1969 70 The Big Match 21 03 70 (Chelsea v Manchester United, Liverpool v Everton, Golden Goals 1970)

[@johndempsey7528]

I played in this game and it was a great game to play in with great players in our team and also in Man Utd including George Best.

[@JohnDoe-cf7jr]

Loved Ian Hutchinson..fearless

[@johndempsey7528]

Iain Botham Hi Iain nice to see you remember me even if it is a long time ago.

[@peteranthony7115]

Hi, are you really John Dempsey footballer!

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Peter yes I am really John Dempsey who used to play for Chelsea.

[@peteranthony7115]

@@johndempsey7528 Hi, it's a privilege to talk to you. Dispite what people think I genuinely believe that footballers in the era that you played were even more revered and looked upon as God's than those of today. True that a lot has changed in and around the game like playing conditions and financial rewards for the better but today's game has not got the characters and genuine stars like it was back then.

[@timberwolf534]

Been a Chelsea Supporter since i was 12yrs old, I am now 66 yrs old. Been through a lot with them lol. This was the best era in football for me.

[@andisadler2897]

I was born the year Chelsea won their first FA Cup which i always considered an omen lol. Grew up through 80s watching Chelsea play likes of Crewe,Walsall,Oxford,Grimsby etc. Saw them get smashed 0-6 at Rotherham and 0-6 at Everton 77-78 so like yourself ive seen all the lows and the highs that followed. Come along way Chelsea have, when i was at school i was the only Chelsea boy in the school but now everyone supports Chelsea. Now recognised as one of the best clubs in the world with international worldwide fanbase. Long gone are the days playing at home v Plymouth on a Tuesday night in front of 4k fans lol. Also the days of being in Debt due to building the west stand, relegations then around 89 the rebuilding. Days of Dixon,Speedie, then Jimmy and Eidur and the tinker man!. Then of course.....Roman!. The rest is the icing on the cake..........

[@Spectrescup]

​@andisadler2897 what about the 7-2 against Middlesbrough. Thankfully we nicked their manager.

[@timrobinson100]

Loved that theme tune I hadn’t forgotten it 👍💖

[@hugohackenbush1554]

I was there. West Lower. Great atmosphere and my favourite Chelsea team of all time. I started walking across the road from the flats to the Bridge in 1967, and I'm still going to every home game, even if it does cost me the same price as an E Type Jag 😁

[@herbertwright7670]

Osgood Cooke Hudson...class players..this was my Chelsea when I was a lad ... Herb

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

This was a must every Monday night in Adelaide, Australia in the 70s, great viewing.

[@southlondon63]

The theme tune is the bollocks on it’s own. I remember my late brother coming home from this game and we couldn’t believe he saw George Best

[@markmeade478]

The pitch is a pudding basin, but the skill and passion of the players makes this a great game. How football has changed, and not for the better.....

[@garrysimpson1395]

Brian Moore and Gerald Sinstadt. HAPPY DAYS!

[@jerryoshea3116]

Great Commentators!! And I was trying to think of some others,Gerry Harrison,(,I think he covered a lot of Norwich games)and there was more of course!

[@steves1970]

The golden years....love Brian Moore.....the best of English football,,,and England as a country

[@tomthomassony8607]

The Sports Night with Coleman theme music brings back memories of when my Dad used to let me stay up late to watch the midweek footie or the boxing.

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Eamoon thank you for comments and yes the 1960- 70s were really great to play in with so many great players.

[@ysgol3]

Hutch's second goal was a masterpiece - beautiful.

[@Brindleyberg]

Cracking 2nd goal by Hutchison. It's reassuring to see legends like Law, Hudson, Best proving they're human and making mistakes.

[@joe-vl3nd]

Happy days the 70s we're Brilliant

[@williamking8524]

players did not roll about in agony ,like they do today, and the state of the pitches were bad ,but they just got on with it

[@melvynslote457]

I think what is very noticeable, apart from the style of football compared to today; much more exciting and competitive then, is the quality and character displayed by Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill. Both show intelligence and erudition. Compare this to the asinine Lineker and wooden Shearer etc.

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

Nowadays pundits alike seem to forget that football DID NOT start at the Premier league era. Shearer a record goal scorer (in the Premier league) yet Ian Rush scored more goals. The pitches were dreadful and yet the footballers passed the ball with silky touches.

[@stephenflynn6296]

I was crushed in the Shed that day Thousands locked out. Crowd swaying backwards and forwards. Real football match. Great Chelsea team. Hutch was like a lion as always. R I.P.

[@stephenflynn6296]

@t0mme1981 those were amazing days. Chelsea were all I thought about then. Bedroom walls full of Ozzie and Hutchinson. I loved Alan Hudson. So talented. We were so lucky to have seen this team. Great days. Saved up my programme stubs and got ticket for the Leeds Final. Saw every cup game that season. Burnley away on a cold dark winter Wednesday. Cattle truck took hours to get home but we were so happy ! Lol

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Stephen just read your comments and thought I would say the players loved the shed with all its great support and pushing the team on.I was lucky to be a part of a great team and Hutch a great player and brave as a lion as you said. Take Care.John Dempsey ex player

[@stephenflynn6296]

@@johndempsey7528 I was dumb struck when I got your message John. You were such a great player in that brutal back 5 we had ! Chopper ,McCreedie, David Webb , Marvin Hinton and yourself. ! Great Footballers. I love that team so much. We were so inconsistent it hurt. Should have won much more in those days. I saw every game in the year we won the FA Cup. Burnley away on a night game. Old Trafford for the final. Thank you for giving me such wonderful time in those days. I will never forget them. Blue is the Colour. ! Steve.

[@johndempsey7528]

@@stephenflynn6296 Hi Stephen thank you for your kind comments.A true fan going to Burnley on a cold night which thankfully we won and I am sure many other games as well.But to win at Old Trafford was really good especially for you and all fans that are true Blue. Stay Safe

[@philroger4979]

@@johndempsey7528 I remember well the 1970 FA Cup final. I had just moved down to Richmond in North Yorkshire from Aberdeenshire after my father passed away. I was 6 years old and a Celtic supporter just as my father had been. I didn't know any of the players or even the teams that much. After Leeds lost, I thought "that's going to be my team now". Fifty two years later and I'm still a Leeds nut and still hate Chelsea!

[@gracesmith3914]

Two teams who gave it everything and total respect between them.

[@dnstone1127]

Early 1970s, the last time Everton were considered the bigger, more successful Merseyside club

[@seanrandles3416]

1985 and 1987 also...

[@Telcontar1962]

The Everton side that won the championship in 1970 was a great side. Used to love their midfield even though I was a Cheksea fan. Was gutted when Ball left for Arsenal.

[@raymondmcdonald355]

the Ref was Mr Fussey lol what a brilliant name for a 1970s referee, straight outta Roy of the Rovers

[@frankhornby6873]

EVERTON FINISHED CHAMPIONS THIS SEASON...WITH A RECORD 66pts.....💙

[@ossyable]

Considering Leeds united got 67pts the year before I imagine your only counting from 1970 😉

[@garrysimpson1395]

CLASSIC!

[@MrJonno85]

The end of Bill Shankly's first great team - Liverpool had recently lost an FA Cup quarter-final to Watford.

[@patrickneylan]

Grandad took my brother to this match. I've still got the programme with the cover showing the Chelsea players in the bath after the Watford FA Cup win.

[@brianoreilly239]

I was at that game, for the first half of the 70's United were dreadful, so many players over the hill and awful players coming through. The Doc eventually sorted us out, even if we did get relegated in '74. Chelsea did win the FA Cup that season, beating Leeds Utd 2-1 at Old Trafford after a replay. Chelsea vs. Utd was a very mild affair compared to the cup final!!

[@ysgol3]

United were good in 1971, usually rubbish otherwise, largely because Matt Busby vetoed signings that Wilf Mcguinness and then Frank O'Farrell wanted to make - players like Shilton, Nish, Colin Todd, Alan Ball. It would appear that the miserable old git didn't want success once he'd become 'General Manager'.

[@horse69outside]

Chelsea's league game at home to Leeds this season finished 2-5.

[@jeffreywalker7872]

Wonderful

[@markmeade478]

Osgood- " The King"

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

John Dempsey NASL player of the year 1979 beating… Franz Beckenbauer ! How many people have done that?! 👏👏👏

[@randyborstol2491]

I Know The Big Match was London centric but it would have been nice to see more of the Merseyside derby considering its magnitude and the fact that eventual champions Everton were top.

[@roystonhesketh3987]

You can say that again as a 7 yr old evertonian !

[@Spectrescup]

Yes but you got your own programme

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

Who wants to watch northern softies!

[@randyborstol2491]

@@GoTellTheSpartans24 excuse me - we were having Higgy's brown ale up until the 1980s!!

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

@@randyborstol2491 😂🤮

[@mbvideoselection]

39:03 "Our slow motion machinery having had so much work to do over the past few weeks has gone on the blink again, so we'll have to look at these at normal speed"!

[@WELLBRAN]

Bloody hell!.. goal of season all london clubs!

[@dickiefears5832]

The Big Match was a London programme and the main game always featured a London team and often a derby if one was played on Saturday. Each area had their own programme on ITV.

[@WELLBRAN]

@@dickiefears5832 yes i do know that

[@ianz9916]

The London clubs were pretty successful back then. Arsenal won the Fairs Cup in 1970, Chelsea won the F.A. Cup, Arsenal won the League and F.A. Cup in 1971, Chelsea won the Cup Winners Cup in 1971 and Spurs won the League Cup in 1971.

[@hauntboy]

Hudson clearly onside for his goal, by about 5 yards. No question about it. Why is it even being questioned, Jim?

[@MrKenny777]

Osgood is good.

[@CB-xr1eg]

Osgood is dead...and good riddance!

[@Adam-vy6nl]

Clive Bindley scumbag

[@philiporme9061]

Always Great to see an Away Win against the Unlovable neighbours, especially as it doesn't happen that often. Only 5 League wins there since.

[@David_JB65]

Just put it out there on Twitter to @ITVfootball @BBCMOTD @bbcsport have they every thought about their own you tube channels showing classic Big Match/MOTD episodes, just a thought but if there's a demand I sure they would consider it, 👍🏻😀

[@89awcock]

Have the BBC or iTV ever considered their own sports channel called BBC Sport showing Sport going back to when they first started broadcasting sport and show incomplete tournaments snooker darts great football matches sports quiz shows you name it that would be fantastic there used to be one years ago called ESPN classic.

[@wuffothewonderdog]

Is there any way to get rid of the black box on the screen? Its a damned nuisance.

[@SteveM-ly7oy]

Absolutely magnificent to watch. I was only 1 year old, but it's an England we've lost. More's the pity. What players, what a playing surface. When men were men.

[@salus1231]

the golden goals 5 1 2 3 4 6 I wonder how they were placed

[@domijean8023]

2 most well spoken pundits ever !?

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Stevie I do remember your name but trying to figure out when.

[@mikewilson730]

Stamford Bridge attendance 61,479, Anfield 54,496.

[@robertbryant6859]

Is there no way of getting rid of that annoying countdown icon?

[@أفلاكالأفكار]

Morgan was so underrated as a winger for United, I'd even go so far as to say as he was more efficient with the ball than George Best, however it was Best's moments of pure genius that made him famous.

[@redflag8970]

Morgan poor goal scorer

[@sfwplant]

Folks always make out that in the day '66 was soon forgotten afterward but the opening titles on The Big Match in 1970 still got the World Cup final in them. Cobblers!

[@ossyable]

I thought that too but they could have brought it out for the upcoming World Cup in 3 months

[@domijean8023]

Golden Goals at 49min Only london based goals in top 6 Also anyone spot the Peaky blinder GK ?

[@npc3po301]

Perfectly legal to kick a keepers ribs out, you could bottle the ref too as long as it was under-arm not over-arm, a nice friendly tunnel-stabbing then a hot beefy Bovril, ahh them's the days..

[@seanmccurry7762]

Some terrible pitches and hard tackling but great entertainment.

[@wildbill8635]

Pitches were part of the mix with weather combined. Look at Derby's Baseball Ground that come October it was mainly earth with spot the green stuff! But you got great games. Now, pitches are perfect and boring & come May there's hardly any wear. Today's players couldn't handle pitches in our day. They use a lightweight ball indoor footy dynamics. Its sped the game up and thus no tackles. Boring trick football. Its killing the game that's only motive is money period. I watch here. Brian Moore. The best.

[@gracesmith3914]

Brian Moor: Ure running well..why thank you sir.

[@mikewest1542]

Its weird how people then looked so much older , Nobby Stiles and Bobby Charlton looked in their 50s while the ref looked late 60s !

[@jerryoshea3116]

Just fashion, Hairstyles etc.But these players all knew about struggle and hardship,and it probably showed on their faces!

[@randyborstol2491]

real men. Today's men are wimps.

[@michaelking9772]

Great Chelsea team , United on a downward slope then ...Still a crowd of 61,000 maybe a half of them Reds.!!!

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

You’re having a laugh. Few thousand at most. There would be more chelsea than utd in the away end. Always was! Knew they were in for a rough ride at the bridge 👊🏻

[@derekgaffney7689]

Proper footballers no play acttin and conditions were bad now mist top grounds it's like carpet and they seem too like to roll around on it shameful

[@martinmason5008]

Hand of God at Stamford Bridge in those days then?

[@edmundpower1250]

Great programme and presenter but what's with that annoying clock

[@David_JB65]

Sadly it was the only copy of the show I could get

[@kenneth6341]

Just press your ‘back’ button you divvy

[@David_JB65]

Potsy Webber THAT WAS THE COPY I BOUGHT AS A DVD, IT WAS ALREADY LIKE THAT 😡

[@gracesmith3914]

Sartori al elegance.

[@ianclarke5404]

Arsenal sammels was it ? Marvellous

[@robharding5345]

Good old fashioned British football.Unlike today's sanitised variation.

[@logz3714]

Just compare how good TBM was compared in terms of actually showing the match to the fare offered on MOTD. Just shows how good TBM was in those days. I have also seen so many games featuring Best from those days where he does nothing or very little. He did very little in this game at all.

[@vordman]

Agreed, I don't get this adulation for Best at all. Whenever I watch these old matches on YT I can't believe how ordinary he looks. Case of false memory syndrome I think from people carried away by his fame/image.

[@roderickscott7429]

there is coverage of his amazing solo run v Scotland at Windsor park, also robbing McCreadie before chipping the keeper and surviving ron harris attempts to score as well , plus that goal v Sheffield utd. @@vordman

[@Keithbarber]

In the days when players didn't think twice about getting covered in mud

[@alanmctavish4802]

Tavy@ what leauge were that lot watching in 1970. For a start george best against chelsea at old trafford when harris tried to take georges two legs of and best swayed but got on with it then rounded peter bonneti after selling him 2 dummys. Its well known all over the world that goal that best scored, then whent down on his knees at the stretfford end. Its in my opion georges second best ever goal !!!!!!!!!!!

[@andrewwright9378]

The ref was ill so he sent his dad.

[@robertedwards5184]

I like that comment. Funny. 😄😄😄

[@giancarlofilacchione7371]

Stanford Bridge!!!

[@alanmctavish4802]

Tavy@ great win for chelsea. But law best and charlton were really bad. Law gave the ball away every time he got it. Best with a beard is a bad sign of a week on the drinck. I have never seen george best play good never mind great every time he had that beard. And he didnt chase back the way he used to say? Eh after 1968,69. Charlton wasnt that bad he just didnt have the help around him. Now i can understand why they got rid of law in 1972 he was by 1969 to slow, couldnt beat the taller defenders in the air and he had bad passing by then to. Law was the only player that day that didnt need a bath. He didnt get dirty. George bests passing was either that bad or it was he was trying to be to fancy! Instead of just passing a simple pass 13 yards away best was doing with the outside of hes boot and every time it whent to a chelsea player!!! Only chartlon can do that! But a could see how lazy best was becoming!!!!

[@callithowiseeit5806]

When he wasn't his Best Georgie was lousy

[@seltaeb9691]

Ron Harris who surely was a rugby player turned football Pro..

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Harris was a more skillful player than he was given credit for. Every team had his hatchet man in those days. Stiles for United. Storey for Arsenal, Hunter for Leeds....Smith for Liverpool. All tough cookies.

[@maynardglam]

I can’t believe the Everton fans in the kop

[@wildbill6826]

That Referee looked and dressed the same from 100 yrs old & seen some great players no doubt but Chelsea's ground looked 100yrs adrift too & one of the worst.The Shed is a classic in name which it deserves.

[@ysgol3]

Charlton, and especially Law, were USELESS here.

[@EnWAAI8]

People say modern players can't defend but watching this comparing to today, some of the defending was shocking back then. I know George Best was class but some of these defenders watching old school highlights looked like they were better off getting jobs at the post office🤣

[@johnsmiths9682]

How on earth did Sartori get a pro contract, he had the touch of an elephant and vision of Stevie Wonder, to be honest Denis Law was just as bad on this game too

[@richardtaylor8165]

Season 69/70 (in which this game is played) was arguably Law's poorest during his time with Man U. Injury had caught up with him, & he rarely played that season because of injury/lack of fitness. Indeed Utd transfer listed him at the end of the season, but no takers! But as we saw, Utd were as a collective past their best.

[@wuffothewonderdog]

As a Director-General of the BBC observed "Hideously white." But everyone in that crown went home safely to a nice home in a pleasant street. A pity we aren't still hideously white now.

[@markmeade2937]

He will have a hideous surprise one day 😉

[@randyborstol2491]

how people have just allowed this to happen beggars belief

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

A lot of Man Utd fans wouldn’t of got home safely 😂 🔵

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

Everton took the Kop there by the looks of it

[@STEJODALT]

Absolute load of sh##e! Totally southern biased. All 6 "golden goals" from London clubs. (Watfords near enough London!)