Man U Ronaldo gets £500.000 a week. A WEEK!!! It's just so gross, 2 million a month plus all his advertisement money. So many players are on less in the Premier but still, what, 200 300 grand a week, for football that isn't football anymore. Fans should strike nationwide to bring down wages cost, & the foreigners can leave & Brits back in. I dream..
I'm a Burnley fan from a Leeds/Burnley town, so no fan of Leeds, but that was worth watching. The Leeds team of this era was superb. Incidentally, we won at Elland Road that season, 4-1.
@@1990-t1j You were also one of only 2 teams to beat Leeds during the '68-9 season - by the staggering score of 5-1. I can't resist pointing out that in the return match at Elland Rd you were thumped 6-1 so honour was satisfied. Good Burnley team in those days - Casper, Coates et al?
@@jb3222 Hi, JB. Indeed. Not only did I go to the 4-1 result at ER - the week before our FA Cup semi final defeat to Newcastle, but I went to the 5-1 hammering at TM. What a surprise that was. I didn't go to the return, but I was at ER for the thrashing which included Eddie's Gray's wonder goal. Were you there?
That 51 minutes flew by. No tattoos, no snoods, no diving, no pathetic goal celebrations, no seats, no stewards trying to order folk around, no app required to get in.
Thanks for these. Memories of my boyhood days indeed. Sunday afternoon around my Grandad's house watching football in COLOUR, LOL. Later, perhaps time left, to emulate the heroes wearing my No.11 Charlie George shirt:)
Thanks so much for these. Was at school then Uni in London in the sixties & seventies. Fantastic memories. Went to games at Stamford Bridge, Highbury, White Hart Lane, Craven Cottage, Loftus Road and Once to Upton Park. Not so expensive then.
Always remember our English teacher Mr Mead saying he was at uni/college very near to the 'Bridge: and it would be in the days of Osgood, Hollins etc. He was a stern so and so but had a gleam in his eye when reminiscing about those student footy days!
Mick Jones was a great player and as a young Liverpool fan in the 1970s he was the one in that great Leeds team that I really feared. Very underrated though, as he is not the first name that comes to mind for most people.
How he never went to the world cup in 1970 was criminal. Bloody Ramsey took England back 20 years after winning the world cup. He should have gone after the euros 68
He's sadly forgot in the Leeds players of that period & he was the main goal scorer too. I think it was he was a simple direct striker & didn't have that Leeds cache of the others like Clarke Lorimer Gray Bremner & Giles, even Bates. It's odd really but he came & went without much fanfare. He needs to be recognised more in what he gave to Leeds which was a lot of goals & never maimed anyone either!
Mick Jones is my all-time footballing hero. He was the best centre forward in the country by a country mile and it is criminal that he wasn't used more by England. Sadly his career ended early due to a knee injury - the sort of problem that would be sorted easily today.
Great to see again. I was 8 year old and a Leeds fan. I remember most of these players. They were hero’s to me. I remember Joe Jordan playing for Scotland. Never forget Billy Bremner playing for Scotland Argentina 78. Last game verses Holland. Bremner nearly did it for Scotland. What a great Leeds team. Match of the day Saturday night. Big match on a Sunday afternoon. Real footballers. Even the adverts bring back happy memories. Thanks.
Leeds had , how can I say it, an excess of talent those days. They slaughtered Arsenal and Man U, and were extremely unlucky not to grab the European Cup, too. Don Revie introduced the European - style wave to the fans at the start of the game, and even sock garter tags a la boy scout.
I was shocked when Brian said Leeds had four or five first team players out, I could name every player in the starting 11, and I'm a Chelsea fan! When he later said Clarke and Giles were missing amongst others I thought they must have had the strongest squad around at that time, when besides the first 11 or 12 the rest were often a second 11. I always enjoyed the Leeds games, they were such needle matches between the two teams from the late 60's to mid 70's, a real rivalry at the time. And as Brian said about Ozzie and Hunter, they will be friends afterwards; usually they were down the kings road anytime they were both in town.
It's a show of their greatness that i could still just about name the starting eleven.of a Leeds team of the early Seventies far more easily than i could my own team of Everton....i could name four probably.
@@spanishpeaches2930 I could still name the Chelsea players as well, but such was the Leeds strength in those times that they are the most memorable team. Talking of the Chelsea team I must admit I was surprised that Tommy Baldwin was still starting games in '73, I didn't remember him doing that in the games I actually went to that season.
@@tonypetts6663 I would have been 12 when this was played and many of my friends were Leeds fans....we were all from Hull...used to go and see city play too. Can remember most of that side. On another front...Peter Houseman was brought up in the comments...i had forgotten about the tragedy that befell him and his wife and two friends...that driver would have been jailed for probably eight years plus nowadays. Back in 77 as well...time really flies. Even though i still follow EFC, my love for the game went ten years back after slowly declining over the past 20 years. The greed for wealth just ruined it all for me. 1996 and the Euros was really the last time i seriously enjoyed it. Last match i went to was 2008. Atb.
@@spanishpeaches2930 I would have been about 8 then went to a number of home games that year but not this one. Unfortunately I've also lost any real interest in the modern game, I stopped going to Chelsea when they put the kids price up to a fiver, thanks to their financial issues from the late seventies onwards. I ended up with a season ticket at Brentford for four years, the first two seasons were a tenner, then twelve for the next too. That my dad could afford lol. Once the money came into the game it changed beyond recognition and I slowly lost interest. I'll still watch England or Wales games if I'm about, but I don't make a point of seeing them. As for my last game I watched live it was probably a playoff final at Wembley around twenty years ago (Brentford losing as usual) and Chelsea was a couple of years before that for the opening game of the season. I just don't feel justified in paying the price of tickets now and I don't feel the atmosphere is the same. Just out of interest this channel has a couple of Everton Vs Chelsea games from 1969 and 73 that I've watched, though you may want to avoid the 73 match!
Gawd, this is so much better to watch than the stuff I ( occasionally) see today. I recall all these players, an era when players weren't mobile advertising billboards. And Brian Moore's commentating is impeccable.
My dad was at that game against Wednesday. He said that grown men had tears in their eyes as the teams took the field. I remember the Coventry game too. We were sliding down towards relegation and despite a brief rally towards the end of the season, we did go down. And another piece of history, Best's goal against Coventry was the last one he ever scored for United. His last game for us was against QPR on January 1st, 1974. We lost 0-3.
There was a Best playing for West Ham, And I wondered if George Best did go over to West Ham. And it didn't look entirely unlike him. But, no, it was another Best.
@@mnd1955 For West Ham in this particular telecast and upload. Which is why i mentioned it. " Clyde Best " it is. George Best went to Fulham, after Manchester United [ without looking it up' ]. I remember seeing a Big Match, or the like, on the telly and George Best went haywire and had the match to himself, dribbling the length of the field and scoring two or three goals in the all-white strip. The all-white probably being that of Fulham.
@@jonglewongle3438 United's away strip was all white back then. Fulham wore black shorts. You might be thinking of the game at Anfield when he had a stormer in, I think, 1969, I don't like looking things up like that either. Keeps the old grey matter working.
My first game was at the Bridge the season before. Ian Hutchinson was out with a broken leg but was hanging around on crutches to talk to the fans near the turnstiles. Who can imagine that happening today!??
I was at this game nearly 50 years ago. Brian Moore was a well respected commentator well liked by the players and managers. In later life he became a committed Christian. As regards the football, although Leeds were known as Dirty Leeds they were full of skilful footballers, a mix of English and Scottish players who were as Malcolm Alison said were all great pros. Most of these players played for their clubs for extended periods unlike todays pros. The best side ever? Probably not judged from todays perspective but certainly the best of that era.
Who on earth underrated Billy Brenner? One of the greatest footballers ever to play in the league, about 550 games for Leeds and more than 50 for his country. There’s a bloody statue of him outside Elland Rd!
When real men played real football.. A great time to grow up watching the game... The big match was on TV every Sunday afternoon.. It was itv rival to match of the day on Saturday nights on BBC, my father use to let me and my brothers stay up Saturday nite to watch mod.. Great times,, and great football.. ⚽⚽
Leeds were a very good side back then and were very underrated due to their ability to literally fight their way around the pitch when needed but could really play when needed. Malcolm Allison was also a superb analyst and far better than the clueless ex professionals they hire nowadays. And analysts were only in the studio while the commentator did his job of commentating without an ex pro constantly butting in spouting inane crap mostly. So much better organised back then. I would be nice if those lessons were learned and still used but the need for hyperbole and publicity trumps common sense.
@@seltaeb9691 I wish I was a millenial as I am in my mid 50s! I meant that historically Leeds legacy has been a bit undeserving due to their uncompromising nature. The best team in the land were my mighty reds of Liverpool who conquered both Europe and England back then. Leeds were excellent but not at that level.
@@skintslots Leeds v Liverpool was he biggest rivalry in them days and Revie and shankly were both great mates and spoke regularly to one another after MOTD at the best Leeds edge it for me .
Great to find this channel, I grew up and played amateur at this time. I never considered myself a hard player, but compared to the football today I would Have died of shame at some of the antics of today's players. While I'm all in favour of women playing football it doesn't mean we have to to emulate them.
What a great programme, I am 65 but I don't remember the gallery section. Lovely memories and a nice tribute to Man Utd, why don't they have things like that now instead of all the useless match analysis. The presenters are also greatly missed.
I'm 58 from Hammersmith and Chelsea FC too .proper good old days with true fans at every club.. unlike now . even lived three minutes walk from the ground when I was married!!😂😂
Leeds won the League that season and only 7 months after this game was played Cloughie became manager. He messed it up with his huge ego and after he left that same Leeds team that he disrespected got to the European Cup final and could easily have won apart from a couple of close referee decisions .
Brian Moore says Leeds, 5 first team regulars missing, yet you look at their team here & they are still all first teamers, such was that squad & all Internationals too.
I think don revy found them chairs outside the ground with "free" wrote on em. imagine Pep with a blanket over his legs to keep him warm. love MOTD back then I had a suit like Big Mals back then I was nine and the bees knees ..so I thought
Brilliant Leeds without Giles Clarke and Eddie Gray. Only conceded 3 goals in 10 games set another record. Who went on to win the most points ever by a team with their great Captain Billy Bremner and that great yellow away kit and smiley badge. Magic magic days
What a dump Stamford Bridge was back in the day......when the Shed was just that : a shed. Lots of much needed renovation work going on at this time to bring it up to standard. It was a great place to go though, especially with the Doc’s team of Peter Osgood and company....
... and we English fans wonder why we didn't qualify for 70s major tournament finals. Because two best club 70s teams, Leeds & Liverpool, were full of Scots and other home nations' players! Can you think of a better spine than Hansen, Souness, Dalglish (all Sco), for example? Or better midfield pair: Bremner (Sco), Giles (RoI)?
@@anglotim No he's not referring to International football and nor was I in my comments. I understood clearly what he was referring to and then you started bragging about England V Scotland internationals and scores from wikipedia.
@@YeOldeFootballChannel Yes it was during the 1973 miner's strike when the whole country was on a 3 day week and the telly was closed down as Ted Heath sent everyone to bed at half past ten.
The Man Utd match looked pretty murky by the end! Memories of 3 hours power on and 3 hours off in rotation. My local team Portsmouth tried a 3pm kickoff by hiring a generator for the floodlights. It broke down in the second half and there was a 20 minute delay getting it going again.
THIS game was the start of bad times for Chelsea. It started a bad run that went through to the New Year with Chelsea 2-0 against West Ham at hald time and losing 4-2 Hudson and Osgood were dropped and refused to train with the 1st team and they were moved on with only David Hay to replace Hudson. Webb left at the end of that season too. The next season Peter Houseman was playing at left back sharing the role with a 16 year old. Tommy Baldwin was drying out.
Why do I find the games from this era more entertaining than today's matches? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man? It seems to me though, it was just about the game back then. No, grandstanding political statements. And don't the uniforms look great without advertising all over them and names on the back? Not to mention the traditional numbers (goalkeeper with 1, centre forward 9, etc), not random numbers all over the shop.
40k fans fit into less than half of Stamford bridge stadium lmao. Those were the standing days - imagine the noise from a 100k full croud lol. Oh well those days are gone forever in this cotton wool clown 🤡 world we now occupy - all the while supporting deliberately manufacturered wars lol. Still the on screen 1973 graphics did force me to appreciate computer graphics lol.
Love to know what Sinstadt was watching. Went in the opposite corner to where Stepney dived. “Looked to me like Stepney pulled it back from over the line” Erm…righto Gerry
I don't think to his dying day that Gerry Sinstadt realised that the ball shot into the other side where Stepney dived & nestled neatly in the back of the Man U net!
@@richardtaylor8165 Hard to believe that the Coventry City book, 'A complete record 1883-1991' credits the goal to Stein, saying 'some sources credit the goal to Martin Buchan'! I should know, I was in the Stretford End seats and had a clear view - better than Gerald anyway!
Not really due to 'woke' (whatever that means), but due to £$, if that's why you're referring to the fact it's in Qatar? Grease the palms; money talks, BS walks; etc
@@peterwoodhouse4314 The ''woke'' are obsessive liberals who are obsessed with ''right-on'' causes such as gay issues, proclaiming that they are discriminated against when they never were...and hijacking football/sporting events to further their somewhat deranged, hysterical agenda. Let's keep politics out of sport. Liberals are far too interfering and presumptuous.
@@peterwoodhouse4314 Agreed, all about the $. Woke means believing that man-made climate change is real, women can have penises, diversity is a strength, there really was a pandemic and all that cobblers.....
Am I allowed to mention Leeds and Sheep? To quote a 80s Man Utd supporters chant John Hollins T Baldwin Ossie Hudson Chopper and P Housman for the Blues we’re not worthy
The commentator mentioned Chelsea good form going into the game (4 wins and 2 draws against Arsenal and Man U) but this was the start of a 10 year decline of Chelsea. They lost 4 games in a row including a 4-2 defeat by struggling West Ham on Boxing day when they were 2-0 up at half time. Osgood and Hudson were dropped and refused to train with the first team for the next defeat by Liverpool. They were both suspended by the club and transfer listed. Webb left at the end of the season and Chelsea were relegated the next year with Hollins, Kember and Garland sold by the debt ridden club. Baldwin was treated for alcoholism at the same time. So 7 of the team that day were gone by the end of the next season. I think Bonetti left too but came back when John Phillips had a long term injury.
Some really poor errors, I agree, but at least both sides were made up of good old British players. No diving. No pitches made up of half plastic, half grass (as today). No matches lasting 100 minutes. No spoilt brats like Ronaldo. Those were the days - miss-kicks and all.
the ball was heavier too ...this accounts for the style of the Game ...but still so much more REAL than Todays fakes ......they are embarrassing to watch ......!
My era at the bridge as a teenager Some 50 years ago .. Wonder who will be watching in another 50 years not me 😪 And we all hate Leeds and Leeds and Leeds 🤣
