I was in the paddock a Man United fan surrounded by Leeds fans plenty of banter but no trouble the 70s were a better time to be a football fan ( especially if you support Leeds!)
Leeds United became the first Super Team as they became known as Super Leeds to stay at the top for 10 years with virtually the same playing staff is a tremendous achievement.
Being from Canada and the fact that they didn't start broadcasting English football here till 1988, its amazing to see how this style of pure skill and passion sure is different from the theatrical horseshit and pussies you see in today's game...
Johnny Giles ,Billy Bremner,Allan Clarke,Eddie Gray,Bobby Charlton,George Best.I could go on. All that talent on that pitch. Proper Football. RIP to the lost players from both sides.MOT. LUFC. 🏴
I know it's only highlights but such a relief to not see all the cutaways to managers on the touchline prancing around like they're the star of the show.
Underachievers. Should have won Treble in 1970. Double in '72. Just failed at the final hurdle a number of times. The swansong for the team was the corrupt European Cup Final in '75 when the MIB were 'payed off' so that an unfashionable English team didn't win it against one of Europe's creme de la crème.
I loved going to matches in the 70's, they were so special and full of atmosphere. Every ground had its own identity and unique character, and the players were as tough as old bootlaces. Since those great days though, we've lost the heart and soul of the game...after all, those were the days of 'proper' football that us older fans can identify with. I just wished we could bring them back. All the best to Leeds, I hope they finally get promoted this season. Good luck.
I used to go to the Wolves games in the 70's. We had a great team then (not so bad now either), but it was a different game then. Phil Parkes, Derek Dougan, Dave Wagstaffe, Mick Bailey, Derek Parkin, John McHalle, Frank Munroe et al.
Present day footballers are on £100,000 per week . Managers like Mourinho are on 10 million plus a year who even when they fail get paid out 10 million for the final year of their contract. The whole thing is a joke.
Money ruins everything.....football, formula 1, art, music, education, the medical industry, marriage, relationships, masculinity, femininity, personal identity, the entertainment industry..... everything it touches, it turns to hell.
@@stuartbritton7408 I'm still amazed how people can support teams owned by billionaires employing millionaires and managers on 10 million per year who nearly all get the sack.
Watched Tottenham Leeds several time in the early 70,s They were monsterous games with no quarter given or expected. Loved ii!! and no winghing or whining from any of the players. No cheats either.
@AC True, there was one player last week carried off ,they said there's no chance he'll bit fit for about a month to 6 weeks.Asked his injury, he replied "Fractured finger nail on his little pinky on his right hand!" "Excuse me ...think I wanna throw up".
That atmosphere is phenomenal. LUFC following is bar none. Just listen to the crowd. Clarke trying to take on the defence on his own. Just pure wizardry.
Yes!And football was played the way it was meant to be played!.And I have to say this(it's an bit of a bugbear with me!)That football was a truer and better ball,u couldn't smash that around the field like today's "kids,playground football".It reqired a certain skill set!
@@raymondmcmenemy303 If we'd had a British team back in the 70's and 80's, with a squad that had the possibilty to include Scottish players like Souness, Bremner, Dalglish, N.Irish players like Best, Jennings and Welsh players like Rush and Toshack etc, we'd have won a World Cup and European Cup for sure. (See the GB Olympic team's success)
@@justclosing Kin ell, Like this comment, Thinking about those players all on the same side on form Scary Would take one hell of a team to deal with that.
Thanks for this. I was at that match. For about 5 years Leeds were quite a force. I didn t like them then but I admire them now. I hope the present day Leeds manage to get promoted this year
@@frankford1115 I think it's a myth that Leeds were in isolation dirty or nasty and everyone else played in the Corinthian spirit. Eddie Gray had lumps kicked out of him so surely there was provocation on both sides? I don't mean to provoke an argument but fans of other teams always trot out the line of Leeds being dirty. It's like a red tag to most Leeds fans lol. Leeds were cheated out of two European trophies by blatant cheating but that's life in the professional game.
@@colinings3771 Agreed. That is why I will not slag them off. They could play. But they were dirty or nasty when needed. That is not a myth. Bremner was a piece of work but boy could he play. But I will not forget their behaviour over the years. That history cannot be air brushed even though it is 2021. But a find team. Eddie Gray. He could play.
1964/65 Leeds finished runners up to Man U only on goal difference. First season back in Div 1. 1965/66 runners up again to Liverpool. 1966/67 finished fourth in the league. 1967/68 Finished fourth. 1968/69 Champions Of England. 1969/70 runners up to Everton. 1970/71 runners up to Arsenal. 1971/72 runners up to Clough's Derby. 1972/73 finished 3rd. 1973/74 Champions Of England played some of the best football this Country's ever seen before and since love.
Jim Halfpenny, We will never know. Leeds were never given the credit they deserved, skillwise they were the best of there era and stood up for themselves when they had to.
@@tonyteo7778 leeds were at the death of 18 trophies in 8 seasons an only won six. had they been a lesser side they prob won the same or less. being invovled in all comps at end of season cost them. great side.
i was 8 years old when this game was played and lived in west london but i always looked forward to man city v leeds and little billy B always played his socks off
Today, as soon as you get to know how to pronounce some players names, which nationality they have and from which club they came from. (was PSG or BVB?)...they're gone.
@@justclosing Ask the question to premier league presidents and managers....How many english players in every top teams...maybe the reason why english national team is so poor in WC or EC...And also poor Leeds today
I'm a Chelsea fan from the late sixties on but I know every Leeds player in the 70s and always love hearing about them esp the Billy Bremner days- Leeds were the best team in Europe at one stage there in 70s
Loved the footie commentators from this era . Think this was Barry Davies . They were as magical as the footie .. didnt bore you with stats and monologues etc like todays do. They were fans with microphones. What an era . Sadly gone .
This is when I supported Leeds...I was 7 then when this was played but always remember when Leeds were a great attacking side! Watched alot of footy then. Lorrimer, Clarke, Bremner, Hunter great players etc ......and not earning anything like the players of today!.
@@Liofa73 Vastly different skill sets were needed on soggy, muddy, pitches that were devoid of technological advancements like we see today. Heavier balls were used, plus tackles were allowed that would instantly bring red cards today. It's not possible to compare like for like as the two eras have next to nothing in common. Besides, how many of today's 'stars' would excel with conditions like these? Not many, I bet.
Thank you! Enjoyed this as a Leeds fan from those days ( I was a wee lad back then!). Had no idea that I was supporting the best Leeds United team ever. An incredible team from front to back. Clarke was my personal hero, with Peter Lorimer close behind. Many newer generations probably don't even know what a classic team Leeds United once were. Things are mostly all about the EPL for many, and Leeds were the final team to win Division One before the EPL was formed. Thanks for the memories. Imagine Leeds smashing Man U like that anytime over the past 30+ years! Never even came close.
Sunderland fan here but I must say that in the 70s, Leeds were my second team. Probably the best club side in the world during that period - brilliant and ruthless.
Leeds were great; but they weren’t even the best team in Britain at that time. Celtic were better and at least as consistent - late 60s to early 70s - as were several other clubs in Europe, such as Ajax and Bayern.
Every team had an "enforcer " back then. Some teams like Leeds had more than one 🤣. Takes me back to when I was a teenager going to the games with my wonderful dad. Great stuff. 🙂👍
Leeds had a lot of enforcers in those days - but also a lot of great attacking players. I'm a United (red) supporter but what Leeds achieved in the 1960s and 1970s was remarkable.
Football as it should be, tackles that where tackles, players that could play, commentators that didn’t need help and no analysis that can’t alter any game. Great days, great teams that could play football.
the best Leeds side ever. So much talent. Grey, bremner, Clark, Jones, Charlton, and Norman Hunter who would not be on the pitch after just one tackle nowadays. You can't even touch a player now without them falling over!!!!!!!!!
That Leeds team will never be surpassed, each member of the team was a class act. Johnny Giles was not only a great football general, but could throw an impressive left hook. (Just ask Kevin Keegan), old Norman could mix it too, although I always thought Franny Lee had the better of their little punch up. Those were the days, and sadly missed, football today is a highly sanitised version of those days and the worse for it!!!
As a Liverpool fan the games against Leeds where the biggest in the early 70's, hated them then, but appreciate them now, amazed they didn't win a lot more
They were amazing games. Since the Kop sang "Champions" to Leeds in 1969, I've always had a huge respect for Liverpool and their fans. Also, my dad and I used to sell programmes at Elland Road near where the away coaches parked and Liverpool fans were always really good folk. I do hope you win the title this year.
Not quite true. Never heard of Lee 1 (pen), the famous Chinese footballer ? There was also one team who, whenever they were under pressure, had a particular player who would feign injury to break the oppositions rhythm. I'm not a fan of all the diving that goes on but the game then was pretty brutal.
I was there for that humiliation. The train trip back to Victoria was a sober affair for us Reds but we got our own back in seasons to come. As much as I hate Leeds, I hope they come back up just so we can renew the old rivalry.
@yortzandat A former ref, you say? He said some words, did he? Fuck. That's it then. Send Fergie to jail. I bet whoever decided to ban Cantona for 9 months resulting in Blackburn winning the league and Everton beating United in the Cup Final lived in abject terror for the rest of his days. Or...maybe big clubs just get the benefit of doubt more than the little provincial, backwater Ragarse Rovers teams like Leeds do. It sucks, but there's nothing untoward about it.
Great football days , 9 days before my 13th birthday, remember it well .good to see Man. Utd. lose .Leeds were massive then , them memorable battles with Chelsea . Great .loved the occasional clock that was shown - top right !
No he didn't. Leeds had a small squad like most teams and players were often injured or suspended. But even the subs, Paul Madeley or Mick Bates were very good players. Madeley played in every position except goalkeeper.
1970’s football at it’s glorious best. You could never guess who would win the league then. Terraces standing better atmosphere Take me back please I really miss those days. But thank god we can still watch on RU-vid 😎
They could have even have played them at football! - terrible shame that revie had a win at all costs mentality with the beautiful game being replaced often with petulant fouling/assault - Imagine if that team of very good footballers had been properly managed!
Don't talk crap! Rubbish made up by the southern press. Every team had their hard men. Chopper Harris, Tommy Smith, Peter Storey, Nobby Stiles etc. Why would the Anfield Kop chant "Champions" to Leeds for 15 minutes and Shanks come into Leeds dressing room to say "You deserved it lads" if they were just dirty and cheats. I think they knew more about the game than all the armchair critics!
When the working class was left alone to enjoy it's own culture. The days before wrist slapping idiots took away our sport, our cigs, our cars, our pubs, our food and our dreams. Still, at least we now know what's good for us (eye roll).
I believe it is called "gentrification". It has happened in society in general. Ordinary, working class people can not afford to live in the centre of cities anymore and are pushed to the margins ( literally and metaphorically) out of the way. With sport (especially football) Sky moved in, with their obscene money, along with businessmen, agents and all the other blights of modern sport. The players do have a short career, so they need to be well paid, but they are now just mercenaries with little allegiance to any club.
Three occasions when the Gelderd End would be guaranteed to buzz with excitement. 1. Lorimer lining up to take a free kick with the goal in visual range. 2. Eddie Gray on the ball taking on a defender - hopes of Burnley revisited. 3..Billy Bremner on the ball anywhere - a sense that anything cold happen.
I am liverpool fan since the dawn of time. But back then I was a child and loved leeds too. I hope someday they will come out of the wilderness ba k to the epl.
Love the quality of the pitches these guys played on in the 1970s. The passion. The fact that some players stayed loyal to their clubs throughout their careers. Most of all money hadn’t totally spoiled the game. And there was no blooming VAR! Great memories. Especially for Leeds fans. Wait a minute. With VAR Leeds would have won the European Cup. A definite penalty when Sniffer Clarke was fouled in the first half. A perfectly good goal scored by Leeds disallowed by a crap ref. Maybe VAR has its merits after all!
Spoilt is to nice a word for todays rubbish footballers. Today its pass it back pass it left pass it right pass it back again pass left and right again then hit it a mile over the crossbar.😝
And Allan Clarke scoring for Leeds before he joined The Hollies. Billy Bremner in midfield before he played guitar with Dave Edmunds & Rockpile. People just don't realise how multi talented this Leeds side was.😁😂
❤ Моят отбор от детството ми - Лийдс Юнайтед. Видях играчите, които помня добре и днес: Джайлс, Бремнър, Лоримър, братя Грей . . . Следях представянето им по спортните вестници и кратки те репортажи по ТV. Незабравим си остава и мача с Байерн, макар и с тъжен край. Днес е по-лесно да следи отбора и аз им желая добри игри и много успехи! ❤😊❤
Johnny Giles won the FA Cup with Man Utd in 1963 and then asked for a transfer to Leeds who were then in the second division. I couldn’t see that happening today.
