QPR-Manchester United 1975/76

[@jamesgeorge2299]

Clicked on this out of curiosity, and the first thing I see is Brian Moore's class in the intro. Takes me back to Sunday afternoons across the other side of the world from the English football league, enjoying not just the games but the intimate and honest TV coverage from Moore and the team.

[@willyboy64ify]

I'm a Spurs fan but I remember the QPR team of 1975/76 were a great football team to watch - had some class players Gerry Francis, Dave Thomas on the wing, Stan Bowles etc. So unlucky not to win the league that year

[@portcullis5622]

QPR played some lovely football that season. It was a real shame that they did not win the league.

[@garyparker2541]

what a team QPR were then....I used to sit in the paddock with my dad from 1972 to 1992......the smell of pipe smoke, burgers, the cheesy PA bush telegraph...those chants...take no prisoners...you RRRR's....Thomas socks round his ankles flying down the wing....such great days.

[@user-gd1ow9kb1q]

That was great QPR Team, unlucky not to win the league. Dave Thomas a proper winger, remember him for Everton, setting up many of Bob Latchford's goals.

[@smith077906]

My dad went to school with Mick Leach. Such a nice bloke and a great footballer. R.I.P.

[@chrisevans5259]

Loved the game in those days, it had a real raw passion , a game for the fans.......modern football is now a money obsessed business, that has lost a lot of its real heart and soul.

[@MrCFCarePOO]

My All-Time football hero. Forever in my heart and head. Born in Manchester on Christmas Eve 1948, diagnosed with Alzheimers June 2015 aged just 66. "Stanley,Stanley,Stanley,Stanley... Born Is The King Of Loftus Road". As a former manager Ernie Tagg once said 'If he could pass a bookies as well as he passed a ball how many more England caps (more than a measly 5) would he have won?' God Bless Stan THE Man

[@Terry-g9j]

Proper Footy , Loved Dave Thomas

[@electrician1602]

Loftus road looked brilliant then. 10 years before my time.

[@Itachi_san1915]

Ok

[@kingstonXT]

we love you QPR, from Costar Rica!

[@mickshipton2651]

I was at this game 'standing' on the School End terrace (standing in inverted commas because the end was so crowded a lot of the time it was on other people's feet!). Whilst being a Man Utd fan it's a shame that QPR didn't win the league that season (The result that 'did for them' was the surprise three two defeat at Carrow Road with a couple of games to go).

[@lefthookcitycentral3918]

United tried to take the Loft before the game, they didn't succeed - but you can still see one or two reds in there when Stepney saved that pen

[@markpaulo269]

Spent the whole season in the loft, what a team, what a season, pity for the game at Norwich 😢😢😢

[@chrishilton1490]

Was there. Made all United take our docs and steel toes off. Spent the day trying to stop toes being crushed. After the dibble had thrown all our shoes in a pile. Took ages to find them, almost missed coach back to Wigan. Great days.😈

[@paulrimmer2853]

Amazing how many big names were assembled at Loftus Road.

[@PeteBurns-xv2fz]

Id just started going to football as a very young boy to watch everton in those great days...just listen and look at the tension and atmosphere plus the excitement of the crowd...footy was fabulous then...now its all money...huge wages and zero atmosphere

[@gadaboutunited]

Stan Bowles going in quite right for a second bite at the penalty after Stepney's fine save. No feigning injury when Bowles made contact with him, no fuss, no nonsense. When football was a man's game instead of full of gamesmanship.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Probably one of the best sides not to have won the title.....Bowles, Givens, Francis....played lovely passing football....Barca inventing tikka takka my arse!

[@AllanKlo63]

Agreed. The style of play was at times breathtaking. Opponents never knew what hit them.

[@peterpeterxxo]

Loftus Road was where George Best last played top flight football on Jan 1st 1974.

[@mjh5437]

Rangers won 3-0 and relegated Man Utd lol

[@anthonyporter3147]

I went to that match then I was eleven with my parents and it was packed, great football days which I sadly miss.

[@williamrutter4058]

​@@mjh5437On New Years Say?

[@scherben8870]

Our away support's unbelievable. The return at OT was another classic.

[@BetaCam200]

10 days before your birthday MrCF..! I like that. Anyhow, an absolute thriller of a game. We definately outclassed manure on the day.

[@robertroberts2666]

Get Stepney's shirt collar in the after match interview. Wide is an understatement!

[@RUDDY1965]

Just seen Gerry Francis on Sky sports and started googling him. Watched these highlights. I remember watching these players in the 70's on MOTD or this one, The Big Match. Great players from both sides, especially QPR. If my own side hadn't won the league (LFC) this season I wish QPR had won it. But then we wouldn't have got into europe and won our first european cup the following year. How strange history is. These QPR players should have gone down in history as fine, fine players.

[@QPRTokyo]

Real football.

[@UKRichardHK]

2 great sides that season. Was so disappointed when QPR got pipped by Liverpool at the end of the season.

[@davidward1621]

johnny rotten true,It was like fucking slow motion!united were shite in the late 70s unfortunately

[@redflag8970]

@@davidward1621 under doc utd were descent.

[@HandleGF]

@@redflag8970 It's interesting to note that eight regulars in the side relegated in 1974 were still regulars when United were fighting for the title until three games from the end in 1976 (by which time they were also in the Cup final). The only difference was the addition of a few good players up front. Doc's side then was a good one. They would have easily passed the fifty-point* mark again in 1977 had they not thrown a few league matches on their way to winning the FA Cup. *Two points for a win.

[@redflag8970]

@@HandleGF I think it was game in hand at Stoke we lost which ended our hopes?

[@HandleGF]

@@redflag8970 0-1 at home, yes. That made it impossible to catch the other two. Then there was a 1-2 result at Leicester, in which Ged Coyne scored his only United goal. Beating City 2-0 in the final game was some small consolation. That may have been played after the Cup final, I'm not sure. Anyway, with three games to go United had still had the chance to match the title-winning total (60).

[@Underhills]

Journalists were practically sitting at the pitch-line with the spectators what looks to be just a meter behind the goal. Very intimate stadiums back then.

[@mjh5437]

Rangers seating are still that close to the pitch.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Oh what a team QPR had...

[@DonswatchingtheTube]

Its amazing how that team struggled ever since. They had some very good players.

[@cbak12sg]

The School End terrace sloped upwards from south to north, which is one of the reasons why crowds of around 30,000 were not unusual back then.

[@danw1374]

I think it was against Leeds United the previous year that QPR recorded the highest ever attendance at loftus road.

[@mjh5437]

@@danw1374 35,000

[@lausanne67]

Thanks for posting this video. I remember going to this game with my father. That was the best Rangers side ever - almost won the title that season. Any chance of showing more of the game?

[@jogi1957]

I liked Alex Stepney's shirt collar at the interview........

[@kchall5]

Later the two QPR players said "stuff this, we're going on tour with the Bay City Rollers."

[@redflag8970]

those two seasons 75 76 an 76 77 were great

[@redflag8970]

ye teams in those days could go from one end of the scale to another in a season

[@gadaboutunited]

@paul smith That's incredible based on that season

[@reynaldoballarini1886]

Minuto 3:27 😝que perigo, se arriscar a cair de uma altura só para ver um jogo...quanta insanidade!

[@nicklewis1882]

5:08 very little trouble with the crowd. Just shows you how low expectations had sunk in terms of crowd behaviour. Even though when big teams came visiting, you were wondering if you'd get home in one piece, (especially if you antagonised them by daring to beat them!), I still strangely miss those days.

[@Willsey]

I do miss those days.

[@simonadams8787]

Give us a goal Webby.......... How many times did he do that for us that season?

[@MrJeepsters]

MU had a really beautiful team in this time. I read (i'm french) QPR finished at second place this year. Why did Trevor Francis never play for great team (Liverpool, Mu or Arsenal) ? Was he desired by other teams (he was yet a very good player, maybe better than Keegan ?. I saw the whole game England -France world cup 1982, he was the best player.

[@portcullis5622]

I think you must mean Q.P.R's Gerry Francis. He was England captain in the 1970s, but I seem to remember him staying at Q.P.R. for most of his career. Trevor Francis played for several clubs, including Birmingham and Nottingham Forest. He won the European Cup with Nottingham Forest and (I seem to remember) was the first £1 million signing in English football. Around 1990 he was player- manager with Q.P.R. This is all from memory (not looked up the details), but I hope it is helpful.

[@WELLBRAN]

@@portcullis5622 also played for Sampdoria

[@paulgibbons2320]

QPR were the great team when he was playing...

[@mnd1955]

Brian Moore was the original ABU, well him and Jimmy Hill.

[@markrowe6735]

And the original biased Mockney. Fair enough when doing local tv but no good when doing cup finals with Northern teams! Always sounded like he had never been north of Watford in his life! Half Man Half Biscuit knew the score. haha

[@sfwplant]

That rotating The Big Match sign. Later to be seen in Classic CBBC heavy-industry based kids show Chock-A-Block

[@gadaboutunited]

Phil Parkes was there forever

[@mjh5437]

Nine years.

[@timbayliss4153]

While they are not my team, QPR have always been a good team, in the sense that they have never been below the Premiere or first divisions. They went to Europe once, and only lost by the extra goal, to AEK of Athens, in the 70's.

[@SuperSupasi]

Your memory has let you down. It was the 70s.

[@antonyhobbs1144]

Don Givens a hero at Hillsborough ( even though he never played for us)

[@0ex3ex2]

Nearly 30,000 uh ok

[@SuperSupasi]

Prob a lot more. Gate men would let you in for a back hander.

[@mjh5437]

@@SuperSupasi The clubs always underestimated the crowd numbers too and kept the cash difference back then...Probably nearer to 35,000 there.

[@SuperSupasi]

@@mjh5437 I remember a game against Spurs. Am sure there about 40000 packed in to LR.

[@danw1374]

Record attendance at loftus road was 35,353 against Leeds united in 1974.

[@0ex3ex2]

@@danw1374 jesus christ!

[@daveb8370]

Fabulous day

[@MrCFCarePOO]

FANTASTIC!! Beta. 10 days before my 10th birthday and Yer Man With The Desperate Dan Chin went and done the thing! Who the duck are Man United?Shame not more - c'est-la-vie.

[@grahamd4764]

Rangers will field the side that played Shrewsbury in the league cup. How times have changed!

[@HandleGF]

Gordon Hill had yet to arrive to replace Tommy Jackson.

[@GirGir183]

...the side that won in the league cup at Shrewsbury this week...dear oh dear

[@giantjon2]

Back when the goalkeeper wasn't allowed to move early. These days early movement by the keeper is almost completely ignored. Back in 75-76 the rules were respected and enforced. Not now with all of the shirt pulling, elbowing, leverage on shoulders, time wasting, simulation, etc. Bring back real football!

[@scherben8870]

+giantjon2 The rules were changed in the 90s allowing keepers to move before the ball was touched.

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

@@scherben8870 I don't think you are correct there. I think the law has remained the same over the years. Law 14 the penalty kick states that the goalkeeper must remain on the goaline until the ball has been kicked. I have complained several times to the FA over the last 5 years about referees and the linesmen/lineswomen failing to uphold Law 14. Goalkeepers have been cheating for years by coming off the line too early and referees have been allowing them to get away with it.

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

giantjon. Yes you are correct about referees failing to adhere to Law 14 the penalty kick. I think I am correct in saying that the law hasn't changed since the 1970s. Law 14 the penalty kick clearly states that the goalkeeper must remain on the goaline until the ball has been kicked. For some reason referees and the linesmen/lineswomen have been failing to uphold this law and allowing goalkeepers to cheat. The last World Cup in Russia was shocking for goalkeeper infringements. I have complained several times about this to the FA.

[@scherben8870]

@@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685 I never said they could move off the line; I said they were not allowed to _move_ full stop. Their feet had to remain in one position. _This_ changed in 1997.

[@karlos55555]

The great Stan Bowles RIP 🙏

[@markjones5302]

Alex Stepneys shirt in the interview hideous

[@kchall5]

When they were coming onto the pitch I kept hearing the "Monty Python" theme song in my head.

[@chrishilton1490]

I had to take my boots off outside, lots of us did. I managed to get to the front of the wall, but a lot had to stand in middle of the open end in stocking feet. When got back to the office were our boots were kept the bastards had mixed them all up. United fans we were mental in that era but always had a reception committee or over zealous police waiting for us.👹🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤣

[@Willsey]

The man utd support in the 1970s took over most grounds. But never could at newcastle. Even tony o neil of the red army and men in black said they always struggled at st james park and were glad to get back home

[@chrishilton1490]

@@Willsey. True mate. Your place was a nightmare. 👍👹🇬🇧

[@Willsey]

@@chrishilton1490 man utd didn't just take over grounds they took over entire towns and cities in mid 70s. Support was massive. Locals were scared witless and boarded up windows. I know grounds are more friendly and family orientated now but I tell you what Chris, I don't half miss the old days of the mass terraces and battles. Will never come back.

[@swaldron5558]

Same as Man City, fans forced to remove any offensive boots before matches with small clubs like QPR and Luton Town etc.

[@Martin63]

Love the strides being worn at 3.21! Rangers murdered them 1 nil that day. Pearson at 6.26 giving a Terry Venables style indication of which way the penalty was going. Great header from Webby - he scored so many great goals with his head!

[@robertbaglin3973]

UTD everywhere at least 3/4 of the ground.Magical days home and away.

[@allanstack7016]

Pity you don't get points for attandees 😂😂

[@DamienQilBormliz]

qpr best

[@keithwaites9991]

Alex Stepney with long hair? Blimey

[@jimmyjimmy7532]

Proper football, proper players playing in proper strips....and ALL wearing black boots!

[@mrwilliecowie]

The very unbiased Brian Moore not !

[@BetaCam200]

That's all there is, I'm afraid.

[@chrishilton1490]

Add to stand all match in stocking feet as the London coppers made us remove our reinforced shoes. Bastards.😂

[@davidward1621]

What a piss poor penalty that was,and what a poor team we were in the 70s(United)apart from a couple of cup finals it was a bad decade especially after 68 then relegation,Charlton past his best,Law gone and George on the piss!

[@mickfoskett6629]

David Ward ..that great unrivalled support when we were only winning the odd cup..no glory hunters in those days just pure red devils!👹

[@WELLBRAN]

When bailey, Daly, Micky Thomas, Jimmy greenhoff came in it got better

[@johnt7630]

United suffered after Matt Busby retired the same way they are still suffering now after Alec Ferguson left.

[@SuperSupasi]

@@WELLBRAN Dennis Bailey?

[@WELLBRAN]

@@SuperSupasi sorry Gary bailey!!. I'm getting old!

[@gadaboutunited]

Had United draw that and won at Anfield, they would've champions

[@lucaschapman2188]

Loftus road must be the only ground that is actually worse now than it was in the 1970's ." We are going to move to a new stadium Blah Blah Blah " been saying that for cira 25 years Lol! Never going to happen ! even Brentford have a better stadium now!😂