1975 (March 12) England 2-West Germany 0 (Friendly).mpg 

Revie had his favorities. Then he was followed by Greenwood another manager who distrusted flair. Story of England. How many caps did Matt Le Tissier win, he should of been in the England squad in France 98 if only for the fact he only missed one penalty in his professional career.

One particular game at Wembley- can't recall the opposition- Revie went against his natural instincts and picked a team of flair players. His experiment didn't work and he reverted to type.

Dennis Tueart should’ve had more too. England management and the old curmudgeons in the FA never wanted mavericks.

Ian Gillard also

Mick Channon too - didn't realise that he had so much skill on the ball.

Hudson, Channon, Keegan and Bell.

Fantastic performance all round to be fair by all our lads that night in atrocious conditions, some great play and just did it, no pissing about that night we just did it

Other great players from this era who hardly got a look in for England were Frank Worthington, Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles and Duncan Mc Kenzie who amazingly did not win a single England cap.

That is so, so true. The FA was hopeless then and will remain hopeless unless the government completely reform it, not their little "reforms", they need to completely get rid of the suits and start again.

You can add Tony Currie to that talent too..

Revie chopped & changed the team to much , if he’d more or less stuck with this 11 who outclassed a world class West German who knows... Alan Hudson looked different class here..

REVIE WAS A PRICK AND A CRIMINAL

That generation was really wasted there were some great players in the 70's you can add into the mix Beattie Mcfarland Bowles Gerry & Trevor Francis Currie Worthington absolutely criminal mis management of the talent available then

Emad Anwar That’s good to know mate .

The Iraqis I met when at college were very technically skilled..It is a shame that political leadership and foreign intervention destroyed two generations of football development in Iraq because you guys could have done better at Mundial '86.

Yes mick cannon was a great player for soton and England, love how mick just got straight up quickly from being fouled to take a very quick free kick which led to a perfect cross for super mac to bang in a perfect header for number 2...absolutely fantastic performance from England that night in shocking conditions... No theatrics, cheating, diving or any other fkin irritating antics we now see in the modern game.. Just did it that night we fekin battered them

What a player Colin Todd was !

@@johnt7630 A Rolls Royce of a defender

Paul Breitner didn't retire in 1974, he actually played (and scored!) in the 1982 WC final.

@@paullinford4510 Yes and no. He played two games in the EC-qualifiers 1975, before he retired. One more aspect: National coach Helmut Schön no longer considered him, because Schön doesn't felt like negotiating with Real Madrid on the exemptions for international matches. Different times back then...The next coach of the Germans, Jupp Derwall, then brought Breitner back to the german squad in 1981, where the Munich player then formed a very powerful duo with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, referred to by the German media as "Breitnigge".

Only one team qualified too. Unlucky to be in the same group as Italy.

wonderful generation of England 1975 to 1982 they deserve win w.c 1982 at least ...england in 1982 w.c not loset any game they have shillon clemenes keganne frances hoddel robson buttsher andersone

Good last point, from the mid 1970s until 1982, England had a core of very good players, with the team failing to qualify for the 1978 World Cup only on goal difference. The 1982 team did not lose a match...Better management and no injuries to Keegan and Brooking..they would have gone further..

No,against Italy in Turin we were outclassed. The return fixture at Wembley was a dead rubber.Not qualifying in '74 should have been a wake up call but was a missed opportunity. Sir Alf was kept on too long&should have been replaced after '70,where he still hadn't got the hang of substitutions. If Revie was brought in then,we might have overcome what was a very good Polish team.It wasn't until the WC was expanded to 24 teams,that England were to qualify again.

@@mohamadabushaerah3637 Brazil played the best football in '82.England were in with a mediocre Spain&Germany in the 2nd group phase.Where youth and imagination were called for Greenwood brought Keegan and Brooking off the bench...

I think Alan Hudson played in the next match against Cyprus.

@@herbertvonzinderneuf8547 Yes the famous 'Supermac' match which England won 5-0,Malcolm Macdonald scoring all five.I don't remember if Hudson played in that match but Revie hated him,as he did all flair players that weren't Leeds.That mindset held back internationals in English football development for decades. That's my point.

@@andersonarmstrong2650 Not just Revie - but Greenwood too.

@@herbertvonzinderneuf8547 I agree,that's why I said 'decades'.Brian Clough was the best manager then.

@@andersonarmstrong2650 👍

Injuries fall outs etc

The crowd noise and atmosphere in this game are incredible.

In my opinion this game pisses all over the drivel of the modern game

No the game today is not better to watch, you don't have the same atmosphere.

Born in Dagenham. Don't know about high-pitched, but definitely posh for that area. He took elocution lessons.

​@@peezebeuponyou3774 The rumour has it that he took elocution lessons. No one has been able to prove that.

Came to Bolton as well from Leicester.. He was a stylish defender

When Pele in 1970 World Cup final passed the ball to Carlos Alberto without looking, some said it was because he could see his back! Well, this Channon pass is many times better than Pele's pass. Probably Chanon played his best game for England in this game. As for Pele's pass, I read and also noticed that as soon as Pele got the ball, Tostao is pointing with his hands to Pele that Carlos Alberto is available, And in some other clip, Carlos Alberto himself said that he and Pele practiced that move many times in training!! So at least in this case, it had nothing to do with Pele's ability to see his back!!

Yes mick was class on his day

Pitches are much better atmosphere is dead like watching paint dry!

Same stories multiple times we get a good team. We pick the wrong managers every time. We really should have appointed Clough in the mid 70s. Blame the FA.

Do indeed. Their choice of managers has been shaped, since 1974, by 'not getting another Ramsey'. The Old Etonians never liked the fact he stood up to them, forced them to accept his right to select the team, and from which teams players came from. Ever since then the sweet FA have picked spineless, press pleasers, with little or no tactical nous at the international level, and who've picked 'big club' players only based on press and FA pressure. Since the EPL was formed, the exact opposite of what fans were fobbed off with has happened, and England become an irrelevance to the FA, as they concentrate on money grubbing. Sadly I see no end to it, as getting the Politicians involved is the last thing we need. In particular the current govt. We'd end up with Richard Branson in charge and Wembley being turned into a giant balloon ride park, while England play at West Ham, with Players in kits with a big V down the front, and the three lions reduced to a pinhead! Plus, like Branson's health 'services' we'd be even crapper than before!

Phil Neal was better going forward then defending!!!

Player power, we saw at Leeds with Clough what that could do!

It was Sir Alf

Wally Barnes?

Moore actually calls him "Sir Alf" during the game.

6:00

Bollocks they had Bryan Robson and this is 1975 mate??

I was at this game as a 12 year old with my school and can't believe the talent I was watching that night, oh what friendly!

Check out this LONG interview with him. I found it very interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1gNZYo2CqDI.html

@SuperConnie amazing performance. Hard to believe that he only won two England caps! Absolute madness.

The 1982 England which began to emerge from the mid 1970s onwards did not lose a match at that World Cup which was better than Brazil who played the same amount of matches..

Ball hated Revie bell was fine and how many times did Hudson play like that??

Every single time.

Ricardo Velasco 1-5

PrZemek44 Check out the Wembley pitch during the 1970 FA Cup Final. The pitch during this match was immaculate compared to that one!!

It is a well known rumour. But that does not mean that it is true. Several people has stated otherwise

Top class playmaking creative midfielder. He'd have been worth well over 100M in today's market, maybe even more

@@OGA_999 Doubt it. That money only goes to high end goalscorers; which he wasn't. Maybe 50/60 Mill.

@@spanishpeaches2930 Well my friend, if you care to take a look at the fees received for the likes of Eden Hazard, Kai Havertz to name but a few perhaps you'll revise your opinion

@@OGA_999 £51M to £61M then.

@@spanishpeaches2930 Guess we'll never know but I'd add Glenn Hoddle to that list. He was a pleasure to watch in his prime

A friendly against a West German side including the likes of Sepp Maier, Berti Vogts, Franz Beckenbauer and Rainer Bonhof that had just won the World Cup nine months earlier when beating a Dutch side containing Arie Haan, Ruud Krol, Johan Neeskens, Johnny Rep and perhaps their greatest player ever, Johan Cruyff. Although it's not as if top teams set out to lose friendlies anyway and it always amuses me how "oh but it was only friendly" makes an appearance when England win one of them, yet if they put out a team of squad players and/or kids and lose, then apparently it's some kind of massive embarrassment and suddenly friendlies seem to count for something.

​@@seanscanlon9067 But I'm afraid that it was still only a friendly. You're right that they were Indeed World Champions and, as I said, it was a good performance. it's a sobering thought that Germany won the World Cup in 1974, as well as winning the European Championship in 1972, then runners up in 1976. Meanwhile England couldn't even qualify for neither 1974 nor 1978. Don Revie had a lot of talent available to him - Bell, Bowles, Marsh, Brooking, Keegan, Curry, Osgood, Hudson, Worthington etc. But he kept changing the side - rather than keeping a settled one.

England 13 wins, Germany/West Germany 15 wins and 4 draws.

@@seanscanlon9067 i think it's equal now