The Cup Final (1961)

[@faisalmohamed6473]

great footage..

[@jeremygallagher2395]

There is such a beauty to old Technicolor footage. It looks more like a painting-come-to-life than a documentation of reality. Granted, this is a very small sample space, but the players clearly look significantly less athletic and at a lower level of fitness than today's players. The pace of the game, too, appeared slower than the contemporary English game; though, that could be a one-off tempo unique to this particular match. There were also a number of legal tackles that would surely be whistled these days. More physicality was tolerated back then. It's really interesting comparing and contrasting football games bifurcated by a 60 year interval. Disclaimer: I have no emotional connection to any era of English football, as I am American. Therefore, I believe this remark is an unbiased appraisal...if anyone cares.

[@paulhollis8879]

Very nice précis there, Jeremy. Back then, both boots and ball were significantly heavier - one begets the other, I suppose. It would slow the game just for those two reasons alone. But training wouldn’t have the benefit of today’s scientific analysis also.

[@jeremygallagher2395]

@@paulhollis8879 Thanks for the remark, my friend. I actually wasn't aware of the weight differences between eras. But, upon reading your comment, it suddenly dawns on me that practically every piece of footage I've seen of the ball bending in physics-defying manners comes from the last several decades.Thanks for the info! Be well.

[@peterburry2531]

@@jeremygallagher2395 Also, the older leather balls would soak up water and become significantly heavier on damp days like this one clearly was. A lot of players from this era have gone on to develop dementia due to regular heading of such a heavy ball.

[@massimolombardi1569]

Che atmosfera straordinaria veramente emozionante e spettacolare.

[@stevelarge]

This was the first final i watched on tv, but. of course, it was in black and white then. In those days the only live football matches were the FA Cup final and England v Scotland.

[@xxthesarcasm]

Wow interesting! So only way to watch games was going to stadium? How did they announce the results of the games?

[@stevelarge]

@@xxthesarcasm The Radio, or wireless as it was called by many in those days. 1927 was the BBC'S first broadcast of a final, which Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0.

[@xxthesarcasm]

@stevelarge really cool thanks

[@rhodsullivan7773]

Leicester had their names on their track suit tops. When the Queen asked Danny Blanchflower why Spurs did not he replied,"Its because we know each other Ma'm.

[@massford2767]

Belfast wit!

[@massford2767]

Although, the Queen was not in Wembley.....

[@SheptonDavies]

'Some people are saying there should be substitutes in cup finals' as one player hobbled around for most of the match. What a difference from today's game!

[@Ian-bg9mi]

I know! Now, there’s almost as many players waiting on the bench as there is on the field. Ridiculous- especially when subs are brought on with minutes or less to play.

[@ninjalectualx]

Do you seriously want to go back to the dark ages when players were expected to play through injury? I bet you voted leave for brexit too

[@Rajpeanut]

@@ninjalectualx Get over it you wet sock.

[@WilliamGarrow]

​@@ninjalectualxGet over it. Brexit happened because you were naive about the mood of many in the country.

[@joelywalsh]

People had respect for each other in those days and things are back to how this is on this video ❤

[@ninjalectualx]

Respect? Homophobia and racism were still the norm back then. What on earth do you mean, respect???

[@ksaツ]

@ninjalectualx I support homophobia between men and women. This is the idea of ​​life, and all religions prohibit this dirty act that brings diseases.

[@ksaツ]

@ninjalectualx As for racism, it still exists and will not disappear.

[@ninjalectualx]

Reported for hateful comments

[@brianday6429]

Tottenham were a very good side.

[@Painter75-z5l]

Later that summer in August, my father played against Danny Blanchflower. Blanchflower played for Toronto City All Stars. The team included Stanley Matthews, Johnny Haynes, Tommy Younger and Jack Mudie. Two matches were played that August in Edmonton, Alberta. I’ve still got the banner that exchanged between captains for the August 24 game. Wish I knew who got the August 6 banner.

[@gastonboronski7529]

The condition of the pitch was excellent for the time 😮

[@senianns9522]

Gotta love the music!

[@anibalgomesfilho2173]

Imagens magníficas. Parabéns pelo vídeo

[@martinokane4512]

I was fortunate as a 11 year old to watch from early morning the whole build up to this great occasion every year in Black and White ….someone made a comment from the Burnley final….saying where did that Britton go to??? …..that’s what happens when you sell your soul for 30 pieces…….🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪 great memories of great players and the king of commentators Kenneth Wolstenholme.🇮🇪

[@martinavrdoljak6030]

'Victim of his own speed'. 4:10😂

[@garytalbot6437]

I love being able to watch Pathe news reels on KZbin

[@gabiplus69]

Talk soccer in USA: 😀 Talk soccer in UK: 🌚

[@rappers5719]

We had some luck that day. Ron Henry. What a great defender.

[@Krzyszczynski]

The Cataloguer's Note above is incorrect. As the commentator remarks, Ken Leek - their only international - was dropped from the Leicester team and replaced by Hugh McIlmoyle, whose inexperience was all too apparent. Incidentally, I've never heard a convincing explanation of WHY Leek was left out that day.

[@garyfoley946]

I have heard this from reliable sources down the years. It sounds incredible by today’s standards. Leek was discovered out drinking on the Thursday night before the team left Filbert St. Friday morning for London. Gillies apparently gave out strict orders regarding this, which Ken Leek seemingly disobeyed. I know this for I knew a chap (older than myself), who was in Leek’s company at the time. Had a legitimate reason for Leek’s exclusion come to light over the last 60-odd years, I’m sure it would have come to light. So it seems a p*** up cost Leek’s participation in a Wembley final! 😢

[@ambientwishwalker8908]

0:15 So strange to imagine now we have teams winning trebles .

[@qznl3322]

3:09 Explain why this person has modern headphones in 1961? Or is it some kind of hearing aid?

[@TheGiantKillers]

It's a hearing aid.

[@Ian-bg9mi]

Not headphones- he’s just got big ears…

[@MrMeadfoot]

He's listening to commentary of the game on a transistor radio, had one of those myself.

[@gerooq]

Did he just say “dynamic midget” at 4:16?

[@joekavanagh7171]

Those were pre-PC days

[@ninjalectualx]

You mean "those were the days when bigotry was still accepted "

[@GBMR1217]

did they just say tottenham were the champions

[@jacobbuzec8496]

Yh Tottenham won the double that year

[@wattyler4624]

Yes hard to believe

[@Ian-bg9mi]

Yep… as they’d won the league that season.

[@markhennessy9414]

It's a very old video

[@MegaDeansy]

​@@markhennessy9414- it's not a video - it's a scroll........

[@mcoeif]

Better than the Invincibles who only won 1 trophy

[@IM-hh3wk]

There's genuinely no way you actually believe this 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Brandonwashere3103]

@@IM-hh3wk its true tho Invincibles was lucky af

[@Drippydesi]

@@Brandonwashere3103 also tottenham only won 2 titles: Meanwhile if you only count arsenals PL titles its 3 from 13 titles

[@rubewaddell1704]

@@Drippydesi He is referring to the one season though...

[@rubewaddell1704]

As did the first team who went through a league season undefeated. Preston North End in 1888/89.

[@alansouter9453]

The first final I ever watched as a 10 year old at a friend's house. I said Leicester would win... and I have been wrong with my predictions ever since.🤪

[@edwardlondon6131]

I was in Elementary school at that time.

[@joekavanagh7171]

Leicester were unlucky. The Chalmers injury was decisive. Smith was the worst player on the pitch. King had him in his pocket the whole game, yet Smith made the breakthrough.

[@captainblimp4133]

Smith had an injury as well . He has to sneak out of his bedroom on the morning of the final up to Palmers Green to get a pain killing injection from his doctor, then back again before the manager noticed he was missing.

[@englishjona6458]

Wait what did I just hear 😂 the old boy must of made a mistake 🤷🏽‍♂️😂😂😂😂

[@wzupppp]

2:57 dude on the left looks too modern for 1961

[@ezio-ic1oh]

No😮

[@amosamwig8394]

what does that even mean XDDDDDD

[@wzupppp]

​@@amosamwig8394it means he's a time traveller

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

@ 3-10....looks fractionally offside but linesman is 2 yards behind the play.

[@ezemeza1363]

Those hits were real

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Whoa... Spurs winning something!

[@glenwilson4168]

the last league they won was in 1961, top 6 club now lol pffft.

[@spider_hoss]

0:09 you better not have to leave early because you’re not getting out with cars parked like that.

[@fezit_4teen]

Yeah nice

[@xxthesarcasm]

Queen Elizabeth was like 64 years old here

[@markLawley-g8u]

The standard of football then was about equal to none league football today

[@DammitBobby]

They don't even close distance let alone press. It's crazy just watching guys leasurely jog up the pitch completely unobstructed.

[@stud105]

Ridiculous comment.

[@YUNA1gnoa]

How is her for 2024

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

@ 5-53....''oh pig!'' does she yell?

[@borumir]

hmm and the British announcer called the game "soccer" (around 1:40 mark) time for all you brits to stop with the debate already, if your announcer called it soccer you have no argument against Americans calling it that. ....

[@mr.quandaledingle3318]

I think when the first football teams were created in England by the end of the 19th century. They were known to have "Football Club" FC extended from their official names and soccer is more of a slang word used by military college rugby players back then.

[@DougieL]

Yep, the toffs in England (minority) called it Soccer. The majority of people and pretty much all the fans called it football.@@mr.quandaledingle3318

[@robertguildford]

Soccer has always been a synonym for Football in the English language as far as I can remember; and I'm a septuganarian.

[@frednerk3477]

The word "soccer" was invented by the early private schoolboy Rugby Union followers and meant as a derogatory name. It was taken from the name Football Association or football being known as Association Football. The footballers responded with the term "rugger" for Rugby Union. All of it totally meaningless. The commentator at this match would have been regarded as "upper class" being BBC and thus could also have been a keen follower of the Rugby Union code. Soccer really only became recognised as such in the USA as they had their own type of hybrid football but it is not really accepted around the world with "football" being hugely preferred.

[@DougieL]

@@frednerk3477 💯

[@paulos36]

COYS

[@Saku_chan39]

7:21 what's smell😂😂😂

[@harendstarinus5598]

Spurs team of the century 😂

[@richardcummins5465]

Brown Baker Henry Blanchflower Norman Mackey Jones White Smith Allen Dyson .

[@DammitBobby]

See brits. It's called soccer.

[@Pyokk]

이거보면서 치킨시켜먹으면서 봣는데 개재밌엇는데

[@Jay-Bco]

시발 80대노 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@raygrange7312]

When England was English.

[@ksaツ]

I am from Saudi Arabia. I went to London as a tourist to see European culture, European food, and Europeans in general. I did not see any Europeans. I saw Africans and Indians. 😅

[@TristanMulhall]

“Soccer”

[@billymurray1687]

back then, the working class called it football, and posh people called it soccer, as always, the working class were right

[@TheGiantKillers]

Sort of but not quite. The real reason for the Soccer/Football distinction back then was that most Soccer fans called the sport Football, but most Rugby League fans also called their sport Football too. Although Soccer was more widespread, both sports had similar finances and media support so the media had to use Soccer and Rugby League to differentiate. The financial Soccer boom of the 60s left Rugby League in it's wake and by the 70s there was little need to use the term Soccer any more in England. The need to refer to Football as Soccer still exists in Ireland though where Football could either mean Soccer or GAA depending on where you are. I can remember about ten years ago making the mistake in Monaghan of asking for directions to the Football Club. I meant Monaghan United {Soccer]. Instead I was directed to Monaghan GAA. Football to them means the local version.

[@DougieL]

Rugby Union*@@TheGiantKillers

[@TheGiantKillers]

@@DougieL Rugby Union was different in that it was a largely southern and amateur sport. Up until the 1960s, when people referred to Rugby, they meant Rugby Union.

[@DougieL]

@@TheGiantKillers Thanks for the insight. I was under the impression that Union was 'Rugby Football Union' and League was 'Rugby League', so the mostly southern and better off Union followers called the round ball game 'Soccer', because they were the football union?

[@champcraft7308]

Spurs vs Leicester… battle of the bottlers

[@andyanderson3567]

Dip stick about !

[@scsutton1]

And yet Leicester ended up winning the league before Spurs did.

[@jeanlawley6483]

@@scsutton1 ... Spurs won the league in this year, so no

[@denisburgess2966]

​@@scsutton1Spurs won the double that season.

[@djsamuel]

Battled off you're dead mother

[@polo-kf6yh]

Terrible football, no speed, cohesion, control and technique.

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

Football was like that back then way more physical. Back Then at least players would fight for the badge and they would not dive like babies like in todays game.

[@ShodaiGojira-xn3xk]

Have you seen 1970's Leeds? Today that team would be called tackling cheaters, absolutely different from today's teams..

[@jeanlawley6483]

Heavy case ball, tough boots and no subs ... lets see players today try that

[@Ian-bg9mi]

But at least it was honest. No one rolling around on the ground in agony in the hope of getting a free kick and getting another player sent off, then miraculously recovering when ignored by the ref.

[@SuperFuzzyDunlop]

The standard of football must have been very low back then if Spurs won something

[@WilliamGarrow]

Yeah I mean you only had players like Pele, Bobby Charlton, George Best in that era.

[@SuperFuzzyDunlop]

@@WilliamGarrow Yeah and they had the good fortune to play against a smattering of braindead and unfit donkeys in each and every team The gap between the best and the worst player on any given pitch has decreased massively since then. The floor has risen far further than the ceiling, meaning it's harder for players to stand out

[@he96765]

Lmao

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

@@SuperFuzzyDunlop Not true in the slightest lol Players like Neymar would not last a game back in the 60s 70s and 80s lol football was different back does not mean it worse. Yes there were next to no skill or technique in that football it way more physical.

[@Krzyszczynski]

@@WilliamGarrow George Best was a bit later than that - he was only about 15 when this match was played.