[69/70] The Big Match [14-03-1970]

This edition contains:
- Full highlights of the FA Cup Semifinal (Chelsea vs Watford at White Hart Lane)
- Jimmy Hill interviews Alan Hudson (Chelsea)
- The 12 candidates to win the Golden Goals Competition of 1970

[@KingFahtah]

I watch these games and I think of how much Britain has lost in such a short time. I feel much melancholy

[@markmeade2937]

We all do , and as the years pass it’s become bloody awful 👍

[@johndempsey7528]

It was great game to play in even though it was mostly sand and then we went on to win the Fa Cup against Leeds. John Dempsey "Blue Is The Colour"

[@petersharp7644]

You were a great defender John and I always hoped that my team Leicester City would come in for you, but it sadly wasn't to be. All the best to you.

[@johndempsey7528]

@@petersharp7644 Thank you Peter for your kind comment and sorry I missed out playing for your team back then.Stay Safe

[@seltaeb9691]

Chelsea's Ron Harris in the 1970 FAC Final started the violence & Leeds who came to play fair then gave tit for tat but they got the blame as Chelsea sniggered. Watch it & the full match is on KZbin after a bit of searching by a European poster.

[@DeltaJazzUK]

The days when semis were held on a neutral beach.

[@tomduggan51]

Olde Channel, Thanks for this programme. Great to see classic Chelsea side and also great goals in goal competition. Great performance by Houseman for Chelsea. Lack of so-called 'media training' evident in Hudson interview.

[@nguyendailam6703]

Alan wasn't the most articulate of fellas!

[@shaunatkinson5489]

I was 8 days old when this match was played. I've watched The Big Match Revisited on ITV 4 for the past few months. It was very entertaining.

[@markmeade478]

Great memory's, great football, and still in my eyes Chelsea's greatest team.....

[@john111257]

proper football pitch..weathered ..THIS IS FOOTBALL

[@peterglynnfilms]

i saw three bookable offences in one minute , and a guy smoking on the subs benches not to mention the health n safety stuff behind the goal. great great days!

[@Louisejames23]

Peter Houseman, probably one of Chelsea’s most underrated players.

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Louise yes Peter Houseman was really underrated as a player and made so many goals for Peter Osgood and Ian Hutchinson. A really great player and a lovely person as well. John Dempsey ex player. Stay Safe

[@dominewimbury2039]

@@johndempsey7528 I'm so sorry to ask this but was it him and his wife who were killed in a tragic car crash later on in the decade? Around 1977 or so. Bless them if this is the player I'm thinking of

[@johndempsey7528]

@@dominewimbury2039 Hi Domine yes you are right 1977 is when he and his wife and two friends were all killed by a driver who was doing 100miles an hour. Such a lovely person and a great player so very sad as they had 3 young sons.Stay Safe

[@gunternetzer9621]

@@johndempsey7528 Thanks John, nice to see an ex-player talking on You Tube.

[@gunternetzer9621]

@@dominewimbury2039 RIP Nobby.

[@PlayhousessRockandRoll]

Very well said pal. Even Scotland had a half decent team and Brian Moore as a brilliant commentator. Miss it badly too !!

[@arbutus27]

Yesterday I had to watch 120 minutes of Spanish tippy tappy v Morocco in the W.C. My God, what a contrast. These boys went hell for leather didn't they? ( I was there, and at Wembley, and at Old Trafford).

[@Busybee65]

3.27, that is a good old fashioned surge behind that goal

[@darganx]

I love early Brian Moore on the Big Match, he'd go nuts when a goal went in! He kinda simmered down by the 80s though!

[@jameshope398]

Love watching these old Big Match and MOTD keep them coming would love to see the Big Match from the 68-69 season

[@daddykornflakes]

Such camaraderie and togetherness between these Chelsea players. Hudson missed out on the final due to injury and Tommy Baldwin came in. Hudson resembles a young Jimmy Page in his interview.

[@Darwinion]

Fucking hell... I bet the producers of The Big Match couldn't wait to get Hudson back for another interview!

[@Farmlandsfallfan]

What a goal by Ian Hutchinson, my first footy hero

[@wentonmastermind]

Many thanks, FootballGaffesGalore. I had not seen Terry Garbett's goal for over 40 years! Just as I remembered it.

[@stevenhodgson9640]

Fantastic!! Thanks for this...Haven't seen this since the day...I was there willing the The Hornets on, only a few days before my 15th birthday.What a day! Just outclassed in the end by the eventual F.A.Cup winners.

[@Mike20216]

thanks for sharing, great to see these classic matches, i wonder how some of todays players would cope playing on pitches like that.

[@davgat79]

Watching the Chelsea Watford match thinking, "If only beach football had been an actual thing in the 70's"

[@garyowens1517]

No foreign players no stupid stats no over hyped premiership. Happy days

[@faeembrugh]

First went to football matches in 1973. I was 8 and my brother was 5 (!). We often got in for nothing as we claimed we had lost our dad, who was inside the ground!

[@markmeade478]

look at the skill and close control. on a pudding basin, proper footballers can play on anything... George Best, the greatest ever.

[@twelveytwelve]

I love the shocking state of the ground. :-)

[@karlgodfreed]

A sand pit of a pitch chelsea mob in big numbers a whl again.

[@davefisher9418]

Chelsea played on two terrible pitches to win the FA Cup! Good to see this again!

[@davgat79]

I was only 2 months old when this games was played so a wee bit before my football watching time, but that Houseman looks a player for Chelsea.

[@arbutus27]

Killed with his family by a drunken driver with several convictions, son of a Tory MP who got off very lightly. Look it up.

[@popeyenick]

Thanks for putting this up...have'nt seen it since back then.Excellent the way football was...the state of the pitch,the mad surges of the crowd,the tackles that broke legs but you didnt get sent off! Happy days. ps I would have voted for the Sammels goal..he could hit it

[@redmanthinks]

I`d just started supporting Chelsea the previous round so was mad keen by the time this was played on my ninth birthday. I`ve seen the goals but not this much of the game before.To be fair Watford shaded the first half and the first part of the second, but caved in. Both teams tried to play flowing football, the ref let the game flow, and even strikers were prepared to tackle and take one back without rolling around like girls (actually, that`s wrong, they don`t roll around in the Ladies` game).

[@rockpig63]

It looks like they are playing on the beach,great stuff

[@derby1884]

Takes me back!! Real football. Some astounding goals in that competition at the end - which one won it? I can't decide between Ray Crawford and Jon Sammels.

[@converse91970]

I am not a Chelsea fan but I enjoyed watching that, super skills on view. I loved the way the young lad stands up and pats the player on the back around 17:55. Awful pitch - not sure Arsene Wenger would have liked it too much, lol!

[@nguyendailam6703]

Spurs lost to Everton on that pitch three days previous and the place looked a quagmire. I'm amazed the ground staff managed to get it looking as good as they did for this match!

[@fisherpeter695]

Unusually the return fixture between Everton and Spurs was played a week later at Goodison Park. With Everton winning 3-2. Mike England gave away 2 penalties in the game for fouls on Joe Royle both from corner kicks. Alan Ball scored and missed one. I always felt the 4 points from these games set Everton up for the title. After a great start in August 1969 they hit a poor run of form around December. January but came through also beating Chelsea 5-1 and Liverpool in the run in. What a great finisher Ray Crawford was in the 60s capped by England, he never played for a big city club Barry Endean was wanted by Everton around this time, and his all round game and finishing could have got the goals Everton needed in the 1970.71 period when they lost a key FA Cup semi final, and European Cup quarter final the destroyed that fine Everton team .

[@asd36f]

27:03 - the wheeled stretcher that was such a fixture at English grounds in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

[@johndempsey7528]

Great team to play in even on a sandy pitch for a semi final but then we moved on to Wembley where again it was sandy because they had the horse of the year show the week before but we won the Fa Cup in the end Those Were Days "Blue Is The Colour " John Dempsey ex Chelsea Player.

[@tomduggan51]

Hello John, Great to hear from you on KZbin. Hope you are keeping well and that life is treating you well. Thanks for providing great memories with this wonderful Chelsea team including superb FA Cup final win over Leeds. Congrats on your achievements and best wishes to you.

[@johndempsey7528]

Hi Tom thank you for your kind comments. Yes it was great to be part of a great team and I am glad that you had happy memories of those times. Stay Safe.

[@paulbates8144]

Hi John, Do you still have your match worn shirts from both games of the 1970 cup final?

[@johndempsey7528]

@@paulbates8144 Hi Paul back then it was very unusual to swap shirts or to keep a shirt but they allowed us to for only that Cup Final. I still have the shirt from Wembley game and I swapped with Paul Madeley in the replay. Back then there was no money in the game so clubs could not afford to have players given shirts away.

[@paulbates8144]

@@johndempsey7528 many thanks for your answer. It's nice to hear that you have a Chelsea shirt and also a Leeds shirt from both games. Very nice keepsakes to have. I think the Chelsea shirt from the replay had a yellow embroidered badge and didn't have the Wembley scroll underneath it, unlike the game at Wembley which does have the scroll embroidered underneath the 'white' badge. I think the Leeds shirt from the replay does have the words 1970 cup final embroidered around the Owl badge. So it's nice that you have one of each from both games.

[@Malabus73]

Bring back standing terraces and abolish SKY sports TV and bring back football and atmosphere to the fans. BRING BACK STANDING.

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

Too right. Proper football. Against the modern game.

[@antonyware9887]

Great suggestion ! 100% agree. I’m 68 and always stand for the whole of the match WITHOUT obscuring anyone else’s view. We sit almost at the back of the Kop at Bramall Lane where everyone stands.

[@ptf2941]

Dunno if its been covered already but ths has gotta b th golden era of English footie.

[@raymondmcdonald355]

what a fantastic sound track

[@barblessable]

Pitch is like a beach , what would players like Osgood ,Cooke ,Hollins etc have produced on todays" bowling green " pitches.

[@johnsmiths9682]

The pitch surface was supplied by United Arab Emirates The players enter the pitch to the tune of Sandy by John Travolta On the subs bench for Watford was SANDY Jardine

[@91josh]

Wow, that pitch!

[@dominewimbury2039]

Alan Hudson looks happy(!)

[@KaniFuker-Sir]

No grass, no shinpads, jewellery worn, smoking cigarettes, 12 players on the pitch at one time, no poofy ballerinas, rare sightings of any Non-white players, no penalties, no red cards, proper tackles with no rolling around like you'd been shot, no £300K a week wages, no wankers holding phones and i-pads in your view, fans singing both teams names, the list is endless. So miss those days of real men playing the game. Thanks for upload. Merry xmas all.

[@joniqitu]

Rare sightings of any non-white players?

[@supahdupahguy81]

+Jon ishy I'm guessing he's a Chelsea fan...

[@lennylaa1686]

A very accurate observation, the only black player was West Ham's Clyde Best. A couple of African players came to Villa via Atlanta Chiefs during that season 1969/70. Freddie Mwila and Emment Kapengwe got a game each but they were not up to it, even in a very poor and struggling team managed by a fast fading Tommy Docherty. 2 months after this prog. we were in Div. 3.

[@lennylaa1686]

if you look closely at some of these games during the 60's and 70's, you will see a few black faces on the terraces but not many as the UK was still a 99% WHITE NATION. A much happier time when we had a peaceful society. Today, in 2019 we have been swamped by 3rd world mass immigration and huge levels of criminality.

[@tdonovan4735]

@@lennylaa1686 A very accurate observation but clearly said with racist hatred in mind, no?

[@daddykornflakes]

Well spotted. Never saw that until you mentioned it.

[@JOSALDINHOJOSALDINHO]

I JUST LIKED IT

[@Louisejames23]

Couldn’t see Watford, shirts clashed with all that sand on the pitch! 😬⚽️

[@robharding5345]

. Back when pitches were pitches😀, Great young Chelsea side, I was a big Leeds fan, and we had some great encounters, But they beat us in the cup final, But happy days,

[@lennylaa1686]

@ 36-22..what was wrong with this superb strike by Peter Osgood? Fantastic volley given offside but cannot see it, no wonder he looks gutted. Look at his amazing side burns, fashionable in the day! Notice seconds before in the build up that THREE Chelsea players went for the same ball!

[@Richard-ob2sp]

Jimmy Hill earned his money there. It was like interviewing Nigel Tuffnel but less articulate. These players would put todays to shame. Not going down with the lightest of touches, not sending the ball backwards or sideways (but perhaps that was edited out if so) and these guys wearing their rings.

[@Chelsea2012goals]

incredible

[@kevinhiggins910]

Ah those were the days, so much entertainment...as physical as today's rugby almost.

[@harrymay2528]

DOB MOTD - now watching some years later...

[@whoknowsthebowler]

Iam Scottish ,but the F.A. Cup was the greatest Club competition in the World .Money and greedy bastards ruined it .4th in the League .....................? Listen to the crowd they are watching their Team playing for a chance to win something amazing.........

[@MrJeepsters]

Ce que vous dites est juste.

[@westhamheston]

Thanks for uploading, awful pitch but a great game.

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Arsenal's goal against Crystal Palace won.

[@brianransley8914]

One of my first games . Unfortunately, Watford were taken apart in the second half

[@andisadler2897]

See the fans behind Left goal go down like crushed sardines when Chelsea had an attempt. Watching them, then putting fences up in l;ater years doesnt that tell you something? FA Cup Semi Final also!. Also remember what Jimmy Hill said about typical Chelsea goal, cross then flicked on by Dempsey to Webb at far post. Obviously Don Revie wasnt watching lol.

[@daveappleby1696]

proper football . not these bowling greens nowadays..

[@barrieholditch3800]

The pitch looks like Margate, back in the days when sweaters were goal 🥅 posts

[@zty3529]

Those were the days

[@LeighRichards27]

Fa cup semis were better when they were played at neutral club grounds rather than wembley - yes even on pitches like this!

[@davidcheeseman5917]

The good old days

[@ArmyofLove]

Could build sandcastles on that pitch

[@richardsharpe2966]

The days when you could see football for just 5 bob

[@tdonovan4735]

And the programme cost less than a sixpence. 5d in some stadiums

[@frankhornby6873]

EVERTON FINISHED CHAMPIONS OF THE ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION.....WITH A RECORD 66pts.....💙

[@salus1231]

It looks more like a place to bring a bucket and spade than a football

[@Calinn86]

what the hell happened at around 3:25 with the fans behind the goal?

[@supahdupahguy81]

+Calin Those types of crowd avalanches were commonplace in the days of over-packed terraces. it's literally just fans from the back running/jumping/tripping down the steps & pushing those in front of them forward. In those days people were almost oblivious to how dangerous it could be.

[@converse91970]

No probs - actually nearer 17:48!

[@cloud2discokaraoke17]

State of that pitch!

[@chrisegan19681]

Holy smoke did you see those terrace tumbles!

[@perrynnlynch3811]

Scary stuff.

[@davidcheeseman5917]

Normal back in the days

[@pablok2854]

which is that goal? i couldnt find it.

[@garybanks2325]

How much sand did they use?

[@tobytroubs]

that music

[@peteranthony7115]

What is that green stuff on the side of the pitch it looks a bit like grass!

[@peterpeterxxo]

look at that pitch..lets all build a sandcastle.

[@clivethereddevil3178]

2:45 p.m. kick off time and I still do not know why

[@pablok2854]

nice turf... play there Messi.

[@john111257]

yep no sky..no dishes..just football

[@graemepitt6378]

hudson could have smiled a man of few words

[@andisadler2897]

Chewsea bom bom bom Chewsea bom bom bom Chewsea bom bom bom.....Cooke,Osgood.....goaaaaaalllllllll. RIP Ossie

[@lennylaa1686]

Oddly enough, for such a super performance, there should have been a lot more singing and chanting! IMHO!

[@wayneflint9974]

Proper pitch

[@samcolbeck]

I was listening on the radio but have never seen this before. Blatant penalty at 8' 32" - a turning point in the game, Hornets robbed! But Scullion just glances to the linesman and gets on with it. And the commentator likewise bows to the ref's decision.

[@seltaeb9691]

Beach football never caught on.

[@nfelvis68]

I wished they the option to play on sand in Fifa 13.

[@gray3553]

Alan Hudson , great player in his day but not much on top.

[@clash1977100]

Spurs ground staff - Were they on three day a week ?

[@terrybrown4400]

I wa waiting for someone to find a message in a half buried bottle

[@SlotraceDK]

REAL SOCCER!!!!! Not the cry-babies and divers we see today!!!

[@pablok2854]

that Owen migh be Michael Owen's dad or not?

[@andrewdearie3196]

Not. Michael's dad played for Chester.

[@goonerchamps]

Seriously WTF? Did they have groundsmen in those days?

[@RICHTAYL]

Beach football!

[@HayamWaruk]

not much grass...

[@marti2474]

playing in sandpits

[@Backspace1957]

Bring back grass.

[@PhilipMaguire-nv5fj]

Cheksea fans all sides

[@gunternetzer9621]

Alan Hudson destroys Watford.

[@wpbutt]

When football was played by real men NOT a bunch of overpaid prima donnas looking to win an Oscar !!

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

It's hardly real football when it's technically inferior and played on a bloody beach, is it? What you mean is that players were far closer to the normal working man back then and that made it feel more "real".

[@leroysmart9363]

Crap football with a constant loss of possession . shocking pitches and ramshackle grounds . And people are yearning for those days? Even the footballer couldn’t string two sentences together .

[@nguyendailam6703]

Look at quality control by players like Hudson, Cooke and Osgood on the heavy pitch. The fact you said "the footballer" shows you don't even know who Alan Hudson is. Your ignorance knows no bounds.

[@leroysmart9363]

@@nguyendailam6703 anyone can control the ball at walking pace which is what they played at in them says , with a name like yours you only watched football after escaping Vietnam and are not fit to judge

[@rdgrdg1632]

That was what football was about you moron

[@geoffreywilliams4266]

Barry endean you broke my heart Godder liverpool skinhead 69 70