Players today would be worried about getting dirt in their hair.

Francis Lee was a very special player. Didn't matter to him who he played for, he still gave it 110%. A lot of players from that era would be turning in there graves as advertising and TV contracts turned foot6ball into a non contact sport. Give a top line player a funny look these days and he has been trained to go down like he has been shot. The game has been ruined.

What struck me watching this is that no player rolls around writhing on the floor after being tackled, just gets up and gets on with it. Also, none of these stupid goal celebration routines, just a pat on the back and handshake, how it should be.

The football match from Animal Farm 2.

Very Convenient for the Players on anticipating a Turkish mud bath for actually When the match is Over..

that "pitch " is an absolute joke , even in those days .there is no grass

REAL footballers.😊😊😊

As a Burnley fan I'm a bit biased when it comes to the colours, but that West Ham strip has to be one of THE best shirts of all time.

Some good players on that "pitch".

I would rather watch this game from over fifty years ago than waste my time with watching any game from the crap premier league.

Despite the reputation of being "soft" Brooking did always get stuck in

The days before Man City started buying success.

Pitches have come a long way since then!

Chelsea fan here. Saw Greaves when I was a kid. 60/61 season Chelsea scored 98 league goals but finished 12 th having conceded 100 !! Greaves scored 41 league goals inc 6 hat-tricks. England 's greatest striker.

The players today wouldn't get on the team bus let alone play on a beautiful pitch like that.

When men footballers were men...respectful..sporting..unlike todays' overpaid tossers..sorry

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And not one foreigner on the pitch!! What’s gone wrong?

It was a great game. I was in the stands with apprentice mates 'Chipper' Harris, and Peter Neve, we decided to splash out on seats instead of the usual North Bank. One of the alltime best games I ever saw, the quality of the players was phenomenal, Bobby Chalton still showing why he was the best of all time. Great to watch Pop Robson again. Happy memories.

Futre was wearing the 10 😂

West Ham Leeds Villa I could go on bigger clubs than cheat code

They would go on strike before they played on these pitches

The start of the rot

Colour clash, sky blue on both sleeves of City and the Hammers? City fans whistling Bobby Moore, who at the time was promoting Vitalis Hair Oil for men.

What are these guys playing on.

Stepney didn't look very interested in saving that penalty.

And with a heavy ball in their slippers

Looks like Manchester had rain again. How the game as changed since those old First Division days.

Like Morecambe beach

That was a top WEST HAM Team, Wrighty, Hartson, Joe cole, Sinclair, Skippy, Ferdinand, Hislop, Dicks, Ian Pearce, Eyal, Lampard,

Happy birthday Vaz Te

"Herr General, our offensive line has advanced only 120 yards in the last week. What should we do?" "What can we do? This mud is bogging down our infantry and light armoured vehicles. It's like sending our men out to march through treacle. I should have listened to Schlosser and delayed the invasion until the spring." "Jah! And besides, Hammers are playing City on here at 3 o'clock."

Remember watching the score for this one on Teletext as a 15 year old sat in my bedroom

Greaves arguably football's greatest ever striker

4:10 Joe Corrigan desperately looking for someone to blame😂😂😂

Jimmy Greaves not only scored goals, he also publicly admitted to alcoholism, a courageous thing to do for anyone.

The bog roll being thrown on the pitch is to help the goalies wipe the mud out of their eyes

Did they have grass those days?

Nobody wearing gloves! The pitches were s**t but at least the football was a fair playing level!

I started supporting West Ham about this time. Love the pitch . Heading that wet ball will have caused serious damage. Reminds me of school football .

the clarts

The sound of the ball skidding across the pitch!

Wonderful conditions. You'd never see Anyone playing on a pitch like that today

Terrible pitches,footballs like medicine balls,yet the football produced was superb.

That pitch is like a bowling green . . . after four years of trench warfare.

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And no 10 minute injury time at the end.

Amazing skill on an allotment,,no players whingeing about the pitch,diving,or getting each other sent off,,magic.

Brooking wAs great

What a contrast to the mud pitches back then in the early 1970s. To the prestine, neatly trimmed, green & well-kept pitches you get all year round in the Premiership & beyond & today folks!! And a superb 5-1 win for West Ham at Maine Road back then too despite the conditions.