Saints V Man Utd 1976 FA Cup 1

Pre Match

[@clivebonneywell6967]

Cup final day back then was such a special day from morning till finish

[@eddyvideostar]

To Clive Bonneywell: The F. A. Cup Final was the most atmospheric. The days of yore consisted of real fans in and outside of the stadiums. Enthusiasm prevailed in every vicinity. Today's fans are led by KZbinrs and social media "professional" amateurs, making a buck from their basement libraries, waxing with sciolism, and wacking their own teams with pedantry run amok. The ambiance (spirit) from even the biggest games in this generation pales in comparison.

[@christophercook723]

It's now Foreiners mainy. No longer English Football.

[@leebeardshall7668]

Yes it was I bloody miss it all.

[@stephen8577]

Even if your team were not playing it was a special day, cup final day really meant something back then. Now the magic has gone, I don't bother watching it anymore.

[@Darwinion]

For me, personally, it died the season Man.Utd. didn't take part. I think the final was Chelsea v Villa and as a Leeds fan the magic had died.

[@gilbertsonlufc]

So true. For me, it was the biggest day of the year as a boy, more important than birthdays, Xmas or any thing else.

[@christophersharpe5222]

Britain was a wonderful place to grow up in the seventies.Fantastic footage.

[@staticcentrehalf7166]

All that lovely racism, sexism, police corruption, union strangleholds, three day weeks, power cuts and high waister trousers. Yeah, I loved it.

[@eddyvideostar]

To Christoper Sharpe: The best time and place.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Arsenalwheresotired

[@texriba8000]

Best years of my life 70’s and 80’s was always my dream to attend the FA Cup Final on a sunny May afternoon at the old Wembley - attend did i 😊

[@christophersharpe5222]

The only regret of the 1970s was liverpool losing to man untied in the 1977 fa cup final.

[@ianarn]

This was when the top teams always played their best players for each and every round of the FA Cup.

[@eamonnbrady5050]

Cup final Saturday at this time was brilliantly done from early morning. TV coverage was top notch. Brian Moore on ITV, great voice. Proper football presentation. Nostalgia, a beautiful and heart aching thing at one and the same time.

[@gilbertsonlufc]

Love it How Jack Charlton stills refers to Don Revie as ‘the boss’ 3 years after retiring. He has always said that he would not have been in the 1966 WCF team if it wasn’t for Don Revie. MOT

[@austenpearl5933]

I was there and what this shows me is the real genuine side of footballers in those days . Southampton players so happy to talk on the pitch as were united no ear plugs hands over mouths just football and savouring it as much as the fans . Those days gone forever

[@grahamsharpe6602]

Brilliant Television! Brilliant memories!!

[@jeniferallan6693]

Super Saints. I was there aged 16. May 1st. Thank you John for taking me.

[@julesdowner5585]

I was there! i can't actually remember much about the game except between us scoring and the final whistle was an awfully long time it seemed . Driving back down the M3 and every bridge had people with saints scarves and banners , It was a brilliant day , i still have my ticket , rosette and scarf

[@derekharrison1582]

Great FA Cup final pre match footage.More of this PLEASE😼

[@Mute_Nostril_Agony]

Wow. Lucky there was no strong wind or the players would have floated away on their massive lapels. And could you hear the snap of their huge flares as they walked around

[@fontenoy9]

🤣

[@texriba8000]

Wow I miss these great days…..Cup Final day at the old Wembley

[@PurpleRecords1972]

The build up to kick off made the final special 🏐

[@BelpassoOilandWineCo]

Peter Rodrigues looks about 60!

[@isaresarchvarin1496]

I studied in the UK during the 70’s and 80’s. Had a great time. Enjoyed football, rugby, cricket and Wimbledon.

[@fontenoy9]

Isares, thank you for your lovely words.

[@edmundpower1250]

Bobby Stokes getting his winning goal speech ready and what's that psychic working at now😂😂😂

[@pachma405]

Peter Osgood took the FA Cup home that night.

[@redflag8970]

Remember this day like yesterday a fantastic era an memory shame we lost that day it broke my young heart but f. A cup day was massive

[@fontenoy9]

Err, we won! (😉)

[@redflag8970]

Ye if your a saints fan which I’m not

[@fontenoy9]

I did guess that but my comment was meant well. You ‘lot’ have won more than enough to begrudge us a Trophy 😉

[@redflag8970]

@@fontenoy9 ye painful day but fair play to saints

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Seventy six the weather was hot

[@impactvideomarketingdublin7811]

Brilliant footage , well done

[@steviemoon4472]

Lovely stuff keep em coming !

[@Macca-rb5ok]

"You'll never walk alone" sang the man utd fans... football in the 70s was a different world.

[@Smokemeakipper41]

Everyone sang it back.in the 70s ,early 80s too

[@steveblack610]

You’ll never walk again was the line.

[@carnalea2424]

Saints had many experienced players (Channon, Osgood, Rodrigues, McCalliog, Blyth ) and a very shrewd manager. 1st Div players but playing in the 2nd Div. The media just assumed that ManUtd would win simply because they were in the 1st Div. And the FA Cup, no matter what the current media propaganda would have you believe, is now nothing like the competition it once was. To any top manager or player then, it mattered as much to win the Cup as to win the League title. It was that important, that prestigious.

[@ianarn]

I would say it was more important to win the FA Cup. Such a special place to go to Wembley!

[@paulhease1007]

recognized Lou Macari straight away!!!

[@ilokivi]

Amazed that ITV decided to engage an astrologer to predict the result of the match. An astronomer would have given a more reliable forecast.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Major shock in history this one

[@zzzaaa0990]

Lawri McNemeny really did a great job at Southampton,formed a really formidable team then,no one wanted to go to The Dell,always a tough game there.14>1 Amen.

[@ianwhitehead691]

Those Suits, Flares & big Lapels, the grass was a bit long yesterday said Mick channon a bit like their hair. 😂🤣 Oh the 70's great days. P.S. Never trust a hippy, He got the score wrong.

[@zzzaaa0990]

Wembley looking great as always,great match,great result.14>1 Amen.

[@markryan5892]

See Georgie boy bode the astrological genius made himself look a right mug 😂😂

[@Ray-xh6gb]

He got the score wrong he was right about nixon and holland

[@converse91970]

Great post!

[@baborali4491]

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[@pauldurkee4764]

For me one of the most memorable cup finals, I think UTD must have thought we got this, playing an unfancied second division team. That goal from Bobby Stokes, if you are fair you would say he mishit the shot, but it went in.

[@timegan1884]

I was 10 and my Auntie said to us kids, if Southampton won we could buy her flowers from our first weeks wages when we were older. I was the only one to remember. Aunty Vera was from Southampton and never guessed they'd win. R.I.P. Aunty.

[@fontenoy9]

Nice memory Tim!

[@doncakes]

Nice one, Tim.

[@tonijoncevski8607]

Fantastic trousers. :-)

[@Ground53]

It was all big hair and trousers in the those days 😂

[@adrianip101]

Reporter Martin Tyler !

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Remember the flares

[@rickykilby4672]

It must have been a windy day,with all those flares.

[@Duncan1974]

The Dutch astrologer at 13:05....you gotta laugh,,, couldnt have got it more wrong!!

[@fontenoy9]

Oh dear😂

[@christophercook723]

That's what excess Edam does to people.

[@gmf121266]

Like all sidekicks, sorry psychics, they only count their hits not the misses.

[@journeybymoonlight3216]

I love Southampton FC

[@garylucas7050]

So much for catweezles prediction

[@lisahaganLFC]

Anyone know how it went with the lad who got hit by the Southampton team bus pre match?

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Stewart Houston ex arsenal coach I Scotland cap one second championship medal and a fourth division medal

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Sunderland v Leeds Southampton v man utd two best underdog finals in hidtory

[@iainclark5964]

Sunderland was a bigger shock, remember no 2nd div team had won the cup since the early 30s. Southampton had a lot of experienced players whereas United a good team but younger with less experience, though Stepney had bags and played on the big stage.

[@benhur1959]

Arsenal v West Ham 1980

[@iainclark5964]

@Sean Doyle Wedt Ham though in the 2nd Div at the time had an experienced team and they played a very tired Arsenal who had just completed a 4 match semi final.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

@@iainclark5964 I agree arsenal where to tired inthe final we had four games liverpool we played so manygames that season

[@Dommer1973]

Georges Bode…absolutely full of it😂 Stop smoking pot!

[@iainclark5964]

The winner scored by a Hampshire boy and an England International from Wiltshire. The past is a foreign country!

[@christophercook723]

So Sad. Conditioning and free speech. Lesbian officials and men cavorting about kissing and hugging like some overt homosexual orgy . It makes me sick to watch.

[@smartiepancake]

4:31 this is the reason why England struggled in the 70s

[@jmasl7]

YNWA at 02:00

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Ist may seventy six history

[@staticcentrehalf7166]

Scummers were lucky there was no VAR then. Stokes was a yard offside.

[@Ray-xh6gb]

But they winners on the day eighty three minutes killled it only one goal victory

[@Ray-xh6gb]

But they winners

[@Ray-xh6gb]

But they won

[@edmundpower1250]

United fluked it a year later with greenhoff fisting the ball into to net off his chest to cheat Liverpool out of the treble

[@grahamd5418]

Al the players look so old!l

[@redblade8160]

Cup Final day was a very special day for me, it was the only day of the year I had a bath!

[@Ray-xh6gb]

Was the goal offside who cares it was given

[@YouTubecivilian]

Pompey boy won them their only major 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@fontenoy9]

Thanks for your reply.

[@carnalea2424]

So much for astrology/horoscope nonsense.

[@benphilips7235]

Look at Keegan's hair. Awful then. Awful now.

[@fontenoy9]

Errr the football?

[@edmundpower1250]

It was the 70s and it suited him in a red football shirt

[@josephtreacy667]

Should have been the Palace . Southampton kicked the shit out of him in the SF. Off before half time . Then they get a dodgy penalty. Would have been the first division 3 side to make the final Still backec Rag Trade that day in the Grand National. No compensation.

[@nidgeontour257]

Great times then, now it’s all foreigners wanting too much money!! The FA cup and the premiership are a joke!