1974 World Cup Special (16.6.74) 

There was something about those old fuzzy satellite commentaries that gave World Cup games a really special atmosphere.

Brian Clough has always been a real character.

5 white blokes on panel who actually knew what they were talking about.. we will never see the same again .. at least I lived to see it .. better times .

One recollection of the 1974 World Cup [ not related to anything on here ] was during school holidays and a bunch of us watching some World Cup on the telly and Yugoslavia doing non-stop infringements and being incessantly free-kicked, and my brother then suggesting, " If they can't play by the rules, then ....".

Fantastic times for football fans, no PC no diversity & any woke crap, all ex professionals on the panel doing punditry duty, no being forced to listen to pathetic women commentating pretending they know what it's like to play at the top professional level... great times.

Great upload! Do you have any old World Cup games from 66 to 86?

Brian Moore was fantastic at fronting the panel…. He was a huge part of my growing up and was simply a joy to listen to…👍

As an Aussie just like to send my condolences to Rale Rassic, passed away last month, first coach to send Australia to it's first ever world cup in 74.

I miss this era, proper football, and real characters.

My first World Cup memories……watched the tournament with my Nan who was born in 1895 !

Thanks. I was out shopping on June 16, 1974, so it’s great to finally see what I missed ⚽️

ITV’s football coverage was so good in the 70/80’s, great presenters Brian Moore, Dickie Davis, Jim Rosenthal to mention a few. Great theme tunes too! As a kid back then I found it so exciting. We’d play football at halftime and rush back in for the second half.

the dutch and polish sides at that 74 world cup were really something else

Watching this 50 years later in 2024. Rest in peace to the panel members.

He was like a 'lumbering elephant' pure classic cloughie. He was hilarious. RIP ol' Big 'Ead.

Brian Clough was such an engaging person. Legend 👍

Hugh Johns was a great commentator who described a game as if he was a fan.

Great World Cup. Poland were fantastic, superb side. Sweden were good, too. Rest in peace, Sweden's legendary goalie, Ronnie Hellström, the "Flying Viking" as he was known, great goalie and a humble man.

Imagine if you rang that phone-in number on 22mins, and 1974 answered?😂

Apart for the terrible hair styles this is miles better than the corporate sh*te show we have now.

very relaxed natural conversation , i envy people of the 70s.

Brian Clough’s wit was way ahead of his time. Respect.

Someone please invent a time machine, I want to go back and watch Cruyff play again!

when you had PROPER pundits who knew their stuff not auto que reading ear piece wearing mouth pieces

"MAYBE Poland are SLIGHTLY better than we thought" 😆 "England would have played better than Poland and scored four" yeah, man, sure 😁😁😁

Brian Moore was just class. So very good at his job. Oh, for the days of real football presenters.

My first WC I remember, I wish punditry was like this still, some good insight but also funny. Legends Clough and Moore cut from a different cloth.

Everyone seemed more articulate back then. There was just a direct, precise way of talking.

"Haiti playing like men possessed!".....Ah voodoo and football, heady cocktail!!😀

The Great Brian Moore👍🇬🇧

this is brilliant! i remember the 74 world cup, i was 9 years old and mad on the game, my first world cup that i actually recall, no memory of mexico 70 sadly, also my first football stamp book FKS collection was for this tournament, i remember that theme tune as well, pundits were miles better back then, well to be honest the game was so much better, a golden age for me

My favorite all time world cup. Best team ever, the Netherlands. Best german teams (both) ever. As Well as the Best polish, scots and swedes. Great argentinian players, houseman, Heredia, etc Yugoslavia had a dream midfield with bogisevic, oblak And acimovic, plus His star forward Dzajic. They were also the last squad a saw switching to 4-2-4 with surjak And Bajevic as centre forwards. In its core were all the stories surrounding the event. The alleged money demands of the dutch. The war memories of some of His Elder players regarding the germans. The first Time you saw the same country fielding Two different sides AND even playing between them. Tales of socialism among capitalism. The possibility of watching the scots happily throw away their chances of historic glory in favor of whisky soaked parties. And of course the stories of the haitian voodoo And the kandombe of Zaire. Puré literature. I Guess the world was younger and still full of misteries And possibilities. Nothing like globality to make everything uninteresting. We can watch a kid snatching a purse in Brooklyn in real Time or a plane falling down AND dismiss all of It as monótonous.

Class!!! "Tell me, as a lady caller, are you enjoying the World Cup?"

Brian Moore was a great commentator and a real gentleman. My aunt was a hairdresser and cut his hair sometimes. Maybe not one of the all time great anecdotes, but I was was very proud of this fact in 1974! He supported Gillingham. The first World Cup I remember, the Polish goalie was brilliant!

Love Brian's shirt. Really smart with the Slazenger logo on the collar. Top, top football presenter and commentator. Still miss him. Football commentary and analysis would be a better place today with a Brian or a Motty🙁

SHILTON was a clown against the Poles he should have saved the shot at wembley

Brian Moore........ what a class act

Pat Crerand and Bobby Moncur still going strong in 2024. RIP the rest.

And not a single black, disabled or female in sight. The good old days 👍

Ah, the days when Scotland were among the favourites to win the World Cup…. Because half the Leeds team were Scottish! 😂

This was broadcasted on the day of my 18th birthday, which I can clearly remember. It was also the last few days of school, before I left the 6th form. I was following Holland (as it was popularly called) back then not knowing that a decade later I would be living in the Netherlands with my Dutch girlfriend. I will never forget the final which they lost to W. Germany which left me feeling gutted. It was a warm U.K. summer that holds many memories for me.

There were no annoying, interfering women on the panel back then.

Great characters from back in the day ..... don't think modern pundits or commentators have the presence like these guys. Brian Moore had such an amazing voice....

I was eleven years old in 1974 and remember the World Cup from Germany so clearly. The Dutch team with the greatJohan Cruyff really shone. I also remember the World Cup from Mexico four years earlier.

Peter lorimat sure could hit a mean volley....

England failed to qualify so as a Leeds fan I was cheering on Scotland (Harvey, Bremner, Lorimer, Jordan, McQueen in the squad. Unfortunately, Eddie Gray was injured). Scotland also had Dalglish and Souness so quite a team

The late, great Brian Moore. Best football commentator ever.

Days when it was really worth sitting down to watch the footy. I can feel it now, it was fantastic. ⚽️⚽️⚽️

Ha ‘as a lady are you enjoying the World Cup😂😂😂bye love

Far better than anything today

Absolutely brilliant. More please.

Poland did pretty well in that WC. 3rd place.

English media were ahead of its time and they are the first to present game analysis and pundits hosting for games then the world followed them❤

Proper football, I hate todays pro game.

1974… 🇵🇱 🥉 ⚽️ IT WAS - THE BEST YEAR - IN THE HISTORY OF THE POLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

Scotland thinking 2-0 was enough Yugoslavia beat Zaire 9-0 😂😂😂😂 big Jim rip

Za sprawą Polaków cała Anglia musiała na tym mundialu kibicować Szkotom! 😄

ah the good days where you enjoy football chat without woke identity politics destroying it

Ridiculous how Brian Clough is talking about England being better than Poland. Poland had a magnificient team in 1974, much better than England.

the quality is really good for being from 1974

Players money mad in 1974 .. welcome to the obscenity of the 21st century 😅😅😅😅

I saw many English football in Hong Kong TV in 1970s, still under British rule. I recognised this guy, Brian Moore. 1974 was the happiest year of my life.

I was only seven at the time. Looking at those Scottish players being interviewed, I am glad I didn't go to the same Barber !

wow they had white English man back then, so outrageous

Dino Zoff is remembered and talked about as a keeper of great longevity, it's a sure bet that David Harvey isn't, God bless him.

Bring back mullet hairstyles and white people in football

Brian clough, wasn't he just something.... Insight, honesty and great charm. It's a national sin that those at the FA never appointed him manager. God bless you Brian.

europa sie bawiła a w polsce nie było jeszcze telewizorów 🤣

Messyrs Clough and Moore. Old school legends I could listen to all day RIP

33.00 "Football is about opinions and every one has their own. Those whose opinions are right more often, succeed." Classic put down from Cloughie there.

Good old days. When only men would speak about the mens game.

Thank you for this brilliant piece of nostalgia. It was the incomparable Beckenbauer who made the difference in the end, and not Cruyff. Brian Moore was a presenter and journalist of impeccable standards, and along with David Coleman, the very best commentator of his day. Had Big Mal or the great Clough been England manager, then they would certainly have qualified for Munich; Alf had gone on for too long.

Great hairstyles, better than the freak hairstyles of today, they look healthier too.

That is not a woke panel is it.

BRIAN CLOUGH IS AN ABSOLUTE LEGAND. HE HAS THE WIT OF A GREAT COMEDIAN

Legendary manager, the late Brian Clough. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

La Primera Copa del Mundo que vi en mi vida y la mejor organizada. Con el maravilloso Cruyff. y su Holanda espectacular Como olvidar, cuando nos juntábamos en familia en el viejo Tv Westenhouse y ver al gran Elias Figueroa el back centro Chileno q impidió que la RFA .nos goleara. Saludos del austral y frío Chile 🇨🇱

The panel are far better and more insightful than the inane chat we get today.

This is frikin great was 10 watching it with brothers and old man 😂

What a panel..Happy days

I noticed Martin Tyler in the closing credits. He'd have been 29 years old.

Love a bit of colour bars to start this off... Also loving the titles - of course the first tournament with current World Cup trophy

"we have a lady-caller on. thanks for calling, love"

Scotland CONFIDENT of beating Brazil 😂😂

I was 13 years old and growing up in the US in 1974 and never even heard of the World Cup and didn't know what it was, LOL. Given absolutely no coverage in the US except in the foreign language newspapers and maybe some small print in the main stream newspapers at the bottom of the page where they gave the racing results. First time I ever saw any World Cup was 1978 when they showed highlights of the Argentina final game win over Holland on Sports Extra, a weekend sports news show on WNEW Channel 5 in New York. The only time we ever played soccer was in school. It's come a long way since then in the US, but we're still not any good. But at least the games are on TV.

2:40, that board was reasonable, considering Holland and Poland had no recent good form in World Cups or even in the 72 Euros. But they fired on all guns in 74. The real failure from that board was Italy.

Scotland done well . I think 74, 78 and 82 scotland where best team elimanted . I would of loved to get through one time

Kenny Dalglish played in the same World Cup as Beckanbauer and Cruyff. Surreal.

The Scottish team looks like rock stars with those hairstyles :)

clough AND big Malcom Allison ??? whats NOT to like two men who knew EXACTLY what they ere talking about , mean while the BBC have "expert analysis from a failed right back and a woman who made the sandwiches at luton

My first World Cup as an 8 year old watching it all in black & white. SMH at Brian Clough having a dig at West Ham not knowing we are going to win the FA Cup at the end of the forthcoming 1974/75 season.

I liked Gerd Muller so wanted West Germany to win the 74 World Cup at the time. Looking back now, I think it a great pity that Holland (Netherlands) didn't win this tournament.

And the pomms couldn't make the world cup and again the 1978 world cup . Pomms are the biggest chokers at world cups and European cups.

Watched Scotland v Zaire in the pub on my 21st birthday & being a Leeds fan made it all the better 🏐👍

Cloughy should have been England manager, he's missed. I remember him slapping Notts Forrest fans on the pitch whilst inebriated once, proper character

I love how many of the comments were those who were 9 years old and this was their first World Cup they really watched and fell in love with the game. I too was 9, American born, but to Dutch parents who emigrated to the US. '74 was such a great showing by the Dutch and I remember how heartbroken my whole family was (both in Holland and America) when they lost in the final. So many great memories. Love how young Cruyff is in this interview!

Zaire making Scotland look like Brazil ! but Zaire wearing Brazil colours, where's England oops.

Malcolm Alison and Brain Clough two managers who didn't even get the chance to manage England a big mistake by england

Ah, the old days when football shows were possible without Alex Scott being a compulsory guest.

Cloughy as diplomatic as ever 😊