1975 (March 12) England 2-West Germany 0 (Friendly).mpg

[@galtongabriel1172]

Alan Hudson was superb in this match . He should definitely have won more caps, alongside the likes of Tony Currie, Stan Bowles, Charlie George & Frank Worthington!!

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Revie had his favorities. Then he was followed by Greenwood another manager who distrusted flair. Story of England. How many caps did Matt Le Tissier win, he should of been in the England squad in France 98 if only for the fact he only missed one penalty in his professional career.

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

One particular game at Wembley- can't recall the opposition- Revie went against his natural instincts and picked a team of flair players. His experiment didn't work and he reverted to type.

[@PHealey1981]

Dennis Tueart should’ve had more too. England management and the old curmudgeons in the FA never wanted mavericks.

[@jon780249]

Imagine that lot tracking back!

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@matthewcoombs3282 Ron Greenwood didn't distrust flair - he built the West Ham side that won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1965 playing like a continental team. But like many coaches 'in the know' he realised that football had changed and brought a new set of problems. In the old days of the 60's and 70's players could afford to show off their skill and not think a lot but by the 80's they had to drop back and defend with the rest of the team and use their skill only if it was effective and necessary at the right time and if it was is in the interests of the team as a whole. You cannot achieve numerical advantage if someone keeps losing the ball through trying unsuccessfully to beat a man. That only leads to a lot of hard and unnecessary running for the entire team. Players like Glenn Hoddle couldn't adapt to this way of playing. The ones who couldn't do it looked for excuses, trying to blame others.

[@MrBendibus]

Friendlies played with proper competitive spirit. The days when the tickets were worth the price for friendly matches.

[@GaryBox]

Bear in mind that Germany had won the World Cup the year before but that England failed to even qualify in 74 and 78. When you look at some of the players available to England how on earth did they not have a more successful 1970's.

[@rp1455]

I honestly think the England team of the 70s could have gone far, perhaps even winning a competition, if Brian Clough was the manager. There were some incredibly talented players around at the time, notably Peter Osgood, Alan Hudson and Charlie George, who weren't given enough chances because Don Revie or Alf Ramsey didn't agree with their lifestyles. Cloughie, being a maverick himself, would have probably played them and got the best out of these players. Alan Hudson was played in this match, and he ran the show. To beat the Germans so comprehensively show's we could do it, but, like so often for England, the manager didn't get the best out of the players we had. It's been a similar scenario with the "Golden Generation" we had during the 2000s.

[@mervyncharter717]

Other great players from this era who hardly got a look in for England were Frank Worthington, Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles and Duncan Mc Kenzie who amazingly did not win a single England cap.

[@SuperTed19021]

That is so, so true. The FA was hopeless then and will remain hopeless unless the government completely reform it, not their little "reforms", they need to completely get rid of the suits and start again.

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

You can add Tony Currie to that talent too..

[@jameshodgkins559]

Revie chopped & changed the team to much , if he’d more or less stuck with this 11 who outclassed a world class West German who knows... Alan Hudson looked different class here..

[@MrDaiseymay]

REVIE WAS A PRICK AND A CRIMINAL

[@werrituk]

Fantastic performance by Alan Hudson.

[@johnt7630]

Mick Channon too - didn't realise that he had so much skill on the ball.

[@euanelliott3613]

Hudson, Channon, Keegan and Bell.

[@grahamharlow7471]

Fantastic performance all round to be fair by all our lads that night in atrocious conditions, some great play and just did it, no pissing about that night we just did it

[@milesjennings1930]

Some great players on display, Alan Hudson, Kevin Keegan, Colin Todd, Supermac the quality we had in depth was something else back then but these were the years we failed to make it to two World Cups in succession

[@matthewhickman9220]

That generation was really wasted there were some great players in the 70's you can add into the mix Beattie Mcfarland Bowles Gerry & Trevor Francis Currie Worthington absolutely criminal mis management of the talent available then

[@Darwinion]

Hudson played great that night. Whitworth had a very decent game too and he wasn't a regular.

[@grahamharlow7471]

Ian Gillard also

[@Ruda-n4h]

​@@grahamharlow7471 Gillard wasn't up to it at international level. Marion Masny of Czechoslovakia roasted him in the qualifier for Euro 76 when England lost 2-0.

[@Ruda-n4h]

Whitworth not up to it at the highest level.

[@Stand663]

There were better footballers in those days. Accurate passing, highly skilled, and intelligent.

[@michaelowens6533]

Alan Hudson....what if? The Germany manager was wondering where we'd been hiding him. Ran the show but unfortunately his hair do probably didn't sit well with any England manager. 2 caps....disgraceful oversight.

[@dimmykarras9287]

Too bad that an injury ruined Colin Bell's career and Alan Hudson only earned two caps.

[@dannyleesengchai103]

This is the match I watched England played the then West Germany in 1975. England squad include Ray Clemence, Steve Whitworth, Alan Ball, Collin Bell, Collin Todd, Kevin Keegan, Mike Channon, Malcom Macdonald, Alan Hudson, Dave Watson, John Doyle. West Germany squad includes Sepp Maier, Berti Vogts, Hohshnbein. The match played at Wembley Stadium was at its highest climax. England took the game to West Germany by providing waves and waves of attack to subdued the Germans and pinned them back in their half. Collin Bell and Malcom Macdonald were the scorers on that night.The score read 2-0 in favour of England. The scoreline could be even wider if not for the heroics of West Germany goalkeeper, Sepp Maier. England displayed the kind of flow , so efficient and effective in their play that it mesmerised me.Thats when I decided that England is the team I should support henceforth. A devoted England Fan.

[@kelvinlewis4065]

Alun Hudson was a magician in this match .. Probably world class level considering the opposition...How on earth did he not get more caps ?...As an " old dude " , Welshman, looking back on this English side ,,They really should have done a lot more ..Lots of talent all over the pitch ...I,m also a Liverpool supporter and Keegan was my idol at that time ,,fittest man on earth ..Great player very underestimated ..The pitches were mud fields mostly ,,,Hudson said " ,I loved the mud because I always played with a bad ankle at those times and it always helped " ..No physio then obviously !!..Poor dab .

[@ehtop6499]

alan hudson was my favourite player then

[@timrobinson100]

Colin bell was the best England midfielder ever rest in peace great man

[@nobbytang]

What a great fully committed game ….brilliant against the world champions too…mick Channon had a great game …

[@grahamharlow7471]

Yes mick cannon was a great player for soton and England, love how mick just got straight up quickly from being fouled to take a very quick free kick which led to a perfect cross for super mac to bang in a perfect header for number 2...absolutely fantastic performance from England that night in shocking conditions... No theatrics, cheating, diving or any other fkin irritating antics we now see in the modern game.. Just did it that night we fekin battered them

[@davidc3850]

Hudson was an absolutely brilliant player. I was fortunate to regularly watch him playing for Stoke City back in the 70's, he usually ran the game so effortlessly, just gliding across the pitch. It was disgraceful that he wasn't a regular in the England team. What would a player like him be worth in todays transfer market ?

[@emadanwar9626]

I am from Iraq, I love the English national team

[@JF_11]

Emad Anwar That’s good to know mate .

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

The Iraqis I met when at college were very technically skilled..It is a shame that political leadership and foreign intervention destroyed two generations of football development in Iraq because you guys could have done better at Mundial '86.

[@steh2515]

you can see Revie's influence on england in these videos. lots of short, simple passing in the build up which characterised his Leeds side. Unfortunately he lost most of this team to injury by 1976 so never got to see it in a tournament

[@milly7205]

Hudson should have had 50 caps.

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

I remember Hudson running this game and the Germans perplexed by the fact he wasn't an England regular. Although WG had won the World Cup the year before, very few of that team played in this match.

[@obiwazz6929]

Fascinating game because it featured three players who did not always feature in England teams, when many really thought they should....Colin Todd, Alan Hudson and Malcolm MacDonald. If they had played regularly it is likely England would have won something. This team, and this squad, seems streets ahead of the players of today.

[@johnt7630]

What a player Colin Todd was !

[@OGA_999]

@@johnt7630 A Rolls Royce of a defender

[@merseydave1]

West Germany were European and World Champions ... however it was just a friendly match ... we did not qualify for the European Championships in 1976 or The World Cup in 1978 ... we were just "Also Ran's"

[@SuperBartles]

Cracking match! Would be nice to see the whole thing actually

[@aldosignorini5325]

A Inglaterra não poderia ter ficado de fora da copa de 1974...um timaço com Kevin keegan e cia...deu um baile na Alemanha nesse jogo..

[@paulndor848]

England actually played quite well from 74 - 78. Only a low scoring victory against a minnow cost us a place in the 78 WC.

[@johnt7630]

Only one team qualified too. Unlucky to be in the same group as Italy.

[@mohamadabushaerah3637]

wonderful generation of England 1975 to 1982 they deserve win w.c 1982 at least ...england in 1982 w.c not loset any game they have shillon clemenes keganne frances hoddel robson buttsher andersone

[@kailashpatel1706]

Good last point, from the mid 1970s until 1982, England had a core of very good players, with the team failing to qualify for the 1978 World Cup only on goal difference. The 1982 team did not lose a match...Better management and no injuries to Keegan and Brooking..they would have gone further..

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

No,against Italy in Turin we were outclassed. The return fixture at Wembley was a dead rubber.Not qualifying in '74 should have been a wake up call but was a missed opportunity. Sir Alf was kept on too long&should have been replaced after '70,where he still hadn't got the hang of substitutions. If Revie was brought in then,we might have overcome what was a very good Polish team.It wasn't until the WC was expanded to 24 teams,that England were to qualify again.

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

@@mohamadabushaerah3637 Brazil played the best football in '82.England were in with a mediocre Spain&Germany in the 2nd group phase.Where youth and imagination were called for Greenwood brought Keegan and Brooking off the bench...

[@braudabo]

It was the 400th Match for Germany in history. After the title 1974 there was a problem. Müller, Overath, Breitner, Grabowski retired, the new players in this team, Kostedde, Ritschel, Körbel never made it in the german Squad. No highlight in german soccer.

[@paullinford4510]

Paul Breitner didn't retire in 1974, he actually played (and scored!) in the 1982 WC final.

[@braudabo]

@@paullinford4510 Yes and no. He played two games in the EC-qualifiers 1975, before he retired. One more aspect: National coach Helmut Schön no longer considered him, because Schön doesn't felt like negotiating with Real Madrid on the exemptions for international matches. Different times back then...The next coach of the Germans, Jupp Derwall, then brought Breitner back to the german squad in 1981, where the Munich player then formed a very powerful duo with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, referred to by the German media as "Breitnigge".

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Hudson said Revie set him up to fail against the Germans..but he proved his class,the Germans saying in front of Revie:At last you have a world class player..He was never picked again..

[@ian38018a]

I think Alan Hudson played in the next match against Cyprus.

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

@@ian38018a Yes the famous 'Supermac' match which England won 5-0,Malcolm Macdonald scoring all five.I don't remember if Hudson played in that match but Revie hated him,as he did all flair players that weren't Leeds.That mindset held back internationals in English football development for decades. That's my point.

[@ian38018a]

@@andersonarmstrong2650 Not just Revie - but Greenwood too.

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

@@ian38018a I agree,that's why I said 'decades'.Brian Clough was the best manager then.

[@ian38018a]

@@andersonarmstrong2650 👍

[@timrobinson100]

We had players then who could have win the World Cup , I don’t care what anybody else says , also so much better looking than today’s horrors

[@ian38018a]

Another Horse of the Year Show, during the week before the game?

[@duffymoony]

That Channon pass 01:26, sublime.

[@13muller9]

When Pele in 1970 World Cup final passed the ball to Carlos Alberto without looking, some said it was because he could see his back! Well, this Channon pass is many times better than Pele's pass. Probably Chanon played his best game for England in this game. As for Pele's pass, I read and also noticed that as soon as Pele got the ball, Tostao is pointing with his hands to Pele that Carlos Alberto is available, And in some other clip, Carlos Alberto himself said that he and Pele practiced that move many times in training!! So at least in this case, it had nothing to do with Pele's ability to see his back!!

[@grahamharlow7471]

Yes mick was class on his day

[@trickstick84]

Yes, that was Sir Alf Ramsey. He had a curiously high-pitched voice for someone born in Barking (East London)

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

Born in Dagenham. Don't know about high-pitched, but definitely posh for that area. He took elocution lessons.

[@rolfwang5776]

​@@peezebeuponyou3774 The rumour has it that he took elocution lessons. No one has been able to prove that.

[@Grogster2007]

England would have won another world cup with Cloughie in charge

[@greenscorpio1967]

criminal Alan Hudson did nt play more games for England ,alot to do with his drinking and lifestyle and been his own man

When the word friendly was just that..a word..👍👍

[@ArchieFatcackie]

What players. Ball, Bell, Channon, Hudson, Watson, Todd etc my word how did we not qualify for 2 World Cups.

[@garethmoore8007]

Injuries fall outs etc

[@cormofito1738]

Why can´t we play like that

[@andytomhall6006]

I often wonder how we played such good football on those terrible pitches. As a goalkeeper at least it was a soft landing, after yet another spectacular save!

[@ysgol3]

I realise that in November that year Bell's career was destroyed by injury, but in the games between this one and November, those 3 were shunned.

[@70PaulK]

Great debate here in the comments. I just remember the end of the Revie era (the '77 Scotland match at Wembley), but this showed that they were pretty close to the top sides. Have to remember that only 1 team could qualify from groups for WC & Euros, and there were injuries to Bell & Gerry Francis, but Revie didn't help himself by chopping & changing.

[@iftekharhasan4819]

Great Sepp Maier beaten twice. Did Beckenbauer play in that match ?

[@clivebickley1002]

Hudson was sublime. How on earth did he only get 2 caps? Oh yes Mr Revie! 🤬🤬🤬

[@Frege100]

Interesting reading the comments. Two themes emerge, that Alan Hudson should have had more England caps and that Brian Clough should have been England manager. Hudson had rare gifts but a good attitude was not one of them. He once refused to play for England because he hadn't been picked in the original squad. Can you imagine what Cloughie would have made of that? Brian Clough wouldn't have given Alan Hudson a 2nd thought. They were too much alike. No football pitch was big enough for the both of them.

[@Dave-cu5pi]

A couple of things strike you straight away. First, the state of the pitch - more sand than Blackpool, with players obviously struggling for grip, never the less some sharp and skilfull passing. Secondly, some very robust challenges (including inside the penalty area) with no rolling about screaming and a flurry of yellow cards. Is the game better to watch now?

[@robicenco1]

The crowd noise and atmosphere in this game are incredible.

[@grahamharlow7471]

In my opinion this game pisses all over the drivel of the modern game

[@melvynslote457]

No the game today is not better to watch, you don't have the same atmosphere.

[@neilbooth8510]

If only England could play like that today. Superb passing, great individual skill, and real determination. But then, where is the Bell, Hudson, Channon, Keegan, MacDonald, Ball of today? In defence Whitworth (sadly dropped in favour of the lesser Phil Neal), Watson, Hughes, Clemence and Shilton were all top class players. Clemence, while making an arse of himself in 1976 and 77' against Scotland, redeemed himself with a fantastic display against them in 1979. As others have said we were spoilt for choice back then for England players. Gillard, Gerry Francis, Trevor Francis, Kevin Beattie, and of course as others have mentioned, those seen as 'too flamboyant', George, Osgood, Dave Thomas. The thing of course England didn't have at the time was a manager who could weld them into a team that could consistently beat the best. Which, with those players, as they showed here, they certainly could.

[@SuperTed19021]

Same stories multiple times we get a good team. We pick the wrong managers every time. We really should have appointed Clough in the mid 70s. Blame the FA.

[@neilbooth8510]

Do indeed. Their choice of managers has been shaped, since 1974, by 'not getting another Ramsey'. The Old Etonians never liked the fact he stood up to them, forced them to accept his right to select the team, and from which teams players came from. Ever since then the sweet FA have picked spineless, press pleasers, with little or no tactical nous at the international level, and who've picked 'big club' players only based on press and FA pressure. Since the EPL was formed, the exact opposite of what fans were fobbed off with has happened, and England become an irrelevance to the FA, as they concentrate on money grubbing. Sadly I see no end to it, as getting the Politicians involved is the last thing we need. In particular the current govt. We'd end up with Richard Branson in charge and Wembley being turned into a giant balloon ride park, while England play at West Ham, with Players in kits with a big V down the front, and the three lions reduced to a pinhead! Plus, like Branson's health 'services' we'd be even crapper than before!

[@kailashpatel1706]

Phil Neal was better going forward then defending!!!

[@gordoncampbell100]

How England never won the WC or EC in this era is unforgivable . Players like Hudson ,Supermac , Todd , Bell ,Keegan , Channon . Piss management .Clough would have scorched it .

[@douglassimpson5932]

Germany were World Champions it could have been 7-0, why can't England do that when it matters????

[@superconnie5003]

Hudson was unplayable that night

[@Inglese001]

@SuperConnie amazing performance. Hard to believe that he only won two England caps! Absolute madness.

[@KKohl]

This was the best England team by Revie. Outplayed n outcast the Germans. Perhaps Good enuff to win the Euro Cup even. Why did he keep changing the players?

[@douglassimpson5932]

Player power, we saw at Leeds with Clough what that could do!

[@gemsdiamond2002]

I remember watching Steve Whitworth playing for Barnet!

[@grahamharlow7471]

Came to Bolton as well from Leicester.. He was a stylish defender

[@ricardovelasco3976]

Obviously a very cold and soggy march in 1975. Our Record against Germany in Wembley since that Match is disgracefully bad.

[@jameshodgkins559]

Ricardo Velasco 1-5

[@NIGELpugh14]

That was a really good game for a friendly!!...the state of that pitch though!!! Wouldn't even have allowed cows on there these days...how things have changed...for the better .

[@douglassimpson5932]

Pitches are much better atmosphere is dead like watching paint dry!

[@gemsdiamond2002]

Every player had class and could run past opponents and make excellent passes and on a terrible surface! Compare with today's team, who are a pale comparison! They were the World Cup holders! Pity that only one team could qualify from each group! England lost by one point to Poland in '74 and they reached the semi finals! In 1978, England lost on goal difference to Italy and they also made the semi finals! To all u who think our current team are better, remember: statistics, lies and...

[@kailashpatel1706]

The 1982 England which began to emerge from the mid 1970s onwards did not lose a match at that World Cup which was better than Brazil who played the same amount of matches..

[@tonybates7870]

I turned 12 on this day. That's interesting, innit? Anyone remember Macdonald scoring five against Cyprus around this time? Alan Hudson was a great player - about 20 years ago he got smashed up by a car on the Mile End Road, not sure what happened to him after that.

[@russelltilling4990]

I was at this game as a 12 year old with my school and can't believe the talent I was watching that night, oh what friendly!

[@arbutus27]

Check out this LONG interview with him. I found it very interesting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5ixi4ylZ6ikeqs

[@hauntboy]

Anyone know who the person summarising with Brian Moore is? He speaks a few times, firstly at 6.00. Don't think it's Sir Alf.

[@Bayshuck]

It was Sir Alf

[@barryheard3778]

Wally Barnes?

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

Moore actually calls him "Sir Alf" during the game.

6:00

[@superconnie5003]

Colin Bell injury stopped England progress in the 1980s.

[@douglassimpson5932]

Bollocks they had Bryan Robson and this is 1975 mate??

[@ysgol3]

Bell ball and Hudson dominated this game, destroyed the Germans, and that dummy Revie didn't pick them together again.

[@douglassimpson5932]

Ball hated Revie bell was fine and how many times did Hudson play like that??

[@elshadjafar2437]

GOOD DAY. THANK AND LIKE FROM ME BAKU CITY

[@csharpbear]

Definitely is Sir Alf.

[@mjb4983]

I believe England are going to come back as a force.

[@gwangi64]

Germany looked crap here but just over a year later they were in the European Championship final, whereas England hadn't qualified. Normal service was resumed!

[@SuperTed19021]

Every single time.

[@timrobinson100]

I’d put Keegan in our team now!!!

[@harrynewiss4630]

Then as now England on their day could beat anyone - but, they lacked the big match mentality

[@davidhunt3808]

Alan Hudson was in everything , very good player !! I wonder how he would have gone today ?

[@OGA_999]

Top class playmaking creative midfielder. He'd have been worth well over 100M in today's market, maybe even more

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@OGA_999 Doubt it. That money only goes to high end goalscorers; which he wasn't. Maybe 50/60 Mill.

[@OGA_999]

@@spanishpeaches2930 Well my friend, if you care to take a look at the fees received for the likes of Eden Hazard, Kai Havertz to name but a few perhaps you'll revise your opinion

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@OGA_999 £51M to £61M then.

[@OGA_999]

@@spanishpeaches2930 Guess we'll never know but I'd add Glenn Hoddle to that list. He was a pleasure to watch in his prime

[@richardsharpe2966]

England just outplayed West Germany on that day

[@markgable101]

Alf Ramsey took elecution lessons. It's well known.

[@rolfwang5776]

It is a well known rumour. But that does not mean that it is true. Several people has stated otherwise

[@dalek3086]

Alan Hudson - great game. Only won 2 England caps. Stan Bowles only won 5 England caps. Charlie George only won one England cap. Waste of talent. ( and Charlie George was subbed - and played out of position ).

[@timrobinson100]

alan hudson mesmerised the germans that night [ we had some great players

[@johnt7630]

Good performance but remember - it was a friendly. Sadly, throughout the whole of the 1970s, that's all England can look back on.

[@seanscanlon9067]

A friendly against a West German side including the likes of Sepp Maier, Berti Vogts, Franz Beckenbauer and Rainer Bonhof that had just won the World Cup nine months earlier when beating a Dutch side containing Arie Haan, Ruud Krol, Johan Neeskens, Johnny Rep and perhaps their greatest player ever, Johan Cruyff. Although it's not as if top teams set out to lose friendlies anyway and it always amuses me how "oh but it was only friendly" makes an appearance when England win one of them, yet if they put out a team of squad players and/or kids and lose, then apparently it's some kind of massive embarrassment and suddenly friendlies seem to count for something.

[@johnt7630]

​@@seanscanlon9067 But I'm afraid that it was still only a friendly. You're right that they were Indeed World Champions and, as I said, it was a good performance. it's a sobering thought that Germany won the World Cup in 1974, as well as winning the European Championship in 1972, then runners up in 1976. Meanwhile England couldn't even qualify for neither 1974 nor 1978. Don Revie had a lot of talent available to him - Bell, Bowles, Marsh, Brooking, Keegan, Curry, Osgood, Hudson, Worthington etc. But he kept changing the side - rather than keeping a settled one.

[@10fcull44]

How can u batter the batter the world champions, yet still not qualify for the tournamnet; bizarre.🤔

[@MrDaiseymay]

I KNOW THIS IS EDITED TO SHOW ENGLANDS BEST MOVES, BUT THE GERMANS ? LOOKED SO BAD. LIKE THEY HAD JET LAG.

[@GiveMeAnOKUsername]

Doesn’t look like England playing.

[@PrZemek44]

The pitch resembled a potato field, why? Wembley stadium wasn't used that much. It fitted better the English style.

[@That_Random_Bloke]

PrZemek44 Check out the Wembley pitch during the 1970 FA Cup Final. The pitch during this match was immaculate compared to that one!!

[@DiscourseToday]

Hahaha England did not qualify for a single major tournament in the 70s

[@miquel6428]

Erwin Kostedde was the first black Guy playing for the German national team.

[@ThorntonValiant]

I'll bet this lot would have thrashed Iceland.

[@cimiez1]

let's go kostedde

[@duffymoony]

Keegan 02:44 "Gimme that yu caaahnt!"

[@philiprobinson256]

Blimey so there WAS a time then that we COULD beat ze Germans, thought I was imagining it, lol!!!

[@seanscanlon9067]

England 13 wins, Germany/West Germany 15 wins and 4 draws.

[@douglassimpson5932]

@@seanscanlon9067 i think it's equal now

[@westernsaharacampaignnz2657]

Two players who were ruined by their alcohol addiction.