Fulham v Birmingham City 1975 FA Cup SF

Fulham 1 Birm C 1 5th April 1975 @ Hillsborough Fulham Scorer Mitchell
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[@hauntboy]

Back in the day when semis were played on Saturday afternoons at 3pm like all the other games, and on a neutral ground other than Wembley, making the atmosphere so much greater with the dream of Wembley (the Holy Grail) awaiting the winners. Back when the FA Cup mattered and players were players not celebrities.

[@mjh5437]

"Back in the day" when nobody used daft expressions like "back in the day"

[@steveblack610]

@@mjh5437He’s right but so are you 😂

[@christopherstillwell8662]

These comments all have some great truths in them 👍

[@alanprior7650]

When players were men (smoke,drink and still skillful). The pitches were muddy and if your kit was clean after 90 minutes you hadn't put any effort in.

[@Junior-iq2tl]

Totally agree with everything you have said here

[@stuhazle]

I was there ... an 11-year-old in the Birmingham end. Whenever Trevor Francis got the ball you knew something special could happen. And it was always an honour to watch Bobby Moore.

[@MGB]

Wonderful to see this after all these years. I was there as a football mad 11 year old with my Dad supporting my beloved Blues. Seeing Big Joe Gallagher score his goal still makes it one of the greatest moments. Also have to add seeing the great Bobby Moore in action was / is a pleasure. The replay we also went to, but I try to forget that night. Thankyou for uploading.

[@andisadler2897]

AWW bless ya little cotton socks. Should have supported Chelsea lol.

[@whatayear]

@@andisadler2897 Why?? What a pathetic comment. Now they're just a scummy little club with plastic glory huntng fans.

[@bcfc18751]

I was there with all the Blues fans, we were not at our best and were lucky to have a second chance but Maine Rd replay; tears of despair!!

[@mjtedclayton]

Every game home and away ,never seen so many grown men cry after the replay.

[@RainbowDancer.]

I was standing right behind the goal and what a goal !!!.. it went bonkers and when John Mitchell ran into the crowd what a moment I’ll never forget

[@FOVKRO]

They said Birmingham took the most amount of fans by one club at any ground outside of Wembley .

[@leehaslam5751]

Same as we had most fans from one club back in 1991 for leyland daf till spurs had home games there.we should be one of the giants of English football but we have the worst luck imaginable

[@markhemming318]

Whose "They"?

[@lawtonloraine4144]

I was there as a 16 year old behind the blues goal, was absolutely packed, many false tickets they were easy in those days. Could easy be 40,000 blues fans sick as parrots after that and Maine road loss. Never forget it all my life.

[@jamieblack516]

2nd semi - great day out. Proper football. Still going and still hoping!!!

[@dougscrivens4002]

Baggies supporter here. Went to the replay with a Bluenose mate. Great game, Blues should have won, I was gutted for Blues!

[@MrCORB123]

went to this game as a 12 yr old blues fan with my dad bless him and brother watching it still remember that atmoshere to this day not the best of days and the replay was worse went there aswell walked out in tears oh well thats football lol

[@deanchapman96]

rember it well and the replay at main rd crying all the way home to northfield in the mini clubman

[@imspartacusnoimspartacus4731]

I feel your pain

[@imspartacusnoimspartacus4731]

Brum should achieve much more than they do, massive support. They have to get in the PL big clubs like Brum are needed not dross like Palace. There must have been 45,000 Brummies at this game. I’m Chelsea had some lively days up at Birmingham. Good crew. Love this Birmingham kit. Some great players. Bob Hatton, Trevor Francis, Hit Man Howie Kendall. For those of you who may not realise, the Taylor playing for Birmingham is the guy who is now that PFA shithouse, Gordon Taylor.

[@fredhall4239]

Only one team in Fulham

[@sloveniesta]

Love that Fulham jersey! They should bring it back.

[@thomasoflaherty3520]

It's like Man City's away strip at that time too.

[@josephyearwood1179]

Both Fulham and QPR seemingly got an hardon for their away kits to be in the colours of their west London brethren, Brentford.

[@lukegale7812]

@@josephyearwood1179 I think you may be colour blind. Or whatever the equivalent is for black and white

[@alanprior7650]

Red and black shirts with black shorts...AFC Bournemouth home kit 😊

[@kouzari]

The replay at Maine Road was my first ever away game, aged 7. Just remember crying all the way back to Birmingham. Don't suppose anyone has the highlights for the replay anywhere?

[@scherben8870]

According to Wikipedia (I know), the semi-final replays were never broadcast, except for brief clips on news reports. The Fulham winner is on KZbin.

[@edwardshirley9314]

@@alexwatson1851 See you Saturday mate :-)

[@raymondbonington9355]

Alex Watson you hate a club for winning a football match ?

[@edwardshirley9314]

Fulham had a good first half at Wembley. Cutbush and Mellor gave the game away in the second half. Mitro was in the right place at the right time last Saturday :-)

[@robfenton992]

what a fukin game though lads non stop chasin tacklin i bet they were breathin through there arses at the end ,brilliant .....footie as it should be.

[@ZeldaFitz]

4:16 the leppings lane end just falls forward. Thank god they didn’t have fencing up back then. I’ve read somewhere that this game was an early warning regarding safety at Hillsborough.

[@wendyharvey9821]

Was right behind the goal, where Fulham scored, absolute mayhem and excitement but scary to think what was to happen there years later. R I P the 97. Dave Harvey

[@blue-nozeskro4814]

Queued up all Sat nite wiv Ol Man i was 9, remember singin Oi u bk ov the queue, was like a home game 4 Blues thousands on M'way n in ground

[@whitesnake329]

Blue nose that was at this game aged 14! Was even at the Leeds one, years earlier that Francis called the best club side he had ever played against! In the Fulham one my dad always asked why we played the 'old timers' ! Also went to the replay at maine road and not a word was spoken all the way home , was gutted and heart broken, and as they say somethings never change , just look at the disaster this season. ! The gypsies curse, eh!

[@jeremypearson6852]

The FA cup that year was pretty much Bobby Moore’s swan song. The 70’s was the era when a number on second division sides made the final.

[@michaelketley876]

A memorable day . The last train back from Sheffield got diverted at Derby to go via Leicester. Left Sheffield at about 11.20 and was absolutely packed by drunken Blues fans. Arrived in Birmingham about 90 minutes late. One lad needed the toilet - couldn't get into it so got off the train to use the toilet on Derby station. The train left before he got back on 😂.

[@terrybiddle2969]

First time i heard my Dad swear when campbell dragged his shot across goal

[@waynenorris7035]

West ham and Billy bonds lifting the cup!

[@stevefowler3398]

Terrible final. Fulham didn't turn up. You may have guessed that I'm a Fulham sufferer.

[@ZeldaFitz]

Unofficially I’d say that there was 60,000 in Hillsborough that day.

[@gnjp8340]

What a Game ! Fulham should have kept the Lucky Shirt for the final !

[@thelongtrotter]

I was right behind that screamer from mitchell never forget it and the replay standing on the tables in the motorway service station went in ford corsair why dont the players role around like they do now days it was a harder game all round

[@simonhall7871]

I was there age 10, expecting to see Blues coast to a win, remember only Joe Gallagher turned up - DONT think you missed much! The replay was even worse, we were great, but couldnt put the ball in the net and the ultimate deflected winner in the last seconds.

[@gerardmarques]

great game

[@tropicalpalmtree]

fucked up how the crowds all fall forward into eachother

[@andisadler2897]

That winger for Fulham Barratt? had some serious pace. He ran that City Right back ragged.

[@nigelhamilton815]

Malcolm page was never the quickest. Never forgave Goodwin for dropping calderwood and phillips. They were both in form.

[@tent7014]

@@nigelhamilton815 dead right

[@EvoGoody]

There was little difference between the top two divisions back then.

[@CoalMiningTown]

Me too Si I was devastated.

[@wellington-yh8rc]

Corking atmosphere .

[@robfenton992]

brian moor a fulham fan or wat

[@majorsharpe5208]

I know! So feckin biased...always much preferred Barry Davies.

[@gmaccruyff55]

Gillingham fan!

[@diggers7169]

Hillsborough?

[@scherben8870]

That surge at 4:14.

[@tdonovan4735]

The sad thing is that the sure your refer to is at the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough where the 96 Liverpool fans died in 1989. So, so sad. The warning signs were there for years but we never saw it. Crowd surges were just seen as a normal part of the game

[@thomasoflaherty3520]

It was the fences there that killed them not the actual crowding aspect. NO fences on this game. You see I was in that same place the following year supporting Man Utd in another semi-final and we had the crowd but no threat to life due to no fencing in front of us.

[@ZeldaFitz]

@@thomasoflaherty3520 I’ve been saying that ever since 1989, if there had not been fencing 96 people would not have been killed. The warning signs were there for years, 1975,1976,1981,1987,1988...

[@swaldron5558]

Strange FA and Old Bills ignore.

[@lawtonloraine4144]

We were all just treated as animals in those days. The police and authorities hated us. Just how it was. The quarter final saw blues with 52000 at St Andrews plus false tickets and those who jumped the turnstile.

[@NigelAskill]

That's correct!

[@tomross3079]

Worst day of my football supporting life

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

Fulham very cut and thrust...seemed to pose more of a threat. Francis quite subdued, almost a passenger.

[@JakJim1]

Superb football , not like the current crap

[@NigelAskill]

Less than that Fulham?Blues in their end. 35,000 Blues

[@imspartacusnoimspartacus4731]

I’d estimate 45,000 Blues

[@wendyharvey9821]

But we won

[@NigelAskill]

@@wendyharvey9821 ooh? Going up

[@hudson7354]

Fulham will still be a nonce club like Vella, there’s no difference between the pair

[@BCFC1891]

anybody know how many away fans we took?

[@martinsimpson5883]

Was 35,000 tickets

[@markhemming318]

No such thing as away fans at a neutral venue. Typical blue - nose. UTV.

[@blue-nozeskro4814]

Blues easily outnumbered them i was 9 n kud'nt c fuck all remember the Brown program tho n Bob Moore took sum stick, fantastic memory with Ol Man

[@lukegale7812]

Simon Morgan woz ere

[@mjh5437]

Great blood & thunder stuff before the overpaid Premier pansies and poseurs .

[@markhemming318]

Sung to the tune of the laughing policeman: " there was a certain team by the name of Birmingham/ they got knocked out the F.A. Cup by Alex Stocks Fulham/ it was in the final minute the referee blew up and now those blue and white bastards are out the F.A. Cup/ ha, ha,, ha,......

[@hudson7354]

I know a good song it’s called mark hemming is a nonce he follows schoolboys home.

[@slurmsmckenzie4852]

Sad bastard commenting on blues videos..obsessed

[@markhemming318]

@@slurmsmckenzie4852 Did you just post that comment with a complete lack of irony? Of course you did, you're a Small Heath Harriers supporter. Go and give that sub- normal head of yours a good fucking wobble .

[@slurmsmckenzie4852]

We have an irony deficiency in small heath obviously mark, you are right..up the harriers

[@markhemming318]

@@slurmsmckenzie4852 You do know puns are a low form of humour?

[@tellitlikeitis-rg4ny]

Great day best birmingham side ever