Arsenal 3-0 Manchester United (25th Aug. 1973)

Highlights of Arsenal vs Manchester United, 25th August 1973. Includes analysis from Jimmy Hill. Taken from ITV's "The Big Match".

[@RikuEmpu]

I was at the match. Now 43 years later I finally see the highlights. What a thrill to have been there and to relive it today through this video. Many thanks.

[@kucinglaper89]

Glad to know that sir...here im arsenal fans from indonesia since 1996 and i was born in 1989 (that is too young 😂😂) bergkamp is my all time favourite player,, i love arsenal because of him until now n forever...just want to know sir how does it feel became arsenal fans in 70s how old r u at that time?? Maybe ur at the same age with my parents born in 1952 😄😄...#coyg sorry 4 my english

[@jimhalfpenny19]

I was there too , we were a bad side then .

[@rajnirvan3336]

Beautiful stadium so dearly missed. Manchester United kit looks identical to Arsenal away

[@salimtufail]

Man United wearing Arsenal-like away strip. See 1979 FA Cup Final! I was confused throughout the whole clip!

[@Ground53]

Especially when George Graham was playing for man utd. Totally confused as well

[@rajnirvan3336]

Exactly just different crest

[@PaulBurton62]

Great first touch by George Armstrong around 2mins 20... knocked the ball forward with backspin so it held up for his 2nd touch - dont see that these days

[@malarki5]

The memories just come flooding back...I feel sad...excited...melancholy.

[@tomduggan51]

Dan, Thanks indeed for these excellent videos of great Arsenal performances-this one accompanied by fine match analysis from Malcolm Allison!

[@converse91970]

Great post, although marked the beginning of Brian Moore hosting The Big Match without Jimmy Hill who by this time had left LWT to go to the BBC to host Match of the Day. Nice analysis from Malcolm Allison who looks so refreshed, presumably from a good holiday and lots of champagne. Some poignancy in this match too, as Ray Kennedy would recall some years later that it was during this match that he felt for the first time that not all was right with his health.

[@philipmillard3178]

remember the score boards in the corners giving scores from other matches. Fondish memories from those 70's games.

[@irvinepanda]

great quality vid. You can pick out all the faces in the crowd.

[@cerneuffington2656]

@6:30

[@celticwarrior1365]

I was 9 at the time and loved my soccer even though the only live games that I saw involved Cardiff City in division two and one match where Newport County played Reading. I remember crying on the coach home to the valleys as Cardiff beat Orient 1-0 and consigned my favourite team Blackpool to relegation in the last game of the season! Never forgiven em since!

[@ldanzamariastile3536]

same here i was 9 but i started supporting united in 1976, i followed only the fa cup finals before then because it was always live on a saturday afternoon at 3 o clock live games where so rear in thoses days everYbody watched the FA CUP

[@tennislegendsonlineretrotennis]

Brilliant upload, thank you very much. How did you get the quality so good Dan?

[@liamquinn2011]

Magnificent stadium

[@rajnirvan3336]

Absolutely

[@brianoreilly239]

We never won a game at Highbury between 69/81 , I dreaded going there then. Where did Big Mal get those lapels, they look ridiculous ? !

[@redflag8970]

harry greg might of but busby didnt

[@ldanzamariastile3536]

Highbury was a beautiful stadium yes the pitch was on the small side but still a nice stadium

[@UncleMikeNJ]

This was the beginning of the end. After just missing the title the preceding spring, Bertie Mee had begun to break up the team, selling captain Frank McLintock, and most of the other '71 Double teamers would soon be marginalized. But the pieces of the '79 FA Cup winners are starting to fall into place, too. Soon, Liam Brady would become a regular.

[@peterh1353]

Bertie (Mee) sat in the stand with his wife and family like any spectator. Howe on the bench shouting and pointing if not intimidating the OAP refs. Radford aged faster than any good player I ever saw - but great on his day. Kennedy was sold to Liverpool as proof that Mee had lost the plot big-time.

[@neilbooth8510]

Kennedy was sold because his form was poor, he was seriously unfit, and unhappy. He was pursued by Shanks who convinced Bob Paisley once he was fit, he was big and strong enough to fill the defensive midfield role that Liverpool placed so much emphasis on. Shankley was proved right. Mee didn't have any option than to sell him at that stage. As for Radford, he was old when he was playing in the mid 70s'. He was 29 when he left, which for a forward back then was 'veteran stage' of their career. Even now, by 28 they are starting to lose their sharpness. Only the very, very best can keep going (as a forward) in top flight football into their 30's even today. Better diet, better physio means defenders, midfield players, and of course keepers can go on well into their 30's, but as Lahm and Alonso have said this year, it isn't always an option due to fading fitness levels and increasing risk of injury.

[@peterking5537]

@@neilbooth8510 Good insightful comment. Coming from a Spurs fan!

[@peterking5537]

Belatedly. I just realised you're comment is 10 years ago. Anyway the Gunners have had a great start to 2022/23. Coming from a Spurs fan. Respectfully of course.

[@peterking5537]

Sorry UncleMikeNJ - I got you're comment mixed up with Mr Booth's Must have been the excitement of Spurs coming from behind against Bournemouth. Lol 😁.

[@glennfleming]

Good to see these old games -Alan Ball, Charlie George, John Radford, Ray Kennedy...how much would they be worth today?

[@josssmith]

Not very much given they're all in their 60s/70s or dead

[@mykehyslop198]

David Price was a black cab driver in Croydon.Nice man.

[@jameshope398]

That was the season United were relegated

[@emptypages1970]

The pitch looks very parched. Must have been a dry summer that year

[@chomenkHC]

greatest

[@zyakko82]

Wow. Didn't know Homer and JFK (who apparently faked his death) played for Arsenal.

[@chomenkHC]

i miss you Arsenal army

[@polo-kf6yh]

macari bowling it in lol

[@raysharp7695]

man utd in yellow? just like arsenal 1979

[@Gooner1959]

I was there - Man U fans in clock end ran across pitch before kick off to get at Arsenal fans. Great days! 🤣

[@redflag8970]

Mate it’s unreal you said that as a lot of Utd have told me that. Ace says.

[@73reider]

Christ Utd were Awful back then, Even the Jerseys were Hideous......

[@peterh1353]

Arsenal reserve strip!

[@hooligoonerherdeie9682]

oh, so now you've noticed, you guy's were dreadful, you've been relegated 4 time's in your history, you only became a winning football club from 1993 when sir alex won his first title, the first league title in 27 year's.

[@redflag8970]

dont talk rubbish son utd won trophys in all but 2 decades since 1900 till now n bagged a european cup 50 yrs ago. its obvious u hate utd but read up

[@hooligoonerherdeie9682]

fuck off you muppet, man. united were a good team in the 50's and 60's, in the busby era, but in the 70's and 80's, you were abysmal letting your standard's go down the toilet, fact is fact, you red devil's can't handle the truth, but you have the audacity to mock us for having 10 bad year's since we've moved out of highbury, and had to sell all our good player's to pay off for the emirates stadium. but at least arsenal always had the better firm, we had two in a matter of fact, "the gooner's" (who no longer exist) and "the herd" (still around, but undercover), and we have european history too, winning the european inter cities trophy in 1970 and the european cup winner's cup in 1994, but we just haven't won the champion's league version.

[@redflag8970]

Hooligooner Midnight Patrol #EIE whos mockef u mate not me arsenal dead between 1950 an one title to 89 all clubs have periods os less success ours was the 70s but we never went away which neither have u . were big an have been for decades

[@makaveli9627]

One sub u know I'm done 😂

[@markjohn1910]

God I miss standing on the North bank Highburyyy ,