15/12/1973 - The Big Match

[@colinings3771]

What a team Leeds had in that title winning season. Chelsea too. The First Division was so competitive back then. A great game.

[@seltaeb3302]

What a joy. I certainly won't be watching the World Cup but this will do nicely instead.

[@GarryH1963]

The late, great Peter Houseman for Chelsea. (He sadly died in a car crash with his wife several years later), but what a legend.

[@paulshorney3465]

He lived in Oakley near Basingstoke,the junior Leagues were named after him as a tribute. They might still be to this day!

[@grahamd5418]

Very underated player whom went about his business quietly. Almost unnoticed. Whilst the Osgoods,Hudsons and Cookes grabbed all the headlines.

[@TheWelwyn21]

Tiger

[@Lord_Hillcrest]

I learned of this not too long ago . What a sad story . Peter Houseman was a very good player .

[@seltaeb3302]

@@grahamd5418 not their fault but the Press.

[@mick3765]

Glad I found this channel this is the football I grew up with, no prima donna overpaid superstars, just honest football and no diving.

[@mickpearson6184]

Only diving headers

[@mikebarton]

Francis Lee.... 🫣🫣 🤿 🤿

[@seltaeb9691]

Man U Ronaldo gets £500.000 a week. A WEEK!!! It's just so gross, 2 million a month plus all his advertisement money. So many players are on less in the Premier but still, what, 200 300 grand a week, for football that isn't football anymore. Fans should strike nationwide to bring down wages cost, & the foreigners can leave & Brits back in. I dream..

[@seltaeb9691]

@@mickpearson6184 tackling gone & heading will be next on health grounds, yet boxing is ok wack! wack!

[@donrevie721]

I'm in 7th heaven. Im a Leeds United fan for my sins and this upload is nostalgic Nirvana for me. A trillion thanks 😊 🙏.

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@1990-t1j]

I'm a Burnley fan from a Leeds/Burnley town, so no fan of Leeds, but that was worth watching. The Leeds team of this era was superb. Incidentally, we won at Elland Road that season, 4-1.

[@jb3222]

@@1990-t1j You were also one of only 2 teams to beat Leeds during the '68-9 season - by the staggering score of 5-1. I can't resist pointing out that in the return match at Elland Rd you were thumped 6-1 so honour was satisfied. Good Burnley team in those days - Casper, Coates et al?

[@1990-t1j]

@@jb3222 Hi, JB. Indeed. Not only did I go to the 4-1 result at ER - the week before our FA Cup semi final defeat to Newcastle, but I went to the 5-1 hammering at TM. What a surprise that was. I didn't go to the return, but I was at ER for the thrashing which included Eddie's Gray's wonder goal. Were you there?

[@synthdude]

There's an upload of the '68 Leeds team on here too. What a team!

[@jimmy3651]

When football was football 👍⚽️

[@craiggerrard5117]

Mick Jones was a great player and as a young Liverpool fan in the 1970s he was the one in that great Leeds team that I really feared. Very underrated though, as he is not the first name that comes to mind for most people.

[@TheWelwyn21]

How he never went to the world cup in 1970 was criminal. Bloody Ramsey took England back 20 years after winning the world cup. He should have gone after the euros 68

[@justaroundthecorner2883]

Well remember Mick Jones, he was such a prolific goalscorer and as you say greatly underrated.

[@seltaeb9691]

He's sadly forgot in the Leeds players of that period & he was the main goal scorer too. I think it was he was a simple direct striker & didn't have that Leeds cache of the others like Clarke Lorimer Gray Bremner & Giles, even Bates. It's odd really but he came & went without much fanfare. He needs to be recognised more in what he gave to Leeds which was a lot of goals & never maimed anyone either!

[@ysgol3]

Agreed 100% - it's very like my favourite Chelsea player from this period - Ian Hutchinson - THE hero of the 1970 Cup Final.

[@finbarstadt7213]

Mick Jones is my all-time footballing hero. He was the best centre forward in the country by a country mile and it is criminal that he wasn't used more by England. Sadly his career ended early due to a knee injury - the sort of problem that would be sorted easily today.

[@MrGranfield]

What a consummate presenter Brian Moore was. Gary Linekers not in his league.

[@antrog1895]

Not sure Brian had a twitter account 😂

[@markjones7109]

Lineker is a woke hypocrite prick. Can`t stand the guy.

[@matthewmedley8532]

Absolute legend.

[@PeteCourtier]

Lineker is a weapons grade spunk trumpet.

[@rip5666]

Gary Lineker? Is he not another failed engish person. It's not coming home.

[@pierremartini2229]

Thanks so much for these. Was at school then Uni in London in the sixties & seventies. Fantastic memories. Went to games at Stamford Bridge, Highbury, White Hart Lane, Craven Cottage, Loftus Road and Once to Upton Park. Not so expensive then.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

Always remember our English teacher Mr Mead saying he was at uni/college very near to the 'Bridge: and it would be in the days of Osgood, Hollins etc. He was a stern so and so but had a gleam in his eye when reminiscing about those student footy days!

[@martinsmusic2223]

That 51 minutes flew by. No tattoos, no snoods, no diving, no pathetic goal celebrations, no seats, no stewards trying to order folk around, no app required to get in.

[@jamesmgreen15]

Thanks for these. Memories of my boyhood days indeed. Sunday afternoon around my Grandad's house watching football in COLOUR, LOL. Later, perhaps time left, to emulate the heroes wearing my No.11 Charlie George shirt:)

[@seltaeb3302]

In colour! Lucky you, but bw was the norm for 90% of the population.

[@tonypetts6663]

I was shocked when Brian said Leeds had four or five first team players out, I could name every player in the starting 11, and I'm a Chelsea fan! When he later said Clarke and Giles were missing amongst others I thought they must have had the strongest squad around at that time, when besides the first 11 or 12 the rest were often a second 11. I always enjoyed the Leeds games, they were such needle matches between the two teams from the late 60's to mid 70's, a real rivalry at the time. And as Brian said about Ozzie and Hunter, they will be friends afterwards; usually they were down the kings road anytime they were both in town.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

It's a show of their greatness that i could still just about name the starting eleven.of a Leeds team of the early Seventies far more easily than i could my own team of Everton....i could name four probably.

[@tonypetts6663]

@@spanishpeaches2930 I could still name the Chelsea players as well, but such was the Leeds strength in those times that they are the most memorable team. Talking of the Chelsea team I must admit I was surprised that Tommy Baldwin was still starting games in '73, I didn't remember him doing that in the games I actually went to that season.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@tonypetts6663 I would have been 12 when this was played and many of my friends were Leeds fans....we were all from Hull...used to go and see city play too. Can remember most of that side. On another front...Peter Houseman was brought up in the comments...i had forgotten about the tragedy that befell him and his wife and two friends...that driver would have been jailed for probably eight years plus nowadays. Back in 77 as well...time really flies. Even though i still follow EFC, my love for the game went ten years back after slowly declining over the past 20 years. The greed for wealth just ruined it all for me. 1996 and the Euros was really the last time i seriously enjoyed it. Last match i went to was 2008. Atb.

[@tonypetts6663]

@@spanishpeaches2930 I would have been about 8 then went to a number of home games that year but not this one. Unfortunately I've also lost any real interest in the modern game, I stopped going to Chelsea when they put the kids price up to a fiver, thanks to their financial issues from the late seventies onwards. I ended up with a season ticket at Brentford for four years, the first two seasons were a tenner, then twelve for the next too. That my dad could afford lol. Once the money came into the game it changed beyond recognition and I slowly lost interest. I'll still watch England or Wales games if I'm about, but I don't make a point of seeing them. As for my last game I watched live it was probably a playoff final at Wembley around twenty years ago (Brentford losing as usual) and Chelsea was a couple of years before that for the opening game of the season. I just don't feel justified in paying the price of tickets now and I don't feel the atmosphere is the same. Just out of interest this channel has a couple of Everton Vs Chelsea games from 1969 and 73 that I've watched, though you may want to avoid the 73 match!

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@tonypetts6663 Haha..you never can tell with Everton...had some great moments in the Seventies but also a few clangers too : )

[@jamesau9877]

I still remember watching these highlights back then in Hong Kong when I was a little boy. Thanks a lot for uploading

[@hetty43]

Great to see again. I was 8 year old and a Leeds fan. I remember most of these players. They were hero’s to me. I remember Joe Jordan playing for Scotland. Never forget Billy Bremner playing for Scotland Argentina 78. Last game verses Holland. Bremner nearly did it for Scotland. What a great Leeds team. Match of the day Saturday night. Big match on a Sunday afternoon. Real footballers. Even the adverts bring back happy memories. Thanks.

[@donaldcunningham2386]

Leeds had , how can I say it, an excess of talent those days. They slaughtered Arsenal and Man U, and were extremely unlucky not to grab the European Cup, too. Don Revie introduced the European - style wave to the fans at the start of the game, and even sock garter tags a la boy scout.

[@faeembrugh]

You mean Archie Gemmill. Bremner stopped playing for Scotland in 1975.

[@hetty43]

@@faeembrugh yes you are right.

[@Jellybeantiger]

This is the football I grew up with in Australia coming home from school and putting on Match of The Day with Jimmy Hill,the best.

[@richardslater677]

Astonishing picture quality for 1973

[@donaldcunningham2386]

Gawd, this is so much better to watch than the stuff I ( occasionally) see today. I recall all these players, an era when players weren't mobile advertising billboards. And Brian Moore's commentating is impeccable.

[@tmw9187]

Superb upload! Thanks so much

[@niceperson5962]

Bremner was really good. Underrated

[@danielbanks9589]

Top class player

[@frankmachin5438]

Who on earth underrated Billy Brenner? One of the greatest footballers ever to play in the league, about 550 games for Leeds and more than 50 for his country. There’s a bloody statue of him outside Elland Rd!

[@plasteckfly]

Now that’s what I call a real game of football!!!

[@patdaly1708]

When real men played real football.. A great time to grow up watching the game... The big match was on TV every Sunday afternoon.. It was itv rival to match of the day on Saturday nights on BBC, my father use to let me and my brothers stay up Saturday nite to watch mod.. Great times,, and great football.. ⚽⚽

[@andrewhinksFUNKYMANLUFC]

greatest team the London press has ever hated!!!!!

[@rumcove07]

My first game was at the Bridge the season before. Ian Hutchinson was out with a broken leg but was hanging around on crutches to talk to the fans near the turnstiles. Who can imagine that happening today!??

[@eamonq9535]

Nice to see corners being taken with the ball inside the quadrant not outside touching the last possible spot of white paint.

[@mnd1955]

My dad was at that game against Wednesday. He said that grown men had tears in their eyes as the teams took the field. I remember the Coventry game too. We were sliding down towards relegation and despite a brief rally towards the end of the season, we did go down. And another piece of history, Best's goal against Coventry was the last one he ever scored for United. His last game for us was against QPR on January 1st, 1974. We lost 0-3.

[@jonglewongle3438]

There was a Best playing for West Ham, And I wondered if George Best did go over to West Ham. And it didn't look entirely unlike him. But, no, it was another Best.

[@mnd1955]

@@jonglewongle3438 Clyde Best? Decent player as I recall.

[@jonglewongle3438]

@@mnd1955 For West Ham in this particular telecast and upload. Which is why i mentioned it. " Clyde Best " it is. George Best went to Fulham, after Manchester United [ without looking it up' ]. I remember seeing a Big Match, or the like, on the telly and George Best went haywire and had the match to himself, dribbling the length of the field and scoring two or three goals in the all-white strip. The all-white probably being that of Fulham.

[@mnd1955]

@@jonglewongle3438 United's away strip was all white back then. Fulham wore black shorts. You might be thinking of the game at Anfield when he had a stormer in, I think, 1969, I don't like looking things up like that either. Keeps the old grey matter working.

[@jonglewongle3438]

@@mnd1955 I think you have it with when and with who George Best did that " stormer ". United in 69 for that.

[@anthonysmith9920]

Big Mal should have been an England Coach/Manager.......impressive knowledge of tactics and foreign teams.

[@johnreed3638]

Back then, they were smokers, drinkers and party goers, yet far better footballers than todays fitness fanatics.Just goes to show.

[@mikebarton]

'far better'? 🤔

[@DavidJones-hi3xp]

That Leeds team…. Wow. No players like that around nowadays.

[@davidcoleman3445]

I was at this game nearly 50 years ago. Brian Moore was a well respected commentator well liked by the players and managers. In later life he became a committed Christian. As regards the football, although Leeds were known as Dirty Leeds they were full of skilful footballers, a mix of English and Scottish players who were as Malcolm Alison said were all great pros. Most of these players played for their clubs for extended periods unlike todays pros. The best side ever? Probably not judged from todays perspective but certainly the best of that era.

[@skintslots]

Leeds were a very good side back then and were very underrated due to their ability to literally fight their way around the pitch when needed but could really play when needed. Malcolm Allison was also a superb analyst and far better than the clueless ex professionals they hire nowadays. And analysts were only in the studio while the commentator did his job of commentating without an ex pro constantly butting in spouting inane crap mostly. So much better organised back then. I would be nice if those lessons were learned and still used but the need for hyperbole and publicity trumps common sense.

[@seltaeb9691]

Underrated? By who? You must be a Millennial because any football fan back in the day knew they were the best team in the land.

[@skintslots]

@@seltaeb9691 I wish I was a millenial as I am in my mid 50s! I meant that historically Leeds legacy has been a bit undeserving due to their uncompromising nature. The best team in the land were my mighty reds of Liverpool who conquered both Europe and England back then. Leeds were excellent but not at that level.

[@mick6370]

@@skintslots Leeds v Liverpool was he biggest rivalry in them days and Revie and shankly were both great mates and spoke regularly to one another after MOTD at the best Leeds edge it for me .

[@skintslots]

@@mick6370 As a Liverpool supporter I disagree. Mostly because of Liverpool's European success and longevity.

[@tonymarshall4164]

My good mate Gary Locke playing in this game, he was only 19

[@LordFlashheart.11]

Kenny Burns and Trevor Francis..who'd have known they would win the European Cup with Clough years later.

[@paulstarr6316]

Proper football,proper commentary,too many commentators think they're from sth America,shouting.Prefer this format too

[@ndubzzz1]

Great seeing the names I grew up listening too. Peter Osgood, early hero

[@bertcert991]

Great program and George Bests last goal for United Leeds at their peak and Brian Moore as good as always

[@liammccooey5652]

What a wonderful team Leeds and great men off the field best ever 🇮🇪

[@patrickmalone1902]

The great Hugh Johns.

[@JimHara]

Refs in black, goalies in green, and Leeds United on the top of the world, happy days

[@seltaeb9691]

Gawd, I've been waiting for all this early 70s ie '71-'74 footy for years, if only MOTD tapes hadn't been wiped. When men played football.

[@robharding5345]

Yeah ! when the beautiful game really was beautiful, before the oil investers and tv companies ruined it.

[@elgonm289]

And standard 1970s chant when the away team scored " you're gonna get your fucking head kicked in"

[@ysgol3]

🤣Great to see Lorimer flattened by a quick right hook from Hollins.

[@karlgodfreed]

Looked like a punch from hollins i had to watch it a few times and he didnt even get booked. Around the 36 or 37 timeline mark.

[@karlgodfreed]

08 mark lol

[@robheath8382]

Surprisingly good punch by Hollins on lorimer

[@th723]

What a great programme, I am 65 but I don't remember the gallery section. Lovely memories and a nice tribute to Man Utd, why don't they have things like that now instead of all the useless match analysis. The presenters are also greatly missed.

[@ejhchess]

The first game I ever attended in person, as an eight-year-old kid

[@bm6563]

50 years to the day since this match took place. Where did time go?

[@grahamjordan1040]

Proper football no need for 3 commentators or 4 so called pundits, today football is crap compared to this.

[@melgrant7404]

Love looking at the advertising boards.

[@pohl54]

You look at the leeds team sheet and you can't believe they had 5 player's out. Just show's how good they were.

[@Sameoldfitup]

Mighty Leeds United 💙💛

[@simapark]

Leeds won the League that season and only 7 months after this game was played Cloughie became manager. He messed it up with his huge ego and after he left that same Leeds team that he disrespected got to the European Cup final and could easily have won apart from a couple of close referee decisions .

[@seltaeb3302]

Brian Moore says Leeds, 5 first team regulars missing, yet you look at their team here & they are still all first teamers, such was that squad & all Internationals too.

[@michaelmarrinan5151]

I think don revy found them chairs outside the ground with "free" wrote on em. imagine Pep with a blanket over his legs to keep him warm. love MOTD back then I had a suit like Big Mals back then I was nine and the bees knees ..so I thought

[@jameshope398]

David Harvey looks like Les Gray of Mud

[@rickykilby4672]

My brother used to say he looked like a caveman lol.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

A little bit of "Local shop for local people!" twinned with the 118 advert fella, if you know what I mean!

[@johnbeaven8951]

More like Planet of the Apes.

[@paulbradshaw303]

That's right that's right that's right.........

[@mikebreen9980]

Great to find this channel, I grew up and played amateur at this time. I never considered myself a hard player, but compared to the football today I would Have died of shame at some of the antics of today's players. While I'm all in favour of women playing football it doesn't mean we have to to emulate them.

[@garyhillman4993]

Brilliant Leeds without Giles Clarke and Eddie Gray. Only conceded 3 goals in 10 games set another record. Who went on to win the most points ever by a team with their great Captain Billy Bremner and that great yellow away kit and smiley badge. Magic magic days

[@philroger4979]

Sorry mate, but you're wrong about the points. They got 62 that season but 67 in the 68-69 season and lost only two games.

[@chazwozza67]

Way better than todays football no cry babys rolling about no diving just players trying to play

[@mikebarton]

No diving? 🤭

[@douglasmuir2617]

I'm 58 from Hammersmith and Chelsea FC too .proper good old days with true fans at every club.. unlike now . even lived three minutes walk from the ground when I was married!!😂😂

[@panchopuskas1]

What a dump Stamford Bridge was back in the day......when the Shed was just that : a shed. Lots of much needed renovation work going on at this time to bring it up to standard. It was a great place to go though, especially with the Doc’s team of Peter Osgood and company....

[@sweyne6710]

real British sides. not like today

[@castlemilkbundybhoy]

Full of Scots

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

Racist!

[@sweyne6710]

@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 wtf..?

[@arejaycee5484]

Yeah proper tackling no goalkeeper gloves and no fucking VAR

[@sfullernj]

Yeah it's far better now. These teams would get destroyed by today's sides

[@getmetothegeek4066]

Did anyone else think that the video thumbnail was Roy "Record Breakers" Castle rather than Malcolm Allison?

[@HHM706]

That bloody East Stand was the start of the bad times at Chelsea

[@briannaghten2201]

THIS game was the start of bad times for Chelsea. It started a bad run that went through to the New Year with Chelsea 2-0 against West Ham at hald time and losing 4-2 Hudson and Osgood were dropped and refused to train with the 1st team and they were moved on with only David Hay to replace Hudson. Webb left at the end of that season too. The next season Peter Houseman was playing at left back sharing the role with a 16 year old. Tommy Baldwin was drying out.

[@sjguk267]

I was watching Preston against spurs live in the fa cup but decided to come on you tube and watch football instead.

[@ScratchyBaws]

So many Scottish players in these sides and what a player Jordan was in that Chelsea game, Osgood was asleep 2nd half.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

... and we English fans wonder why we didn't qualify for 70s major tournament finals. Because two best club 70s teams, Leeds & Liverpool, were full of Scots and other home nations' players! Can you think of a better spine than Hansen, Souness, Dalglish (all Sco), for example? Or better midfield pair: Bremner (Sco), Giles (RoI)?

[@ScratchyBaws]

@@anglotim Talking First Division Football here NOT International. That's a whole different topic.

[@ScratchyBaws]

@@peterwoodhouse4314 Great comment and spot on. That Liverpool side were something else.

[@ScratchyBaws]

@@anglotim No he's not referring to International football and nor was I in my comments. I understood clearly what he was referring to and then you started bragging about England V Scotland internationals and scores from wikipedia.

[@davec8730]

22:39 it's clear to see the ref has a chelsea scarf on by now.

[@snotwurfit]

And some people think football didn't exist before the Premier League....

[@donaldcunningham2386]

Oh, when, oh when, are we going to see real footie like this again..

[@Dommer1973]

Love to know what Sinstadt was watching. Went in the opposite corner to where Stepney dived. “Looked to me like Stepney pulled it back from over the line” Erm…righto Gerry

[@richardtaylor8165]

I don't think to his dying day that Gerry Sinstadt realised that the ball shot into the other side where Stepney dived & nestled neatly in the back of the Man U net!

[@grimupnorth]

@@richardtaylor8165 Hard to believe that the Coventry City book, 'A complete record 1883-1991' credits the goal to Stein, saying 'some sources credit the goal to Martin Buchan'! I should know, I was in the Stretford End seats and had a clear view - better than Gerald anyway!

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

It was a bit of an optical illusion to be fair. It fooled me, I was following the ball.....the one Stepney dived at! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TavsIsAbout]

Still find it so alien that goalies never wore anything on their hands back in the day

[@antrog1895]

Or a number 😂

[@markjones7109]

Hardcore that`s why lol

[@jtlampsu2]

I think Bonetti brought gloves out soon afterwards, as they were advertised on TV.

[@antrog1895]

@@jtlampsu2 it can’t have been much longer cos Sepp Maier had those oven mitts on in 74 World Cup

[@jtlampsu2]

@@antrog1895 Ok, I bow to your knowledge 🙂

[@dlamiss]

Did the game kick off early as it finished in daylight.

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Yes, because of power restrictions, game kicked off at 2pm

[@briannaghten2201]

@@YeOldeFootballChannel Yes it was during the 1973 miner's strike when the whole country was on a 3 day week and the telly was closed down as Ted Heath sent everyone to bed at half past ten.

[@iankemp1131]

The Man Utd match looked pretty murky by the end! Memories of 3 hours power on and 3 hours off in rotation. My local team Portsmouth tried a 3pm kickoff by hiring a generator for the floodlights. It broke down in the second half and there was a 20 minute delay getting it going again.

[@g2macs]

Most of the Scottish national squad was in Leeds.

[@tomjohnson6810]

Harvey, Frank Gray, Eddie Gray, Lorimer, Bremner, Jordan and McQueen. More Leeds players in the Scotland team than either Celtic or Rangers !

[@wokenup5273]

I was 3 and a half weeks old 😀

[@elgonm289]

And I was 13 years old

[@normanby100]

Ossie's header must have earned a shag from Raquel.

[@paulbradshaw303]

Frank Spencer scoring Leeds 2nd ?

[@maninashed9367]

40k fans fit into less than half of Stamford bridge stadium lmao. Those were the standing days - imagine the noise from a 100k full croud lol. Oh well those days are gone forever in this cotton wool clown 🤡 world we now occupy - all the while supporting deliberately manufacturered wars lol. Still the on screen 1973 graphics did force me to appreciate computer graphics lol.

[@RobinYork123]

Corner kicks without the wrestling.

[@rubewaddell1704]

Why do I find the games from this era more entertaining than today's matches? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man? It seems to me though, it was just about the game back then. No, grandstanding political statements. And don't the uniforms look great without advertising all over them and names on the back? Not to mention the traditional numbers (goalkeeper with 1, centre forward 9, etc), not random numbers all over the shop.

[@esseel7896]

Leeds forever!

[@elgonm289]

Norman bites your legs?? but didn't want to know when Osgood went for it ... btw I'm gooner and remember this game from back in the day

[@glenmorgan4597]

The Magic sponge

[@kimaspindale9721]

Bremner world class

[@gavster_999]

John Hollins basically punches Lorimer in the face 😲

[@Trev359]

A case of Leeds getting a taste of their own medicine.

[@clivesnell]

Trainer on with a wet sponge and he’s up on his feet, “you tell the kids of today, and they won’t believe ya” 😂😂

[@kevinmanns7170]

@@clivesnell The magic cold wet sponge !!

[@Rustsamurai1]

Everyone looks older than forty.

[@cfclazio621]

where were you when you were Sh.....?.well 40 ,000 biggest crowd of the day lol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep the blue flag flying high !

[@moggpiano8043]

That Birmingham side were very exciting going forward, but the defence was as flimsy as Britney Spears' pants.

[@fabkev2198]

SUPA LEEDS!!!! GREAT DAYS!!!

[@djlunaticdreyfuss7562]

No Brooking or Pop....no Win!

[@lennylaa1686]

No, the forthcoming World Cup 2022, Wokerati v Islam is not for me; I shall binge-watch all these wonderful oldie-goldie uploads instead.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

Not really due to 'woke' (whatever that means), but due to £$, if that's why you're referring to the fact it's in Qatar? Grease the palms; money talks, BS walks; etc

[@lennylaa1686]

@@peterwoodhouse4314 The ''woke'' are obsessive liberals who are obsessed with ''right-on'' causes such as gay issues, proclaiming that they are discriminated against when they never were...and hijacking football/sporting events to further their somewhat deranged, hysterical agenda. Let's keep politics out of sport. Liberals are far too interfering and presumptuous.

[@moose6509]

@@peterwoodhouse4314 Agreed, all about the $. Woke means believing that man-made climate change is real, women can have penises, diversity is a strength, there really was a pandemic and all that cobblers.....

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

as far as I can tell ...there is no English national side anyway. .. ..-the Team is at leas 70% african .....someone had to say it ........😆

[@andreichivu7653]

Indeed...nothing more to see...W.C.2022 is a complete failure...

[@likklej8]

Am I allowed to mention Leeds and Sheep? To quote a 80s Man Utd supporters chant John Hollins T Baldwin Ossie Hudson Chopper and P Housman for the Blues we’re not worthy

[@bampitony6108]

When football was played by men..Say no more..🤔

[@TheWelwyn21]

I was at the game, Leeds were far too good for Chelsea that day. It would have been a better atmosphere if Leeds fans had turned up

[@dlamiss]

Within a month Hudson was gone

[@briannaghten2201]

The commentator mentioned Chelsea good form going into the game (4 wins and 2 draws against Arsenal and Man U) but this was the start of a 10 year decline of Chelsea. They lost 4 games in a row including a 4-2 defeat by struggling West Ham on Boxing day when they were 2-0 up at half time. Osgood and Hudson were dropped and refused to train with the first team for the next defeat by Liverpool. They were both suspended by the club and transfer listed. Webb left at the end of the season and Chelsea were relegated the next year with Hollins, Kember and Garland sold by the debt ridden club. Baldwin was treated for alcoholism at the same time. So 7 of the team that day were gone by the end of the next season. I think Bonetti left too but came back when John Phillips had a long term injury.

[@Keithbarber]

@@briannaghten2201 £3.4m debt by 1977 caused by the building of the East stand

[@grimupnorth]

He was 'missing' during this game looking at the highlights.

[@dlamiss]

@@grimupnorth He lived with Geoff Hurst and his wife for a bitwhen he moved to stoke in an attempt to keep him off the booze

[@normanby100]

@@dlamiss He always spoke more highly of Tony Waddington than Dave Sexton.

[@smokingbrush2498]

Osgood; a player whose ego was almost as large as his inadequacies...

[@jtlampsu2]

Nice of you, to slag off the dead.

[@stevelayton2191]

That header in the cup final at old Trafford against Leeds that was pretty inadequate, don't you think,

[@jtlampsu2]

Yes, or that goal of the season against Arsenal, that was poor, too.

[@smokingbrush2498]

@@jtlampsu2 I slagged him off when he was alive. Your point is?

[@jtlampsu2]

@@smokingbrush2498 well means you only posted the comment yesterday, THAT is my point.

[@EvoGoody]

Hunter didn't want to know when Osgood fronted him.

[@alanprior7650]

I miss 70s and 80s football. The more I watch the football I grew up with the less inclined I am to watch the "woke" 2022 Qatar 🇶🇦 World Cup!

[@leeedsonetwo]

Prefer this team to that of Bielsa any day and yet the fan boys idolise him.

[@davec8730]

bonneti like a 13 year old in goal, he's struggling to get his goal kicks to the centre circle.

[@normanby100]

Probably distracted by thinking his wife was shagging someone behind his back as in Mexico.

[@njd2342]

And not a tattoo in sight!

[@ferglesnerk]

God, in all honesty they really were crap at football back then, hey.

[@grimupnorth]

Some really poor errors, I agree, but at least both sides were made up of good old British players. No diving. No pitches made up of half plastic, half grass (as today). No matches lasting 100 minutes. No spoilt brats like Ronaldo. Those were the days - miss-kicks and all.

[@hejla4524]

The pitches were terrible which account for a lot of the miss-kicks.

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

the ball was heavier too ...this accounts for the style of the Game ...but still so much more REAL than Todays fakes ......they are embarrassing to watch ......!

[@nigelwatson2750]

Dirty Leeds