball Ground looking so good in the '70's it was always like a muddy ploughed field and Derby knew how to play on it

[@davidmichaels8934]

It was after that fantastic summer of 1975,thats why the pitch was looking good!

[@davidv.8655]

I love the fact that motty was genuinely surprised it was a sending off .you had to nearly end someone's career to get a booking back then

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

Motson was a truly awful commentator. Never had a clue what was happening. Was like listening to a Dementia sufferer screaming in your ear for the whole match.

[@andreadevonport3139]

Was at that game.with my friend vicky lee who supported Leeds. Brilliant game drama goals and fights perfect match.

[@mediastarguest]

Derby County were champions twice in the 70s, Leeds were an immense team, Liverpool were hugely successful - there were great footballers spread throughout the whole of the old First Division - so how the hell was the England team at the time so disastrous?

[@andi17ish]

Because you had to many Scottish players and to a lesser extent irish and welsh now your teams are crammed full of foreigners Scotland tried it and fucked up big time but know gradually we are trying to bring through our own again because we dont have skys big money in twenty years time i do see our national team thriving and England you will still be wondering why you cannot compete with the Spains and Germanys

[@mediastarguest]

Good point.

[@SMSJSC]

A VERY good point. I hate to say it but ever mind England, the Scotland team nowadays is a joke, all because of this foreigner policy. And so I think it'll be a very long time yet before we (Scotland) qualify for either the World Cup or Euro Championships again.

[@c3-po279]

Because english best players were ordinary if compared to the germans, italians, dutch, etc. And if compared to South American players the gap was even bigger. I lived on England in the 70's and i could notice this: their top players could not even make the medium/big teams of Argentina and Brasil. Then, when England made it to the WC finals, or even Euros, they got massacred every time

[@michellegoacher2170]

Dirty Derby

[@nidgeontour257]

All those British players with British names! Those were the days!!

[@weemalle1770]

Yes , Osvaldo Ardiles was also a very British name too.

[@geoffjohnson2152]

Dont think ossie Ardiles came to England until 1978

[@weemalle1770]

@@geoffjohnson2152 1978 is still be part of the 70's era. I never stated that Ardiles made his debut in 1975. I did not agree with the guy who claimed that all 70's players had British names. It was simply untrue. Thank you for being polite.

[@nolan8336]

...and Irish.

[@jerryoshea3116]

@@weemalle1770 I think most of the players(probably 95%)were British. Ever since the "Bosman"ruling by the EURO Court of human rights in 95? whatever,which was necessary for the players to have proper workers rights. But unfortunately ever since then,the "Pendulum"has swung completely in the opposite direction and now we're left with players(and certainly an influx of foreign Mercenaries)who dont give a f##k about the teams,fans and country they're living in.It's just an "means to an end" So that was the start of this issue and then the commercialisation of the game,the "EPL, contract between BT/SKY,one of the largest sports deal in the world..mucho€£$$ (making it less Physical and less competitive).So that's why people look back at these games with fondness.

[@CTID-9320]

I remember watching this on the TV classic game, two giants of the 70s. Let’s hope your both coming up where you both belong.

[@stevemartin7798]

great game great fight, Nish was a fine player, Todd was just great, and I had forgotten how good George was at Derby

[@robertmorley3609]

I remember Clough made George get his hair cut.

[@aerodrome4427]

@@robertmorley3609 Clough was not at Derby when George was there. Mackay was the manager.

[@Gaffer96]

football was a mans game...time to toughen up again

[@punitjoshi3787]

Not happening. They are bunch of pussies now. Drop down at a feint touch

[@SteveInskip]

If they brought back the leather balls on a wet afternoon in Manchester, most of em wouldn’t be able to kick it further than a few yards! 😂😂

[@GaijinDT]

This is the real and only English football

[@jamessim1858]

Thanks to all the Scottish players who enhanced your league haha!

[@jonsmith20766]

@@jamessim1858 Because their league is a joke, it's only the two Glasgow sides that have ever given it any credibility.

[@soulbrother08]

The maestro Charlie George

[@stevemartin7798]

football was great then some fantastic players on show, Gemmill Todd McFarland, Clarke Bremner Reaney, George and others fantastic.

[@paulmcneill581]

Brilliant stuff love these old games real football real men not like the plastic shit we have now.

[@malarki5]

RIP Norman Hunter.

[@PinnerHead]

i was fortunate enough to have been there!

[@garyowens1517]

Iremember watching this on match of the day when i was 15. The ironic thing is Francis lee had a longer ban than Norman Hunter. Much better than the premier league of today which is filled with average foreign players and sub standard coaches. No passing for the sake of it . Its a crime today to pass the ball long.

[@andymason5715]

Gary if you look for lufc films and the episode storming norman, it shows you the background to this incident with fat franny. In fact hunter didn't get anything no ban not even a fine. Lee was seen as the aggressor and got six weeks ban!!! Unbelievable, can you imagine what would have happened today. Six months each a very big fine lol

[@garyowens1517]

@@andymason5715 madness. I forgot hunter didnt get a ban . Remember Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan scraoping at the charity shield.

[@derby1884]

What a team we had back then

[@andi17ish]

Everything that made football great and the hardest bastard ever Dave McKay watching

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Dave MacKay was THE all-time hard man in 1st Division football..Bremner shit himself on a 50:50 with him.

[@richardmusto7591]

I had that yellow kit , I was 12 great times !

[@Clem_Fandango11]

If Messi had done that bit of skill that Clarke did, the pundits and millennials would have w*nked themselves into a frenzy.

[@redd605]

This was the beginning of the end for both clubs Liverpool and notts forest dominants started the following years.what a team Derby county to win the league twice and Leeds united robbed of the 1975 European cup. after Peter Lorimer good goal ruled out.

[@sicr7373]

I'm an old 'un and can remember going to the football on a Saturday afternoon in the 70's. It was great, you'd pay for your ticket to see a football match and often got a boxing match thrown in as well, especially if Leeds were playing!

[@amarasangkuti]

Never give up is the key

[@leebush4053]

Lee hung his left leg out and dived. It angered Hunter and after numerous verbals Hunter punched him. Lee was sent off for being punched. As they're walking off Lee thinks I may as well hit if that's what I've been sent off for. strange thing was they were good friends and England room mates. This was when football was a tough game from 1 to 11.

[@johnosullivan6439]

Delighted Norman gave Lee a smack. Clear dive for the penalty - Lee was a professional cheat who'd conned referees into giving penalties by diving for years, same when he was at Man City. He had it coming.

[@paulw6183]

@@johnosullivan6439 He had the last laugh though, made norman hunter look like the coward he was.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@paulw6183 He didn't even connect with a single punch lol

[@paulw6183]

@@cockoffgewgle4993 Yet he still put him on his arse!

[@trevorhayward467]

Thanks for posting this so many great memories

[@Harbottle64]

If anybody ever asks me "Who's the best player never to play for England?" it's always going to be Duncan McKenzie. The bloke could jump over a mini for Chrissakes!

[@nickcorleone8709]

Steve Bruce?

[@mikewest1542]

And throw golf balls from one end of a football ground to the other side !

[@stephenwashbrook8625]

Allen Clarke great player - that’s coming from a Derby fan

[@johnjames8644]

I’m surprised Leeds don’t use that away strip now It’s iconic

[@malcolmoldham192]

What a match, what a fantastic goal from big Roger. I was lucky enough to be in the Popside that day. Brian Clough built the side but Dave Mackay got them playing some scintillating football.

[@sjmoss148]

Malcolm Oldham agreed. I was a Popsider in Cloughie’s reign but missed this classic Mackay game. Pity the punch up was the other side of the pitch!

[@baileys57bailey6]

A proper game, this is why those who can remember this, are disgusted by the shambles we are dished up these days.

[@clivebonneywell6967]

Can't belive this was nearly 40years ago seems like yesterday British football at its best with British players

[@dickturpin4786]

A dive by Franny that would have put a 2018 Premier League match to shame.

[@CrankCase08]

Francis Lee was clearly ahead of his time.

[@johnbaker7184]

,The leg biter won the first exchange. But Franny got him in the 2nd. Roger Davies what a goal.

[@davekeating.]

Francis Lee doing his Devon Loch impersonation…

[@dimoskakas3814]

FORZA DERBY COUNTY FROM GREECE.UP THE RAMS!!!!!!

[@johnlowdon5809]

Nice one.

[@beds139]

Remember watching this on MOTD at the time. Even by the standards of the time it was jaw dropping (no pun intended)

[@HuggyMackay]

This will be remembered as the punch-up to eclipse all other punch-ups

[@suffern63]

Franny Lee the perfect reply when people start moaning about foreigners diving in the modern game.Great memories.

[@grahamfigg5817]

Fantastic football entertainment, proper blokes not crying or worrying about their modelling careers and a proper punch-up. I bet the ref only added about 2 minutes injury time on.

[@nicklarge007]

Shame Dave Mackay wasnt on the field, Hunter would have woke up a week later.....

[@TheGlassman63]

LOL, you are right on that.

[@chrisevans5259]

Franny Lee was the Tom Daley of his day

[@adeh503]

No squad numbers or Ads on the shirts and proper football boots

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Those boots were heavy but lasted ages as you had to break the leather down with dubbin. Strikers rarely missed the target then..keepers had to make the save or it was in.There was more talent in this one match than in two PL teams now. Colin Todd&David Nish had real swagger.I'm Spurs so we love flair players.

[@markywellsboy2182]

Stylo boots all over the pitch

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Notice how the players use both feet. All modern players seem so one footed.

[@christophergarrett8455]

Yea Leeds could foul with both

[@adriangould8122]

Super rams this side was fantastic 😎

[@user-yv9kl2pc9p]

In an interview Jack Charlton said that for all Hunter's hard man image he was no match for Lee in a proper fight.

[@bobbyhanly3466]

He was also about a foot taller than Lee. But Lee was all over him.

[@Afficionadoh]

baseball ground - Lee gets a Gordie Howe hattrick - a goal, an assist and a fight. What a game. Filthy Leeds. Brilliant Derby - Charlie George to boot

[@peterturley2960]

When football was a delight to watch- not the boring chess style tactics employed today!!

[@gfoot9916]

Peter Turley the refusal to use those “chess-style tactics” is why England, the creators of the game, haven’t won the World Cup in half a century.

[@WildwoodClaire1]

Yeah, if you don't mind prize fights breaking out in the middle of the match.

[@tamhaswoods9056]

@@gfoot9916 I call BS and Peter Turley is spot on. Players are coached to death these days, nothing will change the fact that football is all about who WANTS it more, and who plays as a team. There are exceptions (norwich 1993, every Serie A team in the 80s, spain 2010, maybe Man City now, but they can still play without boring the hell out of everyone) but France didn't do "chess" in 2018, nor did Leicester, nor did Real Madrid after they got CL title #13. Those teams played FOOTBALL. End of. And that applies to a vast majority of title winning teams.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

​@@tamhaswoods9056 Playing as a team means having a coherent strategy though. England didn't win in 1966 by inaccurately passing the ball around like a headless chicken as pretty much every England team between Alf Ramsey and Southgate has, with maybe some exceptions under Robson and Venables.